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The Next Step
Alone. I am all
alone. Finally, after nineteen years of wading through grade,
intermediate and high school, I'm finally at the pinnacle of my
educational tenure. Although my past may not show it, I'm entirely
ready for this next phase. At least, I think I am. I'd like to
hope I am. Oh phuk, I don't know what I'm talking about. When do I
ever know? ^_^
As far as my first impressions of college are, there are far
too many to count. I could worry about so many different things.
Am I going to get along with my room-mate. Are my classes going to
be ass hard? Are the professors going to be even harder? What
about the Asian population? The parties, are they any good? Will
the campus network be fast enough for me? And of course, the all
important one...how are the women going to be?
I suppose the answers have all come to me. In one form or
another. For one thing, my room-mate rocks. He's from a small town
an hour away from UNC. A former jock (he played varsity football,
basketball & baseball). We get along well, especially because
we have agreements on everything. The hall that I'm living in is
really nice too. Perhaps not as nice as the other Central Campus
dorms such as Sabin, Gordon & Hansen-Willis, but it's got
billiards and ping-pong tables in our lower lounge. At least it's
not as ghetto as the dorms up in West Campus. The Central Campus
dorms were all recently renovated and we have air-conditioning and
everything else we could need. However, the West Campus halls are
permanently stuck in the '70s complete with linoleum floors and
cramped drab living space, not to mention the lack of
air-conditioning.
Classes? Well, I do believe I can do well in all my classes.
They are not any more difficult than at Punahou, plus I lack the
competition and devotion that the Punahou atmosphere had. (Damn
all those honor students making me look bad.) My Psychology class
is looking to be my most difficult, because it compares to the a
level beyond AP psychology that high school offered. My other
pseudo-difficult class is my Visual Basic Programming class which
I'm looking forward to because it would allow me to make
internet-based applications and I can share some of my works on
line. Unfortunately, the professor has an extremely thick Chinese
accent. Frick, I'm mostly Chinese and I can barely understand him,
I wonder what the Colorado students are thinking. My composition
class will be a breeze due to the writing that I already do for
CCC and other sites like Bolt
& AsianAvenue.
Plus it's taught by a grad student, who's an absolute riot, he's
extremely funny and sarcastic. My Macroeconomics class is probably
the biggest joke of the year. The professor is slightly flaky and
believes that it may be too difficult for a freshman. Well, I'm a
freshman...just one who got an A in economics and has a good
education and is not oblivious to everything that goes around him.
Asian population? Not too bad, there's some lookers but I'd
rather be at home. As far as friends go, I've got quite an
interesting group going so far. It's composed of about half Hawaii
students (Hawaii also happens to be the second largest population
next to Colorado at UNC) and a melting pot of others. First
there's Dash, my good friend from Punahou. Hard to describe him,
he's turned a new leaf (remarkably so) and has chosen to abstain
from many college activities (that aren't entirely curricular).
Then there's Lyndsey, a former cheerleader from Millilani HS,
& Lindsey, a former catholic school-girl who grad'ed from
Kailua HS. Eric, a skating trumpet player from South Dakota who
loves spelunking. David, another Trumpet player & Eagle Scout
from Lakewood (the largest suburb in Denver), CO. Jeff, a guitar
player from CO. Matt, a former Football captain from CO. Jen, a
partier from Pearl City HS. Jenn, another grad from Millilani HS.
Ryan, a pseudo-jock from Maryknoll who lives in Pearl City. Dawn,
a former cheerleader (who happens to be Lyndsey's roomie) from CO.
Finally, there's me...basically everything in-between from Kaimuki.
The parties? Well, I should've gone to one last week with
Lindsey, Jen & Jenn but I opted not to. I decided to play
capture the flag...which was a waste of time and I wish I could've
gone to the party. I'm definitely going to the next one. Eric's
friend Timmy was supposed to have something go down last Saturday,
but he wasn't home, so another opportunity got shot down. However,
David took me, Eric, Lindsey & Lyndsey to Denver on Friday
night and it was loads of fun.
Campus network? Plenty fast. I still haven't figured out where
I peak because I've d/led as much as 500 kbps and the ping for CS
and other games is quite good as well.
The ladies? Again...not too many for my tastes. But let's just
say that the ratio of girls to guys is 4:1. I kid you not. I'll
find somebody eventually. ^_^
-Chrissy
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