Halfway through Newhouse Bootcamp

I've finished the third week of summer school, and this was probably the most interesting week yet. On Thursday, I took my first test, and everyone was really nervous about it. After pulling an all-nighter, I think that I did pretty well on the test. Most of the questions were random, but I gave the geist of the answer for the ones I was unsure about.

I've been going out a lot more. There was a party for Newhouse grad students at a bar located in the campus housing area on Friday. It had a karaoke player, and I sang "Hey Baby" by No Doubt. I even had my own backup dancers. After that, I went to an afterparty at the apartment of this guy I have classes with. It was really fun because we played Dirty Minds. This one girl was awesome at the game. She lives in the same apartment building as me, and that was the first time we met.

Yesterday, I had to shoot a video project with my group. It's a cop drama, and I'm going to edit it on Monday. After we got done, I went to see "Transformers" with one of my sorority sisters. It was okay after I got through the extremely cheesy first 30 minutes of it. I'm can't wait to see movies like "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry," "Hairspray," and "Harry Potter." I'll be going to even more movies if I get a job at Syracuse. I turned in applications for three jobs, so hopefully, I'll impress one of the employers.

First Week in Newhouse

This week has completely changed my life. I am finally living in a different city on my own. I have to take two classes this summer. They are a lot easier than I expected. I haven't been doing a whole lot socially lately. I think that almost everyone has been too tired to do very much.

Yesterday, I went to the dean's house for the Newhouse grad picnic and softball game. I hung out with some of my sorority sisters and a few other cool people. The chair of my program, Dr. Schoonmaker, was really nice and tried to get to know some of the TRFers. Dean Rubin had groups of people around him as he told stories about Syracuse.

I worked on my first video project for my class this weekend. We were put into groups of four and had to do our videos without any audio. Each video had to be based on one of the two books we read before classes began. Two of the people in my group acted in my video, and I acted in two of theirs. In one video, I played the invisible hand of a card-playing computer.

Everyone will show their unedited videos in class tomorrow. Wish me luck!