User:Grasshopper

About Me

Alyssa K

I am the ketchup

And a proud member of the snurch

Honoured to be the Muse for Lan 24.2

I like you, I love you, I CTY you!

Music

Some of my best memories were at CTY and I hope you enjoy(ed) your time at CTY as well. A large part of CTY for me is the traditions, and a lot of that has to do with music. As such, here are links to the CTY playlists I've made over the years.

CTY Evening Quad Time - Playlist I put on shuffle during evening quad time, significant songs with special days or dances are at the top. Mix of non-high-holy canon and non-canon songs that I like and think fit the vibe of EQT.

CTY Raving Playlist - Similar to above, but simply raving-specific songs. Higher up songs are more traditional with the first song "You Make My Dreams Come True" being the traditional lancaster song that signals the start of the rave section of the dances.

Nomore Year - Songs that had special significance during my nomore year at Carlisle 2024 session 2. Some canon songs, some popular favourites, some talent-show performances, some inside jokes, etc

Classes/Sites

Collegeville/Ursinus:

UNAG.B.19.1

• Model United Nations and Advanced Geography
• Taught by Megan Nicholson with TA Erin

Lancaster:

COGN.B.23.2

• Cognitive Psychology
• Taught by John “Comma” Price with TA Aliya
• Schnader 3 (the COVID hall) with RAs Nia and Joy

Carlisle

LOGC.24.2

• Logic: Principles of Reasoning
• Taught by Daniel Maryanovich and TA Trey
• High Street 2 (Logicology Hall!) with RAs Becca and Fatoumata

Contact Info

If you need to contact me for any reason, here are a few ways! I’d be happy to answer any questions about CTY! I check RealCTY pretty regularly so feel free to write a note on my user page :)

Discord: grasshopper1942

• I’m on Server 42 (and Locked Out of The Quad) as Alyssa K

Email: watermelontaco22@gmail.com

Instagram: @ctycarlisle24.2

• I co-run this account with another CTYer so you can reach me through DMs there as well

Memories

CGV 19.2

• "I am the Ketchup" song
• Doing handstands and also arm-wrestling during those long periods on the weekends where no one was there for some reason
• Talking to the Pizza Guy in the cafeteria
• Making Swamp Water Concoctions with the soda machine
• The Dances, and wearing the flower garland as a headband-and-necklace

LAN 23.2

• Playing board games on the first day with Schnader 3
• Calling our teacher "John Comma" to the point where I can't remember his last name
• Making a psychology-inspired Bohemian Rhapsody with Josie
• Sitting in a circle outside on the grass, 10 feet apart, with double masks on, because that's how paranoid we got with our little covid epidemic
• Making the Margarita song (A covid-informational parody of One Margarita)
• Learning to rave, and finally getting two-beat and three-beat after trying for so long
• Late nights talking/playing games in Josie or Rayne's room with my hallmates
• Making even worse Swamp Water Soda abominations (such as my attempt to make purple by mixing a blue drink and red jello and then drinking it)
• Looking for 12-person tables in the cafeteria
• Love-Tape Day and collecting tape-marriage rings
• The great Fire Alarm Fiasco and splashing in the puddles outside in the thunderstorm
• Sprinting to high-jump onto my bed while the lights turned off, so that my lovely roommate Charlotte could rest
• Mao games with rules that kept getting funnier and funnier
• Evening Quad Time
• The final Summertime Sadness on the last day with our teacher, TA, and majority of our class

CAR 24.2

• The return of the Hippo Hat for CTY Halloween
• Playing Halloween music everywhere I went with my portable speaker clipped to my lanyard
• Joining the Cult of the Rain God (PTR!)
• Losing the Game and then immediately Praising the Rain
• Being aware of Serena’s existence
• Hiding directly behind Serena for as long as she wasn’t aware of MY existence
• Discovering the Jessica Lore after she disappeared in the elevator.
• Gaybling
• Finally learning to play ERS
• Playing Good Pizza Great Pizza with the pizza pookies
• Getting windmills during raving practice!
• Leading the running during Stairway to Heaven :)))
• Crocheting a blue and pink cropped mesh sweater at CTY that I wore for goth day
• Actually doing eyeliner I was proud of for goth day (despite my weak eyeliner skills)
• Discussing Spider-Man with a cafeteria worker
• Weekend mornings spent in the HUB basement

