Sat. 13 March 1993 (written on 20 March)
Got ride from John L. over to Hancock for St. Patrick’s Day parade. Sunny and very cold day — 14 degrees during parade. All my valves stuck after about half the parade, when I stopped blowing into the horn. Quite the wacky experience.
Came back and monkeyed around – did CMJ over at WMTU, went downtown with Andy and Tim for just a few minutes, went over to Jay’s and took my stuff up to the attic, then walked down to Readmore bookstore and bought the U.S. News and World Report college guide.
Home hockey again tonight. I didn’t really want to, since hockey games are so long and sometimes boring (w/ the repeated riffs). Tech won, so we at least didn’t have to play Sunday.
Went over to broomball party at Jay’s after game. Not much going on — as usual, another dull night at Jay’s. There were a lot of people, and a keg of beer, but still, not much was happening. Mike gave me a ride to campus.
Made list of qualities I want in a college today:
– 15000 or more students
– within 3-4 hours of home
– good academic rep
– more girls
– good computer science and liberal arts
– near large city
– more smart kids
– fewer engineers
As I wrote the journal entry above, I was in my first year of college, at Michigan Tech at Houghton, Mich., in the Upper Peninsula. I was a computer science (CS) major, and I also played sousaphone in the MTU Pep Band. I DJ’d a jazz radio show at the student radio station, WMTU — by “did CMJ,” I mean that I sent in a list of jazz songs I considered my most-frequent plays (mainly just my favorite songs) of the week to the publication. Andy and Tim were friends from my dorm, and Jay was a friend who had an off-campus house where he let me store some of the too-many things I had brought to campus.
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