West Wing… again

My first visit to the West Wing cluster was 2 days ago… or technically 3 days ago… wait… it’s morning now on Saturday, so 4 days ago…
Wow, day counts are getting so hard these days and time flies!

If day counts aren’t your thing (apparently it’s not my thing), I shall tell you that I first visited the West Wing cluster on wednesday. I was working quite hard at the library, doing math and other whatnots, then at 3 am, we were thrown out with the annoying ringer. For those at CMU, they know what ring I’m talking about. It’s quite hard to describe in words; something like a muffled 3 short school bell rings that scare the hell out of you when you are concentrated in your work and hear the – what it seems like – earth shattering sound.
Anyway, we (meaning myself and 3 others) decided to go to the West Wing cluster, because the UC is always way too cold with the AC turned on to the max.
I was astonished with the amount of computers (of different operating systems; macs, windows, and linux) as well as the smartboards, the wall (which was a whiteboard on its own), and small group study area.
That night, I left the place shortly after arriving, procrastinating, deciding to sleep. As I walked home, I thought to myself, ‘I’m definitely going back there some time.’ The sad bit is that I ended up there every single night then after until now.

The next day on a Thursday night, the usual bell goes off at Hunt library and I walk to West Wing to finish up on my physics homework and get a quick start on my programming assignment. Around 3 am, Minji walks in claiming that she needs to print something… Young ha, Minji and I ended up staying up the whole entire night showing each other our home towns as well as vacation places on Google Earth (we love the caribbean). Oh, I almost forgot; we also reminisced upon the latin american way of “partying.” We miss Tequila awfully a lot. We stayed until 7:30 am and went to Schatz to eat breakfast and I went straight to class… on Friday.

Friday, now yesterday, as weird as it seems to me right now (I still believe I’m stuck on Thursday night), the programming people taking 15-100 with Roberts had our assignment due the next morning. We initially went to Hunt library to quickly find out that they close early on fridays – at 9 pm. We quickly gathered our things and headed out to… the West Wing cluster.
We pretty much wrestled with our laptops while staying there; frustrated over not getting things done right, we tried to enjoy our time together, laughing while looking at the photo booth pictures taken from my mac the previous night. It was soon 1 am and Young ha and Sang ho went back home (Sang ho is not taking the course, yet he decided to tag along; he seemed to have enjoyed my selection of music on my iPod. Boys Like Girls, anyone?). I was left with Jiho for the next hour and Jiho simply gave up and went home, telling me to call him as soon as I’m done, whenever that may be. I did. It was 3:30 am.
He asked to meet at 6:00 am; I agreed. And guess where we met at… West Wing cluster. Jiho reluctantly gave up on the assignment; he just couldn’t find the files. We are now at the UC, looking outside at the gloomy day with the drizzle trying to find out where we could eat breakfast. CMU seems to assume that everyone is sleeping in late on saturdays; the earliest ones opening is at 10:30 am unlike 7:30 on normal weekdays.

I must say, my quick attraction to the West Wing cluster and naive thought of “wanting to come study here again,” was a… … stupid one. I ended up being half of this week now; I actually spent more time there than the amount of time spent in my dorm all this week. Now, it seems to have become a second home to me on CMU.

Oh, West Wing cluster, how I despise you, you remind me of the work I’ve been doing in there for the past few days! (I believe I’m genuinely going crazy lately… more on that later)

West Wing Cluster

I’m at the West Wing Cluster at CMU here.

It’s actually quite nice here.
A bunch of PCs.
A bunch of iMacs.
Hightech looking whiteboards with scanners on them.
Big plasma screen.
Some kerboros thing or whatever. I still don’t get it.
Printers.
Piano in the lounge next door.

All good… All good….
Only if I could finish my work now…

The reason why I’m here?
Well… I was at the library rotting away in my books and “Processing,” then got kicked out because it was closing at 3AM… I must admit though, we were busy messing with the Photo Booth application on my macbook pro… Laughing out loud, reminding ourselves of the “silent library” videos on Youtube.

Anyhow, I’m in the West Wing cluster now and probably have to go back to work.

Nack signing out for the day… or the previous day, shall I say.. haha