The daily life of a college student is pretty boring, there's not much to report. I go to class every day, and do homework at night. Nothing extraordinary has happened this week.
Midterms are over, which I guess is a relief. I didn't really have any intense, normal people midterms because most of my classes are music related. I'm doing well though, across the board. All of my teachers are pretty happy with my work so far.
Tomorrow is Halloween, which I guess is a pretty big thing in the city. Apparently there's some big Halloween parade on 6th Ave but I was just planning on staying in and watching tv. I've never been a huge fan of Halloween.
This weekend I'm going home with my roommate Caroline, she lives just outside of Lancaster, PA. I'm pretty excited because on Friday we're leaving around 2 and then when we get off the train we're going to their town's First Friday, which should be pretty interesting to check out. Then on Saturday we're doing yoga and checking out something called Central Market, which is apparently one of the oldest markets in the US. And there's lots of Amish people there. Caroline's excited for me to see an Amish person for the first time. Also, her parents are treating us to a trip to Hershey Park which I'm soooo looking forward to. I'm not sure if we're going to the amusement park area of it but I know we're going to Chocolate World which sounds amazing. This weekend should be a lot of fun. I'm actually even looking forward to the train rides, because I love the train. We'll get back in late Sunday night around 11, so I'll be in PA all weekend.
Not this weekend but next weekend, we start rehearsals for New Student Cabaret. I think we're going to have rehearsal every night from 7-10, in addition to the hour we have on Wednesdays in New Student Seminar. I'm really looking forward to this, I've missed rehearsing for a show. And I'm also looking forward to finding out what group songs we're doing and to hear everyone sing. I don't think I've heard everyone sing yet, just some people here and there. In my English Diction class we've started performances, where everyone brings in an English art song and performs it in front of the class, and then we critique their diction based on what we've learned so far. We had our first day of performances today and I'm somewhat impressed by the talent level. Well, I'd say I'm neutral. We had one girl perform for whom English is her second language, so we spent a lot of time with her on her diction. I didn't realize until now how difficult some words are to pronounce properly.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Cinderella!
This past weekend a few friends and I decided to rush a Broadway show. We had just finished brunch and were sitting around trying to figure out what to do, when my friend Javi said, "Hey, let's go rush Big Fish!" It was just after 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon and Sunday matinees start at 3.
We basically bolted to the nearest subway station (which was a struggle for my short legs) and as our luck would have it, an R train pulled up right as we went through the turnstiles. We hopped on and as soon as we did, we realized it wasn't stopping at 49th due to maintenance, and we needed that stop because the theater was on 52nd. But as we pulled into the 42nd St stop, we noticed the N train pulling in as well. My friend Will was like, "why don't we get off here and get on the N, see if it stops at 49th?" We hemmed and hawed but when our train stopped Javi went "Oh what the heck, let's do it". So we got off and hopped onto the N, which, amazingly enough, did stop at 49th. Luck was on our side that day!
We booked it to Big Fish's theater, only to be harassed by some guy trying to sell two tickets and to learn that there were no more student rush tickets available. As annoying as that guy was, we weren't discouraged. We just walked over to the Broadway theater to see if there were any student rush tickets for Cinderella, and there were! We were all so excited, we were going to see a Broadway show! It was the first one I'd seen since moving out here. My friend Jack made a funny comment, saying that when he woke up this morning he didn't think he'd be seeing a Broadway show.
The show was absolutely magical, I'm so in love with it. It wasn't one of those shows that if I didn't see it I'd be devastated, but I'm so glad I did end up seeing it. The costumes were so so pretty, and Laura Osnes is beautiful. We actually just got her right before a vacation; that was her last show before taking a week off, so we just caught her. After the show we rushed out of the theater so that we could be the first ones at the stage door. We were such nerds. We got pictures with Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana, who played the Prince. It was so exciting and awe-inspiring to meet them and to get their autographs. I really hope that one day I'll be the one coming out of the stage door to a bunch of fans asking for pictures and autographs.
We basically bolted to the nearest subway station (which was a struggle for my short legs) and as our luck would have it, an R train pulled up right as we went through the turnstiles. We hopped on and as soon as we did, we realized it wasn't stopping at 49th due to maintenance, and we needed that stop because the theater was on 52nd. But as we pulled into the 42nd St stop, we noticed the N train pulling in as well. My friend Will was like, "why don't we get off here and get on the N, see if it stops at 49th?" We hemmed and hawed but when our train stopped Javi went "Oh what the heck, let's do it". So we got off and hopped onto the N, which, amazingly enough, did stop at 49th. Luck was on our side that day!
We booked it to Big Fish's theater, only to be harassed by some guy trying to sell two tickets and to learn that there were no more student rush tickets available. As annoying as that guy was, we weren't discouraged. We just walked over to the Broadway theater to see if there were any student rush tickets for Cinderella, and there were! We were all so excited, we were going to see a Broadway show! It was the first one I'd seen since moving out here. My friend Jack made a funny comment, saying that when he woke up this morning he didn't think he'd be seeing a Broadway show.
