The Year in Review!

Here comes the fun!

This year, I have participated/ attended/ been part of:

• First Day!- during which I learned the art of taping flyers.
• Waitressing on Shabbat (without getting paid! That's simply because I never filled out the form so that I could be paid.)
• Kol Hamevaser- for the beginning of this year.
• The Commentator- I wrote for Israel Club, YU MedEthics and was a copyeditor at the beginning of this year.
• The Observer- I wrote for Arts & Culture, Opinions and other various unidentified sections. I also slept in Brookdale 19C!
• YU Medical Ethics Society- I attended the speeches and took notes, but since I am now on the board I also stuffed envelopes and folders! I love the MedEthics board.
• Upstate NCSY- Starting this year, I have been an advisor for Upstate NCSY, and have had the most marvelous time of it! I love my NCSYers. I even attended the special YU & NCSY Dinner and Discussion.
• Honors Program speakers/ speeches (and had my joke slogan win for the free t-shirts). In fact, I even attended the Honors Program Orientation only to hear my blog praised.
• Town Hall Meetings with President Joel (the first time I asked about the YU Press, and the second time someone asked about Academic Bible!)
• Wandered around Washington Heights at extremely strange times in the morning (and been introduced to the Blockbuster on 175- or is it 179- and Broadway)
• Eaten Jovo's famous chocolate chip cookies!
• Went to Washington Heights for Shabbat, and davened at Mt. Sinai, the Main Beis and The Bridge Shul (on different ocassions)
• Walked the Brooklyn Bridge with someone I had never met before that day- and had nice tourists take pictures of us, to boot (Ben, you are wonderful.)
• Saw "The Magic Flute" at The Metropolitan Opera
• Discovered The Marriot Hotel while crashing Brown & Brunette's date, later revisiting it.
• Celebrated Brown & Brunette's engagement.
• Watched the Oscar Nominated live-action and animated shorts + stayed in a movie theater with a friend after the movie was finished and the lights were out.
• Gave blood for the very first time!
• Took the train to Scarsdale!
• Met a Christian missionary.
• Got free gems on my nails for listening to children tell me stories.
• Was on the radio at WYUR (cohost for an evening.)
• Saw Atonement on the night of the Oscars, at 10:30 PM, in a theater that seats 144 people- but there were only 6 of us.
• Celebrated Starlight & Hitman's engagement.
• Participated in my friend's and YU's very first Tanakh Yom Iyun!
• Went dancing in the rain in Chicago.
• Went to an awesome record store in Chicago.
• Saw "The Homecoming"- an off-Broadway play I shall not recommend.
• Witnessed a shechita!
• Walked barefoot in New York (cement is fun.)
• Went to Fort Tryon park (and discovered the shortcut that the A train elevator provides.)
• Watched a few movies (V for Vendetta, Equilibrium, Atonement)
• Attended the Stern fashion show.
• Learned how to swallow pills! (Cheer. Mini M&Ms are awesome.)
• Read lots of interesting biblical books and/or snippets thereof.
• Attended the Chronos party at Cafe K!
• Celebrated Moshe & Adina's engagement!

And this is nothing compared to what this year actually contained...and by this I mostly refer to all the people I met during the course of this year, many of whom are wonderful individuals I am privileged to have as friends.

I'm still not done + next year will be here soon.

Let the good times roll!