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Campussick and grad party season

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Ishmam

Summer is going by fast, yo. But maybe that’s good (it’s not) because I’ve been feeling campussick lately and there’s only one cure. In two weeks I’ll be heading back to Penn to start my summer research and classes, and after that, another couple weeks of break before fall semester.

Until then, there’ll continue to be lotsa frisbee, drawing, gaming, and grad party hopping. Speaking of which,

I’ve been through grad party season three years in a row now and it’s been different every year. There are three phases. First time through, I was younger than all the graduates, so there was a lot of learning and admiring and marveling that went on for all the senior friends. The next year, it was me graduating, which meant lots of frank pride in my closest pals. And now—this year—I’m two semesters of school older than these graduates. It’s cool, being able to step back and see the success of your successors. It’s an ability that you get only from being straight up older, y’know?

Anyway, that’s it for now. Summer has been smooth sailin’.

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Posted in Personal, Thoughts | Tagged Campus, college, congrats, grad, Graduation, Humor, Party, Penn, personal, research, Summer, University of Pennsylvania, UPenn | 2 Comments

There and back again

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Ishmam

Coming home at the end of the school year meant completing the reverse Minnesota-Pennsylvania road trip I did on the way there. After visiting family in Detroit and Chicago, we finally touched home plate three days after leaving Philly. If there’s one thing I noticed from experiencing that 1200+ mile stretch twice now, it’s that America’s interstate infrastructure game is really something to marvel at. Plus, new respect for truckers who drive these crazy distances for a living.

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Summer has been firing on all cylinders since then, with lots of catching up, visiting, dining, concertgoing, and relearning how to drive suburbanstyle. I’ve been getting up to speed on all the internet things and TV I missed thanks to finals, which (along with the pic above) reminds me that The Office series finale special is tonight. Crossing my fingers for a Michael appearance but nevertheless, am prepared to shed oceans.

scottcrying

Well, with freshman year squared away, I’m looking forward to a relaxing, fulfilling summer (eyeroll). I don’t know how to end this post so That’s it for now!

Posted in Personal, Thoughts | Tagged automobiles, cars, college, comedy, driving, finale, freeway, highway, Humor, Pennsylvania, road, road trip, student, Summer, the office, turnpike | Leave a comment
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Thirteenth grade

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Ishmam

Today was the last day of classes. That’s a wrap. One year of undergrad down.

A lotta things have been happening lately, yo.

For starters, Train and John Legend performed at Penn last Friday to celebrate a record-breaking fundraising campaign. A bunch of student groups put on top-notch performances too. Basically the whole school attended, plus alumni and faculty, so Penn Park was packed. The energy was over the top, da music was on point, and it was an A+ way to start the weekend. One of the most boppin’ nights of the year.

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Spring’s here, things are greener, campus cherry blossoms are doin’ their thang. Penn Preview Days have been underway too. It’s been refreshing not to be the youngest on campus for a while, and to see prefrosh even more lost than I was/still am.

Aside from that, there’ve been a lot of lasts. Last chem labs, last essays, last problem sets, last projects. Things have really wound down.

Anyway, the school year’s at a close, thirteenth grade done. Some (not all) of the highlights from my first year of college:

  • Hanging out with Plume Giant at The Fire
  • Surviving Sandy
  • Just walkin’ around in downtown Philly
  • Going to the Clinton rally and voting the next day
  • The 30 Rock finale, 30 Rock week 
  • Watching Kishi Bashi perform (+ Plume Giant again)
  • Taking a train to New Haven and visiting Yale
  • Laughing to Vanessa Bayer, Kate McKinnon, and Nick Vaterott comedy
  • Meeting Cheers Elephant
  • Writing for Under the Button
  • Learning, duh

Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah, here’s to another super three years.

Posted in Academia, Personal | Tagged 30 Rock, Campus, cheers elephant, Clinton, college, Democrat, hurricane sandy, Ivy League, john legend, kate mckinnon, Kishi Bashi, Penn, Penn Park, photo, Plume Giant, snl, train, Under the Button, University of Pennsylvania, UPenn, vanessa bayer, Voting, Wharton, yale | Leave a comment

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