"During your four years, remember these four P's. Find your passion, be persistent in achieving mastery, pursue knowledge in the way that works best for you, and embrace the planet's problems, because no one will be more prepared to fix them than you." -President Jim Yong Kim, September 22, 2009

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Today was our first Ivy League football game. Actually the game is happening right now, but me, Damaris, Anne, and Jing were not really feeling it. I planned on going but then it started pouring when we were walking to breakfast, so that kind of put a damper on the plan. It has been raining on and off for basically the whole week. LAME! Haha so today for the game they went around to every cluster and were banging this huge bass drum and basically rounding up everybody to go down to the stadium. However, I guess we were all like not up for it. So these upperclassmen guys come into our dorm shouting for us to join the parade and when no one came they were like "F*** YOU THIRTEENS! YOU SUCK!!" I just thought it was hilarious that nobody came out haha.

A lot of us are planning to go to the soccer game later tonight (cause again, WE'RE GOOD AT IT :D) and then Damaris and I are going to the DSO social thing. They sent us these invitations that said "Hello, babies. It's time you joined the family." Best part is that the background is all these pictures from our facebooks (they used the one I had from Photobooth of me, Erin, and Sara) and it's just amazing haha. I'm so excited for DSO! They seem so friendly and awesome, I love it. After that, we wanna have like a girl's night and watch movies (you can rent them from the library fo free!)

Last night a lot of us (15!!) went to Yama, this Japanese/Korean restaurant in town. I had chicken yakisoba...pretty delish. It was really nice to get off campus for a while and not eat dining hall food :). After that, Natalia, Jing, Anne, and I played some foosball then we migrated down to Damaris's room. Jing and Anne went out with Andrew and Lilly, so Damaris and I spent like 3 hours talking about classical music and showing each other awesome YouTube clips of our favorite pieces. I love love love that there is someone else who really isn't into the frat scene and totally into music instead. Makes life so much easier. We ended up staying up until like 3:30, almost 4. Anne came back and joined us for some good conversation and Clau came in a little later too. Floor love <3

Even though I'm finding people who aren't into the party scene, I still get very apprehensive each weekend just because I feel like the pressure is so great to go out. I know that I would never ever drink or anything and I don't feel any pressure to do that at all, but I feel like if I don't go out to the frats with people that I'm missing some integral part of the social scene. You know, like every one will be out making friends with each other and I'll be sitting in my room instead. That's why it's comforting to have Damaris who doesn't drink and isn't interested in wasting her nights walking around from frat to frat.

Dartmouth is amazing. I'm loving my classes; I'm loving the friends I'm making; I'm loving getting letters from bestfriends and family :) I'm just all around loving everything!