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3:08 and all's well! <chime chime chime>

All this time at Berkeley I've been looking for something, and I think I may have finally found something like it. I've been searching for some kind of community in the Engineering college, and when I peeked into the Computer Science Undergraduate Association office last week, I knew almost immediately that I'd found it. Friendly people. Not excessively geeky. Interesting projects. Cool atmosphere. Wow.

I logged into soda.csua.berkeley.edu and popped into the IRC channel #cusa. Immediately, dans greets me, and, after a moment's pause, adds "Unless I've got my tobins confused, you're of splorg.org fame." Wow, I'm known.

Slightly before that I received what might possibly be the coolest email I've ever received. Actually, my reason for showing up in #csua in the first place:

are you an undergrad? Were you a ta for something? I seem to have seen your name before. Anyway, should you wish, your presence is invited at the "hive mind" located at server: {irc.ocf.berkeley.edu, ugrad.csua.berkeley.edu} channel #csua (i.e. your research looks interesting and some ppl wanted to talk to you about it).

I'm just sad that it took me four years to discover this group.

Other than that, everything's just the same as it used to be. Pining woefully and futilely after girls who are lesbians, and all that.

Comments

[ankaerith.livejournal.com]

I hear you on that community thing. I recently joined a community of sorts: Bookworlds (http://www.bookworlds.org/) Granted, this community didn't exist four years ago but it would have been nice if it had.

Sheesh, I thought I had girl problems. I've yet to pine for a lesbian, though that doesn't stop it from possibly being "woeful and futile." Well good luck to you, straight girls become lesbians... it is always possible a lesbian can go straight... ;) But I wouldn't hold your breath.

[squarkz.livejournal.com]

yay for community... i was once a physics major, but it turned out that physics students were competitive on the cutthroat level. so now i am a geophysics major, and it seems sometimes that everyone in the geology department has slept with at least one other person in the department. we are all about community, yessir.

and as for the lesbians, at least you don't date them for months or years, and then break up, soon after which they decide they are a lesbian, thus leaving you wondering a great deal about your own sexuality. because that scenario has happened to a disturbing number of my friends. it happened to one of them twice, even! you're really much better off without that.

Yeah, communities are good.

[dedoleo.livejournal.com]

I was having a chat with ankaerith not too long ago about I have yet to find a community that I fit into. And he was telling me about how it is unnecessary and offered little to no support--mostly argument. And here this bitch is relating to you about Bookworlds. Go figure. I swear, LJ needs a rolling-eyes smiley icon like Ars (http://www.arstechnica.com/).

[odd-dog.livejournal.com]

I've been known to

(a) pine futilely after women who are straight,

(b) adore (but not really pine for) men who were flamingly gay, and

(c) pine woefully for long-term boyfriends who didn't love me.

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

When I was at college, it seemed that all the community revolved around was the nightly consumption of as much (and often more) beer as was physically and financially possible. The university was somewhat better... One of the reasons I'm thinking of going back for my degree is to meet more interesting people.

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should join the CSUA, seeing as how I'm a graduate student not in computer science. I'll go there next time you do.

Somehow it never seemed fair to me that none of the straight guys I ever pined after ever had such a hopeless crush on a lesbian. It's good (in a twisted way) to know that it does happen sometimes though.

Also, check out an article in Yahoo news about "lesbians until graduation" (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20030312/hl_nm/lesbians_bisexuals_dc). Pretty good article I might add.

[roxymartini.livejournal.com]

there is something inexplicably luscious about the things you can't have, isn't there? i always go for people who couldn't possibly like me. there's something comforting about unrequited love. its always there.