This is my first blog entry written from college. I'm in room 1501, in the Washington building of the Southwest area of the UMass Amherst campus. No classes yet; those start on the 8th.
I've been here 3 days now. As a member of Commonwealth College (the honors university at UMass), I got the option to move in two days earlier than everyone else. So I competed for the elevator with 2500 students rather than 25 thousand. The wait was about an hour and a half to use the elevator, but I got everything situated just fine. After dealing with a little trouble connecting to the campus ethernet, I managed to get my mail, surf the web a a little, and then go out and meet some of the other guys.
I'm part of a program called the Computer Science Talent Advancement Program (CompSci TAP) in which all of the freshmen in that program are on the same floor of the building. Which is good, becuase my hallmates have at least one thing in common: games. Almost everyone on hall is a gamer of some sort. Great. Lots of LAN parties.
When everyone else moved in on the 5th, there were some people who came to our floor asking for help, what with a lot of us being CompSci majors. My roommate, Huan, and I, tried to help a senior named Rich get connected to the internet before finally realizing the problem was that his newtork card was faulty. One of my hallmates, John, managed to make $10 from an unsuccessful attempt to connect someone's computer to the campus ethernet. The downside to CompSci TAP? Fewer girls on our hall. Only one in TAP, and a few Nursing majors and undeclareds. Oh well.
Which brings me to one of the weirdest things I've seen in a while. My RA, Z, handed out free condoms to everyone on the floor, because, hey, it's college. But the weird thing? Some of the condoms were labelled as "flavored." Yeah. Flavored Condoms. The only possible explanation as to why they could possibly exist that I have can not be stated here unless I label this article as having adult content, so, I'll leave it up to the more imaginative of you to figure it out.
I've kind of worked myself into a bad sleep schedule: stay up till 2(late-night Texas-Hold-Em' for cash), wake up at 8 the next morning...so this will be all the blogging for now on this subject..