Going Greek

Lately I've been contemplating going Greek. If I did, I'd pledge Phi Mu, but I'm not sure if I will or not. I don't think I will this year, at least (especially considering that today is the last day to sign up for recruitment). If there was a Delta Phi Lambda charter here, I probably would definitely pledge ΔΦΛ.

中文

Jie stopped by this evening about three and a half hours ago to deliver some duck tongue her mother had sent her (oddly enough, I am obsessed with duck tongue). She also brought a few other things . . . don't ask me what they are.


The item on the far right looks like some sort of rice cake. According to the label, the two bars are "Eggs Roll Cream biscuit." Sweet.


We spent three and a half hours trying to download a program that would enable me to type in pinyin (English characters), which would be translated to Chinese characters. We managed to find the Windows program, but couldn't download the program from Sogou, which is the Chinese equivalent of Google. And Sogou is pretty.

Snow Day!

I love the fact that we're college students, and yet when I checked Facebook this morning, all of my friends' statuses said something like, "OMG SNOW DAY!!!" I remember how excited we'd get over early dismissals. . . . Little things make us happy.

After mass confusion regarding status discrepancies (the Albright website said the college was closed, the signs on the dorm bathrooms said we had a two-hour delay, the local weather station wrote us off as closed, and an e-mail stated that we had a two-hour delay), a final e-mail finally established that we were indeed closed. I only ventured out to the caf for lunch (in fact, whether or not the caf would be open today was the first thing I texted to Shannon), and then to Jake's Place for dinner. I'm not a huge fan of cold weather. Or snow.

Round Two

I have officially finished the first day of classes! Although I was a bit reluctant to come back, I must admit that once I started unpacking, I was glad to be back in my prison-cell-sized dorm.
The good thing (and the bad thing) about Albright's size is that you get to know everyone. At the beginning of the year, I saw a student with a shirt that said "Where everyone knows your name business." True story.

Thankfully, this semester Emily doesn't have class until nine MWF (I'm not sure about TTH), so we both set our alarms for 7:45, which is nice. Last night I realized that I'd forgotten a lot of toiletries at home, so I slept with my contact lenses in and planned to go to Weis after classes were finished. Well, this morning I opened my dresser drawer and found three unopened bottles of Opti-Free Express setting happily among my jewelry and other toiletries.

Chinese (CHI102) is in a completely different room this semester (although it's about three times larger, which is nice because the last classroom was possibly not even the size of my dorm). I was the first one in the room, and as everyone else trickled in I asked if they had studied. Nope, none of us had (are you kidding?), and we all thoroughly expected a lovely test bright and early at nine. We instead reviewed everything we'd learned (which I suprisingly remembered). For Wednesday, I have to review a lesson and write the characters ten times, and by next Wednesday, I have to finish the packet that was our final exam.
Funny story about that final. She told us that the sections would be graded with the best receiving an A and the worst an F, and she'd average everything together. Today when she handed out our exams, she told us that she graded us on the amount of pages we'd finished (there were about 25 and I think I finished 13 or 15). Either way, I received an A in that class last semester.

I'm psyched about Women in the Middle East (HIS283) and Islamic History (HIS255). Not only is Sarah (RAD) also taking HIS283, but there are only ten students! And Jeremy from ENG102 last semester is also taking HIS255.

Me: I have so much free time!
Matt: No, what you got is nap time.

Jeremy: You're my lifeline for this class. Remember that.

Sarah: Have you come to defend the class from rapists?

Back at the 'Bright

Carrying my life up three flights of stairs is murder. But my parents made it a bit easier. ^_^ It seemed to me that a lot more was added than was removed. . . .


Yes, that's a McCain/Palin sign to the left, but if I remove it, then that wall will be asymmetrical and I'll have to remove the one on the other side of the window. And if I do that, I'm going to have a hideous bare wall. The Chinese characters behind the new DVD rack say "Korean" and "American." The Octonauts poster above the desk was a Christmas gift. And I have some new photos!
Emily and I are currently watching Mamma Mia! and I'm trying to study Chinese for class tomorrow. I've already purchased my books for Islamic History and Women/Middle East, but I'll have to stop by the bookstore tomorrow morning for my Mass Communications/Society textbooks.