The Kean I Know

Hi all. Happy Holidays.



So I thought I’d do this post. I’ve sort of been working on it for a while. The last feel weeks of school I’ve been taking my camera to class and I’ve been taking pictures of campus. So in honor of me moving out last Thursday here’s the Kean I know!

Heading toward the gym. nice trash cans right?

Cougars Walk coming out of the quad

These two pictures ore of the first snow of the year and my last snow on campus, I woke up the next morning and it had melted. But it was nice while it lasted!!

That's UC straight ahead and i just thought it looked soooo pretty lit up at night

The lovely view from my room hahahaha

um.... this is behind the library... yeah...

Crossing the street toward the new STEM building. It's such a nice place to have classes. 

I like the wheeely chairs

Walking up the STEM sidewalk/ looking over at main campus

Main Campus by Wilkins Theater

So there's the Kean I'll remember!

Laters,

Happy Summer!

Hi all! Happy summer! So I have a lot to catch you all up on. first off I have been out of school for almost a week now. It’ll be a week tomorrow. And it feels totally amazing to have finished my first year of school. I’m just waiting for all my grades now. I have my Bio and Algebra grades both of which are Bs and I’m very proud of myself. I enjoyed writing my Nazi Era Germany paper… good story about that we had a source reader for with all sorts of things that we had to read for the semester and I was supposed to get the format for the paper along with a bunch of information about the topic from it. And I had made the mistake of sending it home on Monday when my mum was helping me move most of my room out. So I just sort of just made it up as I went with the in-text citations. When I got home I looked in the source reader and I had done it right. Lol. It was APA format even though my professor said that it wasn’t APA. Yay! Plus it was just downright fun to write. I loved that class a lot.

It was really funny when I was walking off campus it’s one of those moments when you know you’re done with that part of your life. Most of the time you never feel or see a part of your life ending but something you can’t help but totally see them. And I was really happy that I finished my freshman year without getting kicked out or dropping out. And now I’m just waiting for my letter from NYU… I should be hearing back this week... cause the website said that I’d hear back in the middle of may at the latest.

So onto the pictures from my signing! I lost my camera chord… so I can’t upload them yet.. haha

Oh and my last two lists… pretty much the best ones!


Things I won’t miss about my roommate.
1) Her smelly clothes
2) Her loud music

3) Her singing to her music

4) Her habit of not cleaning her side of the room
5) Her leaving the door unlocked

6) Her slamming doors when I’m sleeping

7) Her talking on the phone while I’m sleeping
8) Her having friend in the room while I’m sleeping
9) Her over all rudeness
10) Her changing clothes when I’m sitting at my computer
11) Her friends just walking into the room like they live here

Now to compensate…. 2 things I will miss about my roommate
1) Her sharing textbooks with me

2) Her not being in the room all the time

Laters,

Endings

I realized today as I was walking out of my writing class that this semester was what college really is. Don’t get me wrong my first semester was fine and I loved it… but this semester really has me addicted to college. I took classes I wanted, not the ones I was told I needed to take (seriously worst orientation/ schedule making first semester. I was handed a list and told to take the classes there. Dumb.). I enjoyed every single class I took. I didn’t have to wake up early. I made friends. I was tight with my RA. And I’m sad it’s all ending. Six days till I’m done here. I won’t have to commute back for any classes (all my finals got moved to early next week) and I’m done. It’s sort of sad in a way cause I’m not coming back in the fall I’ll be at NYU. So for me it’s really strange. My suitemate is all excited for the summer break and how nice it’s going to be to be off campus for a few months and I’m like I’m never coming back. It’s like high school graduation… but different. like wacky different cause I’m changing schools and it’s not the high school to college school change it’s from one college to another… so I’m a bit wacked out about that…. Even though I’m still waiting for my NYU acceptance letter…. I still feel like I’m done here and not coming back.

And today was my last day of my writing class. And to be honest it was sad (I’m a dork I know). It’s strange because this whole semester I’d known that Writing 2020 was my favorite class and it wasn’t because of what we were learning or the essays we wrote, I mean ya those were fun, but what made the class was my teacher. She was such a huge influence! Like we would talk about things in class and I was like wow… that makes a lot of sense and she assigned us only two essays the whole semester but damn if those things didn’t challenge me and teach me something. And I realized while I was walking back from class (which btw it’s a beautiful day) I was thinking there have been very few teacher that I’ve had that actually TEACH me something. Ya I learn things but usually I forget it after a while. My writing teacher actually taught me things and it’s funny cause I’ve only ever had one other teacher who taught me something and that was my Creative Writing teacher senior year. Hmmm…. I see a trend… both teachers taught me writing… haha. But really that’s all my life is honestly and when someone can open my eyes to my writing and help me improve it’s the best thing in the world and that’s really what I got out of my writing course. By writing both the Literacy Narrative and the Process Narrative I sort of found out what my writing was and now I’m working on improving it all and it’s all cause of my writing teacher. I know there are people in my life that I was just destined to meet and my writing teacher was one of them. Sitting here writing this long rant makes me think even more about how the semester is over and my classes are over and when I walk out of my classes next week… I’m done. It feels liberating to have finished my freshman year in such a fantastic way!

