Talk about a hectic first day for CU-Boulder. I was in class when I heard the sirens. Here is the extract from the CU Breaking News page:

Update: 11:50 a.m. - At about 9:43 a.m. today the University of Colorado Police Department received a report of a stabbing that had occurred on the terrace of the University Memorial Center, located at 1669 Euclid Ave. on the main campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

University Police Officers who were nearby confronted the suspect and ordered him to “drop the knife.” The suspect began to stab himself with the knife. Officers deployed a Taser to disable the suspect and then took him into custody. The suspect was transported to the hospital with injuries reported to be serious from the self-inflicted stab wounds.

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Well I thought I might talk about the new student convocation that happened on the 24th of August. It’s basically a time when all the freshmen of the university gather on Folsom Field (huge football field) to listen to the Chancellor give his welcome speech along with a few other little speeches regarding the transition from high school to college. The event is so huge and it was so hot, I was dripping wet. We all got to wear these t-shirts that said “Class of 2011″. Well obviously that doesn’t apply to me but I am new to the university so it was appropriate that I attended the event. Afterwards there was this huge party on Farrand Field and it basically was just heaps of free food and music - yay. I’ll leave you with a few pictures from it.

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Did you notice how I spelt “center” as C-E-N-T-E-R not “centre”? Well that’s what I have to do now in this country. Well aside from that sidetrack, this evening, heaps of freshmen congregated into the UC Rec Center. There was free ice skating, rock climbing and other random little stores. It was jam packed. Probably the highlight of the whole night was the fact that each person was given $1000 in casino chips and obviously everyone was trying their luck at striking it big.

I sat myself down on the blackjack table merely because it was the only game I knew I was half-decent at. The dealer was such a character. The guy playing next to me was ridiculously funny also as he switched his $500 chip for a $50 when he knew his hand had lost. After all in the name of fun, I came out with $6000…and after heading to the roulette tables I went all in on red to double it to $12k.

Now came the auction for random prizes. I didn’t have a big enough voice so I just ‘donated’ my $12k to Todor, a friend of my roommate Chris. He ended up winning a foam mattress for his bed after handing over $25k! Anyway I’m kinda scared of the weather right now, there’s heaps of lightning so I better go Until next time…

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