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Post by oliviadelapp on May 17, 2022 17:41:59 GMT
Today I woke up at 7am for my lab. The lab was easy enough and I walked to kerckhoff to get food and do work which is where I am right now. To be honest I'm kind of in a horrible mood today, I feel like I'm reaching my breaking point with school and everything here. I currently just want to go home and be done with everything for the summer. I know I'm probably just in a mood and will probably feel better about everything later today I am just very tired. I also looked at the weather in my hometown and its currently 90 degrees, which made me sad because I would rather be there and it be sunny than be here where its dreary and cold today. I have an interview with Saba in a few minutes that I am excited about though, so that will probably make my day better. After my interview I plan on going back to my dorm and taking a nap and then doing more school work. I have a dinosaur lecture at 2 but I will probably not go and just take notes over the slides posted online instead. I know its week 8 so I'm trying to tell myself I only have 3 more weeks left, its just hard to imagine when all of my hometown friends are already home for the summer. Hoping to power through these next few weeks and do well on finals so I can end the school year on a good note.
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Post by kash on May 17, 2022 17:52:44 GMT
I absolutely hate being a negative person, but yesterday was genuinely one of the lowest days I have had all year, and getting out of bed today was a little hard because of it. A lot of events transpired yesterday unrelated to pledging honestly, just life in general, and it was very overwhelming and defeating to manage them all at once. But I guess a blessing that came up was how much I realized the people I have met just only in the last couple of weeks, care for me so much. I was leaving somewhere with Raina when one of the things happened, and I just started sobbing in front of her. She was so kind and listened to everything on my mind and helped calm me down and encouraged me that everything would be okay. I am so grateful she was there for me at that moment because I genuinely needed someone just to listen to me. I was texting my big, Chanel, throughout the day about everything which was happening, but then she called me when she realized I was crying and quickly came to where I was sitting. She sat with me for a long time, listening to me get everything off my chest, and provided me with some really amazing advice, and chocolate which was so nice. I am genuinely so thankful I have Chanel in my life as she is such an incredible human being, who I am proud to call my big. Even though yesterday simply sucked, I want to take everything I learned from it, and really try to make today the best that it can be, and I am hopeful it will happen.
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Post by alizanovoa on May 17, 2022 19:21:55 GMT
Last night I went to sleep late last night around 5 am because I had alot to get done. My life consists of the same things over and over again. I thought I would be able to get a good amount of sleep but I forgot that I had to do the friends' music video but that was so much fun. I am really excited to watch the final product. After the video filming, I went to the food trucks with most of my pledge brothers and got original herb. It is Chanel's favorite so I wanted to try it. I got the original chicken sandwich and ice cream after. My go-to ice cream is two scoops of cookies and cream and one of strawberry. After all of that, I went to my dorm and showered. This morning I woke up and rushed to get ready to make it to my interview with Akunnia. When I got to the study I ran into three actives which were nice to see. When at the study I got here and just waited for my interview to start. Our interview was nice because we just got to bond over a few things we have in common. After my interview ended with her I decided to stay at the Study to just do work but it is so cold and I wish I could wear a hoodie all day today. I am hoping to get more stuff done but I keep getting distracted by watching a show. It is an old kids' show but that's the only thing I find interesting.
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Post by danieljudd on May 17, 2022 22:35:14 GMT
Today has been a really busy day for me, I woke up and went to my writing 2 lecture today was a super boring lecture and our professor kept talking about the 8 page paper that we have due next Tuesday which I highkey have not started yet, I think I am going to have to work on it a lot tomorrow and on Thursday. At this point I do not know how I am going to fit in all my pledge things with school and with internship/job search and applications. Its honestly quite overwhelming and I am looking forward to the end of the quarter when I will finally be able to relax a bit, because right now I am definitely stressed out and not vibin. After class I met up with my girlfriend and we grabbed lunch on campus, now we are both working together at Powell on all of our work which is really nice because lately with pledging and school I feel like I havent been spending as much time with her as I would like which kinda sucks. I have a few more interviews left to do today and must prepare a presentation about fundraising for GB which is also pretty stressful because we have not been doing too great with raising funds. I'm hoping that I do okay on my quizzes and have a successful presentation before the active body. After that I will probably go to sleep because I am very tired and have a ton of work to do tomorrow so I dont want to be too tired. Hopefully I can finish everything up on time with classes and pledge things and emerge from this quarter a stronger person, it is definitely a challenge right not though.
