<p>Vorenberg is a great guy.</p>
<p>So long as we're sharing great class moments, I'll share mine. Professor Davis, the history of China professor, who is African-American, was lecturing about the Rape of Nanking and other Japanese atrocities during WWII in China, and became so emotional that he started weeping and just couldn't go on. It was incredibly moving. Though of course its a horrible event and its impossible not to be emotional hearing about it, it was incredible to see someone who had no real direct connection to what happened, no relatives who were affected or history relating to it or anything like that, feel so connected to the people that he wept for their tragedy. It was a lesson in itself.</p>
<p>I have a question about the facebook.
I just got my brown ID # so I decided to step into facebook (since everyone goes hyper about this thing)
It was totally shocking (for me) how everyone's inter-related and some people have more than 100 friends (already, when they're not even a freshman YET!) and I was totally clueless about how to start this thing. (and make friends like that)
I know like 2 or 3 people so far..
and so is it natural to start facebook when you enter brown, or should I start making an effort to make some random friends at random times?
ARG. I have no idea how i should start this thingy.
Help me.</p>
<p>Chill.</p>
<p>That actually entertains me.</p>
<p>Facebook is a conveniance, really, and something nice to have, but much more for when we will actually be at Brown. Those with hundreds of "friends" just send out massive requests to be added to everyone's profile in an effort to get the largest number.</p>
<p>I have a little over ten friends at Brown, most of which are kids from my area I had met through functions or knew from camps and such, and a few are from the Livejournal Brown 09 community. One or two looked up a common interest we shared (in the case of Brian Becker, simply having the same last name was the initiation) and that's why they are there. But don't go crazy. Facebook isn't the "in thing", you aren't not going to have friends becase of it, and the people who add friends on there are certainly not going to have more friends because of it.</p>
<p>I think it's more of a tool to find out who that person was that you kind of remember touching last night while drunk (that was a joke, hardy har har).</p>
<p>As someone who's been at Brown for a year, I have less friends on thefacebook than many of the 09ers who seem to have gone a little overboard. Don';t worry about it.</p>
<p>Modest melody, even though you were joking, you'll find it quite useful for just that reason.</p>
<p>Haha you think it's a joke, but that's really most of what it's used for... ;)</p>
<p>Stop Paul Huber!</p>
<p>Agreed, but that kid has sort of screwed himself anyway. Imagine, every time he meets someone at a party or in class and introduces himself, he's going to be "that kid with so many thefacebook friends." Not a great kind of celebrity to be, in my opinion.</p>
<p>froshbrownie_09 -</p>
<p>I say you join some groups that sound interesting. Eventually people will friend you. There are some pretty interesting ones.</p>
<p>Huber is so bad that when I removed him from my friends (initially I was accepting anyone who added me because, well, it took as many clicks and why not-- until I had a good 10 people I never spoke to before as a friend and I chose to remove them all) he kept trying to get me to add him again so I just did to stop getting the requests.</p>
<p>And ok, I admit it, I was only half-joking before...</p>
<p>modestmelody: I think it's more of a tool to find out who that person was that you kind of remember touching last night while drunk (that was a joke, hardy har har).</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHAHA. THat's a good one.
Thanks for all your suggestions.
I guess I'll just abandon mine for awhile till I get there and start meeting people. (and touching people)
I love meeting new people, but through the internet it just doesn't seem REAL enough.
Is Paul Hurber the guy who has more friends than you MoatToMoat?
It's kind of ridiculous anyways when you randomly add a person without knowing them. It becomes like a DISPLAY of fake friends rather than a tool of communication.</p>
<p>A lot of 09ers have more friends than people who have been at Brown do, its strange.</p>
<p>Many a time have I met people at a party intoxicated, and struggled the next day to come up with their name, a scrap of their name, a friend of theirs, or just one of their interests or classes, in order to figure out who they were on the facebook, its great for that.</p>
<p>MoatToMoat,
Would you mind putting up your high school recs, such as gpa, sat scores, the ec that you took, cources you took, etc.? I'm sure we would be able to consider it a paradigm of an accepted Brown student.</p>
<p>cafe - I'll give you my general stats sure, but remember that no one person can really show you your chances of admission, there are people with sats from 1200 to 1600 at Brown.</p>
<p>High school was a small public suburban school
GPA - Don't remember exactly, and every HS does it differently. I got mostly As and A-s with a few B+s and one B my junior year.
SATs - Higher than 1550
SAT2s - 800, 800, 790 (writing)
EC - Senior year I was president of a couple clubs that I had been involved in from the beginning of high school, had leadership writing roles in the HS newspaper and yearbook, played an instrument in the band, was a leader on a succesful debate team, etc. I also, and I think this was what really helped me, did community service that was CONSISTENT and PASSIONATE. I had a theme of community service that started in 9th grade and ran through my senior year, and did things invovling the theme throughout my years, rather than just picking up odd volunteering jobs or doing something superficial like filing papers at the local hospital.
Courses - I took all honors and APs when I could
Essays - I wrote two essays, one on a historical figure who inspired me and one on an event from my life that taught me a principle that I've since continued to apply to how I live</p>
<p>I dunno if this helps or not. If you want more specifics you can private message me.</p>
<p>I'm just waiting for housing assignments to come out and the inevitable dorm questions now.</p>
<p>Hurry up reslife!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>I have a silly question: Is there coffee in the cafeterias? I can't decide if I should buy a coffeemaker or just an electric kettle for my dorm room.</p>
<p>There is coffee in the cafeterias, but I've heard it's quite bad (I don't drink coffee that much, myself), so you might still want to buy a coffee maker...</p>
<p>You might want to just because it might be a pain in the ass to walk to the cafeteria before class every morning if you want coffee.</p>
<p>I might be missing something, but if you're going to eat breakfast, don't you have to go to the cafeteria anyways?</p>