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Name: Joel
Country: United States
State: Connecticut
Metro: New Haven
Gender: Male
Interests: I think that my interests have changed since high school, and I'm now trying to find out what they truly are.
Expertise: After coming to Yale, you realize that you are not (unless you're just amazing) an expert at anything. You may have once been a bright star in high school, but on the college level, most of us become no more than a dully lit candle.
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  IndividualJ
Member Since:
1/31/2005
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| Daily Themes AppPrompt for daily themes application: Describe a specific scene or event from two different points of view. Think about what each person might see. Locate each narrator in a specific place that affects his or her perspective, and convey each response to the scene through the details you include. Write two separate paragraphs, one from each point of view. 150-200 words each, 400 words maximum.
Response (based in part on a true story):
Rashid hopped onto the train as the steel doors slammed shut behind him. He turned and waved a quick goodbye to Markus before plopping down onto the cold, hard plastic. The A train jerked him downtown a lot faster than he expected, his head still swimming, seconds after his stop. "Must've been those 12 beers," he thought to to himself as he stumbled off the train.
Those beers were well-deserved. Rashid had saved up from his three campus jobs just to fly out to New York for a weekend and visit his girlfriend, Gabriella, on her birthday. He had skipped two shifts at the bookstore and an exam, only to have her break up with him during the cab ride from JFK to the hotel. She was studying at NYU for a semester, and being an exchange student at Oregon State himself, she was the only person he knew in the city. "That bitch," he muttered as he slowly climbed the stairs up to the street.
Tonight had still been a good night though. Rashid had met Markus - his only friend in an ocean of strangers. Markus was one of Gabriella's friends and had been nice enough to hang out with him the whole day. They had even spent the night at Connolly's Pub, where Markus kept Rashid from completely drowning in his sorrows. Unlike Gabrielle, Markus is a good person. "Tomorrow I can spend the entire day with him," Rashid thought happily to himself.
Markus watched Rashid fall to the yellow seats, just as the A train whisked by. "Finally, this loser is gone," Markus thought to himself, as he ran up the stairs to head back to Connolly's. He had spent the whole day with Rashid as a favor to Gabriella. "What the hell had she seen in him?" he wondered as he turned the corner and entered the pub. Whatever it was, he didn't care. Markus was so relieved to be done for the night. He had actually ended the night early, telling Rashid he was planning on going to bed when they went to the subway earlier. He threw off his coat and found Gabriella waiting for him at the bar. "Is he gone?" she asked. "Long gone," he said as he leaned in for a kiss.
~NJN
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| One paper away...I'm still determined to return to this haven - old, not New.
Just one more paper though, and then Junior Year will be over. 3 years of Yale will be complete. Holy shit. I almost hope this paper never ends...the problem is that it seems like it actually won't.
~NJN
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| More familySo, I now have a step-mom and step-brother. This will certainly keep things interesting.
Happy New Year,
~NJN
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| It's been much too long. All of the normal ramblings that I'd otherwise jot down - the ponders of loves yet to be lost, the business plans of the next major success, the rantings about a social situation when venting was key - all seemed to subside. Instead, I let those thoughts fade as quickly as they came and as swiftly as the wind. I shall return to this haven of thought. Of voice. Of expression. Of me. Soon my, dear Xanga, very soon...
~NJN
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| Thus begins Junior Year:
-8/23: fly back to Hartford; hang out with cousins and family in Rocky Hill, CT
-8/24: back to New Haven to hang out with Ben, Nick, and Isaiah
-8/26 or 27: Scarsdale, NY to hang out with Roger
-8/29: moving back in on campus
Wow...it's hard to believe that I'm a junior already. I don't want it to end.
On a lighter note: though I completely forgot to post my e-mails here, I had an incredible time in Ecuador. To take a look at the photos, see below.
~NJN
http://yale.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2056240&l=ea8fc&id=311063
- Quito & USFQ
http://yale.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2056395&l=923e3&id=311063
- Otavalo y más
http://yale.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2056402&l=f3483&id=311063
- Riobamba, Guamote, Chimborazo y más
http://yale.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2056493&l=66adc&id=311063
- Mindo
http://yale.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2056529&l=f81a0&id=311063
- Quilotoa
http://yale.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2056531&l=26844&id=311063
- La Amazonia1
http://yale.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2056555&l=617a4&id=311063
- La Amazonia2 y la Cena Despedida
http://yale.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2056561&l=855e3&id=311063
- Después del programa
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