• the helpful academic adviser who answered all of my questions
• the counselor? of the school of humanities who talked to us about everything and really got me connected with my fellow humanities peeps--we unite over our dislike of math!
• the overwhelming happiness, craziness, spiritedness, and love of the staffers--when we checked in, when i couldn't find camino in the lunch hall, EVERYTHING--they are incredible and i am so, so inspired by them
• THE CAMINO STAFFERS
• CRISPY CRUSTY CAMINO'S PIZZA
• FIVE FIVE FIVE FIVE DEAL DEAL DEAL DEAL under 30 minutes or it's FUH-REEEEE ;)
• CAMINO-OOOO YOU WANT TO RIIIIIIIIDE OUT, EVEN IF WE ONLY GO TO MYYYY HOUSEEEEE, CAMINO-SHH, CAMINO-SHH, THE BEST HALL OF THE YEAR YO (or something like that!)
• roomie
• suitemates
• the random staffer who had dark magenta shorts on the first day and knew my name even though all she did involving me was lead us to the computer lab to look at classes
• GETTING NO SLEEP
• AWKWARD SHOWER EXPERIENCE
• ashley walking in on me changing HAHAHAHHHA that was so funny
• getting starbucks with ashley once the music from the dancing became overwhelming
• SLEEPING FOR 4 HOURS
• napping on couches
• meeting steven
• conspiring/texting randall
• running into steph all over the place (FOREVER AND ALWAYS♥♥♥)
• IN-N-OUT AT 1AM (and ashley's free fries that she kindly gave to me!)
• suite discussion
• DANCE OFF
• cross the line ♥
• the... compliment can, so to speak, of sitting with our eyes closed and facing walls in a circle--CRYING SESSION
• crying
• wanting to cry
• all the people i met! even though i don't remember their faces or names because i am terrible! ♥
• all the cute or relatively good-looking or more than okay looking boys i saw!
• the INCREDIBLE school spirit, competitive spirit whether it was in teams for the olympics at 2am or in the auditorium between halls or the screaming of U-C, U-C-I! and just the staffers in general, they are amazing people♥
• sitting for an hour reading dostoevsky's the idiot in the bookstore
• SAYING HI TO PEOPLE
• having the true dorm experience
• meeting fellow history majors
• the study abroad workshop!
• SERIOUSLY ALL THE PEOPLE THAT I MET, THEY WERE INCREDIBLE
• the food... to an extent... (ICEES FOR DINNER? YES PLZ)
• the talent show was HILARIOUS
• eddie huang ♥♥♥♥
• the chain running thing at 11pm
• free samples at UTC!!!
• bumming around with steph, randall, and steven while we were supposed to be in a workshop--chilling with a staffer named PRINCESS in steph's res hall and EDDIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
• registering for classes--FREEDOM and responsibility! craziness
• GET INVOLVEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD--and they made it obvious that it is so easy, and commuting does not detract from it at all (thank you, jane♥)
• my suitemates were the best
• the digiornos were so lame and hilarious (I AM STILL IN AWE OF THE TEAMS/PEOPLE IN CAMINO)
• running around like a headless chicken sometimes
• wandering around the campus, LIVING ON THE EDGE... by following a circle, aka ring road (and not really learning what each building actually is)
• BEING THE BEST HALL EVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR
• cheering for staffers!!!!!!
• sleeping during meetings... or texting and seeing quite obviously that i am just one of 450 of the 500 people present texting and sleeping
• THE FOOD WASN'T HORRIBLE--not omonomonom worthy but pretty tolerable once you've spaced out everything and adjusted
• THE COMFORTABLENESS DEVELOPED BETWEEN SUITEMATES is something i'm glad i got to experience this time around--it was awesome and lovely
• the respect and admiration and love that grew for people from this
• BE OPEN MINDED TO EVERYTHING, BE OPEN, STEP OUTSIDE OF MY COMFORT ZONE, AND JUST... DO IT and BE MYSELF AND GET INVOLVED AND TRY EVERYTHING AND MAKE MISTAKES AND LEARN FROM THEM AND DON'T JUDGE--JUST LISTEN--GIVE EVERYTHING A CHANCE♥♥
• the bond, the sense of community and togetherness that was formed
• the evident hard work that the staffers and coordinators and all else put into this to make it HAPPEN the way it did. so good. so funny. i love it.
• having to unlock the door to the hall
• stomachache? NO PROBLEM I HAD AWESOME PEOPLE TO CONVERSE WITH
• waiting in line for pizza for what was supposed to be 3 minutes which turned into about 10--but it was fun!

LALALALALLLAALA EVERYTHING i honestly have no complaints and now i am QUITE EXCITED AND PUMPED FOR UCI. or i don't know if i can even feel that kind of emotion when adrenaline isn't pumping through my system, but i am at least realizing MORE the truth of it, and that college--no matter what name attached to it!--is what I MAKE OF IT. and if i go in hating it, i will hate it. and that's what i always told myself i'd be better about. don't judge. don't go in with prejudices. be open to everything! new experiences and craziness and enthusiasm and positivity and ALL ELSE. before i was just--accepting of the fact that i was going here. but now--i realize just how incredible this campus is! and i want other people to know about it, too. but first, i am just going to focus on my brain not exploding from information overload once school starts given its state of melting at this point of summer and finding and joining things that interest me and MAKE NEW FRIENDS AND THROW MYSELF OUT THERE AND SAY TO THE WORLD, "HEEEEEY THERE, I'M ADRIENNE!!!!" and find a passion, a niche, and thrive.

and i definitely want to try and be a staffer at some point. and travel abroad. once or twice! and study vietnamese on an academic level. and double major and minor and be able to graduate early and travel for 8 months and have job offers and hold a job and volunteer all at once because someone i heard speak--yesterday--was like that. incredible.

I AM NOW REALLY EXCITED. WELL AS EXCITED AS MY 8 HOURS OF SLEEP OVER A TIME SPAN OF TWO DAYS CAN MUSTER. YAYAYAYAYAYAYY!!!!!!