Tutorial Day

I arrived at our meeting location surprised to find that such a modern and orange building was a library, and by orange I mean orange. The color itself is almost overwhelming, like a five-year-old who was painting a butterfly but decided it was too drab so instead they coated the paper from corner to corner with orange paint. Albeit, paired with modernity, somehow the designers of the building pulled off their ambitious color choice - a relief that they did not venture too far into five-year-old painter mode.

The orange library.

Even though we arrived before the library opened, there were still people waiting patiently out front for the doors to open. It made me happy to see that libraries were not becoming antiquated, although kids these days suggest otherwise. Inside the library, similar to its exterior, was a vibrant and colorful environment. The carpet was blue with dark swirly patterns, reminding me of the ocean, the walls had murals, there were comfy chairs( as Maxime noted), and there was a conference room where we worked for the day- but best of all there were books!!

You can always count on Don Gosney to bring everything but the kitchen sink to a meeting, ergo we had to drag a whole cart full of equipment from his car to the library- his scanner, fold-up-table, and much more. Be that as it may he is an exceptional Red Vines provider- a greatly appreciated snack, perfect for a long meeting.

Once we settled in the conference room Don taught us how to properly format, write, and post our blogs. He stressed the fact that people from all over the world will be reading them, from admission officers at Universities to people in Russia- thus it is important that we be interesting critical thinkers, and use our writing to show not tell. Hopefully, my tangent on the overwhelmingly orange library achieved that.

My bud, Audrey 

Practicing was difficult for me, it took me a little longer than others to properly format my writing as well as download pictures from my camera to mediafire. However the experience did allow me to improve my technology skills- I managed to post this blog,  that shows something.

In the conference room two large windows gave us a lovely view of the parking lot, and soon enough as the dark clouds looked like they wanted to rain, rain began to patter against the glass. Watching it reminded me of how much I love California weather, and how it'll differ greatly from muggy Tennessee. That moment hit me like a ton of bricks, the fact that I’m going to travel across the country to study at a prestigious university for a month had finally materialized. For the past few months. the idea had been floating around, almost as if it was a dream or a figment of my imagination. But it was finally becoming a reality- it’s crazy how things turn out.

Beautiful, foggy California weather