98 Fun things to do Your Freshman Year at VT as a Female Computer Science Major
- Try to locate another girl in any of your CS classes(ooh! There's one! Oh wait, no... never mind...)
- Carry a map around in your backpack for the first month because you forget where you are going or too many lost people are attracted to you like magnets
- Grumble at the price of textbooks but smile when you turn them back in for money, unused
- Discover the joys of mp3s
- Get tired of campus food in just the first week
- Lock yourself out of your dorm room at least once
- Buy yet another fan
- Get through Heath’s 9am lecture purely on confusion, boredom and caffeine
- NOT get one of McQuain’s jokes but laugh anyway
- Get one of McQuain’s jokes and not laugh because you actually understand it
- 42!!! (the one and only McQuain joke I really liked)
- Try to remember why you filled in the little bubble by computer science when you applied to Tech
- Buy your own copy of Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 5 days before 6.0 is released
- Nervously go to a professor’s office hours for the first time and have them pretend to recognize you from class
- Try to find a TA in the 116/118 lab(especially the day before a program is due)
- Get to class early and find out everyone else is just as behind in the work as you are
- Cram for midterms with friends for a day and bitch about them afterwards for a month
- Join the AWC and realize you have just become the entire membership list for it
- Listen to inspirational speaker(s) in freshman seminar
- Listen to nervous presenters in freshman seminar
- Be the nervous presenter in freshman seminar
- Go to a frat party(I’ve heard they can be fun)
- Decide that you hate falling bodies, cat and mice, bowling, encryption, and grade computations
- Go to career/internship fairs and get tons of cool free stuff
- Discover the joys of winamp skins
- Wonder how fate paired you up with your roommate
- Laugh at stupid engineers, but gang up with them to laugh at business majors
- Discover the joys of Zip Disks
- Get together for study review sessions for finals
- Get together for study review sessions for finals and end up going to Hardies, and get kicked out
- Call your friends to make sure they are awake for 7:45am finals
- Crash after finals and go into ‘non-thinking’ mode
- Forget to clean your sink for a few months
- Make it your personal mission to do away with the phrase “The next spec is up”
- It's 'X' I tell you! He's behind it all!
- Discover the joys of ICQ
- Buy a portfolio for your résumé and stick pretty stickers on it to pretend that it wasn’t a $5 one
- Stock up on drinks and burn the last few dollars on your meal plan before the end of the semester
- Fight for your scantron form at ‘Class sign-up’ meetings
- Freeze your butt off at a picnic at the duck pond
- Figure out why Data Structures is the CS department weed-out course
- Learn cool things you can do with your desktop
- Write your own homepage and actually get credit for it
- Write your own homepage and actually get EXTRA credit for it
- Debate about if the Tarsier on the cover of the UNIX book is incredibly cute or horribly ugly
- Discover the joys of NeoPlanet
- Try not to laugh every time you hear the word ‘root’ pronounced ‘rut’
- Make plans to go out to a coffee shop
- Go out to a coffee shop after three months of plans
- Be glad you don’t go to UVA
- Go to study sessions to complain
- Try to figure out how to stop the 1044 class notes from falling apart
- Try to figure out why the lights are so dim and the chairs are so comfy in McB100 before falling asleep
- Eat a great dinner at Sandy’s really cute house
- Walk into walls from being so tired
- Dread Vector Geometry Interviews
- NEVER have enough money (let alone, cash)
- Learn to settle for a 10
- What kind of snow is better for making snowmen? Wet or Dry?
- Go to a frat party sober and laugh at all the people who don’t know their limits
- Discover the joys of virus protections software
- Have too much fun with the little talking wizard guy
- Sleep in a cardboard box out on Henderson Lawn and freeze to death
- Complain about the weather while trudging across the drill field
- Tic Tac Toe!
- Head a committee at the first Girls in Computing Career Day
- Discover the joys of cool fonts
- Learn to swear at your programs rather than throw the monitor out the window
- Protest that "My Best Friend's Wedding" really IS a good movie
- Keep forgetting to bring the camera everywhere
- Discover the joys of printing in cool fonts and sizes
- Shop all morning for grad presents and decide on something you saw as soon as you walked in
- Bengal Tigers really are the cutest
- Teach yourself how to use the phone...
- Watch Kate cry again after watching Ever After
- Play with Koosh Balls!
- Wait for grades... and wait... and wait... and wait...
- Figure out another 20 of these...
- Laugh at the stupidity of the list serv in 1044 ("take me off!" "$%^&*&&*(" "Whoops! Did I send that to the list serv?")
- Eat at Owens, in the corner, on the right, at the end of each semester
- Watch the sun rise after a long night of programming straight through the night
- Be astonished at the destruction a few thirteen-year olds can cause to computers
- France!!!
- Have too much fun with course/teacher evaluations *G*
- Tell everyone that McBryde really IS the center of the universe
- Mmmmmmm cotton candy.... (sweet! sour! sweet! sour!)
- Try to master the horrible bus schedule
- Discover the joys of old computer games
- Laugh hysterically and make fun of Barnette's videos in class
- Laugh hysterically WHILE BARNETTE makes fun of his videos in class
- Laugh hysterically when Barnette falls asleep during his videos in class
- Revel in the quiet that is the list serv after a project is due
- Rise up to KILL the automated grader/acceptor
- Plot to die by jumping off the roof of McB with a bowling ball to make a statement
- MY ephalants are purple... but they keep eating all my chocolate!
- First Ever CS Sleep-Over!
- Make plans to NEVER EVER EVER BOWL AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Feel really sad that as much as you're glad the year is over and summer has begun, you're really going to miss your new friends!!!
There are 98 because that is the year I started Tech as a freshman, not because I couldn't think of another 2
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