First, a cool NY Times article about David Swensen, the endowment manager whose work allows us to do so much stuff here: For Yale's Money Man, a Higher Calling
This week was extremely busy, not just studying for my physics midterm but running around to all these IM games! Being no-so-athletic, I went mostly to cheer on my fellow Sillimanders, but in the end even I managed to contribute a little =)
Tuesday: Swimming, A-hoops, B-hoops, W-hoops
Swimming is one of those once-a-season sports: the colleges are split into two "meets" with the top three teams in each meet going on to the finals. We did respectably well, winning a few events and making it to the finals, which will be this Tuesday! In basketball, women's hoops lost by a heartbreaking three points, but A and B hoops both dominated:
Aaron backstroking his way to more IM points
Kunal taking the B-hoops tipoff
Vanessa and Emily dribbling down the court
Wednesday: Inner-tube water polo, men's volleyball
Perhaps one of the more esoteric IM sports, inner-tube water polo is exactly what it sounds like: trying to get a ball in the opponent's goal while paddling around in big black inner tubes. Unfortunately, I only got there at the very end, so no photos (yet). After that game ended, however, a couple of the guys dried off and ran to join the end of the volleyball game:
Jeff setting the ball for Alex...
Spike!
Thursday: Women's volleyball, C-hoops
I was taking my physics exam =(
Friday: Bowling!
IM bowling = bowling for free. Seriously. Each college selects 4 bowlers (3 guys, 1 girl) as their "competitive" team, but then everyone just gets to go bowl for fun. About 20 minutes before the bus was supposed to leave, Zach sent out an email saying Silliman needed a girl...I was planning to go anyway, so it worked out well. Amazingly enough, I scored 144 in the first game (first and probably last time I'll ever get two strikes in a row), enough to average 110 across the three games (things just went downhill from there =P). The guys were ridiculous, despite two of them claiming that they couldn't bowl well...
Ben, the freshman phenomenon who had never bowled IM before
In the last game, Vespe was leading the rest of us by 40-ish points...
But then Alex (same guy as in volleyball) came back with six strikes in a row!
Even after all that IM goodness, I found myself back in Payne Whitney this afternoon to watch the gymnastics meet against the University of Rhode Island. There was a large Silliman contingent in the stands including Master and Mister K - not surprising since three of the gymnasts are Sillimanders. Yale eventually won the meet =)
Kristen on the balance beam
Alina transitioning between the uneven bars
Forecast for tomorrow: Lots of reading, some note-taking/problem set-doing, and a few scattered meetings =P
Tuesday: Swimming, A-hoops, B-hoops, W-hoops
Swimming is one of those once-a-season sports: the colleges are split into two "meets" with the top three teams in each meet going on to the finals. We did respectably well, winning a few events and making it to the finals, which will be this Tuesday! In basketball, women's hoops lost by a heartbreaking three points, but A and B hoops both dominated:
Aaron backstroking his way to more IM points
Kunal taking the B-hoops tipoff
Vanessa and Emily dribbling down the courtWednesday: Inner-tube water polo, men's volleyball
Perhaps one of the more esoteric IM sports, inner-tube water polo is exactly what it sounds like: trying to get a ball in the opponent's goal while paddling around in big black inner tubes. Unfortunately, I only got there at the very end, so no photos (yet). After that game ended, however, a couple of the guys dried off and ran to join the end of the volleyball game:
Jeff setting the ball for Alex...
Spike!Thursday: Women's volleyball, C-hoops
I was taking my physics exam =(
Friday: Bowling!
IM bowling = bowling for free. Seriously. Each college selects 4 bowlers (3 guys, 1 girl) as their "competitive" team, but then everyone just gets to go bowl for fun. About 20 minutes before the bus was supposed to leave, Zach sent out an email saying Silliman needed a girl...I was planning to go anyway, so it worked out well. Amazingly enough, I scored 144 in the first game (first and probably last time I'll ever get two strikes in a row), enough to average 110 across the three games (things just went downhill from there =P). The guys were ridiculous, despite two of them claiming that they couldn't bowl well...
Ben, the freshman phenomenon who had never bowled IM before
In the last game, Vespe was leading the rest of us by 40-ish points...
But then Alex (same guy as in volleyball) came back with six strikes in a row!Even after all that IM goodness, I found myself back in Payne Whitney this afternoon to watch the gymnastics meet against the University of Rhode Island. There was a large Silliman contingent in the stands including Master and Mister K - not surprising since three of the gymnasts are Sillimanders. Yale eventually won the meet =)
Kristen on the balance beam
Alina transitioning between the uneven barsForecast for tomorrow: Lots of reading, some note-taking/problem set-doing, and a few scattered meetings =P
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