First let me start of by saying the Yankee’s parade was awesome. It was the best time I’ve ever had skipping class and still waking up early. There were so many people and it was snowing shredded paper. While the parade itself kind of sucked; there were more busses of nobodies than actual Yankees, and when a float was carrying my beloved players it sailed by like a race-car. Despite that, being so close to all of the players and celebrating with them in such an electric crowd was incredible and totally worth it. Also by the end of the day NYPD will make you feel like cattle. They are so good at barricades and herding people it’s a wonder they don’t throw a parade every week just for practice.
I left Thursday night to go back to Cranford so I could leave bright and early for the city, and being in such a rush I forgot two vital things for my survival; my cell phone and laptop charger. So I spent all weekend without both, I literally lived in the dark ages for four days. No internet, no phone, I don’t think there was ever a time when I was in that situation. I had some nervous pent up energy in my fingers from not texting, seeing as I send at least one hundred texts in a day it’s no surprise, but for the most part I was okay. I’m not saying I would try this again, I came back to school with thirty unread text messages and eight voicemails, but it was interesting to be so cut off from society. Plus with it being such a beautiful weekend it gave me more time to enjoy my time.
WIth no cell phone, laptop, or classes for four days, I almost forgot that I was in college, taking actual college classes, with lots of real college work. However I did remember on Sunday night when I got back to my dorm. I answered all my texts and voicemails, dove into the pile of work I should have done over the weekend and had a ball working for six straight hours. Of course I did about half of the work I told myself I would finish, but I felt accomplished about what I’d done and decided to stop and rest some more.
On Monday after my morning class I cranked out my FIGS paper because this week is the final week of class. My FIGS (A first year seminar that is optional for freshmen is a class about a subject that they are interested in exploring. They are taught by undergraduate students who are at least a junior, you can learn more at, http://fwww.figs.rutgers.edu/ ) is on history, and I really enjoyed it. It was nice to learn about a brief period of history and reflect on it in a comfortable and small environment. Throughout the class we also learned a lot about the Rutgers community and life here. We took a ‘field trip’ to the library to learn how to write a good research paper, had a lecture from a professor, and had a peer panel of students answer questions for us. Every class related to life at Rutgers in some facet, and I really learned a lot about history, the history major, and Rutgers life. It was definitely worth taking and I would strongly encourage anyone who is interested to look into it more. For my final I had to write a paper on Sarajevo, the death of Franz Ferdinand, and how it caused World War 1, it’s a minimum of three pages and was really easy and fun to write. The class is pass/fail, so it’s really easy as long as I go, do my weekly journal, and do well on this final paper.
Kylie and I went to get dinner at Brower (because we know it’s my favorite place in the world) we were starving so we decided for the first time we were going to try the food in the line instead of just getting a salad, fail. The food was unidentifiable and we just went to the salad bar, fail. They were basically out of spinach and there was no chicken, so we each made tiny little salads that weren’t even worthy to be called a side salad. Still starving we headed across the street back to the dorm room when I thought, why don’t we just go to another campus, so we did. We got on the H and decided to go to Bush for dinner. I’ve never been excited for food before, it was a dinning hall bonanza. There were so many options and all of the food looked edible. We each made huge plates and actually enjoyed our dinning hall food and on the way out we got smoothies. It was an excellent spur of the moment idea that has sparked us to pledge to eat there at least twice a week. It’s so easy to get on the bus and go to Bush than stay here and suffer. We also decided that we would try the other two dinning halls just to know our options. I went back to my dorm room nice and full and did some more work.
(Bellow are pictures from the parade, the first is the sky of raining ‘ticker tape’ and the second is Yankee’s first baseman Mark Teixeira celebrating on his float)
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