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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

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/).