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So Jackie and I met up around eight and headed over to the Hedrick Dining Hall for breakfast. Naturally we got lost in the process lol. But maybe it was a good thing we were a little late; she didn't have her Bruin Card yet since she was taking the math placement test yesterday, and the lady swiping the cards said that there had already been like six people with the same story, and she had sent them all away. She then pulled out this list, and had all the people without Bruin Cards write down their names and ID numbers.

There was this long line for this omelette bar, and I wanted to try it so I got in line. And then after I gave them my order and right when they were about to make it, this fire alarm goes off. And they make us all get out of the building. And then it stays closed for the next twenty minutes or so. When they finally start letting people in again, all the food was cleared away since apparently they're not allowed to serve food that's been sitting for a while, so I had to get back into that omelette line and wait for them to make everything all over again. D;

And this is where the used trays go lol.

Afterwards, there were all these workshops available, and we could basically choose which ones to go to and what to do with our time. I went to the Life Sciences I one, which Ruben was doing; this was really helpful since they told us what classes we should be taking, and why we want to take the Chem 14 series and not Chem 30, and so on. Afterwards I went to the Heath Careers/Medical School and was effectively freaked out by how much medical school applications cost, and how long people study for the tests, and so on. e_____e I don't know what to do with my liiiiiiife.

And then around 11am, we all headed up to Ruben's room in 922B, and we went over some registration and enrollment information. He passed around this clipboard for us to sign up for when we'd have our individual counseling appointments with him, and I was sitting on the way right side on his bed, so naturally the clipboard came to me last. Amber was sitting on my left, and thank goodness she went to the bathroom at this time, because I got the second to last time slot at 5:20pm, and she got stuck with 5:45pm lol. Ruben talked to us about signing up for classes; basically we would have to fill out this worksheet with all three classes we wanted to take, plus two alternatives. For each of these, we would have to write down three different discussion times (six for chemistry, since we were all going for chemistry), so we'd have more options. None of our class times could conflict, and we'd have to get these worksheets to Ruben by 11pm or else he'd make us fix it tomorrow and we'd register late.

After that we grabbed some lunch at Hedrick again, and headed over to our Departmental Counselor appointments in Covel Commons, where we got some more info about our major and requirements and such. And then after that most of us just went across the hall to this room where all the class enrollment summaries were posted on the walls. We spent the next few hours figuring out our classes. I got everything down at around 3:30, and I still had almost two hours until my appointment with Ruben, so I went off to this College Honors Workshop, which started at 4.

Maybe this was because I was already exhausted and sleepy, but I got very little information from this workshop. I just don't know what that woman was talking about. She passed out this worksheet with some information, and at first she followed that, but then she went on about the study abroad program, and then she started telling her own graduation stories, and something about how she kept hitting a beach ball and missed her chance to stand up for recognition for being in the honors program and so on and so on. I dunno, I was really bored though.

Afterwards I went back to Covel Commons for my appointment with Ruben. I had signed up for Design Culture, but there's this long waiting list already, so I figured I might as well just take it out and stick with my music alternative, Art of Listening (which Andy took and recommended I take). He also reminded me that my one on one appointment thing with him (where I can pretty much just ask/talk to him about anything) was at 9:50. When I got out I told Jackie that out of context, that totally could've taken the wrong way. "I'll meet you in my room at 9:50." Lolllllllll. (x

After that, Adrian, Jackie, Marcos and I got some dinner and then headed over to Adrian's room in Rieber Vista, since I had to find a new alternative, he had a laptop, and we had all this free time til our appointments. When we got on the elevator, it was pretty crowded but there was still room, so Marcos and I shuffled in. And Adrian and Jackie didn't (I guess they thought the second elevator doors were opening). So then our elevator doors closed and we were just like ... wtf we don't even know what room Adrian's in! Anyway, we ended up stopping by Marcos' room since he wanted to get his own laptop. Apparently his roommate never showed up on the first day so he has the whole room to himself; it's still a friggin' mess though lol. Typical guy.

Anyhow, I called Jackie, and they told us which floor to meet them, and then we all went over to Adrian's room lol. Marcos kept telling me to take Chicano Studies (and I was like hell no), and I was looking through the list of GE classes for Social and Historial Analysis, and they were all so boring! I ended up settling for Ancient Art as the lesser of evils. Anyway, we ended up just hanging out in Adrian's room for a while. I was having a very intense anime talk with Adrian (we went over Naruto, Bleach, Death Note, Code Geass, and Samurai Champloo), and Jackie kept laughing at us cuhs we sounded like such dorks hahah.

Anyway after an hour or so, we all headed back to Rieber Terrace cuhs Marcos had his one on one with Ruben. I headed over to my room first cuhs I wanted to grab some stuff and leave some stuff in my room. When I went up to the 9th floor, it was just Adrian sitting outside; I guess Marcos was talking to Ruben inside, and apparently Jackie went back to her room. This actually worked out amazingly for me, because when Marcos came out, Jackie wasn't back yet. And I asked Ruben if I could go instead. And he said no. But five minutes later and she still wasn't back yet. So he let me go in. (8