Passionfruit Speech

Nomore Speech, August 2nd, 2024

okay umm... I've never done a Passionfruit Speech before, this is my first and very likely last, but my name is Alyssa Kristjanson. Also known as Alyssa K, Grasshopper, The Muse, that Hippo Hat girl, and perhaps many, many more. This is my 3rd year of CTY. I went, for the first time in 2019, and it really made a big impact on me. I had just moved schools that previous year and I didn't really have many friends but CTY showed me that I could make friends and for being myself. Due to COVID, I couldn't come back 'til 2023, but when I got there, the first thing I see, in the lounge of Schnader 3, is Griffin, who was also in my hall back in 2019. I thought that was cool. We played a lot of games, Schnader 3, we had our fun times. We had our COVID times in Schnader 3. We were the COVID hall. I never got COVID, too cool for that. CTY taught me a lot of things, I think the first year taught me about being myself. Last year, definitely taught me about making new friends. And this year, taught me about lasts. I'm going into my senior year after this, senior year of high school. I'm 16, I can never return [to CTY] as a student. Alyssa for RA 2026 though. But I'm excited, that I had these memories here, and I have things to look back on fondly, of all these people who I've met. What CTY means to me is just, a lot of people coming together, for a shared love of learning, being funny, silly, nerdy. It's like, the people are awesome, the classes are awesome, you get to do funny, tradition-y, quirky,  activities, and I think it makes it this mega-, super-, ultra- CTY combo. 
 
  During this year, I was honoured to have been given the [student] position of The Muse, which is the second-oldest position at Lancaster and now, I guess,  Carlisle? The Muse, to me, is all about is all about being friendly and welcoming, and I hope that I got, to others, be at least somewhat friendly and welcoming. I feel like I know a fair amount of you here. I enjoyed running to Stairway to Heaven, thank you for playing that at the last dance [ here Alyssa was talking to the RAs who had fought for that song to be played at the last dance]. I enjoyed challenging myself to meet new people, to sit with people I had never met at lunch. And I enjoyed improvising a Last Supper Speech, just like I'm kinda improvising this speech. Well, The Muse originally had a relic that was called the Duct-Tape Staff. It was supposedly made out of an old lacrosse stick, that had fairy lights on it and duct-tape. It has been lost to time. But, I thought, it'd be cool to make a new thing. So I made this duct-tape box. It's got some stuff in it. It's got duct-tape in there, it's got friendship bracelets, it's got a letter I wrote. And I really wanna pass it on to the next Muse. Because I think they'd do great at being a Muse in 2025. They were very interested in tradition, and always very friendly. I could always find them at Evening Quad Time, or dancing at the Dances. And I know they'll do just great as Muse... Micah, you have [unintelligible due to clapping, perhaps something along the lines of "You have been chosen to be the 25.2 muse"] 
 
 CTY means a lot of things to me, but maybe CTY, maybe the REAL CTY, was the friends we made along the way. To Jessica, my missing roommate. To Zoe, my first roommate, and Charlotte, my second. To the Snurch, and the Margarita Song. May COVID never take us down. To our yearly little COVID outbreaks, because if I had a nickel for every time I had a CTY hall that had a COVID epidemic, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. To Tradition, Friends, and Raving. To Late Nights, Quad Time, and Closing Time. To the Night We Met, to Cog Psych B, Logicology, and the Gayble. To the Game (I lost the Game [chorus of ILTG throughout the crowd]), to the Rain (Praise the Rain! [chorus of PTR throughout the crowd]), and to standing behind Serena and seeing how long it would take before she would notice my existence. Before I close my speech, I would like to end with a valid syllogism, which I learned in my Logic class this year. All CTYers are awesome. You are all CTYers. Therefore, you are all awesome. 
 
 I Like You 
 I Love You 
 I HUB You 
 I ATS You [some groans from the audience]
 AND I CTY You 
 
 I love CTY, and I love the Passionfruit, and I love each and everyone of you, so, so, much.