Wine And Cheese Party

On Friday, my good friend invited me to her friend's wine and cheese party. Having nothing better to do that night, I decided to accept the invitation. Once I realized the location was on the Upper East Side, I knew I was going to be in for an interesting experience.

For those back home who don't know what the Upper East Side is, I've conveniently put up the UrbanDictionary definition for you.

Upper East Side:
Streets between 59th and 96th. A lot of rich people live in the area especially on fifth avenue. Apartments in the area usually cost at least 2 million. Many JAPS (Jewish American Princesses) live in the area and go to the one sex private schools around ex. marymount, constance, etc. A book series has been written on the lives of teens who live there, Gossip Girls. A movie is soon to come out.
read the gossip girls series

UrbanDictionary also has a harsher definition you can check out, but I'd rather not put something so vulgar directly in my post.

I got to the house and it was the hugest place I had ever seen. I never imagined that there could be a house like that in Manhattan, but there I was, inside and admiring the elegance of it all (more like wondering exactly how much this family made). The whole place looked like it had been taken right out of a holiday furniture catalogue.

Is this place for realz?

Alright, alright -- it didn't look exactly like the picture above. The living room didn't have a Christmas tree.

But honestly, with the Christmas music playing in the background; the wine, cheese, and crackers delicately arranged on the coffee table; and the firewood crackling inside the hearth, we might as well have been inside a Christmas card, or a snow globe. It was a very surreal experience, and I felt out of place in that environment. As for first impressions, most of the people there had an "I come from old money" air about them. I half-expected a butler to pop out and offer, "More wine Mr. Emoinacloset?"

Tasting cheese samples was fun guys! Now~~ can we get really drunk?

I think I'll lay off on the wine and cheese parties for awhile, at least until I'm 50 and have nothing else better to do than to sit around chatting about politics and the horrid state of the nation. I'll stick to getting blitzed off my cheap vodka and beer for as long as my liver can handle it.

-Emoinacloset

Black Friday Alone

After my thanksgiving meal of dumplings and lettuce with oyster sauce and video chatting with emoinacloset for 4 hours, I decided to go to Staples at 4am. There was a 90 dollar, 1080p monitor that I wanted. Fearing that there would be a line I arrived 2 hours early.


Surprisingly, or not there was no line at all! There were maybe 15 people when I got there and total of 30 people when the store opened at 6am.


Empty ass parking lot


Got my ticket for the monitor. They had a lot and I do no think many people were in line for one. Everybody kept asking for the $399 laptop.


Dragged this monitor all the way back to my apartment on foot. The monitor is kind of blurry right now, but I hope that will change once I get my hdmi to dvi cable. Even so, the color contrast is much better on the monitor than on my laptop.

Funny story about when I got back. I managed to lock myself out of my apartment because as I got to the front door, I realized that I did not remember my pin code. I had to wake the RA on duty and have open my apartment door. Best part is that after I called the RA, I remembered that I was carrying my laptop on me, which had a file with the pin code in it, but of course I did not tell the RA that.

Sorry RA , for waking you up at 7am.

-muffinman

The Most Legit Thanksgiving I've Had, Period

Just like last year, I decided to spend Thanksgiving in New York. It's just not economical or worth it for me to waste 10 hours on a plane ride to California and back, so instead of going back home and seeing my family, I went to my friend's dinner party. To be honest, I wasn't expecting that much because let's face it, it was a bunch of college kids coming together to eat some food and just hang out... How extravagant could it really be?

Whoaaa mama... that's a lot of food. Head chef Phoebe displays her chef-d'œuvre

This literally was the most legit thanksgiving I've ever had, even comparing it with the Thanksgivings I've had with family back home. To just list the variety of menu items we had that night:

17-lbs of turkey
Honey glazed ham
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Stuffing
Green beans w/ mushrooms
Biscuits
Potato salad
Mac 'n cheese
Roasted yams
Apple pie

And yes, all this food was for only seven people. It was incredible how Phoebe was able to make so much food, and really good food at that. It was also incredible how we were able to devour about half of that.

As for the venue, the building of the apartment Phoebe lives in is fairly new, so there are a lot of empty apartments that haven't been leased yet. It turns out that the empty rooms are just open for people to walk in and out like it's nobody's business so we "borrowed" one of the bigger ones. Although we didn't have tables or chairs and just ate on the floor, we selected a very nice room. We have good taste.

