There was nothing much going on this week except many exams and much talk on the end of school. My labs were fun as Chem. Lab got me doing Acid Titration and Bio Lab got me doing pig digestive system dissecting. My Calc class was teaching me how to graph functions without a calculator and my other classes continued on with their syllabus-following-lectures. Clubs like FSCC and Paintball Club voted in new E-Boards and gave members a preview of what to expect in the year to come.
I also got to experience riding a segway this week. In order to promote the movie ‘Mall Cop’, one of the clubs on campus had a promotion-thing where you could learn to ride a segway and you get to ride it around the Maxcy quad. It was hard at first because it just didn’t look like it would balance me, but after riding on one. I really want one and I would get it if it wasn’t as expensive as a car…
Additionally, SCOPE started selling Spring Concert tickets from Tuesday to Thursday and it was extremely crowded almost every night. The cool thing about Spring Weekend is that everything is free for UNH students. The tickets to the concert were completely free to all undergraduates, $10 to Undergrad guests and every one else. Then when the Spring Carnival comes the day after the Spring Concert, students get to play all the games and go on the rides for free. The day after that, we’re supposed to get a really good comedian and that is free as well. I can’t wait for my first Spring Weekend ever!
For the rest of this entry though, I am going to share with you readers an entertaining story about how I managed to get on possibly the most popular SCOPE trip this year as first 6 people out of about 160 people for a 47 spot bus.
Signups for the Six Flags Great Adventure trip were this week and all I had to say was that it was a ‘great adventure’ in itself, trying to get on to the trip. From previous trips the school had, I’ve learned that an hour early is actually too late. The first Boston trip the school had to see a Pink Floyd Laser Show in Boston, I narrowly made it on with 2 friends when I went there 20 minutes before signups. We were like the last 3 people to get on the 48 person bus there. The next Boston trip the school had was to the Boston Aquarium. I went there an hour early and by then, the 47 spots on that bus have been taken and the wait list was enough to fill another bus. Too bad they never got that second bus though.
For this trip, I actually waited 4 hours before signups with a group of friends. This one of the, if not, the most popular trip SCOPE has had all year (Would you say no to a free ticket and food voucher for a good amusement park?). For our ‘camp out’, we just grabbed some books, computers and dinner and just chilled in the couches near the entrance of Bartels. Cool thing about that, during dinner time, you see so many people walk in, from people you know, to people you don’t know but that you know are on campus or in classes to even faculty members. I probably had random conversation with close to 20 people I knew in a 2 hour period, asking me and my friends what we were doing randomly sitting in Bartels.
Then the times approached, and like an hour and a half before when sign ups are for the Six Flags trip, a miscommunication occurred when a SCOPE member showed up for the Spring Concert tickets and people assumed they were doing both Concert Tickets and Six Flags signups (excitement is a crazy thing). There was a 20 person line for the concert (it was a slow day) and about 70 people for the Six Flags trip (For a 47 spot trip!). There were arguments all over the place over what line was for what and a lot of people were trying to jip other people out of a spot. It got confusing which prompted me to go upstairs to find the SCOPE person correctly responsible for the trip.
I found him and he actually decided to move the signups to the Alumni Lounge, instead of the crowded downstairs area. Because I got the inside information and because I knew him enough to hear it from him (One good reason to be in clubs, you get first dibs), I called my friends and we were the first 6 in line. However, to be fair to the people downstairs, the SCOPE people wanted to give out counters (in the form of raffle tickets) to everyone downstairs on the ‘fake’ line to determine their place in line and to ensure no cutters before the 8pm signups. They proceeded to leave the lounge to look for the tickets.
In order to secure our place as the first 6 people, the line downstairs had to be broken up, as messed up as that sounds. But for that to happen though, would cause massive chaos. But luckily for me, one of my friends with me told the first group of people downstairs in line downstairs about the signups moved to upstairs and they spread the news to the next group, and then it spread some more. Eventually, everyone downstairs shifted upstairs, it was like an hour before signups and we had like 80 people waiting for it already. (The numbers went up as time passed)
The SCOPE people came back out with the tickets, but because the line downstairs was nonexistent and the fact that by now around 90 people gathered at the entrance to the alumni lounge, they had no choice but to go to us first, the first 6 people. We then went inside, got our tickets and we waited for 40 minutes before the official signups time. By then, the amount of people waiting to get on the trip had jumped to about 140. As I left, after the signups, I estimated around 160 people. Wow, popular trip…
