User:Honoraryhugalujah

Hi! I'm a flying squirrel. I often go on RealCTY editing sprees. I have amazing luck when it comes to who I make friends with, but terrible luck when it comes to where they live.

I 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.

I'm on a Science Olympiad team. Link to my Science Olympiad wiki user page

I convinced a friend to attend LOS 18.2 and I'm currently trying to get another to come with me to JHU 19.2 in the highly unlikely event that I convince my parents to let me. She "hypothesize[s] that it’s a magical place where smart people go to escape the usual bunch of idiots we call society." Incredibly accurate.

Potential eight-year archangel and twelve-year-old nomore. I did still get four years of CTY.

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

Forevermore

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 soda machines and may or may not have become kinda sorta addicted to Powerade for a short while.

My squirrel year absolutely sucked. 'Nuff said.

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 really 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!"
• "You dimple!"

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. Sofi's hall came up with the name; it's a combination of "hug" and "Hallelujah." The reason for this was that they hugged each other a lot and they also sang Hallelujah in the hallway a lot.

Official RA: Genesis

Unofficial RA: Sofi

Residence Hall: Campion, floor 5

Firsts:

• First regular CTY
• First performance in a CTY Talent Show, or any at all
• First ISO
• First time braving the center of the room in American Pie. This was at the last dance.

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 tries to not 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* (yes we were weird I know)
• "Isaac! Step away from the vending machine!"

By the way Sophie you still need to make a RealCTY account and I will nag you until you do so.

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
• First time hearing CTY canon other than American Pie
• First Passionfruit
• I guess I should just say "First experience with so much amazing CTY tradition"
• First time in such an impossibly humid climate
• First time in the inner circle during American Pie
• This is probably the most sad and depressing first ever, but this was the first time my RA left for the hospital on the first Tuesday of the session and never came back. To say the least, she got really sick during 18.1 and it didn't go away. Indie, you were missed.

This was my nomore year. Some people find it surprising that Baltimore is the most tradition-heavy site I've been to, but I never experienced Lancaster, Carlisle, or Saratoga, and this is so far my favorite site and I'm glad I spent my last session here.

Amelia is the most wonderful and amazing and inclusive and hardworking and (insert compliment / nice adjective here because I can't think of one good enough) person I have ever met at CTY. I like, love, and CTY her.
UPDATE: And now she's the 19.2 JHU Empress of the Passionfruit. She has officially reached a level of awesomeness that is unattainable by us mere mortals.

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!"
• (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..."
• "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!"
• "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"
• "I BROUGHT A TOWEL AND IT WAS SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE"
• "Drink all your death juice!"
• "You're a popular human. We've been waiting"

Passionfruit Speech

Note: I was dead tired and because of that it's short and badly written.

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 that could happen 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.

Stuff I Can Hang Around My Neck

Specifically, CTY-related stuff I can hang around my neck that doesn't look too stupid.

Lanyards

My TA, being the awesome person he is, managed to get me 91 lanyards from the main office, if that explains anything.

2010 lanyards: 3

2012 lanyards: 35. Used to be 36, but I gave one to Amelia.

2013 lanyards: 1. Used to be two, but I also gave one to Amelia as a completely inadequate gift for being so awesome, and she needed one anyway.

2015 lanyards: 34

2016 lanyards: 1

2017 lanyards: 1

2018 lanyards: 17

Black staff lanyards: 1

Total: 93

Glowsticks

Blue: 2

Yellow: 2

Green: 1 (this one was randomly given to me by someone who I believe was one of her friends - Isa, maybe? I'm not sure, it was dark)

Total: 5

Tunak Tunak Tun

Tunak Tunak Tun is the first canon song I learned the dance to, courtesy of Lynne and Amelia. I attempted to teach the dance to various family members twice after 18.2. The second time was with my entire family watching, with one of them off to the side, recording. Notable things that were said (other than me giggling so much that I messed up twice):

• "It's over! It's over!" "No, it goes on for five minutes!" ... "I can't do it for five minutes!"
• "You have to hop! Hop! Like this!" *camera starts jiggling*
• "That was an explosive ending. You almost took out the robot!" (someone lost their balance and crashed into said robot, which was made by my brother using a Meccano kit and is about four feet tall)