Don't Sweat It

Well apparently I was worrying about philosophy for nothing. I finally got the grade for my first assignment (wich I completely BS-ed) and I got a 96. Not only that, but today in class I realized just how dumb the professor is. Last class he gave us an exapmle of a sylligism, which is how we were supposed to do the second assignment, well today during class he had to tell us that he was wrong. The best part of it was that he didn't know it was fallacious until the department chair, who was sitting in on the class, pointed it out to him afterwards. I'm so glad that my education is in the hands of a complete moron! I don't plan on majoring in philosophy, though so I guess it won't really affect me. Hahaha....it still amuses me. Adam and Denise weren't in class today so I have to fill htem in on what happened today, I'm pretty sure that they'll be just as amused and it'll give us something new to talk about instead of listening to him.

Another Good Day

It's really not as bad here as I've been making it out to be. There have just been bad days and they are usually the ones I write about, but today I had a pretty good day.
I only have one class on Tuesdays and Thursdays; Criminal Justice. We had out first test today and it was on chapters 1-4, I only studied for about an hour and I got a 92, pretty good lol. My friends Derek and Kristin are also in that class with me. Derek is a CJ major and I was so determined to get a higher grade than him, but he ended up getting the same grade. I tried to study with Kristin, unfortunately Raisa and Lisseth came in and distracted us so I left and studied on my own for a while. Kristin didn't do so well on the test and I felt really bad so I told her we would actually study next time, we'll go to the lounge or study quad or something so we don't get interrupted.
After class I came back and decided I was way too tired to do anything so I took a nap, only to be awakened by a fire alarm. Gotta love those lol. I was so disoriented, for some reason I thought I was in Raisa's bed and I couldn't figure out what was going on. Amanda and Raisa were in here and they were yelling at me and laughing telling me to get up, I eventually did after a few minutes.

Last night was a lot of fun too. The FYMs (first year mentor) have to come up with certain programs for us and stuff, so Andrea deicded to put on this thing called Risky Behaviors. Bascially she made us go down to hte lounge and some guy from hte health center gave us candy and condoms and we went over "risky behaviors". At the beginning we had to introduce ourselves and say one embarassing moment, so when they got to the pimpettes we gave each other's embarassing moments...Raisa said mine. I guess she finds it funny how I jump up every morning when either one of our alarms go off and I pretty much fall out of my bed in doing so. A couple times I actually have fallen though, my feet get stuck in my sheet sometimes lol. It was fun.

I've also decided that sociology isn't the course I have to worry about this semester, as long as I do the reading and pay attention in class. It's actually becoming one of my favorites. Philosophy is the one I'm not sure about. The professor is awful, he honestly does not know how to teach. I sit with Denise and Adam and we just talk about how he is an awful teacher and can't explain things at all. So I basically have to teach myself. Denise and Adam help a lot, they know more about what's going on than I do. After I get the first 2 grades I'm going to decide if I'll go for the pass/fail option. It won't count toward my GPA but I'll get the credit if I pass, and it'll show up on my transcripts as a P. So I might do that, but I really don't know yet.

Char and I have been thinking about transferring and we are probably going to finish out the year here just for convenience reasons, but if it gets to be bad for either of us we'll go next semester. Things are still in the air on this one. I guess that's it for now.

