Summer at Stony: Week Four

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My, my, how the weeks fly by. It feels like just yesterday I was in my first history class and the power went out. Ironically, the power went out again on Thursday… but enough on that topic. I have a pressing need to say that the glamor that went along with living in the West Apartments has entirely left me.

Yes, West is an animal different from any of the other quads on campus. It has the huge suite of Roth, the bedrooms of Tabler, the space of Kelly, and the pluses of a kitchen suite without the drawbacks. It is, by far, the top of the line in Stony Brook housing. However, the excitement I felt moving in a month back has rubbed off to become the same old Stony feel. Course, I did have some week with my apartment - especially with the disappearance and lack of information concerning my missing glasses. No one believes how annoyed I am that my glasses have just “up and left.” Ugh.

Classes this week brought the first of my midterms in both HIS 103 (America to 1877) and HIS 340 (Modern India) on the same day - Monday. They weren’t that bad, and I even got one back less than 48 hours later on Wednesday, but my hand was pretty much done from writing about 25 pages combined that day. I can write 100 on a computer without tiring, but put a pen in my hand and my brain just slows down with my hand.

Sign language brought an incredibly hard quiz to the table and technical difficulties with a faulty digital camera for recording our signed conversations. No fear, I’m a computer expert and helped to turn the MacBook she brought into a camera before the camera was fixed. After we finished our conversations, however, the power cut out and, in a class where sight is pretty much everything, we were forced to move outside to Staller Lawn. No complaints - it was sunny and breezy. However, every single person looked at our class like we were lunatics. It’s sign language, jeez!

My weekend blues were wiped out this time by a three-day fun fest with a combination of my Stony Brook friends, high school friends, others, and, of course, my girlfriend. I will say that having little to nothing in the line of neither best nor close friends on campus really does drive me off the campus. I love how beautiful and peaceful it is here, but the lack of hanging out or simply comfortability for me personally has me looking for ways out. (Especially when someone decides to take my glasses!)

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