Nice view, eh?

We were originally going to eat on the rooftop, but it got too chilly at night so we were forced to eat inside. We visited the rooftop afterwards anyways to check out the great view of the city, even though we had the same view from inside our "borrowed" apartment.

I could live here as the resident hobo~ =D

Manhattan

Brooklyn Bridge

Dinner party members

I'm thankful to Phoebe for making Thanksgiving absolutely delicious. I'm thankful for the friends and family I have that make life worth living. I'm thankful that I attend such a special school as NYU in the city. I'm thankful for all the amazing experiences I've had while I've been here. Most importantly, I'm thankful for everyone who came tonight and made Thanksgiving that much more special and memorable.

-Emoinacloset

First Thanksgiving at SD

This is my first thanksgiving at SD and I must say it is ridiculously boring. I elected to stay behind this year, because of my atrocious performance on my second round of finals and to work on my statement of purpose for my study abroad application.

I keep getting texts reading "Happy Thanksgiving" which reminds me that at least someone is having fun today. For me on the other hand, it is nothing but video games, econ notes and explaining why I want to go to China. I have stayed in my apartment all day so far, munching on oreos and ramen, just waiting for it to be midnight so that I can get a lcd monitor.

I meant to go outside today onto library walk to see if anyone is still around and shoot a vlog, but I think I am going to save that for tomorrow. There is hope for this break though, as Josh is staying here with me. The only reason I am not hanging out with him right now, is because he is spending thanksgiving with his sister.

Dinner is another problem to me, as I am at a loss of what to eat. Emoinacloset has the luxury of going out to eat, as I am sure there are plenty of places open in New York city, plus everything is connected by subway. My meal choices are limited to what is in my fridge and right now I have eggs, bacon, tortillas and lettuce. Do I sense a breakfast burrito?

How is everyone's thanksgiving going?

-muffinman

Fuck Econ in general

Glad to hear that emoinacloset is having such a good time at school right now.

I on the other hand, just received my second below average grade on an econ 100A midterm. I studied my ass off for this second midterm after having not taken the first one very seriously and all I get for my efforts is an even lower score. Now the best grade I can get in the class is a B- or C+ which is only possible if I ace my final. The worst part is that my friends Diane and Michelle got 48 and 50 respectively (the midterm is out of 50), I hate being beaten, especially by this much!

What I need to do at this point is pull myself out of this hole that I have dug. I must get over the fact that I am not going to do well in this class and start doing the best that I can. But damn is it hard, I really just want to give up like my roommate. He has no qualms about failing a class. Though it is probably a blessing that I do not give in so easily.

Update: I fucked up on my econ 120 A this time too, fucking 18.5 out of 30
-muffinman

Presentations And Fancy Dinners

I finally did my IAG presentation on Friday. For those who don't remember what IAG does, we do equity research on a company and try to pitch it to the club to get it added to the portfolio. My teammates and I presented on a Brazilian pulp manufacturer called Fibria, and the presentation itself was very good -- we got compliments from everyone (including the veterans) on how well we did -- but unfortunately, when it came time for the numbers and the valuation to come up, that's when our presentation went to hell.

I think Tik put it best when he said, "For the first half of the presentation, I was thinking, 'wow, this is a really great company'. But then as I kept hearing more, I started to wonder, 'damn this company is just too perfect.' In the last quarter of the presentation I realized there was a catch when you talked about the company's massive debt load and shitty valuation."

To be fair, the company was just involved in a huge merger two months ago and acquired $2 billion in debt in the the process. That really screwed up our numbers for us, so while our presentation and the company's fundamentals were excellent, we got fucked in the valuation. Right before the presentation, my groupmates and I were freaking out about how badly the numbers made our company looked and we were all sure that the company would lose the vote. Well, we did lose the vote, but it was a lot closer than we thought it would be, 21-25.

It was a good experience though, and it was definately interesting to research a company that had recently been in a merger with a massive $5 billion worth of total debt. I've posted the link to the presentation below for anyone who wants to check it out; even though it wasn't put into the portfolio, they also show the return on the stock so it'll be interesting to see how much it'll go up or down. I also heard from someone that this was the first time a presentation was ever video recorded(?) but it hasn't been uploaded yet so I don't know if that's true. If it ever comes up I'll post it for you guys.

http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~iag/presentations.php



Anyways, after the presentation, I went out to a fancy dinner with my fancily dressed friends to celebrate Mark and Ana's fancy birthday! It was fun seeing everyone dressed up in suits and nice dresses. We were even able to get a bottle of champagne for the table and make a toast for Mark and Ana, thanks to our generous host.

