I don\’t want to be suckered into homesickness, but I miss…Berkeley. I miss the cool mild weather. I miss the 10 minutes after times (when a class is listed as starting at 10 am, it actually starts at 10:10 am). I miss Durant Food Court and La Burrita (no I don\’t miss La Val\’s…or Old Tea House). I miss the foothill cc and how I would suddenly get suckered into staying 3 hours overtime fixing laptops out of guilt. I miss living in the living room. I miss having my parents close by, only because my mom would cook for me and do my laundry. I miss…MIKE FERNANDO. I miss my Ikea desk with the two shelves on the side. I miss my yellow lemon poster and my print of Van Gogh\’s The Starry Night. I miss my endless supply of ramen and won ton. I miss walking across the street confident that a car will not run me over. I miss getting off the bus FROM THE BACK DOOR instead of having to run to the front door. I also miss only showing my bus pass when I get on the bus rather than showing it when I get off. I miss the protests. I miss having no cellular reception in my apartment. I miss the football games that I never attended. I miss Mr. William Hung the civil engineering major who has no professional training. I miss using a student id number rather than my social security number. I miss the Pacific Time Zone. I miss Bearfacts and Bearlink. I miss the 51. I miss the spontaneous late night snacks and watching movies on a puny computer monitor with people. I miss the cheap forest green futon. I miss being rudely woken up by garbage trucks and construction every morning. I miss having classes in lecture rooms with broken desks and broken chairs. I miss the ilosttrackoftime chats with good friends. I miss my nice, fat wamu bank account.

But on a happy note, I have received many free things from CMU (although technically my expensive tuition probably funds all of these things). So far, I have gotten a lanyard, a shirt from Women@SCS (just for being female and in SCS), four continental breakfasts, four FULL lunches, one wine/\”cheese\” reception, one HCI t-shirt (has not arrived, but soon!), and…FREE TAMPONS (girls only, sorry guys).