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college update - getting involved.
One thing I have made a point of doing at Willamette is to attempt to get involved in as many things as I possibly can, so I can
a. Keep busy.
b. Meet new people.
c. Learn.
Thusfar, there haven't been all that many opportunities; students are still settling in, and clubs haven't really started up yet. The only activities that have really started so far have been Dungeons and Dragons and WU Wire - the college radio station.
Let me say upfront that I have never played D&D before...well, before today at least. I gave it a shot today to experience the game first-hand. It couldn't be as bad as popular stigma had led me to believe, could it?
Wrong.
Despite being MENTOK, THE LEVEL THREE ELVEN ROGUE, I had a really hard time justifying spending nine hours on awkwardly structured and generally unfun roleplaying. Hell, it took a few hours before we could even start the game, because we had to spend lots of time and effort filling out our character sheets, which detailed even the most mundane aspects of our characters (height, weight, age, etc.).
Lesson learned: no more D&D.
Fortunately, student radio promises to be far better. My neighbor, Julia and I have agreed to do an hour-long show together. We still have yet to establish exactly when our show will be, or exactly what we'll fill that hour with, but it's still very exciting. Our musical tastes seem to differ and compliment each other enough that it should work out splendidly.
a. Keep busy.
b. Meet new people.
c. Learn.
Thusfar, there haven't been all that many opportunities; students are still settling in, and clubs haven't really started up yet. The only activities that have really started so far have been Dungeons and Dragons and WU Wire - the college radio station.
Let me say upfront that I have never played D&D before...well, before today at least. I gave it a shot today to experience the game first-hand. It couldn't be as bad as popular stigma had led me to believe, could it?
Wrong.
Despite being MENTOK, THE LEVEL THREE ELVEN ROGUE, I had a really hard time justifying spending nine hours on awkwardly structured and generally unfun roleplaying. Hell, it took a few hours before we could even start the game, because we had to spend lots of time and effort filling out our character sheets, which detailed even the most mundane aspects of our characters (height, weight, age, etc.).
Lesson learned: no more D&D.
Fortunately, student radio promises to be far better. My neighbor, Julia and I have agreed to do an hour-long show together. We still have yet to establish exactly when our show will be, or exactly what we'll fill that hour with, but it's still very exciting. Our musical tastes seem to differ and compliment each other enough that it should work out splendidly.