A fancy toast!

The fancy restaurant

The food was delicious, the waitress was excellent and the restaurant owner was incredibly nice and friendly. The dinner and all made this an excellent night for the fancy person's club (well, we can at least pretend we're legit). We finally documented this night in front of the NYU arch, despite the fact the girls were freezing. But I think the picture came out well -- it was definately worth it.

A fancy picture for fancy people

-Emoinacloset

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Oh yeah, although this isn't really that important I made a hand turkey during BAP community service this morning. The community service was part of a mentoring program where we do bible study and play with kids from not-so-good neighborhoods. Anyways, I liked my hand turkey so much that I just had to take a picture of my rock star turkey and post it. Doing hand turkeys brought me back to the old days when I was still in first grade and the only thing I had to worry about was being able to color in between the lines. Enjoy my work of art, and happy early Thanksgiving!

Indoor Soccer

Last week I accompanied GG, Milan and Ashley to one of their indoor soccer games. They play in the single A intramural league and are at the top of their group. They have not lost a game. To be honest, their team (Ballbusters) really should not be playing in the single A league, which is the beginner league.

The score of this game was 7-2 for Ballbusters.
A girl's goal counts as 2 points.



-muffinman

This Is Pathetic

It’s now 4 AM, I still haven’t finished studying for my marketing midterm today and I haven’t started writing my Chinese composition. But after watching endless music videos, surfing the net reading uninteresting articles, and repeatedly going on Facebook looking at the same damn pictures over and over again, I’ve decided to be somewhat productive by blogging. I know it’s been awhile since my last post but there hasn’t been much to blog about! Once Fed Challenge ended I had about two weeks where all I had to worry about was school. I was able to go home right after classes and bum around the rest of the day watching Mad Men, catching up on sleep, eating cheap Chinese takeout, and playing PSP all snuggled up in my bed.

But now things are starting to get busy again.

1) I’m going do a presentation on a company called Fibria (Brazilian pulp/paper manufacturer) for my club, Investment Analysis Group (IAG) this Friday. I’ll basically be doing equity research and then pitch the stock to the club to be added into the club portfolio. It’s not as time consuming or hard to understand as the U.S. economy, but it’s a lot of reading. We still have to make the PowerPoint, do a valuation (mostly done by the seniors presenting with me), and practice presenting.

2) Companies will start recruiting for summer analyst positions this week, so going to these presentations is going to take up a significant amount of time. I'm a little worried about the whole summer internship situation because I’ll be abroad in the spring, making it more inconvenient to find myself something. I also need to buy some new dress shirts because I feel sorry for the only one I have – I’ve been wearing it every time I’ve suit-ed up and I think it’s tired of the abuse.

3) I’ve been making preparations to go to London by applying for my student visa. It actually doesn’t take much time, but I procrastinated on applying for my visa (pff typical) and it turns out I have to do a fingerprint scan. The earliest appointment I could get was sometime next week, after which I need to old-school mail in my actual visa application to the U.K. Embassy. Unfortunately, the whole process is supposed to take 4 weeks in itself so I’m wondering if I’ll be able to get my visa before I leave for London.

4) I also had to replace my phone because the charger didn’t connect with it. For about three days I felt completely isolated from the rest of the world (kinda sad how reliant on technology we've become). However, I was able to “fix” my problem temporarily by using Nick’s old phone to charge the battery, and then switch the battery with the battery in my phone whenever I needed to (His screen is broken. And it’s missing a few buttons, not to mention there’s a huge crack down his phone. Effectively useless). My mom eventually sent me her old phone, which is decent (at least it has color!). I was a little disappointed though – I wanted a Blackberry so I could look more like a business bitch, but since I’ll be going international eight out of the next twelve months, getting a expensive new phone didn’t seem practical.

Now that I’ve caught up I can blog in more detail about individual events. What sucks about getting behind on life is that you just end up procrastinating even more because you don’t want to write so much. I’m going to have to get back to studying now. Geez, most of marketing is common sense but they come up with funky names that only a marketer could think of (cash cows anyone?). Just means more work for me and extended boring-ness in my life. Sigh.

