I woke up at 8:30 and speed-walked to Dominici for morning lecture with Dr. Anderson. Following a couple whiteboards worth of multivar, Avantika and I went to Corbett for lunch. I hadn’t decided how to spend the rest of the day, so I wandered around with Charlie and Shreyas (my team) for a while before returning, inevitably, to Dominici to finish my math pset. Two problems and a Clash Royale arena later, we walked back to the dorms to change for dinner.
After a delicious meal I can’t remember, Charlie and I went to practice our instruments for the first time in two weeks in the sweltering second floor game room (AC never got fixed). Our TA Kathryn set up her keyboard and I brought out my back-up flute. It had to be around 110 degrees in there so I moved outside to practice in the 105 degree heat instead. I was a little worried that I’d forgotten how to make sound in the two weeks away from my flute, but to my relief I was loud enough to wake the whole dormitory.
I played some snippets of the first movement of the Reinecke Concerto so that my flute teacher (hi Bonnie) won’t fire me when I get back, then sight read some duets by myself (if you play flute hmu…Charlie refused to sight read with me). After around an hour, we meandered back to Dominici to bug our favorite Dostoevsky fanboy: Shreyas Avula.
As soon as we got back, we realized we had more work to do. We crunched through our observing log for TMO the next evening, then decided to head back for karaoke. As usual, we were one of the last teams to leave Dominici — which is more a measure of how well we distract each other than a testament to our indefatigable work ethic. I walked with Rachel and we spotted a few skunks on the way.
When Tutlalee said karaoke, I thought she meant passing a mic back and forth in a circle. I walk in, instead, on some sort of mosh pit with about half the Astro 1 program. Shreyas and I stay up with them until around 1:30, and then I drag myself upstairs to bed.
I’m Claire, a rising senior from the Seattle area. I enjoy STEM, reading, and nordicnews.net.
