HOLYMOLYYYY.

One month.
And no updates.

HOORAYYY.
TWO MORE WEEEKS OF CLASS.
THEN ONE STUDY WEEK.
THEN ONE FINALS WEEK.
AND I'M OUT OF SCHOOL. HECKYAAHHHH (:

Okay.
Back to final study model.
And this week = death. ):

:(

i know :(

hi everyoneeeeeeeee!

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY! i didn't wear green.

D: this is sad guys.
no one blogs here anymore D: D: D: D:

Almost spring break!

I'm so happy.

Dammnnn. I haven't posted in a long time. Hahahah. So how is everyone doing? I cannot believe I'm going to be on spring break after this week is overrrrrr. But...I have so much due on Thursday. Luckily, I finished my paper that is due that day too!

- major Architecture project.
- physics midterm.
- GE paper.

And since everyone else has spring break AFTER mine, COME VISIT ME AT USC! (:

wow.
no one has updated in like...a month.
well.
i'm done with finals! :0

&& its raining ;O

One hell of a week... x.x

SO... as my title stated... this week has been one hell of a week...
some parts fun but most parts not...

on monday... i had fun at my friend's surprise birthday party and an unplanned trip to in n' out at around 11 at night...
HOWEVER.. as we were walking out... we saw a firetruck, an ambulance, and a police car in front of a dorm near us... my friends and i all assumed that someone just caught drinking or doing drugs. unfortunately... the next day, someone told me that a guy tried to choke himself to death by wrapping his computer internet cord around his neck. His roommate walked into his room and saw the guy trying to suicide and ran out to ask for help. When he came back, the guy was sitting in front of his computer as though nothing happened. A while later... he tried to kill himself again. AS IF this story wasn't freaky enough... on thursday... i find out that the guy was actually someone i had met a few weeks before... APPARENTLY... he tried to kill himself because he thought that no one liked him... which is stupid since if i hated him... i wouldn't even bother saying "hi" to him and talking to him when i see him --

ON wednesday... my roomie had friends over and basically kicked me out of the room since she turned off the lights and stuff... which annoyed me a little since the room technically belongs to both of us and not just her... That night, i then had a talk with her... which resulted in me ending up almost in tears. THANKS to michael and steven for making laugh and smile again <3><

TODAY... there was a frat "glow" party where everyone gets glowsticks and dance with them... i really wanted to go but i couldn't because of my stupid workload... so i decided to just hang out with my friends for a while. Halfway, i went back to my room to get my camera to show my friend something... and i see two girls standing across from my next door neighbor's room. One of them had a tag that said "student housing" and i guess the other was the RA on call. As i walked past them, a cop walked out of the room... which scared the crap out of me... So basically... my next door neighbor got caught with alcohol or whatever has made him high lately... Which makes me sad since when i met him... he was a FREAKING cool guy...

so... those were the most interesting stories about all the crap that happened to me this week...
i excluded most of the boring stuff such as how it's now 3:03 and my roomie is still not back O.o...
and now i have WAAAAYYYYY too much hw to do and i shouldn't even be on this thing ><
ANYWAYS... i totally miss you guys <33

Week schedule.

Hoorayyy! Finally. My model drawings are due Thursday, but they moved the model due on Sunday at 6 PM. What the freak? Where the 6 PM come from? Please don't ask. It's too random. But thank goodness! I got that off my back. Now, I'm definitely going to pay attention to my drawings tomorrow and Wednesday even though I have a rough draft due Wednesday afternoon for my writing conference.

Five things I need to conquer:
1. Time management.
2. Craft skills on model making.
3. Do not fall asleep in lecture.
4. Just get the nerve and say hi to people instead of hesistating.
5. Do not be afraid of talking to Michael Leung, the drawing TA aka 5th year Architecture student. (:

for you other UC kids out there. :P

October 21, 2008 - After months of planning and hard work, UCSA registered over 40,000 UC students to Vote!!! We are not only leading the state in nonpartisan youth vote work, but the nation as well. Thanks to all the amazing volunteers who helped us make history. Here are the final registration numbers:

• UC Berkeley: 9,425
• UC Merced: 500
• UC Santa Barbara: 10,241
• UC Los Angeles: 8,519
• UC Irvine: 2,643
• UC Riverside: 1,125
• UC San Diego: 3,936
• UC Santa Cruz: 3,698

We win a free concert from Death Cab for Cutie from MTV. :D (Though at the moment, we can't fund the school part of it, so it might go to Berkeley).

