More about Liv and Smith...

After living two years at Cutter House, I now live in Parsons House, and will serve as the next house president. I'm still a little confused how that happened. Someone else nominated me, I told people I wasn't running, my platform was "Let's buy a house car," and I ended my speech with "Let's stop the violence." But now that I'm in the position, I have lots of ideas for the house. Parsonites can expect movie nights, bingo nights, disco bowling, and celebrity letter-writing parties. A car as a house purchase might be out of our range, but I think I can garner support for a house unicycle, bicycle-built-for-two, or metal detector.

ACADEMICS

I pity the fool who don't take Government classes at Smith! I'm so proud of the department -- they just updated their webpage for the first time since 1996. My personal focus is Comparative Government, and I plan to go to graduate school to study comparative politics, at least for the moment.

The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures also has some excellent classes. I've taken both Chinese and Japanese here, and I think this is one of the better departments on campus. Check 'em out.


LIV'S FREE TIME


The days of my bored, hall-wandering first year are long gone, swallowed up by demands of classes, work, and outside activities. These activities include the Smith Badminton Club, of which I am president, and the Smith Gamelan, a group of maybe fifteen that plays (or attempts to play) Indonesian music.

On many afternoons, you can find me in Neilson Library, where I work as a reference assistant. In other words, I'm one of those annoying people who ask you if you are finding everything you need. So if you have a ten-page paper due tomorrow and haven't started yet, come to me!

On a few lovely evenings, I've found a way to begin paying off my student loans -- by opening a lemonade stand. This was long a dream of mine, and recently I've realized just how well it could work. My business partner, Evelyn Hundt, and I opened our first stand one rainy January night over J-term. No, we weren't just bored. By holding our stand at midnight, we were able to catch all the people who were out looking for midnight snacks, and we had the market cornered -- all the little kids who might have stands were in for the night because of curfew. Over two January nights, selling for an hour at midnight, we made nearly eight dollars. When we reopened during reading period for one night, we sold four pitchers' worth of lemonade in one hour, and made almost eight dollars. When you only charge a nickel, you can get some big tips. Look for the lemonade stand again during the 2000-2001 school year. I still have loans to pay off.


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