On Monday, it was the birthday of Irene Lin '17
Celebrations are in order
"It was fun" (Glick, 2015)
"It was Russell" (Weinstock, very tired, 2015)
Kelsey, Ben, and Maggie Stoyantcheva '17 went to Hannaford to get a cake
Russell and Kelsey wrote their Japanese papers
Russell met with Mike Verostek '16, a writing center tutor
"Why am I reading a Japanese culture paper?" (Verostek, 2015)
Kelsey wrote half her paper and then went to bed
On Tuesday, Russell attended a second writing center appointment with Mike Verostek '16
"Why are you back here?" (Verostek, 2015)
"I thought it'd be funny" (Glick, 2015)
Russell started connecting with compsci sophomores
(i.e. Sam "Skippy" Pastoure '18)
Rich went climbing in Little Falls
At dinner, Russell, Reina, Kelsey, Mikey Antoniv '17, and Emily Sears '17 discovered that Marta had been responsible for the mysterious eggplant that was found in Mikey's bag during Compilers on Monday
Marta laughed hysterically for approximately 10 minutes
On Wednesday, Reina, Russell, and Kelsey awkwardly left Programming Challenges early
This was probably a relief to Harry Lee '16
Reina had been haranguing him with memes he didn't know
They ran around the Science Center trying to find Maggie and Ben, who were supposed to be driving them to North Lot
Russell, Reina, Ben, Maggie, and Kelsey made the trek to Rochester, NY to see Alt-J on their Fall This Is All Yours Tour
Congratulations are in order
The light display was really cool
The crowd was cheering too loudly and they had heavy English accents so no one could understand them when they spoke
They left and tried to find a 24-hr Dunkin Donuts to recharge
The Dunkin they went to was incorrectly labelled as 24-hr on the Dunkin website
They sadly left and stopped at the nearest rest area on the Thruway
Some random old man whispered to Reina and Kelsey as they looked for water bottles
"Beautiful girls. Beautiful girls. What are you doing here?" (Some creepy old man, 2015).
Reina gave him a nasty look and he left
They parked in North Lot and walked back after dropping off Russell at KJ Circle
Some random guy was walking towards them at an odd elevation so he looked weirdly short
It freaked Kelsey out and she crossed the street
On Thursday, Russell and Kelsey met with Kwasi Amoako '18 and their professor to discuss their papers
Their professor said that none of them had theses
She suggested they all try to read and understand the sources they used
Reina made frozen Oreo pies
On Friday, Reina, Russell, Ben, Rich, and other fellow compsci students attended the CSBBQ at the Babbitt Pavilion
Ryan Woo '17 was a good grill man
An alum that now works at IBM, Andy Bradfield '98, attended
Apparently Professor Bailey used to be worse
He got really drunk and gave everybody increasingly mediocre life advice as the night wore on
He thought Kat Fuzesi '17 and Ben were dating
"Remember, 70 percent" (Bradfield, referencing the stat that 70% of Hamilton alums in the 90s married other Hamilton alums, 2015)
Russell drove Mikey to the train station
They talked about future Denmark plans
Rich and Michael Pellicane '16 went to Mitsuba
Rich got Katsu Don and Michael got an Awesome Roll
The waitresses spoke Chinese to each other, which made Michael suspicious of the authenticity of Mitsuba
Reina went on the ITS Help Desk crawl
Rich had his shift at the ITS Help Desk
The crawl visited Rich in the library
Russell went to Jungle Juice to visit Julie Lin '17 and Kelly Manhart '17
When he arrived at Bundy dining hall, they were already leaving, as were Irene and Jean Shim '17
They talked outside for a while and then left
Russell never actually made it inside the building
Russell was visited by Jeff Sobotko '14 and Greg Scott '14, two of his idols
At 10pm, Reina returned from her crawl and suggested they attend Diner B
She was under the impression that it was already midnight
She promptly fell asleep and they did not go to Diner B
On Saturday, Rich, Russell, and Maggie watched part of the football game
Russell explained the rules to Maggie
Reina, Russell, and Kelsey went to Target
They tried on a lot of too-small children's costumes
They also made a pitstop at B&N to get Starbucks
Reina got an iced Pumpkin Spice Latte (PSL) and was embarrassed
They found coding books for kids
They saw Ben Wesley '16, who was looking for a book for one of his classes
Reina, Russell, Kelsey, Ben, and Brian Burns '17 went to see Magic Mike XXL
Alex Dennis '18 and Emily Sears '17 joined them
It was truly a cinematic masterpiece
"This is a movie about brotherhood" (Burns, 2015)
Rich successfully managed to convince Bridget Lavin '18 and Olivia Hack '18 that his dayQuil was PCP in KJ 104
Reina, Ben, and Kelsey went to Irene's room
They ran into Aaron Collins '19 on the way there
They somehow talked to him for a full half an hour
They hung out with Irene, Kelsey Crane '17, and Tulia Day '18 for a while
They went to Milbank 27 with Irene, Kelsey, and Tulia
After a bit, they went to find Russell
Ishaq Pathan '16 knocked for them and then pointed them towards Suite 38
At Suite 38, Sam Kotlove '16 pointed them towards Suite 23
They talked to Adam Daniere '16 for a bit and then followed everyone in Suite 38 as they went to 23
When they got to 23, they grabbed Russell and returned to Suite 38
Rich and Addie Black '17 came
They played "Pony" by Ginuwine on someone's really loud speakers
Kelsey visited Russell's room and documented things she found interesting before her phone died
Kelsey, Reina, Russell, and Ben went to the Hub for KDO's middle school dance party
On Sunday, Kelsey went to her aunt's house for her cousin Evan's 9th birthday party
She gave each of her cousins a surprise Minion toy
Russell, Reina, Irene, and Jean attended the Mid-Autumn Festival in Sadove
Russell didn't realize it was an Asian festival until he got there
Rich, Ben, Reina, Russell, Ryan Woo '17, and Eric Collins '17 watched the lunar eclipse in SCCT-2017 with all the lights off
After TA hours, Emily and Kelsey fumbled around 2017 in the dark until they found everyone huddled in the corner
Ben got his first follower than he doesn't already know
Congratulations are in order