10 days until I go home!! :-D

RIT

This weekend was so much fun! Phil picked Char and I up around 8 on friday night and we jammed to Mandy Moore and random 80's music for the hour drive to Rochester. We got there and Char and I decided we had made a huge mistake in not wearing sweatshirts...it was freezing. We threw our stuff in Phil's room and after a brief pre-game session we went over to this apartment on campus (it was so nice!!!) We stayed there for a couple hours and Phil was completely gone after two beers. I didn't drink a lot that night becasue I donn't like beer to begin with and they only had Keystone Light, which is the most disgusting thing I've ever tasted. Char and I had a small buzz going by hte time we left. We were going to go to some other party, but when we got there some of the people we were with before told us not to bother because someone had gotten sick all over the place. So we just went back to Phil's room and went to sleep. I got a little disoriented when I woke up though, I had no idea where I was and I almost fell off of the bed, which would have really hurt because they're lofted to the height of a bunk bed...
We slept for most of the day on Saturday becasue neither Char nor I had gotten much sleep this week. We finally got up and got in the shower and went to get something to eat. RIT has ridiculously good food compared to hte crap they serve at Buff State lol. After eating we just hung out for a while and the Mike, Phil's roommate came down to say that one of their friends had challenged him to pound 4 beers in under 2 minutes. Naturally we wanted to see this, so we went up to watch...sure enough Mike got it in well under 2 minutes. Then Matt and Jeff (I think) mixed up thier version of Sex on hte Beach, which, even though it wasn't real Sex on the Beach, was pretty good. After stocking up a few backpacks we all set off to hte other side of the campus to go to another party. 12 kids carrying backpacks isn't suspicious at all! lol especially when one of them is running around in hte shadows and bushes pretending to be...I don't know what...lol.
It was a fun night, once again Phil was wasted, but he was hilarious! He doesn't party much and he's such a newb it's funny. The walk back was entertaining that night. Char decided to stay a little longer with Jeff and some other people so I went back with Phil and the rest of our group. At one point I saw some kind of animal run across the grass so I asked Phil if he thought it was a cat or something, well he wanted to find out so her went running across the lawn trying to catch it. When we got back to the dorm I passed out as soon as my head hit the pillow, I was so tired. We slept until about 3:30 today (Char and I) and then we finally got up to come back to school. We jammed to our awesome 80s mix in the car again. I'm still kind of tired...and I have a few things to finish for class tomorrow.

Here are some random pics from this weekend:

We played dress-up in Phil's clothes (yes everything you see belongs to him)

Ruined

Everything was going really well today...then I found out that one of the people whom I absolutely cannot stand was using my computer when I wasn't here. I was logging into blackboard to check on some grades and assignments and whatnot, and I double clicked the e-mail box, so a history of every e-mail that has ever been entered into my computer showed up. I was curious as to why the list was so long because I don't usually let people touch my computer unless I'm sitting right there. So I saw an e-mail address, that was obviously a Buff State e-mail, and I didn't know who it was, so I used thefacebook to look it up. Sure enough it was this kid Max, who, until recently, was my friend Derek's roommate. Within the first week of school I knew this kid was no good. I have no idea when he was in my room because I certainly would never even let him in the door. So I asked my roommate when he was here and if he used my computer and she was like "Oh he was in here like the second week of school, but I don't know when he was on your computer." I'm not dumb, she knows he was on here. I don't let her use my computer anymore either (she doesn't have hers here yet).

Needless to say, my computer is locked with a password (it has been for about 3 weeks now) because of people like that. I guess people just don't think respecting other peoples' property is important anymore...


^ You'd be protective of it too! ^

Feeling Better

A couple things have happened today/last night and they just made everything that was bothering me go away. =-D
I woke up this morning dreading going to my sociology class because I knew that we were getting our test grades from last friday back. Dr. Simmonds had predicted the average score would be about a 12 out of 25 and it turned out to be about 12.5 (rounded to 13). The highest score in the class was 20. I got a 16 (a B) so I'm happy with that. I didn't study as much as I should have..but it turned out ok. He wasn't in class on Monday, so the TA showed us a video on the Tuskegee Syphilis Project, which, in short, is when the US government took advantage of about 400 poor, uneducated, black men with syphilis for 40 years. We had a pop quiz on it today, and I guess I'm getting really good at guessing because I aced it, and getting a perfect score on anything in that class makes me unbelievably happy.
I also found out that I'm going home in a few weeks. Mom and Dad are paying for a train ticket so I can come home for Columbus Day weekend. She was going to surprise me and just send the tickets in the mail, but she thought Mary and I had it all planned out already so she told me lol.
Char and I decided to go to RIT to visit her friends there this weekend. We're getting picked up on friday afternoon after we're done with classes and I'm not sure when we're getting back, probably sunday night. Getting away from campus for a while is really going to be nice. I'm so used to being able to just get up and go somewhere at home that it kills me to stay in the same place all the time.
I've been messing around with more pictures and making collages and things, which my friends seem to like. I might start charging for them lol. I just get bored sometimes, or I'll be talking to someone and since there's nothing better to do I put them together (sometimes I'm just avoiding homework). In the past few days I've made one for Noelle, Kristin, Char, and Nikki (the other one). I've decided that I really need to get Photoshop so I have more options and the image quality is better.
I guess that's it for now. Update later.

