college tips

1. Rethink your schedule... ALL the teachers take role 5 minutes before the official starting time, instead of 3 minutes after.
2. Yeah, sure, you get to pick your food, but you have to eat 2 or 3 meals at school, instead of just one.
3. Get to know your roommates before you go to college... it makes the first night way less awkward... thank goodness i at least knew this one before i came.
4. The first day of class is still the worst, and it's worth it to have school on Labor Day when you get 6 weeks for Christmas Break!
5. It's still just as hard to find time to sleep, even if you do get to take naps in between classes.
6. Bring a very good blanket... one room controls the whole floor, and chances are they like it really cold at night, well, in the day too actually.
7. Laptops are essential... desktops need annoying wiring that might take 4 days to get hooked up.
8. Don't forget your pillows when you leave.
9. Bring some good comfy walking shoes... after about 4 whole days in flip-flops, your feet are gonna need at least a day of break.
10. Even with 2 trash cans, water bottles take up a lot of room when you drink about 9 in a day together.
11. Make sure you find a good shorthand... the teachers don't always wait for you to make cute letters and creative bulletins.
12. DON'T forget your towel the second time you go to the shower... you'll somehow end up blaming it on your roommates. lol.
13. Make sure your camera can take more than 3 pictures before you leave.
14. Don't laugh too loud after one o'clock in the morning.
15. You're gonna need light bulbs and outlet splitters... badly.
16. NEVER forget your ID scanner card at lunchtime... the lady with the funny hair will never forgive you... ever.
17. Even if you bring 36 movies, it prolly won't be enough to last the first couple weekends.

new lives...

not much is going on really... i've been to all my classes now, and i've discovered that i have a really stinking lot of reading homework for all my classes, and some writing, but that's pretty much all i'll need to do. it'll be time consuming, but i suppose i'm used to that. i tried out for the musical last night and had some choir meetings and i have try outs for Highland Singers soon, so maybe i'm biting off a little more than i can chew. we'll see... at any rate, i'm excited. emily might come visit over her fall break! yay! that makes me happy, because even though i haven't even been gone a week i miss everyone terribly anyway.
grrrr. if it weren't for the homework i would absolutely love college! i love living with my two best friends here, and having a lot of free time, and i really don't even mind my classes that much... i just need to perfect my time management i think. i love my room and i love my hall and i like our campus a lot. the food isn't as good as home, but still it's not bad. i'm enjoying getting to know people (haha! Leesh) and hanging out in the middle of the day. it's a big change, but not entirely for the worse lol.
i am looking foward to coming home for the weekend the first time in a few weeks... we'll see when that is. at any rate, i miss my sisters and my parents like crazy. but i absolutely LOVE letters! lol. it just makes my day to find a card or a hand-written letter in my mailbox! hehe! it's a little way to break the boredom of the routine.
anyways, i've gotta go and finish my homework so i can watch a movie in a little bit.

live for the first time from sterling college...

hey everyone! since i haven't written in a while, i figured i'd better write a quick post before taking a nap (and recovering from a whole Saturday afternoon of orientation!). college life is really fun, but a part of me will always miss my Topeka life. our classes haven't started yet, so i'd say i'm doing fairly well in the academic area so far. lol.
my roommates are absolutely wonderful, and our room is super cute... we have a guest bed and a futon, so we can fit three if you wanna come visit! and you won't even have to sleep on the floor. i miss people already. it's hard kinda, since i'm not at like k-state where a lot of my friends are.
this guy alex remembered my name from coming to sing at school and that was really exciting, cause he's a music and theater guy and he's really sweet! and i know most of the girls from my wing... my RA's super-sweet!
anyways, i'm really tired, so ima go take a nap...

hey! i know i haven't written in forever, but i guess that's cause i've just been at a loss for what to write. mom went to the hospital to have her heart worked on, but came out wonderfully and is back at work tuesday; shane came home and that makes me really happy; i have to leave for college friday morning. that pretty much brings you up to speed, i bet.
friday morning. that's so soon. when did my summer leave? that's not fair... it had the advantage of the element of surprise over me. hmmm... oh well. i guess i have to leave my family and friends sometime. it might as well be now. at the same time, i'm totally not ready to be forever on my own... its, well, scary.
now i'm running out of things to say because i've said the entire thought process in my head right now. weird. it's really vague up there. lol.