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Since I haven't updated this with anything legitimate in forever, I'll do it now. I'm graduating in six days and moving to Manhattan in August for NYU. I am so excited, and I think I partied out some of that excitement last night at the senior formal. So here's a list of the important things I learned last night, and the important things I've learned over the past 4 years.
Last Night
1) No matter what, you will be break your pinkie toe by either stepping on your foot yourself with stilettos, or having someone else step on it for you.
2) Senior formal is a lot like a bat mitzvah except with an open bar.
3) You'll never look any good in your pictures past 11 pm.
4) Open bar has the capacity to make anyone a complete dancing idiot (in stilettos).
5) If you kiss people you don't know, one of them is bound to bite your lip.
6) Following that, you will look like you've just had a collagen injection - but only in your top lip.
7) No matter how drunk you get, one of your roommates is bound to be drunker and you will sit up the rest of the night with her making sure she doesn't choke on her vomit.
8) No matter how much your feet hurt, you will sprint for the first bus when it finally comes to the hotel to pick everyone up.
9) Vodka sours and pineapple juice and vodka lose their novelty fairly fast.
10) If you wear white, you'll spill a whole glass of red wine on yourself (not me, I wore black).
11) Speaking of that, if you wear a cocktail dress with any beaded detail, the next morning your upper arms, elbows (or any other exposed flesh that may have had some contact with the material) will be all red and sore. As much as I loved the dress, I am never wearing the damn thing again.
13) You'll really start to envy the foresight of friends who brought flip flops to change into.
12) Senior formal is REALLY fun.
Last Four Years
1) You don't know anything when you're 18. And you still probably no nothing when you're 22.
2) It's not a good idea to date anyone next door to you, because you see way too much of them.
3) You become a fabulously good skimmer, because no one can possibly read as much as the professors assign.
4) Sophomore year is notoriously known as the sluttiest.
5) Your friends are far more important than hook-ups.
6) You will look at half of your "smart" campus and wonder how the hell they ever got admitted.
7) Sometimes you'll wonder the same thing about yourself.
8) No matter what, you'll end up using phrases like "that's so sketchy," "we were such a shitshow last night," "I can't believe I kissed him," and "who does that?" all the time.
9) You become addicted to Diet Coke (preferably with lime).
10) Vh1 becomes an amazingly fun way to procrastinate. As does doing laundry, talking on AIM, and scraping all the encrusted food off dishes.
11) Five/six hours of sleep is luxurious.
12) You learn the fine art of power napping.
13) Febreeze is essential for any dorm room/suite.
14) He probably doesn't know your name, but he'll pretend like he does.
15) You start to feel totally sketchy at campus parties when you're over the age of 21.
16) Women's Studies is a great discipline even if you originally don't think you're a feminist (but you might find out otherwise).
17) The school lit magazine...probably not so good.
18) You learn to be both cynical and amazingly optimistic all at the same time.
19) Four years sort of goes by fast, and sort of doesn't.
20) You act like you're pregnant/going through menopause all the time the last month of school and just randomly cry, because it's stressful and you realize how much you'll miss your friends.
21) You start listening to the Counting Crows and Ben Folds because everyone else is doing it.
22) Alcoholic snow cones: brilliant invention.
Last Night
1) No matter what, you will be break your pinkie toe by either stepping on your foot yourself with stilettos, or having someone else step on it for you.
2) Senior formal is a lot like a bat mitzvah except with an open bar.
3) You'll never look any good in your pictures past 11 pm.
4) Open bar has the capacity to make anyone a complete dancing idiot (in stilettos).
5) If you kiss people you don't know, one of them is bound to bite your lip.
6) Following that, you will look like you've just had a collagen injection - but only in your top lip.
7) No matter how drunk you get, one of your roommates is bound to be drunker and you will sit up the rest of the night with her making sure she doesn't choke on her vomit.
8) No matter how much your feet hurt, you will sprint for the first bus when it finally comes to the hotel to pick everyone up.
9) Vodka sours and pineapple juice and vodka lose their novelty fairly fast.
10) If you wear white, you'll spill a whole glass of red wine on yourself (not me, I wore black).
11) Speaking of that, if you wear a cocktail dress with any beaded detail, the next morning your upper arms, elbows (or any other exposed flesh that may have had some contact with the material) will be all red and sore. As much as I loved the dress, I am never wearing the damn thing again.
13) You'll really start to envy the foresight of friends who brought flip flops to change into.
12) Senior formal is REALLY fun.
Last Four Years
1) You don't know anything when you're 18. And you still probably no nothing when you're 22.
2) It's not a good idea to date anyone next door to you, because you see way too much of them.
3) You become a fabulously good skimmer, because no one can possibly read as much as the professors assign.
4) Sophomore year is notoriously known as the sluttiest.
5) Your friends are far more important than hook-ups.
6) You will look at half of your "smart" campus and wonder how the hell they ever got admitted.
7) Sometimes you'll wonder the same thing about yourself.
8) No matter what, you'll end up using phrases like "that's so sketchy," "we were such a shitshow last night," "I can't believe I kissed him," and "who does that?" all the time.
9) You become addicted to Diet Coke (preferably with lime).
10) Vh1 becomes an amazingly fun way to procrastinate. As does doing laundry, talking on AIM, and scraping all the encrusted food off dishes.
11) Five/six hours of sleep is luxurious.
12) You learn the fine art of power napping.
13) Febreeze is essential for any dorm room/suite.
14) He probably doesn't know your name, but he'll pretend like he does.
15) You start to feel totally sketchy at campus parties when you're over the age of 21.
16) Women's Studies is a great discipline even if you originally don't think you're a feminist (but you might find out otherwise).
17) The school lit magazine...probably not so good.
18) You learn to be both cynical and amazingly optimistic all at the same time.
19) Four years sort of goes by fast, and sort of doesn't.
20) You act like you're pregnant/going through menopause all the time the last month of school and just randomly cry, because it's stressful and you realize how much you'll miss your friends.
21) You start listening to the Counting Crows and Ben Folds because everyone else is doing it.
22) Alcoholic snow cones: brilliant invention.