Funny things about this listing.. first off, why is SB listed 3rd? and after Mercerd of all UCs. Next, WTF happened to Davis? Oo.

spambloggy forum

well, spambloggy usually refers to here.. but, now we have a spambloggy forum!

http://spambloggy.freeforums.org/

register, spam ryan to get accepted, then spam. sounds good, yes.

!!!DEBBB: link to forums on bloggy. yes yes?

Happy HallowezzzzzzzZ...

I didn't sleep the day before because of an essay due on Halloween. So I was already in my costume as the panda/zombie. After class I just ate at the DC and crash from 4pm till 12am. What do you know? I slept through Halloween...lol.

day 2 of halloween (the actual halloween day)

A map.. for reference.


When they say its crazy, they mean it. Expect the worst. So here's a list of do's and don'ts for people who might be interested in coming up here next year (and know what to expect).

Do:
-dress up. the cuter the costume, the more attention you get.
-go with a UCSBer that goes in Isla Vista parties often
-know your alcohol tolerance
-know how to fight off drunk people
-know how to weave through crowds
-know people who are throwing good parties
-find several bigger/intimidating guys to travel with
-guard your cell phone like your life depended on it
-have phone numbers of people you're traveling with
-travel in pairs
-go to a closed party or..
-go to a frat party of a frat you know and trust

Don't:
-make this your first IV party
-drive. your car will get fucked up. guaranteed. you will either hit some drunk guy, or they'll hit you
-travel in large groups. "safety in large groups" does work, but the larger the group, the easier it is to lose people.
-DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT travel alone.
-dress scanty. seriously. unless you like being touched and hit on constantly
-bring anything of value, very easy to lose stuff here
-wear anything of value, you will get alcohol spilled on you, and odds are crowd weaving might beat up/tear your costume
-sit. especially if you're not a SBer, you will get arrested
-obnoxiously yell your college name in pride if you're not form UCSB. one of 2 things might happen:
-you get the crap beat out of your by your rival school/UCSBers who really don't want visitors
-you get arrested by the police for public drunkenness, cause they're aiming for outsiders
-drink. especially not if you plan on crashing random parties with people you don't know
-make out with strangers.
-wear heels. our roads are crap. there are times you need to run. you must stay standing for most of the night. they do break. you do get stepped on.


Judging from the above, you can pretty much guess how my Halloween was like. Let start by saying, it had a huge potential to be fun. I could see how it can be very fun. But I didn't go with the right people so... Here's what happened.

I decided to go with TASA people this time, since they always complain how I ditch them when they have a party for frat parties. These people usually have their own closed party in a friend's house. Most of these people don't look like they drink often (if at all). When they do drink, they get wasted, cause they usually have a house.

So we started at the house for the pre-party. Had some alcohol. Some people decided to go all out and get really really drunk. Not smart. We then were planning to crash a DP party. Having a group of ~50 people, with half of them not being able to walk straight, walking through concert size crowds, with even less people knowing where they were going, either because they were outsiders, or don't go to IV often.

So the person who owns the house, he was pissed. Too many people he didn't know were joining into the group, and the people he knew were getting seperated, lost, or whatever. So I ended up being the "desinated driver" of sorts (that had 3 shots.. but that's nothing anyways). It wouldn't be that bad of situation but..

These people have no common sense. I swear they're reckless. We have people running into crowds by themselves to take pictures with that guy with the cute costume, or going out by themselves to look for a friend, even though they themselves don't know where they are, and have no idea where the group is going, or where they are supposed to be going.

So I pretty much spent the whole night keeping track of people, organizing people into buddy hiarchies, assigning people to watch over people, telling people not to panic when the person they were supposed to be watching over gets seperated into another group and is being watched over by someone else. Then there were times when I had to purposely try to break people out of the group, cause they just joined in randomly and we had no idea who they are, push off some creepers, clear crowds, clear paths through crowds, break up fights, drag drunk people away from police, or run back and forth fetchign stragglers.

