kash
Junior Member
Posts: 78
|
Post by kash on May 10, 2022 16:40:34 GMT
Today I woke up a bit earlier than usual because I had a meeting at 9 am. It was on Zoom so I got up at 8:57 am, which I am definitely not mad about. Today I do not have too much on my agenda besides meeting with Ricky and Caroline, going to the gym, and catching up on my management class. I had a midterm for that class last week so I did not really go over any of the material that she recently taught, just what would be on the midterm, so I definitely have to spend some time to get back on track. I am also planning on going to Greece this summer, and all of my friends have already booked their tickets besides me so I really need to get on that soon. I am just nervous because my parents were a bit iffy about it originally but then they said yes, but I feel like they may so no again so I feel like I need to seize the opportunity this week and just book it and then not look back. I really hope that I get to go as I have never been to Greece before in my life, and it has always been on my bucket list when I was growing up. I also love the people who I would be going with, as they are my best childhood friends and high school friends and all in all are people that I really love and cherish.
|
|
|
Post by oliviadelapp on May 10, 2022 18:55:57 GMT
Today I woke up at 7 am for my 8 am dinosaur lab. These are usually quite painful for me to attend but one of my friends who normally has another lab time came with me today and it was actually really fun. We had a little field trip in class and the TA took us down to the Botanical Gardens which was really pretty, and I even saw a few turtles in the pond. My friend and I were starving so we door-dashed Chickfila after and talked for a little bit. It was nice to catch up with her because I haven't been able to see her much this quarter. I am now doing some last-minute studying for tonight's pledge meeting quiz, and then I am planning on taking a nap after this so I can rejuvenate myself before continuing on with the rest of my day. I then plan on getting lunch and doing some actual school work somewhere before my interview with Ira at 3 pm. After this, I am going to try and rehearse my mock trial cross and closing until heading over to our 6 pm pledge meeting. I'm still pretty upset with myself that I left the jicama unguarded yesterday during mock trial and gave Cia the opportunity to smash it. Hopefully, the next fruit pledge does not have it too bad because of my mistake. After the meeting, I plan on cleaning my dorm room because right now it is a complete mess.
|
|
|
Post by alizanovoa on May 10, 2022 20:28:02 GMT
Today I had to wake up my roommate because we have the same class so we like to get up at the same time. But today neither one of us woke up early. I woke us up today at 10:07 so we both had to rush and get ready. The good thing is I knew what professional outfit I wanted to wear. I got this cute new silk top that I have been waiting to wear and today I decided it was the day. It gives off older vibes because of the style but I still think it is cute. After getting ready I went downstairs and thought about going to class but I and my roommate decided we did not want to go. So we went to the lounge and just did work that we wanted to catch up on. Still learning how to manage everything. Yesterday was a terrible day. My computer did a whole factory reset which means I have now lost any work that I have done since being in college. Luckily I believe most of my stuff is on google docs. It was just incredibly frustrating because I need to get stuff done and I really did not have the time to work on it because I had to figure out how to log back into everything. After that I did okay in the mock trial I still need alot of work to improve. I am so terrified for Friday that I would rather stub my toe 100 times than speak in front of people. What makes me trip up is that I will not have my script to reference but it is all part of the process and I will take the challenge because everything is part of learning.
|
|
|
Post by abigailrubtsova on May 11, 2022 3:04:22 GMT
Today was so hectic, truly insane. I woke up early for my 9am. I had a good time in class, we talked about concentration camps in France and Amsterdam, and continued our discussion of propaganda. We discussed the final project, which I am actually excited for. We can either write a paper or film a 15 minute podcast discussing a curated playlist we make that pertains to a specific theme. I think I am going to do a podcast about Yiddish resistance and partisan songs. I have one song I would revolve my playlist around called “Shtil Di Nakht Iz Oygeshternt”. It’s a banger. I discussed my ideas with my professor for a bit until I had to rush to my meeting with Akunnia at the study. I felt terrible for being late, I rushed as fast as I could. At this point, I realized I did not have my BruinCard, and that I could not eat then. I went to Sproul to get a temp, but I did not have time to eat as I was working on thank you emails and planning my day. I am starting to use Google Calendar to block out times. My personal planner is great but it doesn’t have a daily hour section, which at this point I need. Now that I have a calendar in front of me I feel like I can be more productive. After this I rushed to the gym for my meeting with Ricky, but I completely forgot my binder. I had to run back to my room to get it and return. I was almost too late to meet Zz. I rushed to class, a little late, and after class I talked to my TA for a bit about what Anthro class to take next quarter. I went to Kerckhoff to do work, but both my phone and laptop were about to die. I also had not eaten anything at this point. I had no meal vouchers because I didn’t have my BruinCard initially, but Daniel split his with me and I got a pretzel. I then met with Ira and Jack, and it was a great time. I then had to rush my interview journals and brush up on my family tree. My mind was so scattered I could barely remember a single name. I hope we get out of GB early so I can go to Torah study.
