Entries tagged with “leitch” from Hawk Talk - Hai
Hey guys! Finals are almost over, and I have only one left Wednesday morning, so I have a bit of time to study before my last one. So far all of my finals have gone fairly well, and my grades have been posted up on ISIS (the online system that we use to register for/find out grades for classes and such), and it seems like all my studying has paid off. A good way to relieve stress and kill time until my final on Wednesday was our Six Flags trip today!
I’ve mentioned in a previous blog that my friends and I won, and a handful of other UML freshman, won a trip to six flags for free. Today we left campus at 8:00AM, and arrived at Six Flags at 10:00AM. It was kind of a down sight when we left, rain and damp weather made the day seem to be a flop, but it turned out that we didn’t experience a single drop of rain at the park. Weather was nice, and earlier on, there were no lines to any of the rides. My friends were shocked to find out that I had never gone on a rollercoaster before, so this was an extra special trip for us. At first, I held onto dear life ever ride, but as I rode them more, the more fun I had and the less scared I got. By the end, I didn’t want to leave, and kept returning to every ride again and again. One bummer of the trip was the closing of Superman. I was excited for my first time going on Superman, but it was closed until May 22nd. Overall though, everything was extremely fun, and a fellow classmate that accompanied us ended up winning a Wii!
Hopefully my final on Wednesday will go well, till next time,
-Hai
After looking back upon my first year here at UML, I notice that the school gives a lot back to their students. Almost every week, there is some school sponsored event in the common room of each building where students have a chance to win great prizes. I’ve gone to several of these events, sometimes walking away with a prize. Each time I went, they had us sign in with our names; something I thought was pointless. But , contrary to my belief, putting my name down for each event, was useful. It turns out, if you signed your name into 4 of the school events you automatically get a free trip to six flags! My friends and I have been to about 6, so we were pleasantly surprised when we found out we could all go to six flags, FOR FREE! Such a great way to end the year, plus I found out that I got my room in Donahue that I wanted, so the end of this year is just turning out better than I could expect! Now all I have to do is survive through finals…
-Hai
An upcoming event to note is the “Beat the System” event that is going to be held tomorrow I believe. This event is supposed to help students learn the do’s and don’ts of housing sign-ups, a process that has me confused. I’m not so much confused of what to do, but just unsure of what further steps I should take. As a freshman, I’ve filled out the application before, but I’ve made friends that I want to room with, and am unsure of how to request them. As told to me by the RA’s, the event should have lots of entertainment and free giveaways, but the most important part of the event is the raffle. Reslife will be raffling off the first 10 spots in housing, meaning if you win one of the 10, you will be the first of 10 to choose where you live on campus. If I win the raffle, I’m aiming to secure a suite in Donahue, an upperclassman suite, and then attempt to “pull-in” my friends.
Important dates to remember:
Housing Deposit due April 17th
Last day to withdraw from a class is April 13th
In a previous post I mentioned being able to upload videos
that I took of the Hockey East Finals, but unfortunately, it seems that I left
all my cables back at home and won’t be able to upload any of the videos.
That’s it for now, till next time,
-Hai
Hey guys, it’s Christmas Eve!! I haven’t blogged in a bit since I’ve had finals and had to pack, but I’m home now and found the time to blog.
Finals as I suspected, were not difficult, but at the same time, were not a breeze. It didn’t require endless hours of mind straining studying, but at the same time I couldn’t just go into every final without studying. All my finals were in the same format; all the students in every section that the teacher had were sat in a huge lecture hall and given the test. Compared to high school, finals are the same; just a cumulative review of everything learned. Some of my friends weren’t really comfortable with their studying skills and decided to go to the free tutoring services offered by the schools. Both before and after the exam they felt very confident and recommended the services for next semester. I did well on all my finals, but I think I’ll give the tutoring a try next semester.
My last final was Monday morning, and I left campus that same afternoon. Since I was the last to leave the room, I was responsible for final move-out procedures: Shut & lock all windows, empty all the trash cans in the room, unplug everything, lock the door, etc. We were allowed to keep anything we wanted in our room, but it was made clear anything missing when we came back from break was not the university’s responsibility. Coming home the 22nd of December was definitely late compared to my friends. Many people were already back by the first week of December, but because of that, they end break earlier as well.
I’ve been working at my current job (Hollister) for about a year and a half now, and I’m thinking about going on a job hunt for something new. Long hours and minimum wage just doesn’t cut it anymore, especially since I’m on my break. I worked a total of 12 hours last night and didn’t come home until 3AM! I understand since it’s Christmas, the store needs a lot of cleaning, but working till the early hours of the morning just isn’t worth minimum wage. I probably will keep the job for winter break because it’ll be hard to find someone that’ll hire me for just a month, but I definitely will go job hunting in the summer.
It’s only been two days since I’ve left campus but I miss it already! In college, you can be with your friends for as long as you like, right when you wake to right when you go to bed. A couple nights ago, while it was snowing, Bourgeois and Leitch (the two freshman residence halls) had a snowball fight at 1AM. It was a mutual agreement that my hall, Bourgeois, won. After the fight, my friends and I were talking about how this would not be possible at home.