The show was absolutely magical, I'm so in love with it. It wasn't one of those shows that if I didn't see it I'd be devastated, but I'm so glad I did end up seeing it. The costumes were so so pretty, and Laura Osnes is beautiful. We actually just got her right before a vacation; that was her last show before taking a week off, so we just caught her. After the show we rushed out of the theater so that we could be the first ones at the stage door. We were such nerds. We got pictures with Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana, who played the Prince. It was so exciting and awe-inspiring to meet them and to get their autographs. I really hope that one day I'll be the one coming out of the stage door to a bunch of fans asking for pictures and autographs.
Monday, October 21, 2013
Fall break, short week, and roommate adventures
This past week was quite a busy one! It started out with fall break, which was lovely because I got to go home and visit my family and see my super talented sister Katherine in her best role to date, and I brought back warm clothes and fuzzy socks (always a plus). Classes started back up again on Wednesday, which meant we had a shortened week, woohoo! It felt weird though because classes that I normally have Mondays and Wednesdays I only had once this past week, so it was a little disorienting.
My friend Griffin came to visit two colleges in the area, and he stayed with a mutual friend of ours who lives on the fifth floor of my building. My roommates and I had a blast showing him around and hanging out with him in the dorm room, chatting about California and colleges and all that jazz. We all reminisced about how horrible the college application process was and how we're so glad to be done with all of that. We took Griffin to the High Line, which is this old elevated train track that the city of New York decided to turn into a park of sorts somewhere around the 1930's and was opened to the public in 2009. It's absolutely gorgeous, they put a lot of trees and greenery along the sides of it, and it's pretty neat to look out over the city. It makes for some good photos. Then we took him to the Grey Dog, which is a local cafe near NYU that my roommates and I love. The table we were sitting at had a mini map of the San Francisco area which Caroline and Dan-a thought was really cool, so we spent the next twenty minutes or so talking about the geography of the Bay Area and where everything was. They're convinced that the Bay is in central California, but Griffin and I are adamant that no, it's in northern California and everyone knows that. I think the people sitting at the table next to us had a very interesting conversation to listen to.
Then yesterday Caroline and I (literally) dragged Dan-a out of bed to go to Battery Park for an hour or two. I'm not kidding when I say that we had to drag her kicking and screaming out of bed to force her to leave the dorm at least once that day (if we hadn't, she probably would have spent the entire day studying indoors). Once we got there it was such a gorgeous day. It was chilly and a bit windy out, but the sky was clear and the air was crisp and fresh. I brought along some homework to try to get some work done but we just ended up taking silly pictures and people-watching. I got the work done later though, don't worry. Then we went to Palladium for dinner and more roommate bonding. It was pretty nice to get to spend some time as just 710-A, because I feel like so often we're all so busy with class and doing our own thing that we don't really get to spend much quality time with each other, so it was nice for all of us to hang out and enjoy each other's company.
My friend Griffin came to visit two colleges in the area, and he stayed with a mutual friend of ours who lives on the fifth floor of my building. My roommates and I had a blast showing him around and hanging out with him in the dorm room, chatting about California and colleges and all that jazz. We all reminisced about how horrible the college application process was and how we're so glad to be done with all of that. We took Griffin to the High Line, which is this old elevated train track that the city of New York decided to turn into a park of sorts somewhere around the 1930's and was opened to the public in 2009. It's absolutely gorgeous, they put a lot of trees and greenery along the sides of it, and it's pretty neat to look out over the city. It makes for some good photos. Then we took him to the Grey Dog, which is a local cafe near NYU that my roommates and I love. The table we were sitting at had a mini map of the San Francisco area which Caroline and Dan-a thought was really cool, so we spent the next twenty minutes or so talking about the geography of the Bay Area and where everything was. They're convinced that the Bay is in central California, but Griffin and I are adamant that no, it's in northern California and everyone knows that. I think the people sitting at the table next to us had a very interesting conversation to listen to.
Then yesterday Caroline and I (literally) dragged Dan-a out of bed to go to Battery Park for an hour or two. I'm not kidding when I say that we had to drag her kicking and screaming out of bed to force her to leave the dorm at least once that day (if we hadn't, she probably would have spent the entire day studying indoors). Once we got there it was such a gorgeous day. It was chilly and a bit windy out, but the sky was clear and the air was crisp and fresh. I brought along some homework to try to get some work done but we just ended up taking silly pictures and people-watching. I got the work done later though, don't worry. Then we went to Palladium for dinner and more roommate bonding. It was pretty nice to get to spend some time as just 710-A, because I feel like so often we're all so busy with class and doing our own thing that we don't really get to spend much quality time with each other, so it was nice for all of us to hang out and enjoy each other's company.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Decorating! And some weird weather..
So after a month of living in my dorm, I finally started putting serious effort into decorating my side of the room. I had already put up these mirrored decal words that say "Sing, Dance, Love" on my headboard, but I needed more than that because I have a very bare, very plain white wall next to my bed. So I got some Christmas lights and put them up around my headboard and I absolutely love it. It adds a nice touch and it's nice soft lighting so I don't have to have the harsh overhead lights on all the time. I also ordered two wall prints from this website called Dormify.com that specializes in dorm room and apartment decorations. I got this really cool one that is an M and is purple, black, and cream and looks kind of mod. I think it'll go well with my color scheme.
