We took the UCI shuttle to school, which took 10mins! (my apartment is a 45min walk from school. impossible distance to cover at night i think). It's free the first week but costs a dollar per ride after. The cool thing about it is that it's run by students on a voluntary basis. Imagine the shuttle buses at NUS being driven by students. So fun right!
When we arrived at school we accidentally bumped into Yvette, then into Xian Cong and Ka Ho, so we just called Hafiiz to come over to the school instead of meeting at In N Out like orignally planned. The main street in school was lined with fraternities, sororities, and other student groups, with HUNDREDS of students walking around. Too embarrassed to take the camera out, I pretended to just be holding it and ended up taking crappy photos.
People walking at the main gathering area of the campus.
Nice weather today! No fog!
Another potentailly nice photo of the area.
Finally a focused photo. The building in the background is the student centre with food courts and the bookstore and other facilities.
First meal at UCI! Chinese food store was the most popular. Had to eat something filling cos of the cold.After lunch we went to the bookstore which had super long queues; if it were NUS it would be from the central forum bookstore all the way to the bus stop. ok that's a bit exaggerated but I only could see the end of the line and not the cashier. The store had all the UCI paraphernalia which was so cool!! I think I'll end up stocking up so much that I'll be wearing the shirts everywhere. The hoodies are especially cool! Though they'd be overkill in NUS, while very useful here.
We attended the Reciprocity students' orientation at 4pm, which lasted an hour and a half. Met the rest of the new international students there, about 30 of us in total. There's about 100+ exchange students in UCI now. There was this girl Claudia from Chile, whom I sat next to. And Tomomi, a girl from Japan who's an anthropology major. We also met a guy called Eddy from HK (who has a Rock Band in his dorm room so I'm so gonna be friends with him!!), and another NUS student whom we didn't know existed until then! Li Hao, or Leo did card tricks for us. very impressive.
Then the depressing part of the day - Organizations. I didn't realise it was a Sociology course cross-listed with PS, so was quite unfamiliar with the terms used. Although I'm sure what I learn will be very relevant in the near future. E.g. in RHOC. Articulated and shared values are what makes an organization a Community! So we've been doing all those objectives brainstorming stuff right all along :D The prof let us off early tonight, so instead of 3 hrs it was only 1.5 hrs. Xintian, where are you to keep me awake? haha yeah right.
While waiting for Lois and Xian Cong to finish class, cos they had a full lecture, I went to the library to photocopy my first week's readings. The textbooks are crazy expensive, so I figure I'll try to photocopy or use e-reserves as much as possible. I took an hour to figure the whole photocopying thing out, and the copiers were all spoilt! There was only one or two on each floor so had to go up and down to find a working one. Exercise man. Won't gain weight like that!
We attended the Reciprocity students' orientation at 4pm, which lasted an hour and a half. Met the rest of the new international students there, about 30 of us in total. There's about 100+ exchange students in UCI now. There was this girl Claudia from Chile, whom I sat next to. And Tomomi, a girl from Japan who's an anthropology major. We also met a guy called Eddy from HK (who has a Rock Band in his dorm room so I'm so gonna be friends with him!!), and another NUS student whom we didn't know existed until then! Li Hao, or Leo did card tricks for us. very impressive.
Then the depressing part of the day - Organizations. I didn't realise it was a Sociology course cross-listed with PS, so was quite unfamiliar with the terms used. Although I'm sure what I learn will be very relevant in the near future. E.g. in RHOC. Articulated and shared values are what makes an organization a Community! So we've been doing all those objectives brainstorming stuff right all along :D The prof let us off early tonight, so instead of 3 hrs it was only 1.5 hrs. Xintian, where are you to keep me awake? haha yeah right.
While waiting for Lois and Xian Cong to finish class, cos they had a full lecture, I went to the library to photocopy my first week's readings. The textbooks are crazy expensive, so I figure I'll try to photocopy or use e-reserves as much as possible. I took an hour to figure the whole photocopying thing out, and the copiers were all spoilt! There was only one or two on each floor so had to go up and down to find a working one. Exercise man. Won't gain weight like that!
The library stacks. Social Sciences area.
Lois and Xian Cong posing.
Photos of UCI at night. Pretty! Pretty CoLD!!
The last shot was from the UCI-Parkwest shuttle. We managed to catch it in the 10mins from end of class to its departure! My monday classes end at 9.50pm, so it's gonna be like this every week. Come back late, sleep early, cos tomorrow's first class is at 11! Grr.
Is this a super long post or what. And it's about a typical day. How am I going to compete the rest of the posts???
Kaili: does this satisfy your need for entertainment for awhile? Haha.
Is this a super long post or what. And it's about a typical day. How am I going to compete the rest of the posts???
Kaili: does this satisfy your need for entertainment for awhile? Haha.
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