Rough Draft

End of the Year

Well, another year here at CWRU has come to an end, and I can honestly say 90% of the stuff that happened this year was stuff I never expected. Although that's not to say this has been an entirely bad year for me. In fact overall this has been one of my best years here, except for the last 2 months of last year which is when I met someone very special to me.

Let's see, where to start. First, I made a lot of really good new friends this year. I met Angie, Tim, and Dana first semester. Angie was an RA in Tippit last year but I didn't really know her then. I'm trying to remember how exactly we all started hanging out, and I guess it was from going out to eat on Tuesday's, or Happy Suite Fun and Food Night. That was Sarah's idea and Angie and Dana were her suitemates, so that's how they started going to dinner with us. We also had a party in Sarah's suite one night to celebrate Anand's and Dana's birthday.

Then for second semester, Jacob and Chris came back from their co-ops. Angie knew both of them from last so I started hanging out with them also. I also met Steve, who lived here first semester but I had never really met. Finally, there is Han who came here for one semester as an exchange student from Singapore. Han is one of the coolest people I have met and I'm really going to miss him being around next year. I think everyone is going to miss him.

That about sums up all the new people I met this year. Angie, Dana, Matt, Phil, Jeff, and I will all be living in suite 450 next year. That is definitely going to be a lot of fun. The suite next door will be Jacob, Chris, John, Jessie, Ashley, and Lynn. Out of all the people I've mentioned, the only one's I won't be seeing again will be Han and Steve. Han is of course going back to Singapore sometime in the middle of July. Steve is going to grad school at Cornell. Steve was a fun guy to hang out with also. We had some fun pool matches and watched several great Stanley Cup playoff games, including one game that went into a 5th overtime. So to Han and Steve, I just want to say it's been great knowing you guys and I'll miss you guys next year.

This was also the first year I've been out here that I went to any concerts. Up until the end of last year, I hadn't met anyone who listened to the same music I did. Luckily, I met Sarah last year and we were able to go to 4 concerts together this year. The first one was in October when we saw New Found Glory, Finch, Something Corporate, and Further Seems Forever. I ended up buying tickets for that on ebay and paying a fair amount of money for them, but it was definitely, definitely worth it. Then in February we saw Something Corporate, Juliana Theory, Fiction Plane, and Vendetta Red (ugh for Vendetta Red). Kurt, his sister and her boyfriend, Sarah's sister, and one of her friends also came to that concert. Then a few days after that Sarah and I went to see Finch, The Used, My Chemical Romance, and The Movielife. The great surprise at that show was that Allister played in the Ballroom after the concert. That was probably the most fun part of all the shows I saw this year. At the end of March, Dana and I went to the Grog Shop to see Trouble Is, Fall Out Boy, The Early November, and American Hi-Fi. I also went to the UPB sponsored concert which was Ben Folds, and he played at Severance Hall. Finally, the day after the Ben Folds concert, Sarah, Dana, and I went to see Allister, Fall Out Boy, Don't Look Down, and The Interns at the Agora. That concert presented with my first visible injury which was a lovely black eye that lasted for a few weeks. Sarah also got a few bruises and was having problems with her ears afterwards, but she's definitely ok now. I enjoyed every show I went to this year and am looking forward to seeing a lot more next year.

There were also some bad things that happened. I got my first grade lower than a B in any class which was a lovely D in Probability first semester. Thankfully, that is still passing and I won't have to retake that hard class again. Unfortunately, I followed up with a C in Computer Architecture this semester. Oh well, it will lower my GPA a little bit, but it's not really a big deal.

It's really late now, but there's more I want to say, so I'll probably edit this post sometime after I get home. Speaking of which...since I'm leaving CWRU tomorrow, the site will only be reachable from http://roughdraft.dyndns.org until the end of August.