I can now officially say that I have two new friends at NYU who are not my roommates! Jen Sax, who is another Steinhardt VP major, lives in my building on the fifth floor. Sonja Haroldson I met at the second Steinhardt orientation, she's a studio arts major.
I went and got coffee with Sonja yesterday, which was a lot of fun. We just sat in Starbucks for about an hour and talked about ourselves, where we were from and what our interests were. She's such a nice girl, and we have a lot in common. She's from Washington, so we've got that West Coast connection going on, and she's extremely energetic and spunky like me. We also ran into her boyfriend's roommate Danny, who seemed really nice. After Starbucks we walked around this street fair that popped up on University and Broadway. I think it's there for the holiday weekend, though I'm not sure. It's pretty cool though, there are a lot of vendors selling really neat artwork and tapestries and such. Kind of like the art in the park thing back home. After walking around for a while we decided to head over to Weinstein for lunch, because we were both super hungry. I had a pretty good meal, which I was pleasantly surprised by. I'm not getting bored of dorm food yet! I'm just trying to figure out which cafeterias I like the best. Then after lunch we headed back to our separate dorms, but I think we're probably going to try to hang out soon. We're both pretty excited to have made a good friend already, because we both feel like we're trying to find a solid group of people that we could hang out with at any time. I think I'm getting there! She's going to introduce me to her boyfriend and his group of friends, so maybe that'll be my group, who knows?
This morning I met up with Jen, the girl who lives in my building, and her friend Raf for lunch. We were going to go to Weinstein but we passed by a Chipotle on the way and discovered that Raf had never been there before, so naturally we had to eat there. It turned out that there were a few VP upperclassmen in line before us, Raf's mentor included, who ended up inviting us to sit with them. It was kind of exciting but also a little bit nervewracking to sit with these guys because they kept asking us questions about freshman year and our classes and if we were excited and whatnot. They were super nice and it was cool that they were trying to get to know us, but I could tell that Jen and Raf and I were all super intimidated by them. One guy, Steven, is from the West Coast (he's from Oregon) so he decided I was his West Coast buddy. The upperclassmen left after a while because they had to go to rehearsal for Sweet Smell of Success (which I'm SUPER excited to see in a few weeks), so Jen and Raf and I decided to go check out the street fair a bit more, the one on Broadway. I had my first deep-fried Oreo which I'm proud to admit I loved, and I kind of want another one. Jen had a date tonight with a sophomore from our program, so I went down to her room to help her get ready. She didn't seem too enthusiastic though, because we've both heard some pretty sketchy stuff about him in terms of him being a player, so we'll see how that goes. Raf and I were joking that we should stalk them by going to whatever restaurant they were going to and sitting at a table nearby to keep an eye on them. We never did, but Jen is a tough girl, I know she can handle herself.
The rest of my suite did laundry for the first time today. I passed because I didn't feel like I had enough laundry to merit a trip down there, but they said it was quite the experience, so I have that to look forward to. Caroline and Jasmine went to go see the new One Direction movie, and Karen went to the FYRE cruise (a freshman-only overnight cruise) with her friend Derrick. So it's just me and Dan-a chilling in the dorm room which is totally fine, we're just watching movies and generally hanging out. It's nice to be able to relax now because I know that once school starts it's going to be a nightmare.
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