Hey Everybody,
Being unemployed has both ups and downs. Of course, I can't really move out of my parents house, I have no money coming in, and I also am stuck in suburbia. The positives include having more time then I know what to do with.
This weekend I visited my good friend down at John's Hopkins. I had gone there a week or two after I had graduated from Syracuse, (my buddy was doing a summer class) so I knew some of my friend's good friends.
It seems that John's Hopkins is really split. There is a huge arts community, and a huge engineering community. It seems that students tend to stay with their own. The school is also much smaller then I thought it was, so you can walk down the street and be stopped every 10 feet by people you know.
One of the biggest similarities between Hopkins and Syracuse is that the campus and main street area are about a 10 or 12 block radius. If you walk too far outside the area, it becomes pretty bad.
My buddy was in a play during the whole weekend. It was a series of 5 short plays written, directed, produced, and acted out by students. My favorite play was the easiest one to follow. In the year 2080, a woman is trying to kill this guy who works at a shoe store because he had killed her brother. Hilarious.
My buddy did really well, and there was a cast party that night. While there, I ran into a couple of his friends who I had met in the past. We ended the night getting some late night food.
The following day didn't get started until about 3. During the morning, my buddy and I shared music. We walked around the campus a little bit, and ended up going to a few events.
Apparently, the weekend I was at John's Hopkins was Young Alumni Weekend. This is a BRILLIANT idea. It's aimed at alumni who graduated within the past three years. This is so that they can experience a night or two of college again.
My friend and I ended up at a meet and greet, but no one else showed. They had set up a Gamecube, so we played Super Smash Brothers for a couple of hours. We also went to a football game. We eventually had to go, because he needed to get to the second showing of his play.
Instead of going back to see the play, I ended up grabbing dinner and meeting up with a friend of my friend. Once the play ended, everyone met up and we went to a school sponsored Young Alumni Event.
This was the apex of the night. I was at an event where everybody knew each other. I knew 3 people in a room of at least 250. It was as if I was a fly on the wall because no one knew me.
The funniest moment was when this guy came up to me, embraced me and asked what I was doing with my life. Apparently I looked like someone he had known at Hopkins. We talked for a bit, and I was able to keep a story going.
I also ran into a good friend of mine from my high school who had gone to Hopkins. She was there to celebrate the weekend.
The rest of the night consisted of mishaps left and right. I totally lost my buddy, and ended up at a party where I knew only a couple of people. He apparently had ran to go to some type of midnight breakfast. Who knows where he ended up.
Eventually, we all find each other and start to head back. I was exhausted by this point and my bed was calling.
I really enjoyed my time in Baltimore, and will be heading back down there for the Jon Stewart Rally on the 30th.
Good luck,
Zac