So here is one more list… I think I forgot to mention. But Whiteman was my dorm this year. Lol and I was on the third floor… hence my lists… lol.

What I won’t miss about Whiteman 3rd floor
1) People deciding it’s okay to be super loud at 3 a.m.
2) People playing Frisbee in the hall
3) All the nice people who kept breaking the washing machine… yeah thanks
4) People slamming doors late at night
5) All the stupid annoying rude people
6) People being rude at floor meetings
7) The VERY loud dryer

Laters,

Catch Up!

Oops… sorry I’ve been bust and I know I promised a list a day… so I’ll make up with posting the lists at the end. I have other stuff to catch you up on first. Mainly last Friday I had my visit at Voorhees. It went reallllly good. I read from A Colorless Myth and then I explained about publishing then I did Q&A. Now let me tell you I talked to a senior creative writing class so most of the kids knew me from when I went to school. And when I first started the Q&A no one raised their hand, it was probably for just a few seconds but it felt like hours for me and I started to panic/ come up with more stuff to talk about. Then a girl raised her hand and after that it went awesomely. It made me so happy. I was so happy cause someone asked me about my Series and so I had a small rant on that and it was fun. The forty minute class period went super fast. Like I was afraid going in that I wouldn’t have enough material to cover the whole time but it was just enough time. And my signing is this Saturday!!!!!!! I’m excited but a bit nervous too…. So I’m crossing my fingers that it goes well. Also I can’t find my camera charger!!!! So I don’ know if I’ll have pictures of it! Eek! So I’m going to search the house when I get home Friday cause it’s not in my dorm. Ugh! I hope I find it.



And I’ll be home this weekend for my signing obviously, but also my family and I are going to the Met Friday night for an opera! It’s a German one called Der Fliegende Holländer. Or in English the Flying Dutchman! I’m way pumped! And oh my gosh I was just trying to find a cool picture of the opera or something and I just noticed this! It’s written by Richard Wanger and I just had my Nazi Era Germany class and we had read one of Wagner’s essays earlier this semester! Oh my goodness this is so cool! It makes me even more excited.


And onto my lists… which means one week till I move out! I totally can’t wait!

What classes I’m glad are over
1) Transition to Kean
2) Algebra (way too easy)
3) Psychology


Things that sucked the most this year
1) How fast it went
2) Writing stupid papers
3) Having to pay an arm and a leg for books

Funest things this year
1) Fire drills when I was still sleeping..... not
2) First week at school running through the sprinklers with my suitemate
3) Uno with the guys next door
4) The snow day snowball fight!!

People I’ll miss minus their names
1) My second semester R.A.
2) My buddies I talked to at the front desk
3) My suitemate
4) The guys next door
5) The nice people who know me in the Caf
6) My writing Teacher
7) My Nazi Era Germany teacher

What I won’t miss about campus
1) The overly small campus
2) The rude people
3) The stupid people
4) My advisor

What I will miss about campus
1) My teachers
2) The few friends I’ve managed to make
3) Starbuck on campus (although I’ll have a bunch off campus next year!!!!!)
4) My desk with the cork board on the back…. And my ability to stick memos there….

What I will miss about whiteman 3rd floor
1) My R.A. cause she’s totally the best
2) My suitemate
3) The guys next door (even though they’re loud)
4) My half of the room

Ta da! Now I’m all caught up on lists! The fun ones are coming up (like what I won’t miss about my roommate)! Hehehe

Laters,

List 1

Oh goody! I get to start my lists sooner! Cause in two weeks I will be moving out! And I will be done with kean forever! Whoooot! But before I post my first list I would just like to say how totally awesome my RA is. She knocked on my door yesterday and gave me a tulip! Cause she had done spring spruce up day and they were cutting flowers in one of the gardens. So it totally made my day. doesn’t it look pretty! Lol in my intercourse mug…. Rofl.

So my first list….


What classes I’ll miss


1) Writing
2) Nazi Era Germany Pre Holocaust
3) Biology 1000 (only cause it was super easy!)
4) Sociology

Laters,