A little bored

I've finished my homework and I have no idea where Raisa, Amanda, Kristin, Lisseth or anyone else is, so I made a collage. The quality isn't very good b/c i don't have photoshop, but it came out pretty well, I think.

Transfer?

Charlene and I have been talking a lot and neither of us really feel "at home" here. I really like some of the people I've met here, but we both feel like we don't exatly fit in. Buff State is pretty much mini NYC. Pretty much every 9 out of 10 kids here are from the city. It's not a bad thing, it's just that both of us are small town white girls lol. I have fun with Raisa and Lisseth and Amanda and Noemi, but they'll be telling a story and start out in English and randomly switch to Spanish for the most important part...I took Spanish for about 5 years, but I can never keep up with them. Char's first choice school was Brockport and I've started looking into it and it seems like a really great school. So we are thinking about transferring there. We'll probably finish out the year here and go to Brockport next year, but if it gets to be too much we might transfer next semester. I'm almost positive I could wait it out, but I don't really want to. It's not that I don't like the school itself, I love it. It's just that I don't really go out all that much unless Char and I are going somewhere or if I go to Kristin's room. I have homework and stuff to do so it's not like I sit in my room alone and do nothing all the time, but I just don't feel comfortable with a lot of the people here. Not to mention, at Brockport I'd be about an hour closer to home, granted it would still be around 3 and a half to 4 hours...it's less than the 5 to Buffalo. This is all still tentative, but I'm seriously considering it. Oh and Brockport has the best food in the SUNY system, so that's a plus (especially with how much Char and I eat lol)

Just a random note: I want to go home for a visit. It's been about a month and I'm starting to get homesick. I really didn't want to miss Mary's party yesterday. I'm going to try to come home sometime in October with Amarius or take a bus or train or something. (whether mom likes it or not :-P )

Φ

Last night we went to another party, I was really tired so I didn't stay long. It was kind of sketchy too. We were in a hot crowded basement and all they were serving was Jungle Juice. I wasn't going to drink something that I didn't see being mixed, not tomention I have no idea what's in it. So me Kristin and Amarius left after about an hour and a half. We went to Kristin's room and watched Dawn of the Dead...so scary. I had never seen it before so Amarius kept trying to scare me every chance he got, but he got what was coming to him. We had paused the movie becasue Noemi, Amanda, and Wilbur were at the door, so we were talking to them and we heard a huge crash so we looked over and Amarius had fallen backwards off his chair and into Lisseth's closet, it was so funny. So we finished watching the movie and I ended up getting really scared and homesick because the mall in hte movie is "Cross Roadds Mall" so naturally it made me think of Crossgates. Apparently it made Amarius think hte same thing cuz we said it at the same time. He's from Amsterdam so we started talking about ways to get there and stuff lol. Then we watched Shaun of the Dead, well most of it. I got really tired so I went back to my room and went to bed. I really don't like the beds here, I always wake up tired and sore because the beds are so uncomfortable. I miss my nice big bed at home...
Amarius is thinking about going home next weekend so I might ask if I can go with him, but I don't know yet because one of my friendsmight visit me next weekend.