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Post by abigailrubtsova on May 18, 2022 0:20:20 GMT
Today is an interesting day. I convinced myself to do some work last night and I was proud of myself for that. Today I woke up very tired but I planned on showering and I knew that would wake me up. I was thinking about what to wear for professional dress and that is when I realized Ihave a bunch of clothes in the laundry room that I haven’t checked on in weeks. I hope they are still there when I check for them later. I then texted my friend that is in my 9am if she could get me a meal ticket. I headed to campus with her to my clas, which was very interesting. We talked about what we are doing for the final and he gave us examples of how to group music together. In light of the recent shooting, he made the playlist with civil rights songs. It was very enlightening hearing these songs and their importance to Black culture and resistance. After class, I talked to my professor more about my thesis for my final. I am actually very excited to do the final, and am already thinking about the songs to include in my playlist. I just want to make my theme more specific before I continue, because Yiddish Holocaust partisan music is a broad genre. After this, I ate some food with my friend and headed to my first of very many interviews for the day. It was with Faith which was fun. Faith and I went to the library after our interview and did work and talked for a bit before we both had to go. Today is very stressful but also very productive. I am nervous for the quiz during pledge meeting but I hope I will do fine.
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Post by rainajain on May 18, 2022 5:14:19 GMT
Today, I woke up around 7:45 A.M in order to get ready for my 9:00 A.M. I decided to go to my class, which I was originally planning on not attending. I have never skipped a lecture before, but I was feeling really tired and my friend was not going to go. However, my friend texted me as I was waking up that he was going to go and that he would walk with me. This made me happy as I was able to talk to my friend and I did not have to walk alone to my class. While I was getting ready, my roommate asked if she could walk with us as well. This also made me happy as I really enjoy spending time with my roommate. She is a professional musician and is majoring in music industry, so she was also heading to Schoenberg music hall. Unfortunately, I absolutely despise my professor, so I did not particularly enjoy my musicology class today. However, he announced that we will be having a guest lecturer on Thursday, and I am really looking forward to it. After this class, I went to Anderson to get lunch. I had my usual order of a breakfast croissant sandwich and a venti iced coffee. I usually get my coffee with caramel and almond milk, but this time, I did not particularly enjoy it. Either way, I studied for my quiz in Anderson then headed back to the hill. I hurt may ankle yesterday during the fountain music video so this walk was horrendously brutal. I hope I do good on my quizzes today!
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Post by korrale on May 18, 2022 5:16:58 GMT
Today I woke up around 9am because I had a group project meeting at that time. This meeting was for our final project and we spent the time dividing the work between us. I really like my group members because they are really easy to work with and they all do their part. This is luckily not a horror story about group work. The meeting lasted about half an hour and afterwards, I really debated going to sleep again or staying awake to do work. I ended up just falling asleep because recently I’ve been needing a lot more sleep to be functional. I slept really little for the past couple of weeks and it feels like this sleep deprivation is finally catching up to me. After this, I woke up in a bit of pain and took an Advil so that I could make it on time to do some interviews. I then attended class, where my pain got a lot worse and I ended up leaving class early to return to the dorms. Because of my discomfort, I couldn’t make it to the pledge meeting today, which I definitely regret. This was our second to last meeting and I did not want to miss it. I spent the rest of the day in my dorm in my bed. I’ve been just laying here waiting to feel better. I think this will fade by tomorrow but honestly, this is so inconvenient. I hope that by tomorrow, I’ll feel better and be able to return to my normal levels of productivity.
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Post by jonalyngaspar on May 18, 2022 5:56:21 GMT
Today I woke up freakishly late at 11 in the morning, roughly the same time as a late breakfast, early lunch or brunch. I typically wake up as the sun rises because I have been training my brain and body to stick with this natural daily routine. I remembered I had to return items at Target and buy myself more baby wipes as well. I was returning a few articles of clothing such as my size 000 ripped acid wash bermuda shorts and my kids XL neon orange top because my ribcage is quite wide. This also had me thinking about getting a few cosmetic surgeries like a rib removal procedure and chin fillers to make myself look more natural. After my target trip, I decided to continue my Starbucks rewards journey and tried the turkey bacon breakfast sandwich with a tall matcha frappuccino. For some reason Starbucks has been causing me stomach pains lately. As a result, I quickly walked back to my dorm and was stuck in the restroom for roughly 4 hours. At this point, it was already 5 in the afternoon and I had to get ready for my pledge meeting. When getting ready, I decided to conjure up a signature scent consisting of my mango body yogurt and my coconut cream with toasted praline body mist. I did this in hopes of smelling heavenly when I was doing my multiple aftermath performances. I am now writing this after the pledge meeting and plan to get ice cream after I finish this journal because I am strongly craving 3 scoops of hokey pokey.
