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October 30, 2002 on 1:56 am | In Blogger |

Bleh. More homework today.

Well, okay, I’ll start with Core. Professor Aisenberg (one of the two lecturers today) started his lecture in a little, semi-nerdy voice (I think he’s a science professor or something), saying, “Now, I want you all to not shuffle your bags ten minutes before noon today! Since there are two of us, we might go a little over, and I want you to be there for every little word! I also want to remind you that I finished my Rousseau lecture ten minutes early, so I think it’s only fair that you wait ten minutes if we need it.” What a funny guy. Many of us did not shuffle at the end of the lecture, though a few who walked in late and did not hear Aisenberg’s little speech did shuffle. They come in ten minutes late, they leave ten minutes early…I guess that leaves them with 2/3 the lecture then…

Lunch with Mandy, Sarra, and Katie…

Art 141 was fun, but got a little tedious at the end. 25 kids. 10 jpegs each. 2500 jpegs to view. Four classes to do it. Professor Macko is determined for all of us to get a fair critique on all 10 of our jpegs. Oh well, I think it’s helping, because it’s bringing our intuitive design approach into consciousness. I’ll put up my wordplays in my website once I have them critiqued.

Writing 50 was…well, not fun. We turned in our homework, we got a lecture, we got even more homework! Arrrgh it never ends. Though Kelly did point out to me that Writing 50 only meets 11 more times, so that’s a good thing.

Dinner was…well, alone, since I got out of Writing 50 late, and we had a case of confusion with where Talya was…

I got back in my dorm, sat down for 10 minutes, and then went over to the meeting about Preview Day. Last year we had something like 60 students spending the night at Scripps; this year we have 94. We also will be having 144 students visiting on Preview Day, meaning there will be close to 300-400 people on campus this Friday—nearly half our student body. Steffany Perez is overwhelmed, but happy to see that more people are choosing Scripps. Kelly and I said we’d take as many as two students apiece, so we might be a tight house on Thursday night. I think we’ll all have fun, though—I shouldn’t be having much homework that night, and I think this event will go over pretty well. I also signed up to have breakfast and tea on Preview Day so I can answer parents’ and students’ questions about Scripps or the Claremont colleges in general. Kelly signed up to help by going to the airport between 3-5p to greet our incoming prospective students who are flying in from far-away places. I hope the event is a success, that the weather is right and we attract lots of students. I still can’t believe we’re having that many come!

This evening was dedicated to studying for a Calc I midterm—we have three this semester, so this will be the second one down tomorrow. I did take a study break around 9:30 with Becca, Camille, and John for snack. We had fried zucchini and a banana. When I finished my banana (we were sitting outside in Seal Court, on a plaster bench), I kept tossing the peel in front of unsuspecting passerbys. I’d go, “HA!” and toss the banana peel right in the person’s path. The person would stop, look down at the banana peel, give me a weird look, and step over it. Then he or she would walk away laughing. Camille, John, and I thought we were being funny. I did it to about three or four people before we grew tired of the game, realized how much work we had to do, and went back to the dorm~