I packed up, moved out, and I am now sitting with my laptop looking out of a window on my second floor at home, observing my cat watch the neighbor’s lawn service.

Freshman year was great and I will miss all of my friends that I made this year! Everyone has been really awesome and I want to thank everyone for making my year so great. I look forward to keeping all of you up to date with my summer through this blog, so keep on checking in.

I met up with Gab and Andrew for lunch this afternoon. We all said goodbye for the summer, it was sad, but we are planning on getting together over the summer and also driving the two hours to go see Janine! 

My Dad came down yesterday to help me start packing and my friend Emma came today to help me finish moving out. I turned in my room key and guest card and said goodbye to everyone that I could find on my way out. 

This year was so much fun and I can’t wait until next, but I am definitely looking forward to relaxing for a while!

 

Here are a few of the people that I have hung out with since the first day of college! We all went over to J&H last night to get our last 4th meal together! 

 

Hanging out with Yamile. Last night in the Lobby

 

Andrew and I waited for Gab at the Temple Regional Rail. She moved home two days ago, but came back to talk with a professor and get lunch!

 

Gab in the Anderson elevator going to meet with her English professor (with cell phone reception????)

 

We waited in the hall for Gab to finish her conference. (A very somber looking Andrew)

 

Moving out with a Temple Red Cart. I may have been mid-sneeze in this picture.

 

Home sweet home!

 

My cat, Lila, with her HUGE ears looking out of the window.

I just finished taking my last final for the year!!!

I am now a sophomore!!!

Here are two pictures. The first is before I took all of the stuff of of my walls and desk and the second is after.

 

This is Before

 

This is after (with the before picture on my computer screen)

This week I spent almost all of my time studying for Chemistry and for Intellectual Heritage. Last night to celebrate the end of the week, Gabbi, Janine, Gina, Andrew, and Myself went into Chinatown. It was a nice end to a VERY busy week. Here are some pictures from the week.

Konal and Gab studying some Chemistry and Calc in the Library at 3am

This is what our study table looked like!

Heading into Chinatown…Janine fumbling with her $3 umbrella

Janine, Gina, and Gab at Rising Tide Chinese Resteraunt

Andrew and myself

The group (minus me) in a chinese “chatchkee” store!

I now only have to take my media final and then I am finished for the summer. I will be working as an orientation leader this summer, so I will be back on the 15th of June. Over my month off I am going to be working in a lab at Temple University Hospital, trying-out for some movies, and hanging out with friends!!!

Today I hung out with Andrew (”Mulligan”) and Gabbi (I found out that is the way to spell it, not “Gabby”). After Chem, I sat in on Gabbi’s bio lecture with Andrew and we tip-toed out 25 minutes early while the professor was showing a video and shut off the lights in the room (very slick)…It was just a review of immunology (stuff they already know) and I’m not in the class, so it didn’t really matter for any of us. We went over to Koja to get lunch and then went our separate ways. I went over to the TECH center to work on making miniature sized cutouts of Dan and Myself which I printed and backed on foam board (see pictures below)…On my way out I ran into Gabbi again! We hung out by the bell tower and then went to 1300 to find Mulligan…We missed Janine today We hung out at 1300, played around on the guitar, talked and tried to relax from all of the stresses of finals. Sooo…that was my day, I’m about to start studying! I am going to do about 30 minutes of Chem reading now and study most of the day tomorrow. I have LOTS of pictures from the day!

Singing along to Gabbi’s rendition of “The General”

She put the fake tattoo on!

Gabbi, Myself, and Mulligan (thanks to Dan who took the photo)

My cutout in the works!

Almost completed!

The Final Products!!!!!!

NOW IT WAS TIME FOR ME TO GO AROUND AND SAY HI!

I dropped on by a Bio group to say hi!

I decided to hang out in the Lobby for a little while…Everyone was cracking up when I showed up with “mini me”

I hung out with Rachel and Sara

I then rode the elevator for a little while to say hi to ascenders and descenders!

I went outside to catch some fresh spring air!

Before I retired “mini me” for the night, I ran into Mulligan!!!

and Yamile!!!

So after “mini me” had traveled throughout 1300, I went up to watch Superbad with Sara and Rachel. I am in my room now and, as I mentioned, I am about to start studying some chem!