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Post by coltonharrison on May 18, 2022 6:00:52 GMT
Let's go people, another day of isolation in the books. I am definitely looking forward to getting out of here. This morning I woke up and ate my cereal while I updated my COVID isolation Snapchat story, because I have been getting some good interaction on it. Afterwards I grinded on editing the Friends music video for our last mission. Because I am stuck inside, I offered to edit it as the least I could do. It made me really sad to go through all of the clips because I missed out on so much, but it also made me realize how close I have become to this group of people that were essentially strangers to me two months ago. I was undecided on which platform I would use to edit the video as iMovie would be easier, but Premiere Pro would allow me more flexibility with the clips. I chose to use Premiere, although looking back now I didn’t really take full advantage of all premiere has to offer. Still I am very proud of this video, and I think it is the best one we have done yet. Selfishly, I am glad that I figured out how to do the editing on the computer transition because I’ve always wanted to learn how to do it. It was quite the interesting experience getting in the shower fully clothed and filming a slow motion video of myself. I accidentally flooded most of the bathroom, but they only gave me one towel so I have to let the puddles dry on their own. The editing took me a few hours, and then I uploaded the video to YouTube and sent it off to the historians to give to Suzy. I then threw a mini Kanye West dance party in my room, but I had to pause as I realized how exhausting dancing is with COVID. My symptoms are definitely getting better, but I still have a cough and some congestion. Also I started to get some chest pains when I danced, but that happened to me last time I had it. I would say this day was fairly successful, but now I have to send emails so that I can make the next quota, and actually do school work tomorrow.
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Post by faithndegwa03 on May 18, 2022 6:14:20 GMT
Today was alright. I woke up pretty early and made my way to campus to do one of my interviews. It was a double with Abby, so we decided to head to YRL to complete some of our work and interview journals. Afterwards, I made my way back to the hill for my second interview of the day. We ended up coming back down the hill and into Westwood - it was nice being able to get off campus for a bit. I went back to my dorm, just for my friends to tell me to meet them on campus. I arrived back to campus for the third time that day, only to find out the thing my friends invited me for got canceled. I went back to YRL and went to four different floors to find an outlet to charge my phone and computer. My roommate was on campus as well, so I went with her to Ackerman, where I finished up the remainder of my assignments. I then made my way over to Bunche Hall for my pledge class’s General Body Meeting. I was so happy to pass both the retake of my last quiz and the current quiz. I really thought I would fail because it was so hard writing all of the definitions with a restricted ten minute time limit. Nonetheless, my twin and I both passed and will not have to do a retake next week. I thought my aftermath was pretty fun. I enjoyed collecting photos of my pledge brother over the course of the last week in preparation for our presentation. It seemed like the active body really enjoyed the slideshow I had made with the help of my pledge brother, Leslie. She was not feeling the best that day, so I am especially proud of her performance despite her health. However, I think we may be getting an aftermath for saying Leos were the best sign - though I do not regret it one bit (yall hate us cause you ain’t us <3).
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Post by cyacoleman on May 18, 2022 6:14:34 GMT
Today was alright it was chill but at the same time, it was super chaotic. After waking up I got ready for my day and prepared myself for my interview with Saba which went really well. She was super sweet and it was really nice to just be myself and get to know her better. We definitely had a lot in common and I look forward to talking to her more. After my interview with her, I went back to the hill got lunch and met up with friends, and worked on some of my class assignments. After this, I walked over to our pledge meeting. Our meeting went pretty well I did not receive any aftermaths this week so that was pretty relaxing. Today I also spent some time reflecting on the end of the school year and the pledge process is quickly coming to an end whit is such a bitter-sweet feeling. Part of me is somewhat excited to be done pledging soon but I’m also not really looking forward to Hell Week because I know this is going to bring me so much unwanted stress. Like I really don’t want to fail any of my tasks and I really don’t want hell week to interrupt my studying and preparation for my actual classes because I have definitely put my classes on the back burner this quarter.
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Post by jackcarleton on May 18, 2022 6:25:40 GMT
today was an alright day. i stayed up until like 6:30 this morning with vedant, juliana, and jonalyn filming out til tok and just talking so i slept in pretty late this morning. after i got up i went to bplate and had a really big lunch. after that i went back to my room and did my interview journals. it took me a really long time because i hadn’t done them for the last two quotas. after i finished those up i birded into westwood to run some errands. i went to trader joe’s first and got strawberries, cherry tomatoes, and a bouquet of pink roses. then i went to falafel inc and got two falafel sandwiches. i then birded back to campus and met up with my girlfriend. i gave her the bouquet of roses, saving one for saba later. we walked to janss and had a picnic with the food i got. that was definitely the highlight of my day. we just sat and ate and talked, and then laid together on my blanket for about an hour. she also helped me film my tik tok. after that i had to walk to bunche for pledge meeting. the meeting went alright. jonalyn and i passed our quiz, and our last mission got approved, meaning i have no more work to do as historian. our aftermaths didn’t go amazing, but it’s all good. after meeting peter gave me cava and i ate it in my dorm while i watched bojack. then i went to wooden and am currently hitting push with peter.
