Where The Wild Things Are

So, for some reason, I'm totally in love with the new trailer for the movie version of Maurice Sendak's famous book "Where The Wild Things Are".  I'm not really sure what it is about the trailer that I love but it just all works really well.  Also, the movie is directed by Spike Jones and the script was written by Spike Jones, Maurice Sendak (duh), and Dave Eggers (who is a really cool current author), so the movie promises to be a good one... Anyways, check out the trailer and you'll see what I'm talking about....

Speed Dating for Charity

This week and next week are chock full of Student Council events.  The insanity started today with the a "411 on Grad School" event for juniors in the afternoon.  We had a bunch of representatives from the grad departments come, as well as a rep from Kaplan, who was raffling off a free test prep course (which is expensive!).  I think that our school doesn't do a good job of giving you info on grad school if you're not going to med school/law school, so this was a really great opportunity for students to learn more and get their questions answered.  Unfortunately, at least for the part of the event that I was present for, there weren't that many students there.  I think a lot of people were in class because it started at 2.  I had to leave around 3:10 to get to my next class, but hopefully when students got out of their 2 o'clock classes, they started to trickle in... In such a large school, with such an apathetic student body, it's really hard to engage students and get them to come out to events, even though the stuff that we (and I'm sure lots of other organizations) plan are really great and beneficial for them...

Then, directly after the grad school event ended, we had "Speed Dating for Charity", which we did my freshman year and was such a great event.  It's set up like a speed dating session is, where you switch places every couple of minutes, but you make sandwiches for City Harvest, this really great organization that drives around the city picking up excess food that restaurants and other organizations donate and then giving them to the hungry.  The turnout wasn't as great as it was my freshman year, but the more important thing is that we made 200 sandwiches in under an hour, which is awesome.  Hopefully we can do this event again, because when you get a ton of people there, it's a lot of fun and a great way to meet other students.

You know it's spring when there is a pink monkey, a chicken, and cookie monster playing in the park...

Apartment Hunting

After brunch, Alisha, Maya, Krittivas, and I stopped by this open house that was going on at 13th and 3rd. The apartments were all recently renovated but a little too pricey/small for those who were looking (ie not me). Some of the apts were 2 stories which was cool in concept, but had the steepest stairs I've ever seen in my life. I actually hurt myself climbing up one. But when you get to the top, you have rooftop access with a great view of the city.

Sunday Brunch

I went out with Alisha and Maya for the most amazing pancakes ever on Sunday (their trick is, they bake them in the oven so that they're nice and fluffy, almost cakelike). It was delicious and warm enough for us to sit outside.

Exciting news for NYU seniors

http://www.nyu.edu/public.affairs/releases/detail/2550

Bulletin Board!

A couple of student council members and myself spent all of a Friday afternoon making our March bulletin board.  Isn't it lovely?

Alumni Student Banquet

So the biggest event for the Alumni  Relations Chair (my position on Student Council last year), is the Alumni Student Banquet, which is pretty much a dinner where students get to meet and mingle with alumni, ask them for advice, and all that good stuff.  Even though I'm not the chair this year, I still helped plan the event and I think it was a really huge success.  Our theme was "Build Your Own Future" and to draw on that, we sprinkled Legos at all of the tables as our centerpiece.  They were fun to play with...

Celia, one of the Alumni Committee Members, playing, I mean, making our centerpieces

The banquet!

Gabe and I sat outside and did coat check all night long.  This is his Lego tower, and it beats my Lego tower, much to my chagrin.

This is my Lego tower.

View from the 10th floor of our student center, where the banquet was held.

Some student council members, hard at work.  They're doing a really great job meeting the alumni.

Spring Break: Part 6

Back to the city. No escape from the rain, but this time it's
accompanied by cold.

Spring Break: Part 5

Driving in the pouring rain after having a delicious dinner with Mary.
Yay Florida.

Spring Break: Part 4

Napping while watching Food Network after a day of doing literally
nothing.

Spring Break: Part 3

Bocci ball with the gparents

Spring Break: Part 2

Taco night with the Radys followed by stimulating conversation as seen in the picture.

Spring Break: Part 1

My first night home, helping Brad with his hw at 2am.

$20 to whoever can spot the Brooklyn Bridge

Museum of Natural History

As a residence hall event this weekend, my roommate took a group of people to the Museum of Natural History.  It's the first time that I've ever been and here are some of the highlights:

The giant blue whale

Dinosaur

Another dinosaur

One last dinosaur

Special butterfly exhibit that's only open for part of the year.

There was a butterfly on this man's head for about 10 minutes.  It didn't move.

Butterfly landed on a friend's phone

Then walked onto my finger

Elephants

sNOw day

So apparently 480 schools were closed in New York City today due to the snow storm (including FIT, the New School, and Pace) but NYU wasn't among those.

I don't have a picture to show you how much snow snowed, and maybe this is because I grew up in Ohio where snow doesn't faze anyone, but it really wasn't that bad outside.  The roads were clear, there was salt on the sidewalks, and sure it was cold and slushy, but you can still get to class okay.  My french class today was missing about half of the students, which is a little ridiculous to me when I managed to make it (me, the person who lives all the way at the bottom of the island AND only had one class today, plus an impending paper that would have greatly benefited from an extra day of writing).  

I mean, I'm all for snow days, even though that will never happen at NYU, but today really wasn't that bad.  Just cold.

I made myself a hot chocolate at work because it's really cold and snowy today. It's delicious.