Last night was my first of (hopefully) many experiences at Friday night Collegiate (my school) basketball games. Not only did the Dutchmen win (
63-44), but the cheering from the overwhelming student section was both loud and hilarious. Chants included "COL-LEG-E!," mocking the supposed stupidity of students from
Dwight, the opposing team, and "PUSSY..CATS!" to mock their mascot, who was dressed as an apparently harmless tiger. The same mascot was brutally attacked by about five Collegiate youngsters during a lame attempt at rallying the sizable but meek Dwight crowd. Sitting on the sideline as the home-team scorekeeper, I found myself really into the game and wowed by the enthusiasm of the normally relatively benign kids from my school and can't wait until the next one! Tuesday the Dutch travel 12 blocks to face the Trinity Tigers (seems to be a theme with the mascot names...) which will become a major nemesis of mine next year when my best friend Brooks Allman becomes a Tiger.
I've also begun to seek some sort of internship/volunteer/job opportunity over the summer and possibly for the rest of my high school life. I've contacted many different organizations (the
State Department, New York Times, New York Post, United Nations, Houston Chronicle, and the N
ew York Mets, to name a few) and have only heard back from the State Department, whose program sounded awesome but unfortunately does not provide housing for members of it. I might have a connection to the upper rungs of the New York Mets, so hopefully I can land something within that organization.
In other news...yeah. Finals starting next Friday should be fun. I guess. No baseball news to report.
Song of the Day: "You Only Live Once" -- The Strokes
