All that's left is to move into my dorm.
Last week I got my schedule, student ID (memorized it after seeing it once, thank you,) e-mail, and dorm-life checklist.
I met 50% of my classmates (all relatively normal, thank the Lord,) my advisors, my personal coach, and a student from Astoria.
I was counceled about loans, both subsidized and un-subsidized -- something that I'd like to never sit through again. Sooo many words -- sooo many charts. Bleh.
I ate delicious cafeteria food (HALLELUJAH!) and found out that I will NOT be the oldest girl in the dorms.
I enjoyed every overwhelming, confusing minute as I watched the last 8 months of stress come to fruition.
Mostly every minute...
During our Music Department meeting I had the weirdest vertigo (which we later decided was from dehydration/drinking coffee on an empty stomach.) We weren't doing anything significant -- just sitting there, going around the room introducing ourselves. I said my name, hometown and major. Moved on to the next person, and then the next, then the next, etc... Suddenly the room was... Rolling. It wasn't a "spin in a circle for 30 seconds and then try to walk" kind of thing. The room was moving as the course of a wave. I closed my eyes and tried to shake it off, opened my eyes again and everything was white. I thought I passed out, but I could still hear everything. I was sitting next to someone I met at my audition and again later at my campus tour -- someone I've now gotten to know over the past few months since. I just whispered to her that I was dizzy and couldn't see. I knew I needed to put my head down, but didn't want to cause a scene... So she carefully slid my purse in front of me and told me to pretend like I was looking for something. Ha -- clever girl.
2 minutes or so later I could see again, but the rolling didn't stop until about 3 minutes after that. So strange. Yuck.
Apart from that eerie experience, everything was awesome. I had a great time meeting my new people -- the ones I'll spend the next 4 years with, and had fun spending some much needed quality time with my original people -- who will be in Seattle with me :)
OH! I also learned that I will be graduating during Cornish's 100th anniversary. Don't ask me why, but things like that excite me. Great timing, on my part, applying when I did (Ha!)
