Welcome Weekend. . .I guess

We have all heard about the awful ice breakers that they put you through the first few weeks of school in college for "orientation" purposes, but have we all gone through them first hand with a shitload of queeny Parsons students. I met a vast amount of students today, it was almost like a whirlwind of new faces and names that I will inevitably forget in 2 or 3 days. Anyway, I really think that the New School scene has a lot of potential. A lot of the kids so far seemed as though they weren't crazy mature, but it was still cool. 

What I found to be the oddest experience of all was seeing people from facebook that I had not seen in person. A lot of these people appeared to be the same person as their Facebook photos, but others, were seriously not the same person. See pictures can lie in this sense. I felt like most of the older students that were facilitating the orientation were not that cool or interesting. This is mostly because they are the gung ho, involved campus life ones that everyone laughs at, but still I was disappointed in that sense. I did meet some great students at the orientation for commuters that were more down to earth than the residential students in some cases. A specific girl really understood where I was coming from when I stressed that I HAD to get out of the suburbs and slow life of Virginia. She knew what I was thinking when I told her that I moved from Virginia. Other kids seemed VERY interesting and I can't wait to pick their brains in a sense when classes start. Some seemed very quiet, but like they had a lot of interesting ideas about life. I really admire Lang for finding these totally unique students that Parsons really can't. I hope that no Parsonians are offended, but it seems like a smaller range of student that is coming out of Parsons, whereas Lang has the intellectually minded, extremely liberal, independent, free thinkers that I love!

Tomorrow we'll see if I break the ice with more. . .