The first half of the semester has been really intense. I've been caught up with class work, club meetings and other obligations and its not even yet winter! But anyway I was able to cool off abit during fall break. I was able to go up to Madison to hang out with my aunt and cousins. It was cool, although mood at the time was a little bit off. University of Wisconsin lost to Penn. State 48-7 ouch, word is they haven't had a defeat like that since 1989. It was interesting seeing all the wisconsin fans in all red leaving the stadium and walking all aggrevated.
Anyways Madison was fine, but I spent most of my time here on campus. It was nice and peaceful as most of the students had ventured off either back home or elsewhere to take a relaxing break. I spent most of my time catching up on other work that I hadn't touched upon since the summer. I updated my work on the katrina project and looked back on some transcrpits on some of the interviews I had conducted this past summer. On the other hand I also had some time to catch up on sleep. It had been a while since I had gone to bed at around 9 or 10pm, so i took the opportunity to respond to my deprived-self. I also caught up playin "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare"!!. Ok i dont mean to brag, but this is probably the best simulation of morden warfare to date. This game just blowed my mind with its visual effects and graphics. The first person shooter can gain access to some of the moderm weaponry that you would find in present time. The game play gives you an opportunity to act as a special opps, a soldier in the army and you get to view the story in two views. They focused a lot on the light effect and how reflects, bounces off certain objects. One of the coolest things about the game is when a character has taken damage, the edges of the screen glow red and the character's heartbeat increases!!!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
So far so good.
Hi guys, this is my first time doing anything like this so forgive me if it sounds boring.
My name is Andrew Nsubuga Serwadda. I am a Junior now majoring in Economics and Management and possibly a minor in Political Science (...possibly). Anyway I am from Uganda, in East Africa (holla back!) and been here at Beloit College for 3 years.
As mentioned before, this is my first time writing blogs and first time doing the SOI intern for the Admissions office. Am loving the job, and hopefully I can get to communicate with a lot of perspective students through this.
As far as highlights for past two weeks of school, its been a really crazy and interesting start. For one am going crazy about the fact that I've got only 2 years left! I can't really believe that 2 years have gone just like that! For real, sometimes I just wonder damn. It's funny how when you start college your thinking oh, "oh 4 years?!....that's gonna be a while." Man was I wrong. But of course it's all worthwhile once you make something out of it.
In my case, am a long way from home, only get to see the family once in a year nowdays. But the fact that am here on my own, it kinda builds all these thoughts and measures that you have to carry with yourself for the rest of the year. Ok enough about that.
Well something interesting that happened this summer was the work that I did as part of the Sanger Summer Fellowship Program, where I was working with Professor Emily Chamlee-Wright (an Economics professor at Beloit College) on the redevelopment process in New Orleans. This was a worthwhile experience were I got to work with scholars and other Beloit students (including alumni) studying scholarly work and doing research on the recovery effort in New Orleans. In June of 2008 I had the opportunity to go down south to New Orleans to conduct some interviews. It was the first time I went to the southern part of the United States, and MAN was it hot! I got to see old and new, destroyed and rebuilt, and how everyone was affected. I mean its one thing to hear or see it on tv and its a whole new picture once your on 'ground zero'. There was such a wide sense of culture in New Olreans, and I loved the food, especially the resturants around the Garden district and on Bourbon street.
Well thats all i've got to say right now. Will express more later. peace
My name is Andrew Nsubuga Serwadda. I am a Junior now majoring in Economics and Management and possibly a minor in Political Science (...possibly). Anyway I am from Uganda, in East Africa (holla back!) and been here at Beloit College for 3 years.
As mentioned before, this is my first time writing blogs and first time doing the SOI intern for the Admissions office. Am loving the job, and hopefully I can get to communicate with a lot of perspective students through this.
As far as highlights for past two weeks of school, its been a really crazy and interesting start. For one am going crazy about the fact that I've got only 2 years left! I can't really believe that 2 years have gone just like that! For real, sometimes I just wonder damn. It's funny how when you start college your thinking oh, "oh 4 years?!....that's gonna be a while." Man was I wrong. But of course it's all worthwhile once you make something out of it.
In my case, am a long way from home, only get to see the family once in a year nowdays. But the fact that am here on my own, it kinda builds all these thoughts and measures that you have to carry with yourself for the rest of the year. Ok enough about that.
Well something interesting that happened this summer was the work that I did as part of the Sanger Summer Fellowship Program, where I was working with Professor Emily Chamlee-Wright (an Economics professor at Beloit College) on the redevelopment process in New Orleans. This was a worthwhile experience were I got to work with scholars and other Beloit students (including alumni) studying scholarly work and doing research on the recovery effort in New Orleans. In June of 2008 I had the opportunity to go down south to New Orleans to conduct some interviews. It was the first time I went to the southern part of the United States, and MAN was it hot! I got to see old and new, destroyed and rebuilt, and how everyone was affected. I mean its one thing to hear or see it on tv and its a whole new picture once your on 'ground zero'. There was such a wide sense of culture in New Olreans, and I loved the food, especially the resturants around the Garden district and on Bourbon street.
Well thats all i've got to say right now. Will express more later. peace
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