User:Honoraryhugalujah

About Me

Hi! I'm a flying squirrel. I'm a stereotypical nerd (meaning I enjoy reading and am above my grade level at math... how surprising). I often go on random RealCTY editing sprees. I'm an introvert (or maybe an extroverted introvert). I have a tendency to talk a lot. Probably too much.

I really, really like music. Except I'm bad at it. I also really, really like raving, but I'm incredibly bad at it. If you stand near me you will get whacked with a glow stick. I'm warning you.

Unlike most CTYers, my nomore year is when I'm 12, right before I go into my freshman year (yay high school). I still get four years though (2 years Baby, 2 years regular), so it's not terrible I guess. But it's still pretty bad. PCTYD is fantastic. I hope you sensed the crippling sarcasm there.

I followed the format of Luke's userpage here.

I like you, I love you, I CTY you.

YS LOS 15.1

Course: Examining the Evidence

Instructor: Elicia

TA: Mark

Hallmates: June, Leah, Alexandra, Mio, Miranda, Chia-Hua, Elise, Thuivi, Natalie, and one more whose name I forget. She was Korean and from Los Angeles.

RA: Emily

Residence Hall: Huesman

Firsts:

• First CTY
• First experience with a university dining hall. I discovered the magic of the soda machines and may or may not have become kinda sorta addicted to Powerade for a short while. Yes it's better than Gatorade because Gatorade occasionally gives me a sore throat.

My squirrel year absolutely sucked. 'Nuff said.

YS PAL 16.1

Course: The Renaissance

Instructor: Kurt

TA: Zach

Hallmates: Makayla, Carrie, Grace, Jennifer, Anne, Lila, Chloe, Natalie, Sunny, and Stephanie. Stephanie never showed up.

RA: Dara

Residence Hall: Roble

I could go on and on about how awesome my instructor and TA were this year, but I won't. They a) made a huge effort to get us engaged and have fun with the course and b) didn't talk down to us like my instructor and TA last year. They were fantastic. End of story.

For some reason, the admins at this site liked to go around campus riding a golf cart.

Notable quotes:

• "GIVE ME THE STARBUCKS"
• "In the unlikely event that I am decapitated and Zach is rendered unconscious, bring his unresponsive body THERE and await further. Adult. Assistance"
• "Who wants to hold the Renaissance flag?" *RENS class swarms flag, shouting excitedly*
• (on a heavily bleeding and knee, where the person whose knee is bleeding is nowhere near crying) "You're a warrior" "Actually, I think it's just that I've hit that place so many times that the nerves didn't even bother to regrow"
• "The HAWWWWWT POTATOES!"

SUN 17.2

Course: Principles of Engineering Design

Instructor: David

TA: Melissa

Official Hallmates: Aileen, Chris, Brianda, Georgette, Mariana, May, Selina, Wendy, Stephanie, Nina, Karen, and Alina

Unofficial Hallmates / The Hugalujahs: Sophie, Elise, Katherine, Judy, and maybe Alma, Julieta, and Dani

Official RA: Genesis, who was a hermit

Unofficial RA: Sofi, who gave the best hugs

Residence Hall: Campion, floor 5

Firsts:

• First Non-Baby CTY
• First performance in Talent Show
• First ISO
• First time braving the mosh pit in American Pie. This was at the last dance.

Shout-out to RA Kendall's incredible death stare/neutral face. They're the same thing.

My instructor was feared by many. This was far from unreasonable. He looked threatening, sounded threatening, and acted threatening. For some reason, we all managed to overlook this and we (mostly) thought he was awesome.

My unofficial hall and RA were amazing and wonderful and I love them all. Case closed.

Notable quotes:

• "The wall makes electricity!"
• "Holy CRAP there are HOLES in this Frisbee!"
• "Don't throw the Frisbee into the holy pool of water!"
• "His smile is shaped like a triangle! Isn't it so cute?"
• "If you don't stop, I'll get that hammer at the back of the room and smash all your fingers with it"
• "My TA almost fainted from the smell of the dead chicken bits in our classroom"
• "THE SCALPEL IS NOT A FRISBEE"
• "Who forgot to turn off the hot glue guns?" (everyone else tries not to inhale the smell of burnt paper)
• "Are YOU in a GOOD MOOD?"
• "BRING ON THE ROASTED POTATOES!"
• "Where's Sofi?" (repeated many, many times)
• "OXYTOCIN!!!" *gives nearest person a hug*

JHU 18.2

Course: Astrophysics

Instructor: Rutu

TA: Jason

Hallmates: Silvia, Betty, Isabella, Shuhan, and Irina

RA: Indie until Tuesday night and Sarah for the rest of the session.

