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Name: Cecelia
Interests: Reading, swimming, playing soccer, being with friends, theatre (onstage, backstage, or audience), school, biology, opera, country music, playing my cello, cats, history (especially medieval, rennaisance, and victorian eras), history club, big old houses, gardens, food, and sleeping.
Expertise: I am the procrastination queen. My essay writing technique is "print and sprint"
Occupation: Currently? It's summer, I'm ve
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Member Since:
5/13/2005
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| Hey everybody. So I haven't been on here lately, lol. Basically facebook has sucked me into it's black hole of inescapability. But a bunch of stuff has happened that made me want to reach as many friends as possible right now. Basically the Virginia Tech shootings. Today has been the hardest day i have had in a very long time. I cannot remember being this paralyzed with fear for my many friends at Tech; and the joy that came with hearing of each one's safety is something i will not soon forget. God has blessed us so much today, all the Valley kids at Tech are safe, as far as we can tell right now, and the support i have recieved from my friends here at Swarthmore has been tremendous and overwhelming and i am so thankful.
So this is to tell all of you that I care about you so very much and i thank God that you are all healthy and happy and safe. God Bless and keep you all.
Cecelia | | |
| Okay, college is going swell, my actual classes start tomorrow, I'm meeting awesome party, and I am just about to leave for a hall tea party, which basically involves hot chocolate upstairs in the lounge...Anyways...today was the club fair where about 50 different student organizations lined up along a narrow path in front of Parrish and forced new students to run a gauntlet between them, trying to get out the other side with their name on as few mailing lists as possible. I was very very unsuccessful and put my name on lists at about twenty different tables. The rugby team, frisbee teams, comedy improv groups, and democratic campaigning groups were particularly aggressive; they would sneak up on an unsuspecting student, surround them, and then all begin talking at once about their program, meanwhile gently pushing you towards their table and putting a pen in one hand and pamphlets in the other. The positive side of all this is that I have now written my swarthmore email address so many times that I will never have to worry about forgetting it again.
By far the most interesting flyer was the one for the Amos J. Peaslee Debate Society, which I have copied below...
Dear Student,
Congratulations are in order on your obviously superior intelligence. After all, you chose to come to Swat, passing up a bevy of offers from prestigious 2 year Junior Colleges (Harvard, Yale, etc.) and the always lucrative technical schools (Stanford, MIT and Caltech). Indeed, in the face of such heated comopetition, we here at the Amos J. Peaslee Debate Society truly admire your dedication to THE PATH OF TRUTH and its end-goal, THE GLOWING SCEPTRE OF KNOWLEDGE. Sure, you could have been an ultra-rich dot-com mogul developing life-enhancing technology or maybe even a Washinton big-wig using your powers to fight for the good of the common people. But instead, you wisely veered away from these false idols, and have set upon the life of the philosopher king, ruling your Kingdom of Wisdom and its enlightened citizenry (ie, goats) from atop the hill (landfill) where your Royal Palace (little shack thingy) resides. No longer will you have to be concerned with earthly quantifiers like money (you won't have any) or people who listen to you (they won't). Now, you can concentrate on the only true and righteous thing in life: Complaining about everything you don't have. For only those whose minds are truly miserable, are pure enough to contemplate the emptiness of our materialistic modern world. Like Madonna for instance...
Yes, Sir/Ma'am, debate is the only activity that allows you to gripe about all that is wrong with the world without knowing anything about it and then totally hypocritically, receive trophies and other material reimbursements for pointing out what is largely your fault to begin with. But not only that, you get to do this high-concept complaining with all sorts of likeminded individuals on the Swat team. Which basically means: We Want to Be Your Friends. Scary huh?
Now, for those who were either too illiterate to read the whole of our previous inane ramblings (we know you're out there you future English majors), or too lazy to read it (you too, CompSci folks), or are maybe just scared of letters and numbers (pretty much everybody), I've digested the sum of this email into its parts (props to my homey, Descartes). In other words, another oft-cliched Top 10 list:
TOP 10 REASONS TO DEBATE AT SWAT:
10. You can exact your revenge on the preppy schools back East that didn't give you a generous enough financial aid package.
9. If you ever decide to sell out to the Coporate Man, being able to BS, by which I mean wax eloquently, of couse, will come in handy when it comes time to ask for more stock options printed in theblood of anemic 3rd-World children.
8. A chance to get off campus on the weekends. Not only will this prove to be mucho imporante when you discover that you hate frat parties (or in rare cases, love frat parties but hate Swatties), but also, and I'm guessing that admissions neglected to tell you this, each weekend, Swat is napalmed by the US Air Force in order to control the rampant squirrel population on campus, and man, does that stuff sting like a mother. Just wanted to let you know.
7. The annual all-expenses-paid debate ski trip to the Swiss Alps.
6. Actualy, just the Pennsylvanian Alps, but there's plenty of Swiss Miss, if you know what I mean (wink, wink)...
5. ...By which I mean, the chalky-tasting hot chocolate mix. I cna't believe you even thought I meant...
4. ...Babes and Debate Studs. Okay, so we're just a little bit hotter than the average Swat guy or gal. But it's not like we talk about it that much...
3. Damn we're hot.
2. If you are like most Swatties, you will probably think you are intellectually superior to every other person on the face of the earth. Debate will give you a chance to prove it. Of course it is a moot question anyway since I am the most intellectually superiour person on the face of the earth...
1. Your Mom.
There. That is all I can divulge at the moment about this top secret organization known as Swat Debate. | | |
| Hi guys! So, I am officially a college student. Yessiree! I am having an awesome time...orientation has been crazy, but very fun. My two roomates are wonderful, I love my dorm. I went through the course listings last night and came up with an entire page of classes i'd like to take. Today i've managed to narrow it down to a manageable number. So hopefully these will be my classes
Cellular and Molecular Biology with Lab
Statistics
Freshman Youth Seminar: Michelangelo and Renaissance Rome
Intro to Peace Studies
Fencing
I will probably never have enough luck to get all these classes/lab sections at the times I need, so a bunch will prolly get switched around. I'll update you on that.
I have orchestra tryouts on monday, and a swim test tomorrow, and more orientation stuff, as well as registration.
So, I'll post more later, and eventually I'll get pictures up!
ttyl
Cecelia | | |
| Hey guys, I'm back from west virginia. Had an awesome time there. Now I'm just chillin here, trying to enjoy the last few school-less weeks. I'm trying not to panic about the whole, leaving for college on the 29th thing...yeah...really excited and really scared at the same time. So far I have not started to break down about saying good-bye to everybody, although I'm sure that will be changing very soon.
Lessee, what else is new...oh, I got a myspace. (applause, world). http://www.myspace.com/101236584
so yeah, check that out, at me to your friends lists, comment, etc.
and yeah, that's it for now.
ttyl
Cecelia | | |
| I am here in beautiful West Virginia. It's in teh 70's here. I hope you all are surviving the awful heat back at home. We've met up with our friends from Wisconsin. Let me backtrack. Snowshoe Mountain resort is hosting the IBO bowshoot World competition. Archery, in case none of that made sense. Austin is competing, and the rest of us are just chilling and having a blast. It's redneck central here. not just because of the fact that i'm in West Virginia, but the archery competition also attracted a majority of rednecks. The guy to girl ration (of the teenagers, at least) is about 30:1. Highly amusing. Today the entire mountain is covered in a cloud (we're up at about 5,000 feet). When teh cloud is gone, the view is spectacular, and we get to ride the ski-lifts, which just totally made my day.
Take care everybody!
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