Our house, in the middle of our street

Hello everyone.

I have officially joined the ranks of the collegiate in the sense that I now have my housing assignment! I'm living in a quad in Pembroke West (pictured below in black and white, thanks to Google Images). I have a large window seat and a (decorative) fireplace. Victory, thine name is Bryn Mawr.

Fun fact: Katherine Hepburn stayed in Pembroke West during her time at Bryn Mawr. Not so fun fact: she didn't actually like Bryn Mawr very much.

Anyway, I have three roommates. One is a prospective pre-law gal, a Leo from North Carolina, blonde with blue eyes, who likes Harry Potter, HGTV, animals, and everything indie. We traded music and requested each other as roommates. I think she might be my soulmate.

The other two are from California. One's a Capricorn and one's a Scorpio, one's contemplating economics while the other tends towards math, but both moved to America from Vietnamn halfway through their lives, and are involved in the same collegiate program. Both enjoy hip hop and Project Runway, and, so far, both seem pretty awesome.

We're beginning the process of color-coordinating and discussing decoration ideas. So far we're thinking of a cool-colored palate, with a rug on the floor, cushions on the window seat, and Christmas lights wound on a curtain rod.

I'm going dorm shopping in a couple of weeks, and, even though I wrote the article on what to buy, I was wondering whether you guys had any helpful hints?

Guilelessly (as Alexi would say),

Erin

PS. If the sizing is fucked up, I apologize. I'm not so good with computars.

i came to this world with nothing

I Wish I Was Drunk

Next came Orientation, June 25 (RIP MJ), which was a lot of fun. I bombed the math placement test though I don't know how badly. Whatever. All's well that ends well. I made a lot of really cool kids, stayed up till 3 a.m. hanging out and discussing Megan Fox. I didn't have the joy of cleaning anything, but hopefully that'll come later. ;) I did learn my school cry. It involves ca-cawing. Cause I'm an Eagle. Also I got my schedule ironed out:

• Understanding Human Behavior
• Visual Literacy (it's all about the way media is presented to us)
  
• Great Ideas of Mathematics (not actual math, but cool, interesting theoretical math like infinity plus 1 equals?)
• Critical Social Thought
• American Society on Screen and Stage
  

Next came my internship at poptimal.com. I am the EIC/creator's intern. I will manage a lot of the publicity for local events, run the facebook, myspace and twitter pages, write television reviews twice a week, and possibly end up going to a few movie premieres and meeting some famous people.

I've seen a good number of you over the summer so this might have been a major rehashing, so sorry. But uhm yeah, my summer's been pretty great all in all. I just hang out, metro to DC, buy sweaters, watch lots of really good TV and some not so good. I have five weeks left at home and am ridiculously excited. Hopefully we can have one last journalism hang out before we all leave, CDGJ felt this would be lovely and I agree.

Finally, I just got my roommates, a month after everyone else, but it's all good cause we live in the hall I wanted. Okay, so here they are. The first guy is a (99% sure he's gay) jew from Illinois who went to India this summer, likes Passion Pit, Bon Iver, Taylor Swift and Arrested Development. I think he and I will get on well. The other guy is from Bethesda and is uhm, well, he breathes in his spare time. That's all I've been able to get from our brief conversation

Hey, it's Amelia. Leave me a message, but don't text me. That's gay.

HELLO EVERYONE. Woohoo, it's HAGS '09! I am at work right now (I am a temp secretary lolz). All I'm doing is answering phones, and after 3 hours of facebooking and playing bubble spinner, I decided that it was time to write my first beatblog entry. My summer's been pretty bitchin'. I've mostly just been hanging out with Nathan Tucker and my artsy friends. Oh, and I tutor these elementary school kids twice a week. I went to UMD orientation the day after graduation. (I'm super good at planning stuff!) It was pretty good; I befriended a girl who plays the oboe. Apparently, I'm majoring in Hearing and Speech Sciences. (Every time I tell people that, they reply, "WHAT DID YOU SAYYYY?" They think they're soooo funny. (I guess they are. (Whatever.)) Sorry, I have a lot of thoughts.) I also saw the Hangover. 'Twas quite funny. It made me want to see Bruno because I was laughing throughout that entire preview. Okay, I think that's all I have to report. Peace out, cub scouts.

because I'll get in trouble with some of you if I wait any longer to post!

I finally have some stuff that's pertinent to the topic of college--so I can post!

I visited Cambridge and Boston for the fourth of July weekend with my family and Lisa and it was reallyyyy fun! I just love the atmosphere there--Boston feels like a cleaner, more family-friendly version of New York. I hate the Red Sox, which they are downright crazy about all throughout the city, but whatever. Yankees, all the way! The fireworks were amazing along the Charles River (apparently they broadcast those ones to show on TV nationwide? I didn't know that until I went.) I showed Lisa around the actual campus, which felt pretty cool as I begin to feel sort of kind of maybe comfortable there and know my way around :)

I haven't gotten word yet about signing up for classes yet, so I think that it happens when we go down for Freshman Week on August 27th. I read something about them wanting to advise us in person before we decide on classes. I took placement tests in Math, English, Bio, Chem, and Physics. They ranged from pretty manageable to ridiculously hard (I only answered a few Physics questions...probably should have taken AP at Blake at some point.) But no matter what, we can sign up for whatever classes we want, so the placement tests don't matter too much.

Pretty soon we'll get our roommates, which I'm SO excited for! I really want an international roommate--I feel like that would be an incredible way to get to know someone with a completely different upbringing than my own. I'm also going down a week early to clean up dorms as kind of a way to get to know people. It might sound sort of weird to voluntarily do work for the week before Freshman Week--but I have a feeling it's going to be really fun and memorable.

I miss you guys a lot and I'm thorougly enjoying your posts! Can't wait to see whats up with the rest of you. I'm doing a musical called Aida right now. It's technically at Blake, but the cast is from all over the county and it's a really cool experience working with so many new people. For those of you who know the show, I'm playing Radames. If anyone wants to check it out when it goes up in late July, I'll post with the info in a few weeks. It's looking really good! Oh, and I turn 18 next week :)

Anyway, I'm exhausted now. Hope you all are enjoying your summer!
Peaceeeee,
JP

I love Jesus

Hey everyone, Anderz here. Today I watched Vicky Cristina Barcelona. It's basically about some stupid sluts who center their summer around a weird ass painter faggot who fucks all of them. Anyway polygamy is pretty sweet so later I put Big Love season 1 on my netflix queue. Oh and I saw The Hangover last night and it was funny but way too hyped up! K all I've talked about is movies and television but it's summer and that's what I'm all about. Just been lifeguarding and spending quality time with my boyfriend and all that good stuff. Hope everyone is relaxing as much as I am and making the most of this swiftly passing summer!