Hello everyone, this is the first post of my college blog. Obviously Patrick’s blog inspired this but it seems to be working well for him so I decided to start one too.
Yesterday was the new student convocation (read useless ceremony), the deans welcome, and a club fair in the park. The EE students were combine with the biomedical students for the speech from the dean. Unfortunately the EE dean didn’t show up (apparently he had a meeting) so pretty much all we got from that was that 1 out of 4 EE students drop out.
The club fair was entirely more successful. I found a fencing club, an investment/financial topic club and an RPG club. The poor guy at the fencing table was obviously overwhelmed with the crowds, so I didn’t get much out of him. The investment club staffers told me that the club was going to arrange speakers on financial topics, discuss financial and business issues and have paper trading competitions (with cash prizes). All and all the investment club is highly promising. The RPG club was playing catan when I walked up to their table and I expect there is a lot of other incredibly geeky fun to be had with them.
Additionally, I visited a small room with padded walls and a door with a window. I’m referring of course to the piano practice rooms. Some of them are better than others, but I was able to find a piano with all its keys still functioning and able to carry a decent tune. If I have time I’ll hopefully be able to continue my trend of renewed piano playing.
Finally, today I went to visit the anteater recreation center (ARC). Its HUGE! It has several large rooms full of exercise machines, 3 indoor basket ball courts, 3 indoor racquetball courts, and 3 indoor courts that appeared to be for badminton, an indoor track that looked like it was maybe a 1/4 or 1/6 of a mile, several large activity rooms for classes, an indoor rock wall (probably 40 feet tall) and an Olympic sized swimming pool (outdoor). Needless to say, the place is somewhat stunning at first.
I’ll try to post regularly, be sure to comment.
Lucas
posted by Lucas Colvin @ 12:18 PM
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6 Comments:
OoooOoo... I'm anonymous!!! ^.~ Your little sister here. It sounds like you are going to have way to much fun there at college. Katon, fenceing and a an ARK the size of Texas!
Your cat mutilated my arm. I'm blaming it on Jeremy Graham's hair.
Lucas, I like your blog name.
Very creative!! - Mom
hi,
Clever name.
sounds like your gonna have a blast. a fencing club, I'm so jelous.
so how's the food? is the dorm net amazing?
keep us posted!
patrick
Hi Lucas! Very nice blog, and a very informative first post! Thanks for including us in your world this way. It it much appreciated! :-)
I'm impressed to hear that you're getting involved with the investment / financial topic club. That sounds cool. Gonna go after those cash prizes in the paper trading competitions? Hehe... Why does that sound so familiar?
So do you miss us yet? Well, I can assure you that we miss you. In fact, I've had a lot more reaction than I was expecting to my "baby boy" going off to college. Don't forget where home is, ok?
P.S. For all you "anonymous" commenters: Under "Choose an identity", select the "Other" option and put something in the NAME box, and you'll stop looking like triplets... ;-)
Dear Luke, Just wanted to let you know I'm reading your letters. It is great to be able to hear what you are doing and keep up a little bit. Sounds like you are doing some really tough courses. I'm very proud of you. Love, Grandma
Glad to hear your taking piano up again, its definitely worthwhile! Its a great thing to know, and really popular at dinner parties! Oh, and whatever it was your cat did to your sister, it was definitely my hair's fault, my hair is definitely to blame.
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