PGR

PGR stands for "Pretty Good Race". It's for all the CS nerds at CMU. So once a year, some of them stop staring at the screen and head out on a wooded trail along the hills called the Schenley trail to run for a distance of 5km. I was there this year and my oh my was it fun..! It started with excitement, then anxiety, then questioning, then despair, then encouragement, then numbness, then longing, numbness again, then adrenaline and finally unparalleled JOY..!

At the end of this adventure, there lay awaiting us some delicious water watermelons. Yes we Mellonites like melons..!Awesome experience..!

The Fence and Independence Day

As far as traditions go, Carnegie Mellon has many and we got to take part, first hand in one of it's most fun traditions. The tradition is called 'The Fence'. It is nothing but a fence in the middle of campus that people keep painting randomly during the night as a sign of protest or just to make a point.

On Independence day, we said seized the opportunity to repaint the fence with the tricolor. And guess what, Fun and Patriotism can come packaged together too..!