The Pier

Last night I actually went out with my friends from this school. It was ridiculous in every sense of the word. We got on the party bus aka a cheese bus with about 150 people on it at like 10:45 and after driving around to more schools we finally got to the club a little before midnight. There really weren't alot of people there, but it was a big place so no matter how many people are in there it always looks empty. So we started dancing and everything and Raisa, Lisseth and a couple others that came with us got green bracelets from the frat guys, so they could buy drinks. I only had a couple sips of everyone elses cuz I wasn't gonna pay $8 for the smallest drink I've ever seen. Raisa had a few too many and went a little crazy. Char and I have enver felt so white in our lives. They kept playing reggeton and merengue and bachata and we just kind of stood there lol. I know the merengue, but everyone there learned how to do it before they could walk so they were obviously ridiculously good at it. They played a few good songs and I started dancing alittle more toward the end of the night...then Kristin pushed me into "Mr. President" (the president of our building) and was like "Hey Mr. President, this is Nikki dance with her"....it was pretty awkward. He was really nice and he was going to bring me Char and Kristin back with him so we wouldn't have to ride the bus back, but we couldn't find him at the end of the night, not to mention hte drama of the evening got in the way. It was the typical 'she likes him and her friend is dancing with him to get her boyfriend jealous so no one likes the guy and girl that are dancing anymore' situations. So we've lost a pimpette because of it...but I have to admit, she was out of line and so was he. So now we don't really like Courtney (Candie) or Amarius (Chi-Chi). Oh well. We'll get over it. So then we got back on the bus around 3 and it left at like 3:30ish. It was disgusting, everyone smelled like alcohol and BO and the kid sitting in front of us said he was going to throw up and poor Noemi had to sit with him. I was crammed into a seat with 3 other people. I was sitting on Kristin,Char, and Jason...it was the most uncomfortable 45 minutes ever. We got back to the dorm around 4:30 and decided we were hungry so we walked to Panos to get food. Raisa was so wasted...she was funny tho. Amanda and I were laughing so hard at some of the stuff she was doing. At one point she stopped on the sidewalk bent over and looked at her feet then stood back up and said "I get lost sometimes." lol it was hilarious. So we got back and I put Raisa to bed and by the time I got to go to sleep it was 5:45. I am so tired. I got up at 3 to shower and get something to eat and now I'm getting ready to take a nap so we can go to another frat party tonight.


Charlene couldn't figure out how to wear Lisseth's belt, so Lisseth had to help lol

And So It Begins...

I've been here for about 3 weeks now, and although I'm having alot of fun with my friends, the school part is taking its toll on me. This week I had 3 pop quizzes in one sociology class and we have a chapter test tomorrow. I did fairly well on the quizzes, but the professor is really nit-picky and ask questions on the smallest details possible. I've read the chapter 3 times, taken notes on it, and higlighted and everything and I am still really worried. He said the average score is going to be about 12/25.
That's not the only class I'm worried about. I have absolutely no idea what's going on in philosophy. I have a "short answer" assignment due tomorrow by midnight. These "short answers" are supposed to be 200-250 words each...and there are 3 of them. I have no idea what I'm reading in hte text, everything contradicts itself. This kid Tyresse who is in my class actually gets it and offered to help me with philosophy if I help him with English.
The rest of my classes are jokes. English has never been a problem for me, but the kids in my class are ridiculous. I honestly don't understand how they could have graduated high school with the way they write. We play this game called "Scram", basically the professor (Bob) gives us a sentence and we have to write it correctly, if we do so then he tells us to scram and we can leave. If it's wrong then he says sit and you have to keep trying. Yesterday the sentence was "It's too late now; they're in there with their friends." Two people got it on the first try. Me and Krug (who went to AP)
Criminal Justice is so easy...all we do is take notes. There is no point in reading teh chapter because of the excessive notes we take.
I won't even go into my theatre class...I pretty much hate it. I have not yet learned ANYTHING I dodn't already know. It's pathetic, but I guess it's a good thing that I don't have to pay attention and I can pass with an A.
The girls on my floor are amazing! (Most of them anyway lol) There are a bunch of us that call ourselves "The Perry Pimpettes" (we live in Perry Hall) We have fake names that we give when we go out and everything and just joke around alot. We get in trouble a lot too because one of the girls on the floor pretty much hates us. Her name is Kussy (pronounced Koosy), well we don't like her either. She tattles on us a lot, but it's not usually a problem because our female FYM likes us and is really cool and the guy FYM wants Kristin (or so we all think). I love Kristin, she is hilarious! She and Charlene are the girls I hang out with the most. Char lives in Porter (aka Porter Projects), but she is an honorary pimpette cuz she's awesome. My roommate is pretty cool, but I don't always get along with her. She has a habbit of not caring what you're doing and will be as loud as she wants. Like now, she came in and turned her music on really loud and then just walked out. She also likes to sleep a lot. She doesn't get up until about 2 or 3 pm, so I try to be quiet when she's sleeping. Well she doesn't like to be that considerate. She'll come in at about 2 am when I am sleeping and have a 9 am class and be as loud as she wants. She also likes to use my computer without asking and let her friends do the same, even when they have their own. I hate people using my computer so it's now locked with a password.
I guess that's it for now, well otehr than hte fact that I want to go home for a weekend soon, but mom won't let me. :-P


Courtney, Me, Kristin, Lisseth

Char