VERY wet and rainy since this morning. Early this morning. Predawn. Even though there was not much of a dawn to speak of since it was--well--wet and rainy.
I just realized: wet and rainy means essentially the same thing, don't they?
Oh well.
Yesterday continued with the oncoming of visitors, even in our hall. Some of my floormates had left their door open and was happily enduring the interrogations of many an anxious parent. Though for them it was less of an interrogation and more of attempts to be helpful. ("OMG did you know we have a trash chute? On our floor?" --And the thing is--we do, and that trash chute has been the envy of most of our Reagan/Cuarto etc other dorm friends. You appreciate the oddest thing in the dorms after living in them.)
Dining commons a nightmare yesterday--will be trying to avoid that all day today. Met Robert during his shift yesterday and thanked the stars that I'm not working this weekend.
Also, I'm getting annoyed about being asked "So how do you like it here?" I suppose, to be fair, that it's a relatively standard question to ask a student, coming from the parent of a potential student, but from a student's perspective it's... ...an unfair question. Most of the UCD students, it seems like, can be divided into three groups: the group that came here because they wanted to, the group that came here because they didn't get into Berkeley, and the group that came here because their parent/relative/sibling wanted them to. (And in all three cases, if you think about it carefully, there's not much second options involved.) Now, based on this, with respect to the question, you'd get various degrees of 'yes', 'no', and 'I-don't-know', neither of which would be a very satisfactory answer for the ...as far as general helpfulness to a future student is concerned. (And trust me, why you're here DOES affect your answer to the 'how'd you like it here' question.)
Then again, since the to-be student is most likely (or will be most likely) sorted into one of the three groups, I suppose my entire ramble up there is for null.
Note to Lucy: I don't remember exactly--but how long's the visit-a-campus program last year? (Hoping for one week...hoping for one week....)
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different UCs might do it differently. I don't remember well but i think UCLA had a series of one-day visits scattered all over April.
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