Sophomore Year Over

I finished the senior slideshow! Lots of pictures, very time-consuming. It seriously took the majority of my time. I barely managed to finish one and a half articles before I had to leave to go home, and had to finish the rest at home. I offered to do more work for Bill if he needed me (transcriptions and small articles and the like), but nothing ever came my way.

So I stayed at home, doing the senior band slideshow for my brother's graduating class in all of my oodles of spare time. It was a smash hit at the senior awards night. I ended it with a baby picture of me and my brother followed by an adult picture of me and my brother, with a text saying "Thanks to my sister for her help" etc, and it made my mom cry when she saw it. I basically did the whole thing myself, but Ben helped pick the music and helped me edit it a little at the end.

Side note: Windows Movie Maker is absolutely worthless for anything but slideshows. It's clunky, inaccurate, difficult to use for the more detail-oriented things. But for slideshows? It's a breeze. Meanwhile, my high-grade video editor at work made it harder for me to do the MechSE slideshow! So for doing slideshows, please stick to Windows Movie Maker. Very convenient and easy. Don't use it for much else.

I went out with Steven a lot, watched a lot of television to make up for all that I had missed (which was a lot), saw two movies in theaters, hung out with my grandmother, watched my brother graduate, and went out to dinner with my family--several times. (I swore it would make me gain 10 pounds, but as much as we always say that, it very rarely does.)

Now I'm at Cornell! It's very exciting. Ithaca is "gorges" as they say here, meaning there are lots of gorges and they're gorgeous (in case you are pun-challenged). I met my roommate (who is extremely nice!) as well as all of my other suitemates (also nice!) and the guys from the suite down the hall (nice nice nice everybody's nice). We all went out to dinner at Moosewood, which was really good food and a lot of fun. It looks like we'll all get along really well--seemed to be a hodgepodge collection of science-oriented pleasant people. :)

It's really refreshing to be around people who aren't JUST from the Chicago suburbs. It's actually really exciting. There's someone from Puerto Rico, someone from Montana, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania....it's just really exciting. Makes me happy.

Also, I'll be cooking! (Although I have leftovers from dinner tonight, so I will probably just eat those tomorrow haha.) I'll try to find original things to do, but I have a suspicion it'll just be the usual suspects. Grilled cheese, stir fry, pasta, and....eggs. But maybe once in a while I'll throw something special together.

Anyway! Orientation is tomorrow! So excited to finally meet my professor and find out what I'll be doing!