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" I had a whole lot of firsts this past week\u2026 HALLOWEEN BAKER 13 AT RICE This was on last Sunday, and it was quite the experience. The Will Rice freshmen led the defense against the Baker 13 runners, so we spent a whole night filling up water balloons, trash cans and water guns. Then, we climbed onto the roof of the commons, where we launched our counter-attack against the Baker 13 runners, of which there were around a hundred! Afterward, a group of friends and I followed them around to watch them &amp;quot;attack&amp;quot; all of the North Colleges. I can&amp;#039;t give too many details, though ;) VOTING  On Tuesday, I got one of those sweet &amp;quot;I Rocked the Vote&amp;quot; stickers because for the first time in my life, I VOTED! A few years ago, I never would have thought that my first time voting would be in Texas, practically a foreign country to New Jersey! Before coming here, I definitely didn&amp;#039;t know the issues in Texas, but luckily for me, there are a lot of students on campus who know their politics. On Tuesday night, the Will Rice masters, Paula and Mike, had an election party at their house with pizza, candy and cupcakes. (&amp;quot;College masters&amp;quot; are analogous to the &amp;quot;house masters&amp;quot; in Harry Potter. They live on campus in a house with their family right next to the college dorms, and they act like our surrogate parents, while also holding awesome events at their house, like afternoon teas or the election party!) Watching the election results on TV was actually pretty fun, especially knowing that I had influenced them (only in the slightest, but still!). It was a great break from homework and studying. ACADEMIC ALL-NIGHTER  I stayed up all night a few nights, just to hang out with friends, especially during our first weeks when we didn&amp;#039;t have that many commitments and such. But two nights before my bio test, I had my first academic all nighter. I basically sat down that night, started studying, and before I knew it, it was 6 A.M.! I got so caught up with my reading that I didn&amp;#039;t even realize how tired I was, and that I had to be at class in three hours. I didn&amp;#039;t even mind the content; I really like biology a lot. But, I was very distraught when all that studying only led to my first\u2026 BAD EXAM EXPERIENCEI didn&amp;#039;t do too well on my econ midterm a few weeks ago, but I forgave myself for that because I had a concussion. This bio test, on the other hand, I don&amp;#039;t feel I did so well. A lot of people, including a lot of my friends, came out of the exam freaking out about its difficulty, but a lot of people also came out being really obnoxious about how well they thought they did. I felt pretty depressed for the rest of that day, especially because I studied really hard and pulled that all-nighter just to go over the content. Well, no matter what, you can always study more. Even though I didn&amp;#039;t have the greatest week, I know that I&amp;#039;m still going to have a whole lot more work in the coming weeks\u2026 **sigh** At the very least, I can always look forward to the upcoming weekends here, which are going to get progressively more exciting until the end of the month. I can&amp;#039;t wait for my first Thanksgiving home! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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