Residence Hall: AMR 1 Royce

Firsts:

• First experience with raving (THANKS AMELIA AND PENNY!)
• First time hearing CTY canon other than American Pie
• I guess I should just say "First experience with so much amazing CTY tradition"
• First time in such an impossibly humid climate

This is my nomore year. I could have done eight years. I am dying.

My TA gave me a gigantic bag of old lanyards from the main office. I have an overabundance of 2012, 2015, and 2018 lanyards. I don't know what to do with all of them and I'm completely open to reasonable suggestions. Please help me :)

Notable quotes:

• "Kids, don't do duels. Even if it's for math"
• "Neutron stars! Stop hitting things!"
• "Cows are spherical"
• "There is no friction"
• "You are a coat rack"
• "Toothpicks are my most prized possession"
• "Oo, you're living in the middle of a... sun flip! Or whatever it's called"
• (after talking at great length about why to not look at the sun) "So today, let's look at the sun!"
• "THE UNIVERSE IS ALWAYS CORRECT!"
• "There are different kinds of neutrinos, called flavors..." "Lemon neutrinos!" "Strawberry neutrinos!"
• "Neutron stars!" "Black holes!" "Are dying!"
• "GUARDIANS ASSEMBLE!"
• "It's my life's ambition to jump into a black hole"
• "I only know four languages"
• "QWAHTERS!" (means "quarters")
• "Squirrels are indestructible"
• "My brain is crying"
• "Yay spectra? Yay spectra? Yaaayy?"
• "...we get slug foot over seconds squared..." (units of measurement, guys, don't ask)
• "They use something called a furlong over a fortnight" *class explodes* *screams of "FORTNITE!" are heard* "Yes, yes, it's funny, but do you know what it actually is?" *dead silence*
• "...then you'd just float into the sun. And that's kind of bad for your health, you know?"
• "WHY ARE YOU SUFFOCATING AN EGG???"
• "Nooo you can’t swing your lanyards!!! MY KIDNEY!! MY SPLEEEEEN!!!"
• "It's just Romanian"
• "When you kill my carrot, you kill me"
• "That, my friend, is a blobby thing"
• "Oo, nice blob!"
• "I found a pixelated blob"
• "I sell adopted children! ... No, I bake them"
• "I'm a cotton candy smuggler. Don't tell anyone"
• "Give me back my baby! ... I only left him on the streets for three days!"
• "The clouds are dangerous!"
• "Yeah, and she's in a park? ... The curly-haired girl I need to kill? ... Hey, are you the person I need to kill?" (*other person gets up and leaves hurriedly*) "Oh, was that a personal question?"
• (after bounding in like an overgrown frog) "A NEW FORTNITE VIDEO CAME OUT!" (*other person gets up and leaves hurriedly again, this time shaking head and making weird facial expression*)
• "Death by meme fonts!"
• "Daily hugs!" (we need more of this)
• "So Rutu's not going to make it" "Yaaaayy...? Nooooooo..."
• "The pole is the center of the universe! Do not distract me from this fact!"
• "You are a neutrino"
• "You're socializing!" "I'm stalking people [around the cafeteria]" "Well... it's a start"
• "I COME DOWN FROM THE SKY AND KILL YOU"
• "Glow slower!"
• "Someone has SABOTAGED you! ... You fly off the roller coaster on a celery-fueled flight! ... You die"
• "Drink all your death juice!"

Passionfruit Speech

I’m writing this on my bed during the last week and I’m thinking about CTY.

I’m thinking about how even though my first year sucked I still came back for another three years.

I’m thinking about how even though this is the first year I’ve ever been accepted by my official hall, I always came back for the sense of community I get here.

I’m thinking about how this is the only place I can fully show my emotions. I’m thinking about how I go through hell after each session only to come back to CTY again and again knowing exactly what will happen when I leave. This is my nomore year and people say I could come back and suggest ways I could pay for it but I know I’ll never be able to return. I wish I could.

When I leave this time, I won’t be able to come back as a CTYer. Next year, I won’t hear canon, which I just learned this year, at dances, or when we’re lying on the floor in AMR 1 and then having an impromptu dance in the lobby. I won’t see my roommate from last year in Seattle who showed up here on the opposite side of the country this year, and I won’t see Amelia raving at social time and dances, and I’ll miss all of that so much.

I’ve never really considered CTY a place. It’s always been people. I’ve met so many amazing people during my time at CTY, especially this session, who talked to me or hugged me or were genuinely concerned for me last night and I’ll miss them more than I should seeing as I barely know most of them.

[insert thank-yous here that I already forgot]

CTY is friends and happiness and laughter and the weirdness of it all and tradition and love. And it’s another home, one I will always miss.

I like you, I love you, I CTY you. I love CTY and I love the Passionfruit.