You know you've got a crazy summer ahead of you if it's only the second day and you have to jump out of bed and get out the door in literally 10 minutes to avoid being late. So it was with today. I was supposed to wake up at 6:50 AM, but I fell asleep again until 7:44. I raced into the shower and out the door at 7:56 to catch the 8:00 N-Judah. I made the train, fortunately, and met 5 teammates at Parnassus just in time for the 8:20 shuttle.

Well that's my life story for today. Hahah. J/k. You can read what's up with me on my iGEM blog (iGEM is my life this summer). Here's a link: http://www.tackiejam.tumblr.com/

I'll still write on this blog. My weekends will be on here. :)

June 12, 2009 DAY 1:
Got to Downtown Berkeley BART at around 7:45 AM. Walked to Unit 3 carrying a duffel with everything (even my backpack) in it. Checked in for Housing and CalSO.

Got some breakfast in Cafe 3. Can never go wrong with cheerios and orange juice. :)

Welcome address at 9 AM at Pimentel. Met Nick Johnson (the best CalSO counselor everrrr)!

College of Chemistry Overview. Went over our required courses, AP credit, enrollment, academic opportunities, etc.

12:00 PM - Lunch on Memorial Glade. I still have the bag of chips. Hahah. Ate with Minji's group (I think).

Back to College of Chem Overview room. Met one-on-one with student advisors and talked to Nick. We had no clue how to do one of the Math 1A problems. Hahah. Thanks Brendan, CalSO counselor who has my shoes but in black/purple, for telling us you knew what an epsilor delta proof is. Hahah. Good stuff!

Options: Went to "Getting Involved at Cal" and "Academic Services." Both presentations were great in their separate ways (spirited and relative to academic success, respectively).

Health & Safety Presentation: Good advice, tips for staying out of trouble, preview of campus police services. Definitely using BearWalk on late nights. Good to know they're there for me.

Dinner at Cafe 3! Ate with Nick J.'s and Minji's group. Met Christina and Rachel, talked to Nick J. and this other woman who is an MCB advisor.

First Year Experiences: Loved Chris Lin. He (and his presentation) were too cute.

Stand If was a great lead-in to Bear Territory.

Late Night Activities - Walked around checking out the different ones. Decided to venture to Yogurt Land. That place is crazy awesome! <3 Then, we checked out movie night (it was lame) and settled for game night. We played Taboo until it was time to go back to Priestley. Didn't want to go back upstairs just yet, so hung out in the lounge for a couple minutes. We decided to play Mafia with 24 people. Bwahaha. I was one of the six mafia. :D

June 13, 2009 DAY 2:
Woke up by my roommate's alarm at 6:00 AM. Couldn't go back to sleep, so I showered (again). Breakfast at Cafe 3. Chatted with Matt (he's from SF, too) and his friends and the rest of the table. I met another College of Chem guy. Ahh, I don't remember his name, but he was cool. We both have trouble making iPhones "flip." Hahaha.

Met up with Nick J. and group at 8:30 AM. First, we toured the student bookstore place and then went to get our Cal1 Cards. I forgot my photo ID, so I ran back to Unit 3! Got my ID, and we still had plenty of time left. We played several rounds of Ninja(!!) with Minji's group.

Finally got to use Tele-BEARS! Registered for chem/math.

Rolled down 4.0 Hill! Rolling down Faculty Glade makes you sooooo dizzy! Melanie and Jessica, thanks for rolling down with me! <3

Toured VLSB, saw the T-Rex mold. Nick says and institution sent it to us to exanime, and when we sent it back, they sent us a mold of the final product.

Dwinelle, apparently, was built by two brothers. One of the bothers had a girlfriend or wife who cheated on him with the other brother. The two brothers stopped talking to each other but kept constructing separate halves of Dwinelle. The result was a building with two halves that don't really flow. That's why it's called the freshman maze.

We learned a buncha cheers. Including the dance to the Time Warp from Rocky Horror Picture Show. Cal Band was amazing playing the Time Warp!

Missed it all terribly the moment I got home. :( I can't wait until August for move-in day!

I almost cried when I stepped onto school grounds near South Gym. As I ran up the stairs to Mr. Merillion's room to renew my DMV pink slip, I thought to myself, "I'm going to miss running up and down the stairs and through the halls of this place." Though graduation was yesterday, I came back to run an errand and see a teacher one last time.

Walking through the basement floor, I felt the emptiness; It was a combination of there being only a few kids at school (It's the last day) and because I am no longer a student but an alumna. It's crazy how time flies. Four years, four very short years, and I am done with high school. Walking through first floor past the main office and the college display case made me feel proud. I'm proud to have been a Mustang.

I climbed up the stairs to third floor. I wrote two pictures to my chemistry teacher. She still remembers the time she yelled at me at the end of the semester in sophomore year. How much I've grown up because of her is beyond words. Without her, my high school career would not have been what it is, and I definitely would not be majoring in what chemical biology will miss her terribly.

Friends, teachers, classes, activities, the Mustang spirit. They are all memories of high school. I will miss them all. We can't go back and make more memories. This is it. It's time move on.

ALHS Class of 2009 forever.