The weather here has been pretty fickle, and confusing. It's officially fall, and we welcomed fall initially with typical fall weather: windy, pretty chilly, but sunny toward middle to late afternoon. And I love that weather, it makes me happy. Boot weather is the best weather! But the past few days it's been warm and muggy but at the same time chilly and muggy in the morning. For instance, I left my building this morning around noon to go to my coaching for New Student Cab, and by the time I got to the Ed building I was pretty warm. Then later when I left my building again around 1 to meet my friend Mitch to go get my Christmas lights, I was cold! I almost went back upstairs to grab a cardigan or something. I'm really looking forward to when it gets cooler again because I love fall in the city already.
The weather here has been pretty fickle, and confusing. It's officially fall, and we welcomed fall initially with typical fall weather: windy, pretty chilly, but sunny toward middle to late afternoon. And I love that weather, it makes me happy. Boot weather is the best weather! But the past few days it's been warm and muggy but at the same time chilly and muggy in the morning. For instance, I left my building this morning around noon to go to my coaching for New Student Cab, and by the time I got to the Ed building I was pretty warm. Then later when I left my building again around 1 to meet my friend Mitch to go get my Christmas lights, I was cold! I almost went back upstairs to grab a cardigan or something. I'm really looking forward to when it gets cooler again because I love fall in the city already.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Player's Club Date Auction
This past weekend NYU Steinhardt's Player's Club held their annual Date Auction, which was a night of Disney songs and fundraising for our winter musical, which they announced is going to be Once on this Island. Everyone who performed auctioned off a date with them, which ranged anywhere from picnics in the park to game nights. One guy even auctioned off dinner and tickets to a Broadway show of the bidders choice! My date wasn't quite so fancy; I auctioned off hair and makeup services. My friend Jen from my program won my date, and I went for I think $40. In total we raised almost $1400 which is amazing.
I sang "Home" from Beauty and the Beast which was absolutely nervewracking. It was my NYU singing debut and I was soooo nervous!! A lot of people were there from the program, including a bunch of seniors and even a few grad students. I was the first soloist to perform after the Player's Club officers did a little opening number, and I got a standing ovation. I was grinning so big, it was such a rush! Everyone was hooting and hollering and I was standing there thinking "Okay this is really exciting! But what do I do now?" because I was supposed to stay onstage so that they could auction off my date. I'm wondering if I might have gone for more money if I had gone later in the evening, because toward the end of the night the bidding got kind of crazy. I think the bidding bug hit people later on, and when I was auctioning off my date people hadn't gotten warmed up yet. But $40 is a very respectable number and I'm happy I was able to help raise money for the club. I bid on my friend Jordan's date; she's going to take me, Mitch, Javi, and Ben on a picnic dinner in I think Central Park. Not sure when that's happening, but I'm excited for it.
Tomorrow night is Javi's 20th birthday, and a big group of us are going to dinner to celebrate. I'm finally going to find a use for that bow-tie I got in Italy. I was talking to Javi randomly about formal attire one day and he mentioned how he only had one bow-tie which was hot pink. I had been trying to think of what to get him for his birthday and then it hit me. Bam! I'll give him the bow-tie I've been hanging on to! The only thing I'm not super excited about is that we're going out on a school night, but hey, it's college. And my first class on Friday isn't until 10 am so I get to sleep in somewhat, compared to the rest of the week.
I sang "Home" from Beauty and the Beast which was absolutely nervewracking. It was my NYU singing debut and I was soooo nervous!! A lot of people were there from the program, including a bunch of seniors and even a few grad students. I was the first soloist to perform after the Player's Club officers did a little opening number, and I got a standing ovation. I was grinning so big, it was such a rush! Everyone was hooting and hollering and I was standing there thinking "Okay this is really exciting! But what do I do now?" because I was supposed to stay onstage so that they could auction off my date. I'm wondering if I might have gone for more money if I had gone later in the evening, because toward the end of the night the bidding got kind of crazy. I think the bidding bug hit people later on, and when I was auctioning off my date people hadn't gotten warmed up yet. But $40 is a very respectable number and I'm happy I was able to help raise money for the club. I bid on my friend Jordan's date; she's going to take me, Mitch, Javi, and Ben on a picnic dinner in I think Central Park. Not sure when that's happening, but I'm excited for it.
Tomorrow night is Javi's 20th birthday, and a big group of us are going to dinner to celebrate. I'm finally going to find a use for that bow-tie I got in Italy. I was talking to Javi randomly about formal attire one day and he mentioned how he only had one bow-tie which was hot pink. I had been trying to think of what to get him for his birthday and then it hit me. Bam! I'll give him the bow-tie I've been hanging on to! The only thing I'm not super excited about is that we're going out on a school night, but hey, it's college. And my first class on Friday isn't until 10 am so I get to sleep in somewhat, compared to the rest of the week.
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