Boy to Man; School Starts.

Tuesday was pretty sweet, yeah. So after that pre-med meeting our dorm designed the most juicy and amazing choreographed dance performance to a music mix that has ever been seen by anyone, ever. The boiz of Jenkins West, which includes me, were put in charge of a segment from Taylor Swift’s “Love Story”. The show we put together in about three hours came together beautifully. At the start, everyone laid on the ground as a siren blared and a voice announced, “BJ men, report to the dance floor immediately.” Then, well, I would explain more, but I’ll just give you a link to watch it yourselves. The quality isn’t that good, but it can give you a better taste than if I were to explain it with mere words.

When we took our shirts off, along with maybe a few other elements we included into our performance, it was an immediate disqualification. This is good, because it treated us freshmen and brothers a lot. Once we had learned of our astoundingly incredible finish in the ranks, it was time for our last few hours together as frosh before we became brothers of Baldwin. We ran outside, me in my flip-flops since I had forgotten to borrow an RA’s stinky shoes, and ran around screaming our chants. Eventually, we found ourselves at a small outdoor stage area with a white brick wall backdrop.

One part of becoming a man involved going around to the back of the stage wall and climbing over, all of us at once. With a ten foot wall and around 50 men, it was no small task. On the first try we were a mere five seconds short of breaking the old record. On the second try, one guy simply could not make it up and ended up needing ice for his manly wounds. Finally, we broke the record by like 50 seconds. Pretty sweet.

After running around and yelling some more, we named like 20 guys. Then we ran to the library and screamed at the yelling wall some more, then we ran around and screamed some more. Then we ran to this field (screaming). At this field, the second part of becoming a man occurred. There was a tarp laid out on a hill, covered in chocolate pudding. I later learned that $120 was spent on that pudding alone. Everyone went down at least twice, getting covered in the chocolatey mess. The other thing was that it was like 40 degrees out and I was straight up freezing. But I had grown from a BJ Boy to a Baldwin Man. Our shout no longer incorporated the word BJ, but rather Baldwin.

After our fun, everyone sprinted half a mile back and headed straight for the showers. I was ahead of the pack and got to one right away, where I rinsed away the chocolatey mess. That night everyone hung out their shirts to dry so that we can proudly wear the brown-spattered garbs in all their glory.

It is now Wednesday. We had our first day of classes. By the beard of Zeus was I ever nervous. However, as the morning went on, I realized that all of my fear was in vain. Calc 2 is mostly everything I learned in AP Calc but just a little bit more. In chemistry, we took a placement test and I think I did really well despite not having chemistry for three years. And in bio, well, I took AP Bio last year so it shouldn’t be a problem. The only thing is that we actually had a summer reading assignment for the First Year Seminar class that I should get to work on. Kbye!