He told us earlier to come prepared with some questions or things to talk about, or else he would be fine just sitting in silence for fifteen minutes lol. Anyhow, I brought my class scheduling worksheet and asked him to look it over for me. Apparently it wasn't just the lectures that couldn't have time conflicts, but all of the discussion options too. And I was like ... shit! Ruben circled out a few of them that conflicted, but I found a lot more once I took a closer look. Anyway, after that Ruben asked if I played video games. Which led into this whole Final Fantasy discussion hahaha. We talked about VII, XIII, Kingdom Hearts, and we actually spent a couple of minutes just watching various scenes from Advent Children, which he had on his computer hahaha. He skipped to Tifa's fight scene with Loz, and we got all excited that that one part where Loz throws Tifa onto the wall and she lands and all the petals are blown off ("OMG THAT'S MY FAVORITE SHOT IN THE MOVIE!" "ME TOO!") Hahahaha total dorks. At one point I glanced over to his clock, and it was a bit after nine, and I mentioned that Jackie was probably there by that point, and Ruben was just like 'Eh whatever. She hasn't knocked yet.' Hahaha. Anyhow, after I went out, Jackie went in. I feel kind of bad though, cuhs Adrian, being the nice guy he is, ended up getting his appointment moved to my original time at 9:50. I was totally fine just waiting with him though. I started to change my schedule around, and Marcos had his laptop with him, and I asked to use it, and he was like "What do you saaay?" and damn my ego lol.

I ended up running back to my room and using Rita's laptop. And I literally stayed there for a solid hour trying to figure out how to make it all work. I was so stressed out! There were so few options I could go with, and once I made this class work, that class didn't ... After an hour I decided to run back up to the 9th floor cuhs all my stuff was still up there. And everyone was gone! My backpack was just there, slumped against a chair, by itself! (Adrian later claimed that we left him, and that he was just inside talking to Ruben lol.) Anyhow, I went back to my room and finished up my schedule just after ten. It was insane; I finally made everything but one Music discussion work out. I headed back up to Ruben's room, and I guess he was done talking to everyone by that point, and I told him that I fixed everything except that one class, and I just couldn't make it fit because there were so few options for that music class, and all of those options conflicted with my lecture classes, so he said it was okay, and just to let him know if I actually did end up getting two classes that conflicted.

Around 11-ish, I texted Jackie, and she gave me Adrian's number (no one had Marcos number), and we all agreed to meet downstairs for the Carpe Noctum scavenger hunt. The winning team gets UCLA sweaters, so that was pretty sweet; even so, I was pretty psyched just to do it. We couldn't find Marcos anywhere downstairs, and as we were walking, Adrian remembered that he did have his number, and called him. And Marcos, being lame as he is, said he wasn't doing it because he just took a shower, and such and such.

Anyway, we needed to get into groups of ten, so we had me, Adrian, Jackie and Jackie's roommates, and we just grabbed five other people (Rita was one of them). Annie, Adrian, Jackie, Sarah, Perissa (sp?), Gregory, Bethell, Rita, Kimberly, and Sherena (sp?) We sat around a cluster of water bottles (they were for us, probably so we didn't die lol), and one person from each group went up and exchanged their Bruin Card for a camera and flashlight. Natsha went up for her group, and that kind of spurred me to go up too, cuhs I want to get out of my comfort zone. We needed a team name and I suggested Team Rocket haha.

As soon as the counselors told us to GO, everyone ripped out the questions from their packets, and started running! We started running for Bunche Hall, and I learned very quickly how out of shape I am haha. Then we stopped and decided to figure out our route first and go by that. So we looked over all the questions, circled where to go on the map, and determined the best route to go by. Rita was actually really good at finding where everything was on the map and which direction to go when we were looking for it! First question was about this "1939 Club," and apparently it was this group of professors who taught about the Holocaust.

We had to take pictures with all the answers, with a different person taking the picture each time. After a while, we ended up using my camera, since it took too long for us to work the camera they assigned us, so we ended up with half the pictures on that camera and half on mine lol. For this question, we had to find the name of the terrace on the north side of Moore Hall, and we couldn't find a name anywhere. And then all of a sudden we see this guy from another team standing in front of a dark brown sign, and trying to block it from view and as we tried to get closer, he just kept shifting around in front of it, and we were like "What does that sign say?" and he was like "Uhh nothing!" hahaha.

We had to find the top level of this parking lot; there were no elevators lol.

I thought it was so funny, because we had so much trouble finding the School of Nursing since it didn't appear on the map under that name, and everyone started pulling out their phones and calling people hahah. I think Gregory tried calling this service UCLA has, and tried asking them how to get there, and they wouldn't tell us, cuhs I guess they knew we were doing the Scavenger Hunt hahaha.

After we found all the answers, we started running back, but it was really far. We ended up just giving Bethell and Adrian (and Jackie, but she eventually fell behind) the cameras, since they were the fastest runners, and they just ran on ahead. Funny thing is the rest of us actually got back to Rieber Hall before them lol. Apparently they saw a team ahead of them take a turn, and they thought they'd get there faster if they went straight, so they did, and it ended up taking way longer haha. Whatever, I don't think any of us really minded. I still think we did pretty good, and if anything, I got an amazing workout, haha. (x

After a while, we all just headed back to our dorms. Tina was already there when Rita and I got back; she was so energetic for some reason! We all ended up staying up til past 3am, since Tina was all like "Let's have a party!" and when we pointed out that everyone else was asleep, she was like "No!" and went into the hall to prove that they weren't, only to find no one was there. And then she was like "They're all in Westwood! Let's go to Westwood!" and I was like no way! It was so late and I was already like half dead haha. But yeah, we still stayed up pretty late just talking, and then finally I just like keeled over, and she went back to her own bunk, and we all fell asleep within the next five minutes lol.