h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just saying hello and that it was great to see you last Saturday! I hope you enjoyed yourself (certainly looked that way... )... we should do it again soon!

some pics at http://photos.yahoo.com/dragonwings_73 -- click on the "h2g2" folder

hey Amy, yeah, it was a lot of fun, great meeting you too!!! thanks so much for the pics, i have a few of my own, plan to post them online soon...will be sure to let you know...take care, talk soon

~ Alex

Sorry this has been a bit of time in coming... I'm down at my grandmother's in Virginia away from a second phoneline (so online time is limited), plus the phone lines were down today. *shrug* But I'm moving back into college tomorrow... yay!!!

wow, cool sounds like fun, better tell me all about it
i put my pics up, by the way, http://www.geocities.com/helpicantsleep/index.html
you can look at pics from the meet or from my trip to england last year
have fun at college...

Greetings from southwestern Virginia.

Moving in went well this morning... everything's in my room but most of my clothes and stuff is still packed away as I can't get to my dresser for my roommate's boxes of stuff (she's off hunting down the guy who kept her fridge for the summer). Ah, she just got back... ah, how lovely it is narrating current events.

Gonna check out your pics in a bit... stuff to do...

...greetings from boring old New Jersey...(oh, the irony!!!)
I just bought the majority of my school supplies; need to get folders. I want to get M&M's, but they didn't have them at the store I went to (Staples). At Staples, they had all sorts of weird things set up with school supplies, but not what *I* wanted. So I had to go hunting for them anyway. Oh, well...I know I can get the folders at CVS, so I'm happy.
Hope your roommate gets her fridge back. Hope you like the pics, and look forward to hearing from you again.
~ Alex

The fridge is at a friend's place...

*thought M&M's were a kind of candy*

*misses air conditioning already... sigh*

ooh, M&M's *are* a kind of candy, I'm sorry
the folders I wanted have M&M cartoons
like from the commercials, you know Red and Yellow and the Minis?
hope you have a really powerful fan...

I knew that. Really I did. The exhaustion's getting to my brain.

We have a couple fans here... hopefully the weather will stay somewhat mild till we move into the dorm we were *supposed* to be in, sometime around October. (It's being rennovated and isn't done yet). That one has Air Conditioning.

yay!!!
yes, mild weather is a good thing
they're renovating dorms in virgina, too?
just about every college i've visited this summer has had construction of some form on campus!

They always do... we've got one dorm under major construction, and the old gym building is being completely gutted to become the humanities building (english/music/art/philosophy/religion). YAY!!! My building!

Where are you thinking of applying to?

awesome
humanities rock!
right now Amherst is at the top of my list
i'm also considering Brandeis, Lafayette, Vassar, Skidmore, and possibly Macalester, except that it gets ridiculously cold
the first two are in Mass, Lafayette's in PA, the next two are in NY, and the last one's in Minesota
nuts, i know...

Coolness. College rocks... it's like home, with extra freedom and super fast internet.

awesome
i look forward to not sitting through 7 periods a day, every day, 8-3, then having homework and extra curriculars and coming home exhausted...only to get up early the next morning and do it again......

Actually, in that way, college isn't that different than high school. Except there are longer periods, and sometimes hours between classes.

I have early classes at 9 and 8:30 this semester... and my late classes go until 5. It's not all that different. If anything, it's longer.

does it never end?
i'd heard it was possible to take classes later
and if you're only taking four a semester...

It depends on where you go. Full time here is 15 credits, which averages out to 5 classes. You can take later classes (night classes, even); mine are so early just cause of the nature of my majors - music stuff is in the morning, English stuff is in the afternoon. Makes for a long day.

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hopefully my stuff will fall more or less in the middle of the day, or something
i'm interested in computer science, english, philosophy, and psychology
i also play a musical instrument and want to take part in theater, though i doubt i'll take any courses in it

Here the majority of the classes in those things fall later in the day... only musicians are insane enough to have all 8ams.

You may end up having to take a course or two in music and/or theatre - most uni's have what they call a "general education requirement," which is a smattering of all subject areas. It's a pain, but it makes you nice and well rounded.

I've noticed
One of the schools I'm looking at actually doesn't have one (Amherst) but I still think it's a good idea. I just appreciate that you don't have to distribute them a *certain* way, i.e. 4 humanities, 3 sciences, and 2 cultural diversity, or something. Instead, you can get the same result, following your own plan. But, whatever, as long as none of the classes I have to take are utterly pointless.