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Day in the Life: Jake Reed ’17

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Photo by Emma Sinai-Yunker.
Photo by Emma Sinai-Yunker.
Photo by Emma Sinai-Yunker.

8:00 a.m. — Feed the Beast.
8:30 a.m. — Say ‘hi’ to Rich, our FM.
8:45 a.m. — Say ‘hi’ to Connie at the info desk.
9:00-11:00 a.m. — Work D-Hall shift and listen to the Randy Rock playlist in the dish room.
11:00 a.m. — Class.
12:00 p.m. — Lunch.
12:30 p.m. — Look at unflattering pictures of Jarrett Thompson [’14] on Facebook.
12:50 p.m. — Hug Yan the Man [Aung ’15] on Cleve first b/c he came back from Yanland.
1:00 p.m. — Sit in class and question if I’ll pass Arabic.
2:05 p.m. — Play a game.
2:30 p.m. — Snuggle with Yan and hope he’s too jetlagged to notice.
2:53 p.m. — Lost THE game.
3:00 p.m. — Watch the homie Patrick Dowd [’17] get frustrated with Super Mario 64, get my ass kicked by Oliver Nathan [’17].
3:30 p.m. — Patrick Slough [’15] runs to the bathroom.
3:45 p.m. — Patrick Slough runs to the bathroom again.
4:07 p.m. — Yishi Liang [’16] sees me trimming my toenails in my room.
4:15 p.m. — Someone asked to take my photo.
4:22 p.m. — Invite Sarah Porter [’17] to play a game b/c it was her birthday.
4:38 p.m. — Look at iTunes Visualizer with intent and listen to Schoolboy Q.
5:30 p.m. — Head to dinner.
6:00 p.m. — Yan, Peter Mosher [’14] and I all agree to play basketball. Then, we find out soccer has taken up the Aux Gym, like always.
6:15 p.m. — Play some Mario Kart on N64.
7:12 p.m. — Clean up the remnants of Peter Mosher’s fake birthday party on Cleve third.
7:44 p.m. — Lost THE game again.
8:15 p.m. — Play a game again.
8:55 p.m. — Dhruv Bakshi [’17] falls asleep in someone’s room and refuses to wake up.
9:30 p.m. — Have Charlie Sprague [’17] put some sweet new graphics in my hair.
10:30 p.m. — Play a game again.
11:00 p.m. — Skype with Liam Shaughnessy [’15]. Liam dishes out the cold hard facts of Spain and gives advice on how to live life in the most reckless way possible.
11:30 p.m. — Drink some of the “champagne of beers” [Miller Lite] thanks to Jensen Oness [’16].
11:45 p.m. — Watch some “Blue Mountain State.”
12:15 a.m. — Sleep in my footie pajamas.

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