Chrysler Building!

I arrived in NYC on the Lakeshore Limited last Friday. I’m loving it so far. I miss home, fog, hills and non-humidity. NYC is so strikingly beautiful. I’m beginning to make friends, and having a couple friends here and on the way is really nice. People here are more friendly than I thought, but definitely not as willing to have random conversations with strangers like on the west coast.

I miss my partner, but we’ve been finding ways to feel connected remotely. I’m putting up maps of home (Muni map and a Hagstrom map of SF). I’m about 15 minutes from the main campus buildings, which I really like. It forces me to walk every day, is helping me accomplish my goal of walking all of lower manhattan.

I’m excited to be here, and excited for classes to start (for the first time ever!).

I’m noticing a lot of things.

• There are so many helicopters
• People are actually quite friendly
• People are far more stylishly dressed here
• Everybody walks
• Horns oh god the horns

Too many cooks in our very small kitchen

My suitemates are amazing! We’ve made onigiri already. We’ve got Lebanese, Puerto Rican, Chinese, Cambodian and Indian in here, so food is yet to be boring!

I’ve been meeting tons of new people, and something that has really stood out is meeting other Indians. Being from the Bay Area, I associate us so strongly with tech, and meeting Indian students who have no tech ties has been a bit of a (pleasant) shock.

I think I got sick. I’ve been congested and had a scratchy throat for 24+ hours now. I’m going to rally today and try to get some food and cold medicine to hopefully stop this before the weekend is over. Needless to say I’ll be masking extra carefully. My room is finally starting to look a bit more like a place someone lives and less like a messy Norwegian prison. Photos to come. If you’re here and want to meet up, shoot me an email!