Anyway, orientation has been fun, albeit hectic. I've been getting along better with the people on my floor and talking with them. I actually like my floor..people here are fun, enthu and I think we're e craziest floor around with our own cheer (which is erm..quite disgusting) and facebook group with a corny name. But that said, I've only mixed around with the girls, not so much with the guys, although I know a few of them. Seriously, I'm not the type to go over to the guys' side and hang out with them. But then again, you never know.
Orientation also means less and less and less sleep. The Science people had a stayover at the Science Center which was quite fun. I like the Science Center..they had quite interesting exhibits and shows. I like the observation floor (forgot the name) the best, where you can see the view of the entire city which is gorgeous. And there was also a telescope, although you can't really see e stars clearly. There was a laser show which played along to the music of U2. At first, I thought it was quite cool, but halfway through, I found it a bit draggy and loud and I actually fell asleep uh-oh. And a Chem professor also performed experiments for us, which were quite explosive. Found it exciting. My big mistake for the sleepover was not bringing a pillow. I didn't expect the ground to be so hard and even though I brought a fleece blanket, I was freezing. Managed to sleep, but it wasn't really a deep sleep and I woke up a few times.
Thursday, we had Convocation, sort of the official induction as the Class of 2009. It was quite a hyped-up affair and for the first time, we got to see the famous Kiltie Band play (the band was wearing kilts..supposed to be a Scottish tradition. CMU was actually founded by a Scot). After dinner, went for the Clippership Cruise. It was supposed to be mainly dancing with about 800 people, but quite a few of us didn't want to dance. Me, Jessica and Gerentt just sat, talked, enjoyed the view and watched people dance. I didn't expect Pittsburgh to be so big actually and there were so many amazing views. I'm gonna take the Incline one day..apparently the view from the cablecar there was voted the 2nd most beautiful scenery in the US.
We had House Wars on Friday. House Wars is like well, a war between the various dorms. For my house, we had to wear a tie-dye (is that how you spell it?) shirt. I was supposed to buy a shirt from David, the guys' RA, but he ran out of shirts to sell and since I didn't want to sacrifice one of my shirts (brought so few here), I didn't tie-dye it. But all of us put on green paints on our faces. There were a few stations in House Wars..must say some of them are quite interesting, and I thought our floor rocked. But House Wars came down to a tiebreaker between Morewood and New House as the final 2 dorms. The tiebreaker was the Orange Relay, where you had to pass oranges using your neck only and you can't drop the orange cos if you drop it, you'll have to start over again. I thought at first that my house was going to win cos Morewood dropped their orange, but we dropped ours right before the end and so had to start over again. Big lead wiped out just like that and we lost. Was quite disappointed that our house lost, but at least Donner didn't win again. After House Wars, we had Almost-Midnight Breakfast, where you basically just have breakfast at midnight. Gosh..I ate so much!
I realize that I've been eating a lot lately. And I've to get used to not eating rice everyday. That's probably why I feel like eating so much. Rice is much more filling. I hope I don't get sick of the food on campus real soon cos I'll probably have to eat to survive.
The weather this week is getting chilly and rainy. Yesterday, it was basically raining the whole day and it was freezing cold. If summer is already this cold, I wonder what winter will be like.
Anyway, I'm now like slowly nodding off. Going to sleep now and get ready for tomorrow (or later). I'm trying to get pumped up and excited but I haven't suceeded.