Now for a quick rundown of O-week! I spent a lot of time meeting people and having fun, a lot of time going to meetings and stuff like that, and a lot of time eating (believe it or not).
A few of the “big events” were these:
- Opening Convocation with speeches by President Zimmer, Dean Boyer, and probably someone else but I was nodding off to be honest with you.
- The Aims of Education address on Friday, given in the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel by a nice lady whose name I can’t remember. A transcription of her speech will be available online eventually.
- Movie on the Quad, where tons of cold people watched Batman Begins on a huge screen in the Bartlett quadrangle.
- Docfilms O-week screening, where I finally saw Run Lola Run with some (new!) friends.
- House Activities Night, which consisted of several groups within Snell and Hitchcock halls taking separate public transit routes to Millenium Park, where huge stacks of take-out deep dish pizza were waiting for us. Later, in the same groups, we competed in a miniature scavenger hunt of about 40 items. My team took 3rd with 300-something points, at least 20 of which were won with a picture of me lounging nude, except for a robe, by the 14th story pool of the fabulous InterContinental Chicago.
- Class registration. Heck yes.
- Engage Chicago Through Service Day (or something). The Snitchcockers who happened to volunteer got to help out at a Chicago Youth Program location near Washington park.
- “On Top of the World” reception on the 94th floor of the John Hancock building. It was absolutely amazing.
I’ll post a picture or two later, but my phone’s camera is atrocious and will certainly do no justice to the view from the observatory. I don’t even remember if I have any other pictures, but I’ll post some of them too. That is, after my compsci lab!