|
|
|
Post by korrale on May 11, 2022 4:31:41 GMT
Today I woke up really late and decided that in order to compensate, I would have a very productive day. This was not the case and I ended up doing much less work than I wanted to before our pledge meeting. For lunch/breakfast, I had a bagel and some hot Cheetos. They were still the chili lime Cheetos and they still tasted delicious. I will definitely go to the UCLA store and buy more of those chips or go to Target if they aren’t sold at the UCLA store. After the pledge meeting, I had to run back to my dorm because I had a group project meeting at 9. Luckily, this class is quite lenient and the work for this final project is more than reasonable. My groupmates are also really helpful and understanding if any of us have an especially busy week. I was really lucky to be able to get into this class and be assigned these group members. While I was in the group meeting, I was enjoying the meals that Cia and Elaine got for me. There was some mishap that resulted in me getting 2 meals and I feel really lucky because this means I will not have to walk to get lunch tomorrow. The meeting then ended early so I think that I will just spend the rest of my night editing my mock trial notes and preparing for my classes tomorrow. Wednesdays are packed with classes for me so I am praying that tomorrow won’t be as stressful as I expect.
|
|
|
Post by rainajain on May 11, 2022 4:37:48 GMT
Today, I woke up at 7:30 in the morning. I felt pretty happy because I thought it was Saturday, and I even asked my roommate to close the blinds, which we only do on weekends because we both can't wake up if it is dark in the room. However, I realized when my roommate got out of bed that it was Tuesday. This was a pretty rude awakening to my day. After I got up, I somehow managed to hit my spine on my ceiling, which I did not know was physically possible. At this point, I considered simply not getting out of bed. Nonetheless, I got dressed in my business professional and headed out to my 9:00 A.M. Today was a bit stressful for me as I had 3 interviews back to back with a class in between, but I enjoyed talking to all the active brothers. I spent most of my free time studying for the quiz today, and I also decided to complete my emails and interview journals in advance. After my interviews, I sat with my pledge brother Olivia and drank boba while we studied for the pledge class quiz. Unfortunately, I ran out of time and did not finish writing down the names, so I will have to retake the quiz. Still, I am glad I know the format in advance and can work on my timing more. Today, at general body, I presented my movie recommendations to Peter. I really hope he liked them as I put in a lot of thought into each one. Now, I am finishing up my pledging activities and I am about to start on my schoolwork.
|
|
|
Post by danieljudd on May 11, 2022 4:52:40 GMT
Today has been a hectic day, I woke up then I got dressed in business professional clothing and then went to my writing 2 class. I had a lot of interviews today and had a busy day. After lecture I got an iced cofee with my girlfriend and then I went to bplate. After lunch I ran to my interview with Ishan. After the interview I met up with Vedant and helped him film his TikTok, then we both worked on our interview journal and did some work together. I then ran to the study to do another interview with Chanel. After the interview I met up with my twin Cya to do some prep for pledge meeting and stressed out about the quizzes. I had to do two quizes since I missed pledge meeting last week because of Covid. I ended up passing the first one, but unfortunately failed the family tree quiz today. I am definitely going to have to study a lot for that one in the upcoming week if I find time for it somehow. After pledge meeting I got food from Eric and walked back to the hill. I am now fruit pledge so every second walking in public is a scary thing. I am looking out for actives forever now to make sure that Kevin my minion spaghetti squash remains alive for as long as possible. Now I need to work on an internship application and send out a few emails before going to sleep
|
|
|
Post by coltonharrison on May 11, 2022 5:11:54 GMT
Today was a long day, because I went to sleep really late last night. I only got five hours of sleep so I was a bit groggy when I woke up this morning. I showered and got dressed in my business professional attire, before heading to breakfast with my roommate. We ate very quickly and headed down to class for the day. I had my econ class, and I paid attention but I passively wrote everything down without absorbing the information. I nearly fell asleep, and then I headed to management class. In that class I was busy writing emails and trying to simultaneously take notes. After the class I headed to get some food from Kerkhoff and wait to interview Kylie. Unfortunately, they were out of the soup, so I ate a bagel instead. My interview with Kylie went well, and I headed inside to my dinosaurs class after. We talked about the ways in which dinosaurs regulate their body temperature. I left the class a few minutes early to head back up the hill to meet Chanel at The Study. We talked for the entire hour without any breaks, and then I headed to the study room in Olympic to write my interview journals. I met some of my friends and it was nice to catch up with them at the same time. I then headed back to campus to attend our pledge meeting. We were very worried about our quiz but for the most part we were successful. Our pledge meeting went fairly smoothly and we finished early so that people could practice their aftermaths and we could plan for mock trial.
