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August 30, 2002 on 11:19 pm | In Blogger |

After dinner last night we had a “campus safety” seminar. Basically it was to scare us into acting safely (e.g. “lock your bikes,” “lock your dorm,” “safety in small numbers!!!”), but the sergaent who runs our campus safety seems cool. The campus safety people issued us first-years a keychain that is a whistle and has a red light attached to it “to shed an undistubing red glow in dimly lit areas.” You’re supposed to blow your whistle in any emergency (”though honestly it’s never come up,” said the lady), and anyone who hears a whistle is supposed to dial 7200, the campus security extension. This whistle thing is apparently serious business, because if anyone just blows the whistle for fun or anything, there’s a $50 fine.

Later that evening the Scrippsies headed down to Harvey Mudd for an improv night, which was really funny, obviously. I ran into Grant, from Tucson, one of Diana’s best friends. I didn’t know he was going to Mudd, and he didn’t know I was going to Scripps, but we were pretty happy to see each other.

This morning was really hectic—we had to take language and math placement exams. I tested into Calc 30, which makes up for my hideous Spanish score! Oh well, I’m happy with my results.

Then we did some advising/scheduling stuff. In all honesty, it they gave me a classics professor for advising, and I don’t think she really knows how to advise the kind of academic calander I want, so I feel a bit on my own. If you have any suggestions on what I should take, I’d be much obliged, people!

Then Arumina and I went on a walk, and afterwards was dessert at our Dean’s house. She’s really nice; she hosts Thanksgivings and other food stuff, and yes, we went to HER HOUSE. She introduced herself and made sure she knew all our names by heart, we all felt so touched. And her pastries were good.

Then Arumina and I went to the Frosh Aid, a sort-of dance, mingling thing. It wasn’t too fun, but we both were able to dance with a few guys, which was fun. They were some Pomona dudes, very nice guys. See, Scripps girls get to mingle with guys, the only difference is, our dorm rooms are cleaner than those co-eds ~_*