Hello all!
I'm Amirah, a sophomore at MHC! I like the color green, I've been told I have a creepy giggle, and I generally enjoy eating figs and persimmons a lot. If I could, I would spend most of my time reading teen fiction (the high quality books, okay, not the vampire ones, though there *is* one vampire series I do like. But just one!) but, the readings associated with being a pre-Nursing major keep me from fulfilling this dream. This year I'd like to explore more of NYC since I live in the city for free, stop procrastinating, sleep earlier, and eat more Thai food. (Oh, and be a better student and stuff blah blah). Since this is an introduction post I don't feel entirely too obligated to talk about relevant things, like school or whatever, so I'm going to fill up this space with more random statements. I like to watch trailers (almost obsessively), and my biggest accomplishment thus far into the fall semester is that my notebooks match with my bedspread (it's a lovely teal/aqua color!! My curtains, garbage can, laptop and phone case also match...it might be going a bit too far, but last year I had the weirdest color scheme going on in my room and clearly, this summer I had nothing better to do than eagerly plot out the colors for my dorm room. Okay. I'm going to stop discussing this, because I sound weird. I just like to match! Who doesn't want a matching dorm room!)
I like meeting new Macaulay people and desperately wish we had our own Macaulay campus! Macaulay people are all generally incredible cool to get to know, so it's a pity we can only really be tight with our campus-Macaulay people! Ah, one day there will be one campus! I hope! Right now I'm writing this because I'm avoiding my sociology paper. Alicia Keys is singing on my itunes (before that, Celine Dion!) and apparently she doesn't care about diamond rings and wanting it all like other people. I also was looking up the most watched videos on youtube before, (that charlie video, which I am extremely late on, is SO cute! And I'm kind of in shock that J.Biebs "Baby" video is the most watched. Really? It's catchy, tween girls think he's cute, even I like some of his songs, but he has some LAME dance moves. (And his video for "Boyfriend" is just painful to watch. Not that I have watched it a lot or have sung along to the chorus so much last spring that my close friends hate anything to do with that song now. Not at all. Also, yes, I did just use double parenthesis. I like parenthesis. And rambling, it appears.)) but alas, I must end this post and tackle some good ol' gender socialization.
Here's hoping whoever was lucky enough to read this high-quality literature of mine comes out feeling at least mildly amused!
-Amirah!
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Hurro!
I have no idea why I didn't get in on this earlier!
Hi fellow Macaulay peoples, I'm Ann. Oftentimes, I'm referred to as "Mackley" when I do something silly or say something grammatically incorrect among my friends (yeah, i still do that hahaha). And this term was coined by Richard Lee, who graduated from Hunter Macaulay last Spring (thanks Rich!). Anyways, I'm a senior on the verge of applying to Graduate School and who is taking her GRE this Saturday! hahaha (nervous laugh...) I just completed a practice test and I am very delirious at the moment!
Any who... I'm not a blogger, and this will be my first attempt at doing so! Let's see how this goes~
Welcome freshmen, welcome back sophomores, juniors, and seniors! The Fall semester is upon us! LEGGO!
Ann
Hi fellow Macaulay peoples, I'm Ann. Oftentimes, I'm referred to as "Mackley" when I do something silly or say something grammatically incorrect among my friends (yeah, i still do that hahaha). And this term was coined by Richard Lee, who graduated from Hunter Macaulay last Spring (thanks Rich!). Anyways, I'm a senior on the verge of applying to Graduate School and who is taking her GRE this Saturday! hahaha (nervous laugh...) I just completed a practice test and I am very delirious at the moment!
Any who... I'm not a blogger, and this will be my first attempt at doing so! Let's see how this goes~
Welcome freshmen, welcome back sophomores, juniors, and seniors! The Fall semester is upon us! LEGGO!
Ann
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Natural History Museum, Beginnings, and the Sciences
Hello everyone!!!
Welcome back to college and for the freshmen, welcome to college!! =)
It's the third week of school and so far, the semester has been going well. The workload is not too heavy yet, and it's good to see all of my friends.
I'll give you all a brief recap of my summer:
- I took a summer class entitled German fairytales and I really enjoyed. I learned a lot about how fairytales first emerged and all of the different types of stories that have been told for hundreds of years. My professor, Anne-Katrin Titze, was also an incredibly interesting woman. She was interested in fashion, fairytales, and the environment. Just a very cool person and a very cool class.
- I also did some volunteering at a hospital, which was definitely an enriching experience. I learned a lot about people, in general, and about the medical field.
- In mid-August, I went to the Natural History museum with my mom. The last time I was there, I was really young, and it was cool to go back and see everything from a different perspective.
- Every semester is a chance to start over and be better. I'm excited to learn new things and just challenge myself on every level. College is about thinking in an analytical and deep way. In my second year, I'm further developing the skills to do that.
- It's also been great to see my friends. It's fun to get lunch with them and have all kinds of awesome conservations.
- This semester I'm taking organic chemistry with Dr. Phillips, who is supposed to be a great professor. So far, she has been great and I've learned a lot. It's definitely going to be a challenging class, but I think it'll be a rewarding experience.
- I declared biology as my major last semester, and this semester, I'm delving further into the wonderful world of biology with my cell biology class. Dr. Braziil is a fantastic professor. Very clear and concise. Microbes are pretty cool too. haha
I wish you all a fantastic semester!! =)
Quote of the week:
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
~Anna Quindlen
S.
Welcome back to college and for the freshmen, welcome to college!! =)
It's the third week of school and so far, the semester has been going well. The workload is not too heavy yet, and it's good to see all of my friends.
I'll give you all a brief recap of my summer:
- I took a summer class entitled German fairytales and I really enjoyed. I learned a lot about how fairytales first emerged and all of the different types of stories that have been told for hundreds of years. My professor, Anne-Katrin Titze, was also an incredibly interesting woman. She was interested in fashion, fairytales, and the environment. Just a very cool person and a very cool class.
- I also did some volunteering at a hospital, which was definitely an enriching experience. I learned a lot about people, in general, and about the medical field.
- In mid-August, I went to the Natural History museum with my mom. The last time I was there, I was really young, and it was cool to go back and see everything from a different perspective.
- Every semester is a chance to start over and be better. I'm excited to learn new things and just challenge myself on every level. College is about thinking in an analytical and deep way. In my second year, I'm further developing the skills to do that.
- It's also been great to see my friends. It's fun to get lunch with them and have all kinds of awesome conservations.
- This semester I'm taking organic chemistry with Dr. Phillips, who is supposed to be a great professor. So far, she has been great and I've learned a lot. It's definitely going to be a challenging class, but I think it'll be a rewarding experience.
- I declared biology as my major last semester, and this semester, I'm delving further into the wonderful world of biology with my cell biology class. Dr. Braziil is a fantastic professor. Very clear and concise. Microbes are pretty cool too. haha
I wish you all a fantastic semester!! =)
Quote of the week:
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
~Anna Quindlen
S.
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