Meeting people... sort of

So today, nothing on the Week of Welcome schedule applied to me except a presentation on opportunities in music and dance, which started at four in the afternoon, and the art museum on campus, which is open from this day forward it looks like.

I went to campus and I went to the art museum, hoping to meet people. My friends at other colleges keep telling me, "if you want to meet people hang around the dorms." I reply that it's no use hanging out by the dorms until people move into the dorms, and most people aren't allowed to until Thursday.

The art museum was pretty and interesting, but completely deserted. I wandered around campus for a bit and then lost track of time scoping out textbooks at the bookstore. I missed the beginning of my music-and-dance presentation and I was about to give up on meeting people and go home, when I met a few on the bus. They were talking about how horrible dead-baby jokes are. So I followed them to Office Depot and then back to campus where the residence halls were having an ice cream social. (I don't understand how they expect people to be there two days before move-in, but I guess it works 'cause there were a lot of people there.) I talked to some more people, one of whom seemed cool enough to remember.

Note to self: bring more snacks tomorrow. I never realized how much I eat in between meals - here, I eat a meal and then go somewhere and am surprised to be hungry two hours ahead of my next usual mealtime. Dietarily it's not bad to be hungry for a bit, but descending blood sugar takes away all my drive to socialize.