Monthly Archive for January, 2007

college recap: part VII

Published on January 21, 2007 in UPenn. 1 Comment

This will be the last addition to the college recaps. From here on out, updates will be a little more recent. So last semester was one crazy ride in Management 100. The course centered around a team of ten working on one making one super-fab service project happen before the semester is over. My team, the Kohesive Kohalition, was in charge of throwing a hip hop party (perhaps the coolest project choice) to benefit University City High School (UNI).

The Kohalition looking slick after our client presentations. Counterclockwise from bottom left: Zack, Lisa, Chris, Atthena (our TA), Jeewon, Liz (our client’s community relations person), Amanuel, Sean (our client), Alex, me, Melanie, Lee.

Here’s a little bit about our team.
Zack – “What the Peter Drucker!! Get out of my office!”

Lisa – “I love this team!! i hate myself…”

Chris – Chris is actually insane. Stay away from her. she pinches.

Atthena – Sweetest TA of all.

Jeewon – Pledging + Mgmt = almost died.

Amanuel – Black.

Alex – Randomist kid ever. Maybe because he’s always high.

Melanie – Future beat-boxer of America or Cayman.

Lee – Mask and Wig Krunker

Front of UNI.

We started a Marketing Club at UNI to help promote the event. Here are them kids. Luckily I wore some Bape that day.

Our event flyer. This was my baby.

So throughout the 2-3 month period our team basically went nuts. We had snack-selling fundraisers, tshirt fundraisers, raffle fundraisers, corporate sponsors, food donations, venue sponsorship, flyers, handouts, printed tickets, decorations, 12+ performers, 3 DJs, team shirts, crazy nights, lots of stories, zack yang, and much more. The event went off really well, a lot of people showed up, we raised around $1000, the performances were really well done, and people had a good time. Even the principal at UNI showed up and broke it down (sort of).

The back of our handout flyers with a list of all our performers.

The Kohalition posing with our many sponsors. Counterclockwise from bottom left: Big Red, AMan, MC Tag, Yi Yi, El Quest, A Bad, G1, jSUN, Daddy Yanks (not pictured: Z-Dawg)

Pimpin our Krew shirts after the event.

So much thanks to the Kohalition for an eventful, crazed, mad, enraged, funnyfull first semester. This sadly is the end of the first semester recap. A semester that was dazzling and much insane.

Photos of winter break in Catalina Island and such to come. Peace out from THE KREW.

college recap: part VI

Published on January 21, 2007 in Music and UPenn. 1 Comment

Here we go. Last two recaps.

During the first few weeks of school, Penn’s 40 million a cappella groups had tryouts. Being a lover of singing and being a big loser, I tried out for 30 million. I managed to get callbacks to all 30 million, including Penn Masala, an all-indian group. (I also made callbacks for Penn Dhamaka, an all-indian male dancing group. Nice.) Finally after a painful two weeks, I received work that I made it into Chord on Blues, Counterparts, Off the Beat, and Pennsylvania-Six 5000. Of course, coming from a billion years of choir and of listening to college acappella, I flipped out about getting into Off the Beat and knew that was it for sure. However, after spending a week with both Penn-Six and Off the Beat, I realized how different things were from what I expected. I found myself enjoying my time at Penn-Six more and that Off the Beat, although dope, was not exactly what I wanted. So PennSix it is.

Last semester, we had our fall show which brought in about 700 people. We also had our 25th anniversary and 70+ alums actually returned for the festivities. It was pretty amazing to see all these people and actually hear them sing the songs that we listen to on old albums and meet the people behind the voices.

We had multiple gigs throughout the semester, and we went on a roadtrip to New York and Boston to sing for some rich Penn alum’s birthday.

With the birthday boy. From left to right: guy not in Penn-Six, Lix, Brock (me), Grubbs, Lechter, old man, Stan, Chex/Ward, Cletus, Lingus (on bended knee), Jiggy, Tiger Woods (Nigel).

Please note:

40 million = 12ish

30 million = 7

a billion = 11

700 = 700+

70+ = 70-

Penn-Six = worst group ever

college recap: part V

Published on January 14, 2007 in Trips and UPenn. 1 Comment

Sometime last semester, some dungeon members ventured to some random city in New Jersey for the All-American Rejects’ Tornado Tour. Felt like we were the only college students there. Nick met some high school girls. And then internet stalked them the next day. Show was really good. Gym Class Heroes are really good.

some of the beauties who attended. in actuality, nick only attended the ride to and from the tweeter center because he’s just madly in love with his magical elixir.

gym class heroes – listen to them

The Starting Line

All-American Rejects

amazingly hot

see the rest of the pictures HERE

college recap: part IV

Published on January 8, 2007 in UPenn. 0 Comments

I started working as a photographer for the Daily Pennsylvanian just so I could use them fancy cameras. I’ve only had one assignment so far which involved walking to and from the office (conveniently a billion blocks away) carrying a backpack that contains this:

Camera Backpack
beautifully expensive

Big Camera
just holding this thing is beast

Pretty Lenses
whoop

Second semester started today, but I have not yet finished my college recap as I had hoped. Almost done though with probably a couple more entries left. Current semester schedule is just lovely:

Legal Studies 101
Math for less stupids
Computer Science 121
Computer Science 260
Business and Public Policy 250 – Managerial Economics
Writing Seminar – Performers and Critics

Second semester will hopefully be a semester for redemption. More recap to come…

college recap: part III

Published on January 6, 2007 in UPenn. 0 Comments

Here in the fabulous illadel, there is a week dubbed Restaurant Week when us less-than-wealthy can enjoy some fine dining in the city for a reasonable price. So some members of the dungeon and select members of the Quad got all dressed up and took a trip to

i think it translates to “bra water”