It's tourist season at Virginia Tech. There are crowds of prospective students and their parents wandering around in little tight knit groups, trying to learn as much about this school as possible in as small amount of time as possible. Its funny to watch these groups be led around campus but the backward-walking tour guide. It that time of year when rising freshman are beng accepted to various schools and have to see which one they like better. Honestly you only see the campus and thats really not why you are coming to Tech anyway so why do it at all? I think's great that there is a new batch of noobs to be tortured and messed with but I think that their time would be better served sitting in on a class that they think is interesting. That would give them a really good idea of what school is like here. I like this quote, "If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?" I'm a little annoyed with the lack of consideration show by these visiting groups to the students. They block sidewalks and door-ways on the to and from classes. My dorm has a "sample room": a dorm room furnished and decorated so it looks like it's lived in. So the tour groups come into the basement and crowd around and ooo and aww at the room, blocking access to the mail room and generally creating a bother. I sometimes end up racing a tour group to get inside and up the stairs before they get to the door.
The past week has been a really nice one, the sun was out the first couple of days and the Temperature was in the 70's for almost the entire week. Now its getting cold again. Why can't the weather make up its mind? I would prefer either warm weather consistantly or cold weather, but the mix drives me up the wall. I walk outside, forgeting ohow cold it is and have to orun back to get a coat. GRRR. But the weather earlier this week was SO nice! I'm glad for that.