And A Few Days Later...

Captain's blog, stardate 8426.4....
I have somehow survived for several days without my parents being around to provide for my every need! Of course, the fact that there's plenty of free food during orientation week helps. As does the fact that my mom went grocery shopping with me before returning to the world of People Who Aren't In College. (It's kinda weird to walk around and see only people of my approximate age. There are adults working and stuff, but if I walk around I see about 50 college kids, maybe a couple adults, and no young children at all. It's slightly disorienting.)
Well, now that I've congratulated myself on my remarkable survival skills, I suppose I may as well talk about what it is I've been surviving, which is not a huge amount.
Let's see...when was the last time I blogged about anything...aha! On Friday! What have I done since then? Heck, I don't know, I'm ridiculously tired. Classes haven't started yet, in fact, registration hasn't started yet. Just orientation activities.
Speaking of orientation activities, on Thursday, when I arrived, I didn't know activities had already started, since not everyone was required to have checked in until Friday at noon. So I missed out on my favorite activity of all time: Nerdy Singalong! Basically, this is the coolest activity ever invented in the history of mankind. (In other news, I ADORE hyperbole. Or maybe you'd noticed?) When I visited MIT for the admitted students' weekend, it was the high point of the entire weekend. Why? Because 1) singing is awesome, 2) nerdy songs are twice as awesome as any other songs. But I missed it this time around.
However! On Friday evening, I was eating a free meal at one of the dorms and talking to this guy who was sitting across from me. (Yeah, I was being sociable! Crazy, huh?) Conversation approximately as follows:
Me: Yeah...I can't believe I missed Nerdy Singalong!
Him: What does one sing at a nerdy singalong?
Me: Oh, lots of stuff. Let's see...we did "White & Nerdy" of course, "I Will Derive", "Finite Simple Group of Order Two"...
Him: Finite Simple Group of Order Two?
Me: YOU'VE NEVER HEARD IT??
Girl who lives in the dorm: YOU'VE NEVER HEARD IT?? *pulls out computer and plays the YouTube video*
Me: *starts singing*
And thus began my own personal Nerdy Singalong, since I missed the real event. But the best part is yet to come! We were all having a great time and I was singing really enthusiastically, so this guy who lived in the dorm asked me if I wanted to join his a capella group which sings nerdy songs! So I gave him my email address and he told me he'd let me know when they were holding auditions! So maybe I'll get to sing those songs more often. Wouldn't that be lovely?
Did I do anything exciting on Sunday? Not all that much. I went to Random Hall, of course, because we're allowed into all the dorms during orientation (for activities) and Random is the best of all the dorms. They have fun activities every day and I try to go to as many as I can. After orientation, we're not allowed in dorms other than our own unless we're on the guest list of a resident, but a guy I met at the impromptu singalong said he'd put me and my friend who didn't know Finite Simple Group of Order Two on his guest list.
Oh right, I did do stuff on Sunday! There was Convocation and stuff. Convocation was basically us sitting around and listening to speeches about how we could change the world and we're supposed to make the most of our time at MIT etc. etc. etc. It was slightly boring. (I'm not averse to a bit of understatement at times, to go along with all the hyperbole. Say, if using hyperbole makes you hyperbolic, what does using understatement make you? Parabolic? Elliptical? No, wait, elliptical would be if you used too many ellipses. Heck, I don't know.) Also, we had to take a math diagnostic to help with placement for a physics class I'm not taking because I already placed out of it. But the test was mandatory.
And then today I took a placement test to try and get out of multivariate calculus, which I doubt I'll be getting out of but it was worth a try. I kind of made up all the space integrals because I couldn't remember how to do them. But I did wear a Captain Kirk shirt for luck, and he's pretty lucky, so we'll see.
Oh, and there was a TARDIS on the dome today.