Have a good one!

I gave my Media and Society presentation this morning. It went really well, Stepf was awesome and I think that I did a good job too!

Today when I was walking back from an Advertising Team meeting, I saw my friend Mike packing up his car with his dad to get ready to go back to Boston. There was a group of people standing around the car in disbelief that the year is pretty much over. I usually don’t get overly emotional about things like that, I know that I will see everyone next year, but this year has been really great and I do admit it is sad to know that we are not coming back to the same floor. Anyways, I took some pictures today…here they are:

And by the way, I figured out how to make photos larger!

We were practicing in Walk auditorium for the advertising competition which is this weekend in New York. We created a campaign for AIM, which we will be presenting to the company as well as judges. Unfortunately I will not be able to go with, but I know we will do great.

Justin holding the Zweinstien puppet…our secret weapon!

Horribly out of focus photo…Packing up the car. From left to right: Julie, Mitch, Ben. Mike’s father is in the middle, then Max and a VERY out of focus Mike.

Mitch and Julie comforting each other about the end of the year approaching…I think that is a fruit roll-up in Mitch’s mouth…I haven’t eaten a fruit roll-up since 2nd grade.

Max decided to start dancing

I will be starting my study schedule tomorrow, which means that I will not be updating the blog that frequently, atleast for the next 2 weeks…I throw in a few updates every once and a while…Finals are almost here!!! Wish me luck!

Here are two files from my media project that I am working on with Stepfanie. The project assignment was to create a new form of revolutionary media…we created “The Shop Sync”. Here are the things that I created in photoshop….

The Shop Sync, a hand-held portable shopping device

A fake cover of popular science that I created to highlight The Shop Sync

Here are three pictures that I took with my cell phone from around Temple’s campus. With our stadium lighting it is hard to tell if it is night or day sometimes…try to guess which pictures were taken at night and which at day!

start out with an easy one…night or day? (answers at the bottom)

The Ivy patch along Ritter hall…night or day?

Outside of 1300…night or day?

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If you said night for all three, you are correct!

Have a great day!

Last night I was in the TECH center from 6:30pm to 4:00am working on my Media and Society final project with my partner Stepfanie (cool spelling). We managed to complete an entire month-long assignment in the past 3 days and we created an amazing project. I did not fall asleep until 5:30am and had to be awake by 8:30am for work, so you could imagine that I am very tired. Tonight I hung out with a bunch of people in the lobby. Tim, Eddie, Alyssa, Jimmy, and I tried going for water ice at Rita’s, but they were closed (apparently they close at 9 on tuesdays). We ran into our friend Sara on the way back (she was getting chinese food). There were some people dancing outside of the chinese restaurant, listening to music blasting from their car…the music was pretty bad and they were horrible dancers, but to each his own (at least they were having more fun than I have been with studying for exams and working on projects).

I had $22 in Diamond Dollars left in my account and I spent $14.00 on color printing yesterday so needless to say I am extremely low on Diamond Dollars! So…SEND MONEY! Cash works too! Thanks mom!

Here are some photos from the week so far!

I started packing up to go home

Stepfanie and myself in the TECH center at about 3:45am

The TECH center at 4:00am before we left. Filled with night owls

Eddie and Tim outside of China House

With Sara outside of China House

Everyone outside watching the people dancing

Amaris came down to the lobby to hang out!!!

Finally, people hanging out in the Lobby (left to right: Craig, Amaris, Rob, Jimmy, Tim, and Kenny’s hand

Here is my final schedule that I just created!

Click to enlarge!

My friend Emma informed me that sophmore is actually spelled sophomore! I guess I should know that if I’m about to be one. Ignore the spelling error

I am sooooo glad it’s the weekend.

 

So I took my chem exam today that I have been studying for over the past week. I studied until 4am everyday with Gabby, Janine, and Mulligan (Andrew). I did alright I think, but I could have done better. I still have the final exam coming up, so I better start studying for that soon. And for those that don’t know me, I’m not a study-crazy person, but these tests are pretty important (the final plus this last exam equal a total of 50% of the grade). I’m sick though, so I am not really in the mood for blogging. Once things return to normal, I’ll start blogging regularly again. Thanks for everyone’s patience.