I'm on the Honor Council at Colorado College (its a group of kids that tries to promote a culture of integrity on campus through education [all the first years get presentations and candy] and events [barbecues, coffee, etc] -- we also investigate and have trials of people accused of plagiarism, cheating, etc) -- and each year we go to the CC cabin which is about an hour away from campus in the mountains. At the cabin we do new member orientation, as well as discuss new issues for the council. The new members are really great/intelligent/cool - one of them had a puppy named Koru that came up to the cabin with us (really awesome puppy, not quite Mushu level, but we are talking pretty great). We discussed two main issues. First was concerned with aderol and ritalin and whether or not the illegal use of these 'study' drugs is something that the honor council would persecute. The second was about confidentiality and the right of the accused to evidence brought against them. Anyhow, some pretty interesting topics but I won't go into them right now. Later in the night we had smores and dinner. Good time overall.
Trouble In Vegas (ultimate frisbee tournament) is coming up next weekend and I can't wait. Nikki is going to be taking some pictures with a super camera her dad lent her, so hopefully I'll have some neat stuff to post afterwards.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
End of January
Spring 2010 Classes (also crazy that its already 2010)
Modern Architecture and Sustainability: This professor is amazing! He does not even have to bring notes to class, but talks the entire time non-stop and goes really in depth without making concepts or topics seem overbearing. Probably the class I look for to the most.
Natural Resource Economics and Policy: The prof worked in SoCal electricity for a very long time and he knows his business, very informative, very smart.
Art History [Ancient World]: I just added this course. Another lecture style course, a lot of slides and cool comparisons between ancient and modern art. Pretty straightforward and enjoyable.
Drawing 1: The teacher is really intimidating and harsh-grading wise. Almost the entire class did awfully on our first assignment, but I like her a lot. She is reminiscent of E, except way meaner.
CATZ: athletic training class twice a week, so sore
other things
-frisbee team is going to be really good this year
-acapella group just took four new members
-new room mate (old one abroad)
-finally stopped raining
-going to start writing comics for the newspaper again
-markham-
Modern Architecture and Sustainability: This professor is amazing! He does not even have to bring notes to class, but talks the entire time non-stop and goes really in depth without making concepts or topics seem overbearing. Probably the class I look for to the most.
Natural Resource Economics and Policy: The prof worked in SoCal electricity for a very long time and he knows his business, very informative, very smart.
Art History [Ancient World]: I just added this course. Another lecture style course, a lot of slides and cool comparisons between ancient and modern art. Pretty straightforward and enjoyable.
Drawing 1: The teacher is really intimidating and harsh-grading wise. Almost the entire class did awfully on our first assignment, but I like her a lot. She is reminiscent of E, except way meaner.
CATZ: athletic training class twice a week, so sore
other things
-frisbee team is going to be really good this year
-acapella group just took four new members
-new room mate (old one abroad)
-finally stopped raining
-going to start writing comics for the newspaper again
-markham-
Monday, January 25, 2010
Winter Break + Seattle + Start of School Year
Winter Break - Highlights include seeing everyone, and dominating at Seven Little Idiots (a savage ultimate frisbee tournament in Athens, GA) where we routed a Ring Team, a bunch of other teams, and ended up 2nd place losing in the finals to a bunch of national champions. It was fun. Then I travelled to...
Seattle! -- where I visited my girlfriend and her family (which including all the step people was quite large). There is a picture of me with something called the troll which is this huge wild sculpture under a bridge with a vw bug in its hand. I ate a lot of great food (salmon, shrimp, crabcakes, and a dessert called the Lunar Lander), learned some karate from nikki (a blackbelt) and saw the Karate Dojo where she works. It was cool, I got to see a black belt demo team do a choreographed fight. I outjumped all of them and was able to touch the ceiling, that was really high. Muahah. Went to historic places in Seattle such as the pier and some really old bookstores and stuff, also read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo which dad gave me -- it was addicting. One of the best parts of the trip was going to the San Juan Islands for 2 days and a night. We took the ferry over, which was huge, and then stayed in a sweet little cottage. I searched really hard for these japanese glass balls that come up on the shore but didn't find any. We did however see a bald eagle as well some seals. There was a raging storm the night we were there with gale force winds so we couldn't take the kayaks out, but it was intense being at the sea while it went insane. Brunch in the sky needle was epic. Totally worth it, rotating slowly hundreds of feet above the city where you can see everything, it was beautiful -- a rainbow showed up at the end of our meal when the sun started coming out.
School --- I'm in a class called Shakespeare's Tragedies in Film, we're reading Titus Andronics, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, and Othello as well as watching several film adaptations of the plays. So far we've watched Julie Taymor's Titus (wild, lots of time periods and crazy costumes, good overall) and Lawrence Olivier's Hamlet. We played Air Force's ultimate team last saturday and won 15-6, but my ankle is hurting now and i think it might be some minor tendonitis so I'm icing/IBprofening/resting it until vegas in 2 weeks.
I hope all is good with all the readers (Gammy, I'm giving you a shout out, how you doing? I know I haven't posted in forever - sorry). Also, hopefully more people will start posting.