That’s it for now, I’ll be sure to blog again real soon!
-Hai
I know it’s very late, and I should be sleeping, but I was up late, studying for a couple midyears that I have tomorrow. I hope I’m not scaring any prospective students because most of my friends don’t even think that my math and politics midyear will be very difficult, but just to be on the safe side, I usually try to throw in some extra studying in. Since I was up late and had things to write about, I decided that I would blog about things that happened recently.
This past Wednesday (October 22nd), there was a Hip Hop Live concert, with stars such as David Banner and, one of my favorite rappers, Talib Kweli. Tickets were 10 dollars if you bought them before the concert and 20 at the door, which is cheap considering David Banner and Talib Kweli are very well known and famous rappers. Since money is scarce in college and I didn’t buy tickets beforehand, I ended up not going to the concert. A couple of my friends that did go said it was amazing and everyone at the concert got free Sony headphones. I’m kind of jealous that I didn’t go, but anything that saves money is O.K. with me.
On Thursday (October 23rd) there was a captain’s meeting for all intramural sports from 9PM-11PM. In efforts of staying in shape, getting ourselves involved around campus, and just for fun, my friends and I decided to create an intramural soccer team. Last time I played soccer competitively was in middle school, but I’m pretty confident I still have some skills left. The team consists of 7 players, including myself; 3 guys and 4 girls, and our name is “The Incredibles”. We’ve all had previous experience playing, so I’m sure we’ll do at least an O.K. job on the field. Our first game is this Thursday at 9:30PM, which is late, but I’m more of a night person myself anyways.
Friday (October 24th) was the first hockey game, which
is a big deal around campus and to most students. Before the game there was a
BBQ, and any food freeing me from my 14 meals a week is welcome. 
My friends and
I all had all gotten Mohawks for the game a couple weeks earlier, but we
decided to shave them off after a while because we didn’t like them. Before the
game started, we all painted our entire upper body to be true super fans, and
were extremely excited to be the loud and boisterous cheerers. Much to our
displeasure though, we soon came to find out that shirts were required in the
Tsongas Arena. We had our shirts off for 2 seconds before we were told by a
worker that they prohibited such activities, but we were given a voucher for
free popcorn and soda for our efforts. Putting that aside, the game was fun to
watch, almost all of UML was there to watch, including alumni and parents, and
to make it even better, UML defeated
Providence 4 to 1.
This weekend was open house weekend and I’ve seen flyers around campus about the different activities. My parents aren’t coming up this weekend, but there were some events that I was interested in, so I decided to drag my friends along with me to check it out. A couple of my friends’ parents came, but just going with my friends and without my parents was fun too. It turned out to be entertaining, there were many activities for both young and old. There was free food, horseback riding, a rock wall, free pumpkin decorating, professional artists that did caricatures, and plenty more. CAPA was handing out free live fish in tanks that you decorated yourself, and I ended up getting two fish that I named Tonka and Katie. I was told by an R.A. from Leitch that they had fish as well last year, and her fish lived until May.
This past week was a pretty eventful one, packed with activities. I’m looking forward to my first intramural soccer game this Thursday, and will definitely write about how that turned out. But now, I must head off and get some rest before my midyears.
Till next time,
-Hai
I’ve heard that going home is exciting and all; nice home cooked meal and a place to do free laundry, but it wasn’t as great as I thought it was going to be. It was fun seeing my old friends again, since they were all home for Columbus Day weekend as well. I was able to work a lot on Saturday and Sunday at my old job, which was nice since I find myself scrapping at the bottom of the barrel for money. Seriously, college kids go through a lot of money. I was never homesick, and even now, I don’t really feel homesick at all, but seeing my old town and all the sights again did make me reminisce on past memories. When I wasn’t hanging out with my old friends or at work, I found myself sitting at home, bored. I left Saturday morning but ended up coming back to UML Sunday night because I just felt so much more comfortable here. After talking to my friends, I saw that they felt the same way. If you got bored at home, you really had nothing to do, but I always found myself with something to do here at UML.
As I was writing this, a couple of events occurred. Some people I know were caught with alcohol in their “dry” dorms a couple weeks ago, and I just got a phone call about their suspension. They were handed the “letter of death”, delivered by an RA. They got a three day housing suspension, meaning they can’t enter any of the dorms, and they really don’t know what they’re going to do about housing. I feel bad, of course, but at the same time, they shouldn’t have had alcohol in the dry dorms.
As I was talking on the phone, I had to step out of my room because my roommates were playing video games, and when I looked out the window (my room is conveniently at the end of the hall by the window) I saw a crowd of people standing on the third floor of Leitch (the building right next to mine). I called up a friend of mine, who lived on the third floor, and he informed me that a fight was going on. I thought it was something serious, but it ended up that two kids were horsing around just wrestling.