-Emoinacloset

Yes, I am still alive

Seeing as how nobody has posted anything on the blog, I am just going to do a quick update entry. What happened to emoinacloset? He is always the one blogging and the one who inspires me to write a post. I guess the roles are just going to be reversed this time.

My life this week in no particular order:

1) I did pretty badly on my first econ 100A midterm, so I was pretty determined to do well on the second one. My studying started a whole three days before the midterm. I pretty much followed the studying plan I had set up for myself, I was just a little behind. Come Friday, I was very prepared and just destroyed the midterm. I knew how to do everything except for one problem. Not going to lie, I consistently amaze myself with what I am able to achieve once I apply myself. It makes me wonder why I did not take just a little more time studying for the last midterm.

2) Wednesday, which was a holiday for us public school kids, I spent three hours doing jiu jitsu. That day was great, as I was rolling (sparring) with people around my level. I got submitted a couple of times but I always came back the next round and tapped them back. My love for this art just keeps growing the more I do it. Jiu jitsu gives me focus in life and reminds me at times of academic distress that I do not suck at everything. I see myself doing this for life.

3) My anthropology midterm came back this Thursday and what a pleasant surprise. I thought I bombed it but turns out I just got a B, which with the amount of studying I put in, is actually really good. I credit the blog for helping me out with this midterm because it has improved my writing. Back to anthro, I am 99.99 percent sure that I am going to get an A in this class. After the midterms were handed back, the professor announced that anyone who got a bad grade, which he defined as a C or lower, could go to his office hours to retake the midterm and on the final, which is take home, if you write more than the recommended 7-8 pages, the extra pages will be used to boost your midterm grade. So yeah, I love my anthro class and my A count for this quarter just went up.

4) The deadline for study abroad is coming up, and I have not really done much besides choosing a program. I am a bit nervous about this as I really really want to meet up with emoinacloset in Shanghai and the program I chose does not have a 100% acceptance rate. There are 14 spots and last year 18 people applied, meaning the odds are pretty good. I am still trying to get to know my professors in order to get a decent letter of rec. Actually it is not really a letter of rec, but more of a questionnaire that takes 15 minutes tops. I still need to write my statement of purpose, which I am trying to get perfect. Bottom line, after this other econ midterm on Monday, I am going to devote my life to the study abroad application.

5) I start my job on Wednesday and I am very curious as to what the fuck I am going to be doing.

6) Windows 7 is amazing, and I mean VERY AMAZING. I wiped my whole hard drive and even put in a second solid state hard drive, on which I put Windows 7. The boot up time and the speed of this OS is just crazy. Best part is that Windows 7 was free! At first, I tried to get it for free from the upgrade program that Asus was having, but when I tried to email Asus my proof of purchase, my email was rejected because their inbox was full. Then Kevin told me that UCSD was running an event where they were giving away Windows 7 professional keys. Needless to say Kevin and I jumped on that shit and totally abused the giveaway. We came out with 5 keys between us. If you can get Windows 7, do it immediately.

-muffinman

Appointment with the professor

Today, I had an appointment with my econ 100A professor. This appointment was a necessity, especially since I had tried to go to his office hours twice. The first time I went, I was in full suit and everything because I had an interview right after his office hours, so I thought I would make a good impression, but, when I stepped into his office, my professor told me that he had a meeting to go to. The second time, I was about to go to his office and then I checked my email on my Iphone right before and discovered that he had changed his office hours 3 hours before they were to occur. I do not understand why he bothers to list office hours on his syllabus as he never follows them.

Anyway, when I arrive at his office he asks me "What do you need"? Flabbergasted I reply that I have an appointment and that he had entered this appointment into his Iphone in front of me. He replies that his Iphone should have beeped off or something but told me that he believed me, and with this the meeting begins.

Before coming to the appointment, I had reviewed my notes to try to ask some intelligent questions. My first question, was what was a giffen good? To which he replied did you look into the book? At this point, you have to understand that the book is terrible, so it was natural that I said "No." So the first question that I asked just made me look like a complete idiot. Undeterred, I continued to ask surface level questions and continued to sound like an idiot for the next 30 minutes.