|
|
|
Post by jonalyngaspar on May 11, 2022 5:17:43 GMT
Today was Tuesday and it is usually one of the busiest of the week. So my day started off by waking up at 9:30am, and getting food at the study. Today at the study I decided to get a waffle with fruit which was surprisingly super yummy. And then I went back to my dorm, to do assignments for my earthquake class. During my study session I did a few writing assignments which had a medium to large word count. After doing those assignments, I then headed to an interview with an active member from the time slot 12:45 to 1:45. After that interview I then got lunch with my pledge brother Faith. For lunch we both settled on getting food from Ackerman union. At the food court we both got sushi and a drink. Then we decided to eat outside which was really relaxing. After getting lunch with my pledge brother I then headed to another interview with an active. The location of the interview was at Kerckhoff which was super nice since the weather was not too hot. After that interview I was very much relieved as it was my last one for quota. As I had some hours left before the meeting, I then went back to my dorm for a nap. As I woke up from the nap I then walked over to the pledge meeting of the day. While I walked over, I studied for the quiz I had on my family.
|
|
|
Post by julianaabraham on May 11, 2022 5:58:53 GMT
I decided to sleep in really late today because I knew I had a long night ahead of me. When I got up and ready for the day, I began working on some of my midterms. I was feeling too lazy to go get some food from the dining hall so I rummaged through my food pile to find anything I could eat. I luckily have a roommate that brings a bunch of snacks for all of us to eat so it wasn’t hard to find something decent. I then continued to work on school until I had to finish getting ready and go to the pledge meeting. At the pledge meeting, I did a quiz and listened to a few, various presentations from my pledge brothers. By the time the meeting was ending, I was starving. I started to eat my food on the walk back with my pledge brothers. I then came back into my room to do my work. I ended up running into my friend and roommate who left for some time so that I could study. They were evacuated from The Study so they ended up coming back up to the room and delivering me a smoothie from B-Cafe. I talked to them for a short-while before they left again so as not to distract me. I have a very short attention span which I think a lot of my friends have realized and tried to help minimize it for me. I plan on finishing the night with some more studying and hopefully sleeping well after all of it.
|
|
|
Post by cyacoleman on May 11, 2022 6:44:16 GMT
Today was one of those days where you sit and contemplate life. Not like in a bad way but just like a why am I here. Not really sure about everything that is going on, but realizing there’s only so much I can do about it. Life is funny that way… some days everything feels so connected and correlated to a larger purpose, and other days it just feels like I am here. The day itself started off a bit rough because I had a covid scare the night before with my roommate, but after a stressful night that turned into a stressful morning, I was able to figure everything out. Then I went to my Earthquakes class which is definitely my least favorite class that I’m taking. The professor pretty much just talks to the slides the entire class and there is not any learning that actually takes place in the class. I’ve realized now that for the final I’m going to have to study everything on my own because the professor has been no help in teaching me the material. After that class, I went to Blaze to get a pizza, but the line was too long so I went back to the hill. The line was literally wrapping around and out the door which is crazy because it was really never that serious to just get a pizza. I ended up going to bplate and then heading back to my room where I was met with more roommate drama that I didn’t have the energy to deal with. So, I left my room and just went to my friend's place to relax and study before our meetings.
