For years we’ve been in this routine of going to highschool; waking up super early, having 8 classes a day, and returning home to work: one of the chapters of our lives. I’ve always thought my next chapter in life would be college, and it’s still a year away, but for some reason it feels like that “new” chapter has already started. My friends and I rushing to eat breakfast and speed walking to Domenici without spilling coffee has become my new regular. It’s weird to explain but it feels as though I’ve been here with these people forever. We have gotten so comfortable with each other in just the span of 2 weeks I can’t imagine this not being my regular life.
Today, July 10th, I woke up on time (yay!) and walked to breakfast. Even though I don’t go at a routine time, I knew I could sit with anyone I’d find already there. I got a plate and found a table full of people that I squeezed into. While she was leaving, Ada warned me about the food being bad, but I ate it anyway hoping she was wrong. I took a bite of the normally tasty french toast sticks and immediately threw them away, she was sadly right 👎. Of course, I had to go get coffee because how else would I actually pay attention in lecture, except they were out for the billionth time :(((. Oh well, it was getting late so we rushed to Domenici like always and made it just as class was starting.
We spent the first half of the day with Dr. Andersen learning everything we needed for our ephemeris generation. I was honestly very lost for half of this lecture, but during one of our breaks I got to ask Dr. Andersen and my friends some questions and finally started understanding how everything worked. The rest of the class went smoothly; we finished a little early and were just about to leave for lunch until I noticed 3 women standing by the door talking amongst themselves.
Dr. Andersen and Dr. Le were entranced by their discussion of something on the board, so the women started talking to us instead. They were here to steal our classroom. Some programs have been staying here at NMSU with us for a couple of days and they apparently reserved our classroom for the day. I called Ms. Martinez so they could sort it out, and Dr. Rengstorf appeared out of thin air to save the day (he did not).
Lunch was the same as always, not that bad but not too good either. I don’t remember it much.
Ori and I normally do our laundry on Thursdays, but since we were gonna be out all day for the famous white sand dunes field trip, we set up a plan to do it before dinner.
We walked to our second lecture as a group, mostly speed walking just to make sure we got there on time. Once we made it to 106, I sat down and spun in my chair, only to be told that our laundry machines were stolen, or rather ripped out of our walls, or just removed from our buildings to be replaced, same thing. Every single machine was gone, from Pinon to our newly acquired machines from Garcia, everything. Maddie and Andrew had stepped up their laundry game and done their laundry the night before, except they hadn’t gotten it out yet. Now they are clothless. They were left with nothing but the dust of the dirty floors of the laundry room where their clothes used to be.
Now with all of our hearts broken, we spent the next 3 hours doing statistics. Just statistics. I never knew I could hate something as much as I hate statistics. Even its name is starting to hurt my ears, statistics, ew. Dr. R spent the whole lecture racing from white board to white board to white board doing loads of work just to make it to one equation at the end, which was honestly satisfying to see come together after all that stats.
After dinner, we all, like the nerds we are, rushed to Domenici to work. Once we made it inside, everyone got straight to work on their ephem gen codes for Friday. Even though we were all on different steps, I could go up to any person in that room and they’d help me. I went from asking Heather to check results with me once I finished, to doing the same thing with Avantika when she finished afterwards. We all finished veryyyy early and just played with Dr. Andersen’s purple vector ball for a while before we had to go to sleep at 11 to wake up for our field trip tomorrow.
I was worried about what I’d write about for my blog because, let’s be honest, nothing much happened today. I asked other people for ideas on what to write and no one even remembers this day at all. But being forced to wring out all the details of this day I realized there were moments between them that I loved; even the most mundane seeming days are memory-worthy
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I’m Emily and I am a rising senior from Miami, FL at Archimedean Upper Conservatory. I really like learning math and can’t wait to continue learning about space here at SSP. In my free time I love doing MMA and hanging out with my friends.