However, at the end of the 30 minutes I understood the concepts very well, but at the cost of my self esteem. At one point of the meeting, the professor even accused me of not going to class, which is of course partly true, but of course I fervently denied his accusation and explained that I attend class, but, mindlessly copy the board because I get lost in lecture and that the same thing occurs in my other economics class. Not sure if he believed me, but I got him to admit that the textbook sucked, so he might understand why I do not use it.

In the end, it was a cool first interaction with my economics professor. he may have been skeptical with whether or not I attended class, but nonetheless he helped me out tremendously and for that I am thankful. Maybe now I will do well on the next midterm.

-muffinman

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There Goes the $$$

We got dropped from Fed Challenge. Whereas last year we got second place nationwide and lost only to Harvard, this year we lost in the preliminaries this Thursday to the fucking College of New Jersey. Now, I want to ask – who the fuck is the College of New Jersey? I’ve never even heard of these guys and they apparently beat us to go to the semi-finals. I suppose we had some pretty radical ideas: we were trying to be socialist, gain more power, and try to start our own TALF-esque program for small businesses because we thought what the government was doing wasn’t cutting it. It was either go big or go home, and unfortunately, we ended up going home flat on our faces.

Although it was disappointing we didn’t even get past the prelims, this isn’t all bad news. No more late nights in the Stern basement, no more poring over economic reports and speeches by Bernanke, and no more having to cut time out of my studying to do Fed Challenge (note: I didn't cut time out of partying -- BAM!). Now I can actually focus on school since I probably spent an average of 20 hours/week working on that stuff, and that doesn’t include the extra individual reading we did to keep up with current data.

I think I might have overextended myself this time around because I got my ass kicked by the previous rounds of midterms. I didn’t do so badly that I wanted to sniff coke and forget all my problems, but also not as well as I had hoped. I was especially frustrated because there were a lot of easy problems that I should have gotten right. I mean, who fucks up on comparative advantage in macroeconomics? Apparently, I did, and I paid for it badly.

Perhaps I’m not as smart as I thought I was – or maybe in high school I didn’t care as much. Can I keep up with my studies when I was doing so much extra work? But then the question I need to ask myself is, why can’t I do this shit? There are plenty of people out there who are able to not only keep up with their studies but also have a job, hold positions in leadership, and do their own crazy stuff on the side.

Time to study for round two of midterms. I just got my last midterm back this week but I already have a midterm on Monday. These exams just never seem to stop coming.

-Emoinacloset

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UPDATE: Apparently, our advisor agrees with the general sentiment among our members -- "Who the fuck is the College of New Jersey?" Unfortunately, Tik won't let me post the e-mail, which was probably a good idea on his part. I'll just have to make do by telling you guys about it.

Update

Hey all!

I was sitting at home, bored with nothing to do, so I thought I'd update ya'll on what's been going on with me.

The video blog idea didn't pan out. I downloaded some new software, but as it turns out, it is super awkward to yell into my webcam while I'm alone in my room.

Anyway, after all of my friends left for college, I was stuck at home alone with nothing else to do except go to school. It was then that I decided I simply had to get a job.

I started going to grocery stores, video stores, restaurants, fast food chains, pharmacies, and etc, asking for applications. The good news is that I got applications from every establishment I went to! The bad news is that no one is fucking hiring!

I did my best and sent out resumes and job applications to every corporation and mom&pop store I could think of, but while I waited for job offers, I decided to hunt for internships as well.

Luckily enough, all internships are geared towards either high school students or college uppperclassmen. A freshman undergraduate student, I was stuck right in between. I was starting to feeling really good about this "job thing."

Feeling defeated, I reluctantly went on Volunteermatch.org

I was searching for a part-time volunteer position, hoping that not only would it be part-time, but also temporary for a company would offer me a job! Or so I hoped.

I replied to several postings, getting responses back from almost all of them within a matter of minutes. Were these guys desperate for volunteers or what? I replied back, setting up possible interview/orientation times, and I was all set.


What I didn't realize was that The Rebuilding Alliance, one of the organizations I contacted for the "Data-Entry Assistant Volunteer" position, is helmed by an MIT alumna, who graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering. After the orientation, I told her that I would be interested in working on other projects after I finished what I originally signed up to do.

After I was done entering data, I got assigned to the legal research team as an intern! (what the random?! A science guy like me, a legal research intern?)

