Winning Friends & Influencing People
Posted on Sunday, September 7th, 2003 at 21:00.
Orientation Week provided ample opportunities to meet people and forget names. Highlights:
- During a name game, someone thought my name was Jeremiahly instead of Jeremiah Lee. I have never been confused with an adverb before, but hey, Emerson College people are supposed to be creative.
- I am told that other New Media majors do exist. I still have not met any of them after a week.
- Acting and Theater majors will tell you their major within 30-seconds of meeting, just in case you missed their unconcealed extroverted nature and/or desperate attempt to be the center of attention.
- One of the ladies sitting beside me in the cafeteria asked me if I was going to eat or just stare at my food during the orientation dinner. I replied that I was praying before I ate. She turned bright red and would not stop apologizing, even though I repeatedly assured her that I was not offended. The others at the table laughed and the evening began with much hilarity.
- Nurse Dawn shot me. With a Hepatitis Stage 2. For only $75. Lovely.
- I lost count of how many students have approached me and asked if I was an Apple Switcher. Oh the joy in answering an emphatic, “YES!” Someone asked if I was one of the Dell interns. Oh the horror! Professor Jason Roush’s inquiry was most flattering, referring to me as an “Apple model.”