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Post by lesliehernandez on May 18, 2022 6:37:22 GMT
Today was probably one of the worst days for me. I was so sick all day long it was so terrible. TMI buttttt it felt like nasty liquids were coming out from all over, my nose won't stop running with bugers, when I sleep I drool nasty, and every-time I cough mucus comes out. Not to mention I woke up with a terrible fever. Last night I kept waking up cause I had terrible chills and heat flashes. Once again, I knew I would wake up sick asf, and I was most definitely not excited for that. I let myself sleep for as long as I possibly could before I had to get up and go to an interview at 10:45. I woke up literally at 10 because I really had no motivation or encouragement to even leave my house today. I felt absolutely terrible from the moment I woke up till now. I went to my interview and came immediately home to continue getting bed rest. I did the most today to feel better as well. I'm honestly on a mission to feel better because I’m leaving this weekend on a trip so I really don’t want to be sick, not just that but I hate being sick it feels so bad 24/7. So when I came home I made hot tea with red onion, honey and lemon (Mexican remedies lmao). I also took a spoonful of honey and some delsym medicine. I had chicken noodle soup yesterday so I decided to heat some up. I also gargled hot water and salt to ease my cough. I went to work despite feeling really shitty because I need money now more than ever, summer is so close and I need to make sure I have enough money for Colombia. Before I left my house though, I took my temperature and saw that I had developed a fever of 102, how fun. After I got out of an easy day at work I sat outside the bomb shelter for a bit writing interview journals and doing work. I then went to pledge meeting which was also terrible because I couldn't stop coughing to save my life and my chills came back so I was freezing the entire time. David and Akunnia got me, Jonalyn and Cya food which was the highlight of my day, and sweet Aya who was kind enough to give me her Powerade because she saw how down bad I was, Overall a really really shitty day, I’m just glad its over and I get to spend all day in bed tomorrow.
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Post by vedantmehra on May 18, 2022 6:58:28 GMT
Today was a pretty chill day, even though we had our pledge meeting. I woke up pretty late because I was up late last night hanging out with some of my P-bros and helping Jack film his TikTok. After getting ready and going through my morning routine, I got lunch at the Study with some friends. After that, I headed back to my room and wasted some time as usual. I was feeling pretty lazy today. I thought I was gonna work on my midterm essay that I had due tonight but I just faffed around instead. Later, I walked over to today’s pledge meeting with my P-bros Juliana and Jonalyn. Today was an important meeting because Olivia and I were presenting our plan for active appreciation at the general body meeting. The discussion over the plan with our pledge class was pretty straightforward, and nobody had any major issues with it. Fortunately, the active body did not have too many issues with it either. They gave us some very helpful feedback regarding the theme and our use of space. We’re pretty lucky that Adrian was open to letting us use his apartment for this event. After today, I’ve been designated as the fruit pledge because it’s the first week that I haven’t received any aftermaths. This is a bittersweet moment. While it was nice to be told that I hadn’t done anything wrong recently, I now have to lug around this cantaloupe in fear of someone breaking it. Moreover, I kinda enjoy the aftermaths because I get to see the entire active body together at once, even if it’s just for a little bit. After the meeting, I ate the sushi Adrian got me with my twin Juliana at the tables beside BCafe. I’m gonna finish the night studying for my Econ midterm that I’ve to do tomorrow afternoon. Peace out.
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Post by julianaabraham on May 18, 2022 16:23:27 GMT
I had a really late night yesterday so I was surprised I woke up at a somewhat reasonable time. Once I got up, I met with my friend for lunch at B-Plate. It had been a while since I had B-Plate for lunch and I forgot how much I liked it. The coconut yogurt is only served at lunch and it is amazing. Afterwards, I went to The Study to work on my interview journals and chill with friends. Then, I went back to my room to study for the pledge quizzes. Once I was done studying, I opened my door to see three of my friends standing there. I had been bamboozled. I assume this is when I lost one of my signature sheets as I had to leave in a hurry after they distracted me. I then met up with some of my pledge brothers to go to the pledge meeting. After the pledge meeting, we all walked over to the general body meeting. Then, I went back up to the hill and ate dinner with my twin. Following that, I went back to my room before heading to my neighbor’s room. At my neighbor’s room, I saw some friends I hadn’t seen for a while and had some fun. I then went back to my dorm again, where me and my roommates ended up driving to Huntington Beach and ate some choccy-chip pancakes. It was pretty mid but the vibes were nice. We also walked down to the pier and drove through Sunset Blvd.
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