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Some background info on The Rebuilding Alliance...
The Rebuilding Alliance (TRA) helps rebuild war torn communities in Israel. More specifically, TRA works to rebuild Palestinian homes that were demolished by the IDF and also takes on human rights cases, one of which I have been assigned to work on under an attorney.
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My job is to pretty much work with an attorney, the head of our research team, and figure out pertinent information we can use to possibly win the case. In recent news, President Carter, himself, has expressed interest in becoming personally involved with the case!! Ka-ching!


This is just one aspect of my life at the moment. I'll try to update you guys on more things later on.


Cheers,
Robocop

p.s. Hope all is well on your end.

Fuck..

you guys. Stop blogging for and about me.

Anyway, muffinman has got some of it right.

I'll try to update you guys whenever I can.


-Robocop

Update on Robocop

I called Robocop last Wednesday or Thursday, so I have some knowledge of his activities.

1) He is still friendless. He tells me that he knows some of his classmates, but the thought of hanging out with them outside of school never crosses his mind. Robocop spends most of his days working. This makes me wonder if he has met up with Jessica at SCU yet. I would bet against it considering the fact that SCU is 20 minutes away and not next door.

2) Robocop has picked up an internship at some charity organization that rebuilds homes destroyed by the IDF. The head of the organization is an MIT alumni and that is pretty much the only reason he got the internship. Damn private school connections. The jury is still out over whether the organization Robocop interns for is secretly funding terrorism like a host of other Arab charities.

3) Through his internship, he has also picked up a side internship with a lawyer connected to the charity organization. When I talked to Robocop, he said he was preparing questions for a summit in Washington D.C. which sounded pretty interesting to me.

4) Robocop is still taking classes at SJSU and picked up a class at De Anza too.

And that is all I remember from my phone conversation.
Robocop please fill in the LARGE gaps to your whereabouts.

-muffinman

Dear Robocop,

What the fuck!

Before the school year started, we made a pact to update the blog as often as we could – at least two times a week. Even when things got rough in our lives and time got scrunched, a post on the weekend would have been enough. Wait, hold on – you know what? It would have even been nice to see a post every once in a while that told us how you were doing. Even something like this would have been acceptable, because then at least I would have known you were still breathing and not strapped to a hospital bed in a vegetative state. THAT would have actually been a good excuse for breaking your promise.

The last legit post you’ve written was in September. Do you know what month it is now? November. That’s right bitch, Daylight Savings Time is OVER now, whatup?! Next thing you know we’ll be carving turkeys for Thanksgiving and shopping on Black Friday. Then it’ll be December for which I’ll be able to come home and kick your ass.


So Robocop, can you robo yourself to your computer and let us know how you’re doing? You barely use Facebook or texting and you never use AIM or your phone (for someone named after Robocop, you should be on top of the whole tech thing). Everyone wants to know how you’re doing – whether or not you’ve found yourself, how you’re spending the rest of your gap year, or any event, just SOMETHING to give us a heads up.

I hope you take this to heart and start posting, period.

-Emoinacloset

Halloween in NYC

Nerding it out

While Dontscuffmyshoes studied for midterms, Muffinman baked pumpkin bread, and Robocop did who knows what the fuck he does because he doesn’t blog, I was partying THIS SHIT OUT IN NYC!!!! (Did people forget it was fucking Halloween? Oh well, your loss)

All of NYC comes out at night to party it up on the streets. Some of the costumes are crazy, some original, and some downright ridiculous. As usual, many girls took advantage of this night to slut up their outfit and not be called a ho. My friends and I got ready to join the festivities outside and dressed up in our respective costumes

Quailman Away~! (Nick)

Kanye West (Tik)

Killer Nurse (Joe)

We went outside to join everybody in the drizzle and the Empire State Building was lit a nice orange-black to commemorate the occasion.



Every year, NYC has a parade that goes up 6th Ave filled with marching bands, DJs playing bass-thumping music, floats with people dancing to the music, and thousands of people marching, proudly displaying their costume.


Does this beat out UCSB?

We wanted to hop the cop fence and join the parade but we were standing at the end of the line and the parade was almost over so we decided to just watch what was left of it.


Guys on stilts

After we got tired of the parade we headed back to our dorm and partied it up with everyone else.

I think I party-hopped three times that whole night and got massively drunk. I ended up taking a walk in especially crazy NYC for several blocks by myself and somehow got home safe and sound.

Also, note to self: don't do straight shots of Bacardi 151

-Emoinacloset

Additional pics on Flickr