Reminiscing
Dec. 12th, 2003 02:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarigwaemirAd Mundo Exteriore,
I should be doing laundry, I should be doing laundry, I should be doing laundry...
Today is the beginning of HMUN! High school hordes are storming the Yard, Coop bags and cameras in hand, dressed in their nicest preppy formal business attire with the requisite scarf and peacoats. Ah...the pretentious days of MUN debates are about to begin! I've always found MUN slightly ridiculous, but I have such a soft spot for it nevertheless. Watching all these neurotic teenagers, tense and nervous and aggressive and insecure, with their Harvard deferrals or acceptances in hand from yesterday, planning on how to take over their committee with sheer bullheadedness or actual eloquence...it just brings happy tears to my eyes and nostalgia to my heart. Aww, I miss HUNS and NHSMUN, with the huge placards that never fit into your folder, the constant drone of the gavel, the shouts of "Decorum, please, delegates", the immaculate suits, the fragile egos, the hair-pulling process of resolution writing, the resume comparisons during free time, the long six-hour stretches of committee sessions, the inevitable walking in the rain with uncomfortable shoes, the impossibility of finding anything cheap to eat within a block of the Hilton, the late Friday nights ditching the silly delegate dance, the curfews, the bagel breakfasts, the delegate dinners at the Thai restaurant, the plenary voting under the bright lights of the UN General Assembly hall...
My math instructor told us something very terrifying today. The Cambridge class of 1854, on their math final, were asked by Professor Stokes to prove his new multivariable calculus theorem. That's infinitely worse than just solving a Stokes' theorem problem, or even having to follow a rigorous proof of it in class.
Laundry. Right.
...Tari
I should be doing laundry, I should be doing laundry, I should be doing laundry...
Today is the beginning of HMUN! High school hordes are storming the Yard, Coop bags and cameras in hand, dressed in their nicest preppy formal business attire with the requisite scarf and peacoats. Ah...the pretentious days of MUN debates are about to begin! I've always found MUN slightly ridiculous, but I have such a soft spot for it nevertheless. Watching all these neurotic teenagers, tense and nervous and aggressive and insecure, with their Harvard deferrals or acceptances in hand from yesterday, planning on how to take over their committee with sheer bullheadedness or actual eloquence...it just brings happy tears to my eyes and nostalgia to my heart. Aww, I miss HUNS and NHSMUN, with the huge placards that never fit into your folder, the constant drone of the gavel, the shouts of "Decorum, please, delegates", the immaculate suits, the fragile egos, the hair-pulling process of resolution writing, the resume comparisons during free time, the long six-hour stretches of committee sessions, the inevitable walking in the rain with uncomfortable shoes, the impossibility of finding anything cheap to eat within a block of the Hilton, the late Friday nights ditching the silly delegate dance, the curfews, the bagel breakfasts, the delegate dinners at the Thai restaurant, the plenary voting under the bright lights of the UN General Assembly hall...
My math instructor told us something very terrifying today. The Cambridge class of 1854, on their math final, were asked by Professor Stokes to prove his new multivariable calculus theorem. That's infinitely worse than just solving a Stokes' theorem problem, or even having to follow a rigorous proof of it in class.
Laundry. Right.
...Tari
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Date: 2003-12-12 12:41 pm (UTC)O.o
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Date: 2003-12-12 01:40 pm (UTC)...Tari
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Date: 2003-12-12 01:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 01:39 pm (UTC)I sucked at MUN though...I wouldn't ever do it again, nostalgia or no.
...Tari
oh sure, make the rest of us insecure...=P
Date: 2003-12-12 09:31 pm (UTC)Goodness, us young nhsmun-ers have mighty big shoes to fill. [really now, you modest modest girl. I'll never forget how you turned my incoherent garble of a paper into one that actually supported viewpoints in the time span of, what, an hour?]
Hehe, remember when Katherine stole your placard and you didn't notice its floppy absence until... oh, let's say a good 6 blocks later? =)
~Danica
Re: oh sure, make the rest of us insecure...=P
Date: 2003-12-12 09:45 pm (UTC)Yeah, I remember that placard incident...I was really surprised! I only knew you two through your papers (I read Katherine's HUNS application, you know, though you're not allowed to tell anyone that), and I had no idea you two were so devious. ^_____^ You guys were great roommates, by the way. Probably the best I had, during my three years in HUNS. ^_^
...Tari