|
|
|
Post by faithndegwa03 on May 11, 2022 6:45:57 GMT
Today was exhausting. I left the house at 12pm to head to a meeting with Ricky but did not return home until almost 10:30pm. I stayed on campus and got lunch with a pledge bro and we discussed our challenges throughout pledging. Then, I went to Powell Library for a bit before heading to Anderson to meet Ria for our meeting. I really enjoyed it with her - we spent the whole thing discussing policy, systemic oppression, and privileged. She is such an intelligent person and is so easy to carry a conversation with. I really look forward to getting to know her more in the future. Afterward, I went to the tables next to the Young Research Library and sat there for 3 hours, and did work. Although I was not able to get any schoolwork done, I was happy I got the chance to complete all of my Kappa Alpha Pi assignments. I then met up with a few of my pledge brothers and we walked to our Alpha Pi General Body meeting.
I was excited to see that Kendrick Lamar’s new song came out. It came out about two days ago but I did not get the chance to watch it until an hour ago. Personally, I loved the song. Kendrick always speaks to the Black experience of individuals who grew up in rough areas and that is something I have always related to with his music. He is able to communicate the feelings and experiences I have gone through that I have never been able to put into words and I love that about him. His whole discography is so I found the different faces he changed into throughout the music video to be soooo funny. I died laughing when he changed into the Jussie Smollett - I thought it was even funnier than the parts when he changed into Will Smith and OJ Simpson. Kendrick really knows how to perfect his craft - he literally stood in front of a white t-shirt for almost six minutes and I loved every second of it. He doesn’t need a whole big budget in order to execute his art.
|
|
|
Post by lesliehernandez on May 11, 2022 6:57:26 GMT
Today was yet another stressful day. But it was kinda on the really bad side. I haven’t felt like I wanted to drop this bad for about 2 weeks now but today felt really rocky again. I went to sleep at 2:30 in the morning last night finishing the edits to the imitation video after I had driven home back to South Gate. My mom woke me up at 5:30 in the morning to help her load the car for the day. She’s a floral street vendor on Valentines day and Mothers day. Because we used to live in a predominantly Hispanic/LatinX community my mother still sells on Hispanic/LatinX mother’s day which is usually always 2 days after American mother’s day. My siblings were too busy to help her today so I decided to clear my day to help her out. We spent our morning loading the cars and heading to the spot. I helped her set up, bought her food, and would bring her the supplies she needed. She’s been vending for some years now so it’s kind of a tradition of ours for me to be like her little assistant, I love it. Unfortunately, my boss wasn't going to be in the office today so she asked me to come. Which sucked because it meant I had to leave my mom to come work all the way on campus, it was so annoying. I drove back and got to work 30 minutes late cause LA traffic sucks. Right after I completed my interview journals and sent proof of quota to Suzy and Journey. I drove back to finish helping my mom. I was only there for about 2 more hours because then my sister came to finish helping her pack up and my mom let me leave early because I had an assignment due at midnight. I got home, exhausted and feeling so worn out from being up and down. I literally cried because I felt so sleep deprived and exhausted. And just when I started to feel the most shitty I got a call from David that he arranged with Akunnia to get me food, I literally thought “maybe today wasn't all that bad.” I showered and got my food from David. I finished my assignment and for once will be going to sleep at a reasonable time, because I deserve it, I’m exhausted.
|
|
|
Post by vedantmehra on May 11, 2022 7:00:20 GMT
Today has been a pretty relaxing day. I woke up at around 11 AM, and got a healthy 8 hours of sleep. After getting ready and putting on my suit, I looked over my academic deadlines to see if there was anything coming up soon. I unfortunately have two midterm essays this week and a midterm exam next week. What a pain. The timing is really bad too, considering I need to practice and prepare for mock trial. After doing that, I got lunch with a friend at BPlate, where I ran into Daniel and Jack too. After eating, I headed back to my room to kill some time before I left the hill for the day. At around 2 PM, I left for Kerckhoff. I met with Ishan at Powell at 3 PM for our interview, and we had a very interesting conversation. After that, I headed back to Kerckhoff, where I did some homework, worked on my adopted big weekend essay, did my interview journals, and filmed my individual tik tok (with the help of my P-bro Daniel). After that, I headed to the pledge meeting at 5:30. I was happy to pass the quiz, meet quota, and not get as many aftermaths as the previous week (only one this time). After the meeting, I walked back to the hill and am now planning to work on my midterms and mock trial.
|
|