So when they couldn't crash a party at DP. Here's what DP looks like...



We went back to the house and had our own closed party, which also was a pain in the ass cause people didn't know their way back, and one of the girls went looking for her friend, and Daniel and I went with her cause girls really should not walk around alone in that crowd. Then the night got better. They really couldn't wander off anywhere except around the house. We pretty much stayed at the door to make sure no random people wandered in.

Oh, and it started raining, I guess that made police happy, cause they really could not do anything with crowds that size, and the rain pretty much broke up the crowds... at about 3am..

We made it back to the dorms at 5am. Learned that there's no one guarding the doors after 4am, so if you want to bring guests, that the time to do it.

Few random points..
-Tons of half naked guys, if anyone's interested. Girls too. Give them a bit more to drink and they take off more.
-People do dance on rooftops.
-They dance on fences too
-Non-SBers stand out like crazy. Seriously. We can tell.
-SBs purposely try to get non-SBers arrested.
-People break car windows and slash tires
-People jump onto moving cars

pre-halloween @ sb

We had noise ordinance enforced since Monday. Which just means, don't be too loud.

Today at noon we entered lockdown. It's just more annoying than anything. All doors are locked except 1-2 per building (front entrance). RAs are camping out everyone near the locked entrances. No guests.

So we just end up having people open the locked entrances for us from the inside. We're so lazy that we don't want to walk around to the other side of the building to enter, so we just wait by the side entrance and wait for someone to leave, which is then followed by a mad rush to the door.

top 10 things i have learned in college
1. bring sweatpants. these are a must. theres nothing better than running around on campus in your PJs, because when you get back, all you do is flop on your bed and die.
2. bring an ipod/mp3 player or a nice phone that plays music. theres nothing worse than running around on campus with no music. :(
3. expect strange things to happen. for example, apparently one of my suitemates watches porn.
its kinda funny but weird at the same time cause someone walked in on her.
4. expect to feel naked when you shower. the fact that anyone can open the shower curtain and be like BOOOO makes you feel extremely vulnerable.
5. schools have wireless internet for a reason. use it wisely. when you're in class & you're bored, nothings better than signing onto facebook.
6. no matter how you say you're not gonna drink, dont kid yourself. its college.
7. bring food to class.theres nothing worse than a professor talking about food while your stomach is growling like crazy. its not fun.
8. expect to pull allnighters..not from studying. but from partying. study hard, but party harder.
9. for those of us who don't know how to peel fruit. good luck. it sucks.
10. being bored is the worst of all evils for college kids. if you're bored...and its a friday or saturday night..you're not partying hard enough.


speaking of.
anyone going to the usc party on friday?
i'll be there :D

My life revolves around Architecture.

1. Everything I talk about relates to Architecture. (i.e reports, models, buildings, design)
2. I'm falling for a TA who is 5th year Architecture undergraduate.
3. Every time I'm walking across campus, I look up at all the buildings.
4. I'm always at the studio until 4 AM.
5. When I'm not at the studio, I'm in my room working on precedent papers & drawings for drawing studio.
6. I think I have no life because everyone else in my suite is always out so I go to Architecture to keep me busy.
7. I'm planning to apply for internships at Architecture firms during the summer...already..even though I'm only a 1st year student.
8. I need to meet more upperclassmen. And yes, that includes the really cute TA. (:

Okay. Talk to ya`ll later. Back to working on my Architecture papers. Sigh.

The Umbrella Corporation!

GASP! Could this be the secret entrance to the Umbrella Corporation!?

For those who have no clue what i'm talking about, that's the company in Resident Evil that started the T-virus and made everyone into crazy zombies! This was actually located in Merced College. My suitemate, Matt, and I were walking to the remote parking lot to his car and I stopped after walking over this and was like...WOAH! IT LOOKS LIKE THE RESIDENT EVIL COMPANY LOGO! So I took a pic XD.

-Jono

i just realized one thing i can't do.
i dont know if its the knife or if its the pear being retarded.
but i'm not peeling this stupid fruit very well.
i'm like hacking off pieces and eating it.
... i fail.

Doing the Impossible!

