99 Fun things to do Your Sophomore Year at VT as a Female Computer Science Major
- Get a
GOOD roommate this time J And she comes with
identical furniture, too!
- Discover
new versions of Whiskey in the Jar
- Learn
to love having 2 roommates while it lasts
- Late
night multivar homework sessions on the floor
- Learn
to love erasers (might I again mention multivar?)
- Write
a deep, fun, metaphorical story no one understands and get an A-
- Write
a fluff story that turns religious and meaningful that everyone but the
teacher understands and still get an A-
- Learn
to live with fans that make WAY too much noise
- Learn
why physical geology is called Rocks for Jocks
- Discover
the joys and rewards of private tutoring
- Get
new music: oldies and eighties!
- Let
OOP dive you mentally insane, then drive it into the ground
- See
people you admire around campus and pass them by with a smile
- Learn
to adore discrete math but detest multivar
- Run to
sales at the University Bookstore
- Put
bells on EVERYTHING
- Finally
decide and commit to going vegetarian
- Organize
the UHA Political Awareness Forum and fair: aka, Derrick and I struggle
with 12 tables on our own
- Finally
drag a friend to IHOP
- Visit
the coffee house many more times, and still never have your card stamped
- Have
Eeyore continue as my official mascot
- Two
words: SUGAR BOWL!!!!!
- Find
out why Holly Lynne calls her house the fireplace
- Sign
up for an amazing literature class about romanticism and drop it as soon
as you learn you must do presentations
- Play
with Happy Fishy!
- Have a
nametag competition... and win!
- Coerce
a big group of friends to go to the Rocky Horror Picture Show with you
- Actually
go to the Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Take
public speaking… in a section with 4th and 5th year
CS, MS and CE students
- Take
public speaking… but actually end up enjoying it and bonding with your
section
- Study
late into the night for DiffEQ tests with ‘the guys’
- Fight
for starbursts at 1am said study sessions
- Still
fail DiffEQ
- But
rip the teacher apart in evaluations using no more and no fewer than two
occurrences of the f-word
- Discover
the joys of Napster
- Do a
public speaking speech on Vegetarianism and get labeled as the sections
resident veggie/enviro nut for the rest of the year
- Do a
public speaking speech on the 2000 Census and come out with a decent grade
- Do a
horrible public speaking speech on cross country trips… postponed for a
week for being sick
- Be the
third member of the AWC to do a public speaking speech on upgrading your
computer- using the same computer to demonstrate
- Attend
many wonderful acapella concerts… and still not have to catch a Frisbee
- Discover
the Evils of MatLab
- Discover
the Evils of LogicWorks
- Discover
the Evils of Mano-everything
- Excite
Flip=flops
- Depress
Pulsers
- Three
words: sexy stripping wires
- Become
an actual tutor
- Acquire
a boyfriend… boy friend? Eh, acquire one and sleep over in cool new res
- Fall
flat on your butt ice-skating
- Do
what 8 CS majors/math minors and 1 math major/CS minor do on a Saturday
night sober: Play ‘24’ with a deck of cards & write a program about it
- Decorate
the room… especially with more lights
- Tutor
Michael Vick for a short but glorious time
- Take a
course that finally makes you think and change your whole view on life,
that makes you open your eyes for the first time, that makes you realize
you’ve been living a lie and can change that sigh
- Apply for
one of the most competitive scholarships, pour your heart and time into
it, and then come no where close to winning
- Sad,
sad canned food drive in Main Eggleston
- Spring
break in New York with my two best friends from high school
- 5
girls, a state van, $1000 from Microsoft, and Florida… nuff said babe!
- Birthday
party at a Japanese Steakhouse
- Have a
great birthday of my own including the Duck Pond and Red Lobster
- Battle
to get AWC T-shirts designed and made without passing out
- Watch
my friends bowl (Yes, I went bowling… twice… HATED every second I was
bowling, but had fun WATCHING them bowl)
- Realize
that “I talked to your teacher for 20 minutes on the phone and he’s doing
a little better” from Historical Geology substitute is a good sign
- Supervise
the Hardware committee at AWC Career Day
- Second
annual Career Day… another success!
- Go all
out for Earth Day and forget about Easter
- Share
in someone’s first experience of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Start
a new website or two or three…
- Become
stronger and braver in many, many ways
- Listen
and Watch as the beloved Capitals make it all the way through game 5 of
the Stanley Cup Playoffs
- Decide
that the Devils were indeed meant to make it to the Cup
- Have
tons of inside jokes with your roommate… and put them al on posterboard
- Get
another Microsoft Kooshball to hang from the loft
- Get
pans and pots to actually cook with… and make ummy peanut butter fudge
- Decide
what you really don’t want to do in life… and don’t do it
- Expand
your novels into 3 and still growing
- Become
totally infatuated with Phantom of the Opera (for good reason)
- Have
another terrific weekend with Canada Mike… even if it is the first week of
school J
- See
one of your favorite artists, the great Dar Williams, in concert! For
free!
- Write
a kick-ass recommendation to nominate Sandy for Faculty Woman of the Year
Award
- Have a
fun with a ladybug in ECPE class
- Let
your Dar Williams (& other great liberal women) and Billy Joel
playlists expand and grow
- Become
New Residence Hall East’s resident OOP girl (and decide that’s not really
a bad thing)
- Discover
Deets place
- Visit
El Cheapo Gas station… and see Pecans!
- Play
my infamous AWC rhyming scavenger hunt
- Discover
the joys of friends with CD Burners
- Give
Cheery a permanent residence on top of the fan (until he humps my foot)
- Duck
and Cover!
- Go to:
Daytona Beach at 1am, Kennedy Space Center, CoCo Beach, Ron-Jon’s, Disney
World Magic Kingdom, Downtown Disney, Disney Quest, and the House of blues
in 2 days
- Discover
more and more about the naked man on the Nantucket Nectors bottle
- Get
confused with the dating and breakups and hookups at Tech this spring
- Rediscover
your past through the Internet and Napster
- Eat
and deal with Girl Scout cookies up the wazoo
- NEVER
ride the elevators in McBryde again
- Limp
and crawl towards the end of the semester and study your brain out
- Carry
cases of soda(and diet coke) from Owens- uphill both ways
- Fear
the Y2K Bug… and rejoice when it doesn’t kill anyone
- Rearrange
the room into a more open but terribly inconvenient arrangement
- And
last but not least…BOO!
There are 99 because that is the year I I was at Tech as a sophomore, not because I couldn't think of another 1
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