Seattle! -- where I visited my girlfriend and her family (which including all the step people was quite large). There is a picture of me with something called the troll which is this huge wild sculpture under a bridge with a vw bug in its hand. I ate a lot of great food (salmon, shrimp, crabcakes, and a dessert called the Lunar Lander), learned some karate from nikki (a blackbelt) and saw the Karate Dojo where she works. It was cool, I got to see a black belt demo team do a choreographed fight. I outjumped all of them and was able to touch the ceiling, that was really high. Muahah. Went to historic places in Seattle such as the pier and some really old bookstores and stuff, also read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo which dad gave me -- it was addicting. One of the best parts of the trip was going to the San Juan Islands for 2 days and a night. We took the ferry over, which was huge, and then stayed in a sweet little cottage. I searched really hard for these japanese glass balls that come up on the shore but didn't find any. We did however see a bald eagle as well some seals. There was a raging storm the night we were there with gale force winds so we couldn't take the kayaks out, but it was intense being at the sea while it went insane. Brunch in the sky needle was epic. Totally worth it, rotating slowly hundreds of feet above the city where you can see everything, it was beautiful -- a rainbow showed up at the end of our meal when the sun started coming out.
School --- I'm in a class called Shakespeare's Tragedies in Film, we're reading Titus Andronics, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, and Othello as well as watching several film adaptations of the plays. So far we've watched Julie Taymor's Titus (wild, lots of time periods and crazy costumes, good overall) and Lawrence Olivier's Hamlet. We played Air Force's ultimate team last saturday and won 15-6, but my ankle is hurting now and i think it might be some minor tendonitis so I'm icing/IBprofening/resting it until vegas in 2 weeks.
I hope all is good with all the readers (Gammy, I'm giving you a shout out, how you doing? I know I haven't posted in forever - sorry). Also, hopefully more people will start posting.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
My parents should never have let me take that xbox...
I <3 video games.
Over the weekend Goyo, my roommate, went to an undergound salsa bar where he ran into Eva Mendez. He apparently tried to buy her a drink, an offer which she declined, and then, after much failed flirtation, said she was so beautiful she deserved to be knighted. And by "said she deserved to be knighted" i mean he tapped her shoulders with an imaginary sword and dubbed her lady eva mendez.
The Dhali lama is coming to our school in october and I just bought tickets for it so that should be pretty awesome. I've been playing a good bit of tennis against my friend Maddie who is about the same level as me so thats been a lot of fun. She unfortunately caught swine flu, which has been spreading around my school pretty fast. Apparently the dorms are all connected to the same air system or something so all of the kids quarantining themselves in their dorms are still spreading the germs throughout the building. If more than 15 or 20 % of the school gets it we shut down for the semester and finish all of our classes on line which would be really miserable. There have already been 40 or 50 cases and its spreading fast so I've got my fingers crossed.
Over the weekend Goyo, my roommate, went to an undergound salsa bar where he ran into Eva Mendez. He apparently tried to buy her a drink, an offer which she declined, and then, after much failed flirtation, said she was so beautiful she deserved to be knighted. And by "said she deserved to be knighted" i mean he tapped her shoulders with an imaginary sword and dubbed her lady eva mendez.
The Dhali lama is coming to our school in october and I just bought tickets for it so that should be pretty awesome. I've been playing a good bit of tennis against my friend Maddie who is about the same level as me so thats been a lot of fun. She unfortunately caught swine flu, which has been spreading around my school pretty fast. Apparently the dorms are all connected to the same air system or something so all of the kids quarantining themselves in their dorms are still spreading the germs throughout the building. If more than 15 or 20 % of the school gets it we shut down for the semester and finish all of our classes on line which would be really miserable. There have already been 40 or 50 cases and its spreading fast so I've got my fingers crossed.
Friday, September 18, 2009
In da city
So I've been at college for about a month now and am loving second semester. Having an apartment is one of the most amazing things ever, and Goyo and I have done much remodelling/furnishing over the past few weeks. It looks a bit silly with all of the random things people have given us: a bike, a pink fridge that our big TV sits on, weird girls paintings, various pink and blue colored tables, a big green ace ladder, all of which is topped off by a lovely picture of my face superimposed on rambo's body that sits on a samurai-sword our friend gave us.
I'm really enjoying all of my classes this semester, especially the LIT ones. In Writers in Print/Fiction we read different types of books and scripts (including comic books), watch some documentaries, and study a CD. The cool thing is the creators of everything that we study come into the class and have an hour long Q & A session, one of which Sam Smith came up and sat in for.
I'll post more later, I just wanted to make sure I had something up here seeing as I joined so late.
I'm really enjoying all of my classes this semester, especially the LIT ones. In Writers in Print/Fiction we read different types of books and scripts (including comic books), watch some documentaries, and study a CD. The cool thing is the creators of everything that we study come into the class and have an hour long Q & A session, one of which Sam Smith came up and sat in for.
I'll post more later, I just wanted to make sure I had something up here seeing as I joined so late.
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