I've already wrote up my whole post on my blog: http://jonobloggie.blogspot.com/2008/10/achieving-impossible.html

so for more details, there ya go~

-Jono

what we do when we're not partying in sb

Wow. 3 entries from me in a row. I guess that's because I now relocate all my college info stuff onto here. :P

Anyways, here's a list (so far) of what we've done when we're not out partying:

1. We shoot pool.
2. We chill in the hallway and lounge.
3. We longboard/freeline in the hallway
4. We do cartwheels in the hallway
5. We side our cellphones across the floor of the hallway to see whose phone goes farther.
6. We play tag on break room couches only, jumping from chair to chair, without touching ground.
7. We jump on/over/off break room couches, trying to do flips and cartwheels.
8. We prop up, tilt, flip over those same couches and jump into them knocking them over.
9. We take stupid pictures with our stonehedge made of couches.
10. We dance on the pool tables.
11. We have food fights in the lounge.

:P

oh. and a picture of #9:

windy

add on point, different topic so different point.

Today was super windy in ucsb. My room faces the ocean (yes you can see it). Normally the ocean breeze gets blocked by the tall building right next to us, so if we want to cool off our room, we would just prop our door open and let the wind in the hallway (hallway windows are always open) blow into our room, and out our window. It's fun to watch all the dust in our room flr out the window.

Today the wind came at a window so that it came at our window directly. So when we opened the door, all the light objects(paper on desks) would start flying out cause it was a pretty strong wind. What sucks even more ( but wasn't too bad cause we're 5th floor) was that all the sand from the volleyball court right in front of our room blew up the against our wall (sucks for people in floors 1-3. cause their windows open all the way, and if it was open, all the sand would've flown in). We just had small amounts of very fine sand everywhere (only noticeable on the black top of my laptop).

I also realized, I DIDN'T BRING MY KITE YET CAUSE IT'S STILL IN MY CAR :(. Next time though... next time.. (which hopefully is sometime after next week when I have both my car and my kite).

lectures, discussions and labs

In terms of type of classes, I have 4 lectures, 3 discussions, and a lab. Computer science is technically a lecture, but it feels like a discussion, cause the professor does stop when we need clarification, and does answer questions mid-lecture. Writing is also technically a lecture also, but I consider it to be a discussion, small class size, and there's actual work. Now..

My lectures are environmental studies, math, computer science, and gaming studies. The environmental studies professor (who I think Sandra would love, since he's the guy leading all environmental studies research everywhere) is wonderful. He gives great lectures. His lectures bring up good points. At the end of his lectures, most of the people in the hall stand up and clap (except that one time he talked about how to use library resources, and what our paper needed to be one). Math lectures are deep, and involve lots of concentration to keep up, and its usually about how differential equations/formulas/theories work (so far). Since math is a pretty dry topic, its pretty boring. Thankfully he isn't monotone. Though yesterday, we had a sub, so I walked out of that lecture cause I couldn't understand anything he said (accent) and he was horrible at lecturing. Gaming studies usually starts by having the professor bring about a point for us to deeply analyze, and ends up with everyone debating back and forth. Fun class, fun homework. Computer science is really like a normal high school lecture (with better participants). Pretty small class size. I seriously think I should've taken a higher level computer science class. I understand everything professor explains.

Now comes my classroom habits. I usually stay pretty attentive during environmental studies. I fall asleep halfway through math. I sleep before lecture even starts until the end of lecture for computer science (I still have a perfect assignment score though, so yes, I do understand the course very well). So I sleep in half my lectures, that's not too bad.

Discussions are.. worse. Environmental science discussion talks about things completely different from lectures. They are actual discussions. There is work. It is required. So nothing I can do about that. Math discussions I walk in, check in, walk out when the TA turns around, that is, if I actually attend. Its optional, but highly recommended, I tend to stick with optional. Writing usually ends with a writing assignment. Finish the assignment quickly, leave. We can walk in and out during writing assignments, so it's ok. Hard to do a check in, walk out here, there's actually work due. Labs are pretty much like discussions. After the TA takes roll, I try to leave. Usually isn't too hard. He's supposed to check our lab results, but he doesn't.

Verdict? I still sleep when I'm bored in lectures. But I've upgraded from sleeping in discussions/labs to sneaking out/ditching. I love college. :D