College life
So here's life in the last 11 days:
This is my room for the most part. Like I said before, bigger than the other rooms on our hall by about 10-15 feet. My bed occupies the extra space. Our room is at the end of the hall but because of it's size, it is the central meeting place of the Staley 2nd floor lakeside girls. Staley, besides Danieley Center (sorry Danielle, it's prounced Daniel-E) which is out in the boondocks of Elon's campus, is the farest away from all of the academic buildings. I walk 15 miles in the rain and snow and sleet UPHILL every day to slave away at my classes. But actually I have a 10 minute walk and campus is pretty and I need exercise so who cares. My biggest concerns on campus currently include 1. the bare tailed squirrels who get too close for comfort, 2. the always on sprinklers by my dorm which randomly will spray passerbys, 3. the fact that as of tomorrow, I will have almost 40 meal plans due to the fact that I only use about a one day, and 4. my next trip to Walmart will include getting the 6th bottle of apple juice Emily and I will had in about a week.
Proof that I do indeed have a bathtub which I only share with Emily.
My side of the room
Hard to see proof that I love everyone to the right. Thanks to Emily's drawers for reflecting themselves onto my picture frame.
Emily aka Poogan (make sure to call her that at least once for some entertainment when you all come to visit 1347724 times.) and myself
So first Emily and I made friends with other hall girls who also had no friends besides their roommates/suitemates.
Here is day 1 invasion of our room by hallmates: after me is Jessie (who has the Belizian roommate who calls be Blyde. She is from Charlotte and swims so I like her. She also tags me as random people in her pictures.), Lauren (Lauren is in 3rd year calculas as well as on the dance team as well as never in our dorm so this is the last time she will probably be pictured.) and Kate (Lauren's suitemate, one of nine thousand people from Maryland going to Elon. When she is not sleeping or at class, she is in our room. Everyday.)
Then another day our RA decided our hall needed to bond over a "cultural event" titled N*W*C or Nigger Wetback Chink (except she won't tell us what it stund for until we got there.) Kind of an awkward experience considering I never really knew when it was okay to laugh. ANYWAY, here we are bonding as we were supposed to. Next to me is Leila (Lauren's roommate), a girl I stalked on Facebook before coming here because she is with me in the 9% of Virginians. We talk about Virginian things together because no one else understands. Maybe someday I will tell her I stalked her...except that might not be for a while.
On Thursday evening I went to the resident life association's form of giving back to the community: playing bingo for boxes of cereal and toilet paper. I won. It was exciting. I got a box of fruit loops, granola bars, and Mystic Pizza on DVD.
On Saturday we thought it would be cute to feed the ducks, geese, and swan from the duck pond. Unfortunately I have no pictures of Kate being swarmed by the ducks, but if I did I imagine it would be a pretty humorous picture.
Later on Saturday, Emily decided it was Madelyn from Belize's birthday. Except it wasn't her birthday...Emily just wanted us to get free food at Chili's. She put quite a bit of planning into a fake birthday party. Here are the rest of the nice girls Emily and I associate with in the hall: My (except she pronounces it as "me" so when we were all trying to introduce overselves, it was confusing), Kate, Kara (who is tall and laughs at me when I talk, so she is likeable), Emily, me (what a cute picture), Avery (from Kansas. End of explanation.), Jessie, Madelyn (all th's are pronounced as d in her world), and Courtney (she doesn't talk but she is Kara's roommate and they have a lot of food...so they are likeable).
My anthropology professor just e-mailed my class to tell us about her pet rabbit (picture included). Another one of my professors is 31 - and has a PhD and has taught here for 5 years, plus some time at Cornell. How is that possible?
This is my room for the most part. Like I said before, bigger than the other rooms on our hall by about 10-15 feet. My bed occupies the extra space. Our room is at the end of the hall but because of it's size, it is the central meeting place of the Staley 2nd floor lakeside girls. Staley, besides Danieley Center (sorry Danielle, it's prounced Daniel-E) which is out in the boondocks of Elon's campus, is the farest away from all of the academic buildings. I walk 15 miles in the rain and snow and sleet UPHILL every day to slave away at my classes. But actually I have a 10 minute walk and campus is pretty and I need exercise so who cares. My biggest concerns on campus currently include 1. the bare tailed squirrels who get too close for comfort, 2. the always on sprinklers by my dorm which randomly will spray passerbys, 3. the fact that as of tomorrow, I will have almost 40 meal plans due to the fact that I only use about a one day, and 4. my next trip to Walmart will include getting the 6th bottle of apple juice Emily and I will had in about a week.
Proof that I do indeed have a bathtub which I only share with Emily.
My side of the room
Hard to see proof that I love everyone to the right. Thanks to Emily's drawers for reflecting themselves onto my picture frame.
Emily aka Poogan (make sure to call her that at least once for some entertainment when you all come to visit 1347724 times.) and myself
So first Emily and I made friends with other hall girls who also had no friends besides their roommates/suitemates.
Here is day 1 invasion of our room by hallmates: after me is Jessie (who has the Belizian roommate who calls be Blyde. She is from Charlotte and swims so I like her. She also tags me as random people in her pictures.), Lauren (Lauren is in 3rd year calculas as well as on the dance team as well as never in our dorm so this is the last time she will probably be pictured.) and Kate (Lauren's suitemate, one of nine thousand people from Maryland going to Elon. When she is not sleeping or at class, she is in our room. Everyday.)
Then another day our RA decided our hall needed to bond over a "cultural event" titled N*W*C or Nigger Wetback Chink (except she won't tell us what it stund for until we got there.) Kind of an awkward experience considering I never really knew when it was okay to laugh. ANYWAY, here we are bonding as we were supposed to. Next to me is Leila (Lauren's roommate), a girl I stalked on Facebook before coming here because she is with me in the 9% of Virginians. We talk about Virginian things together because no one else understands. Maybe someday I will tell her I stalked her...except that might not be for a while.
On Thursday evening I went to the resident life association's form of giving back to the community: playing bingo for boxes of cereal and toilet paper. I won. It was exciting. I got a box of fruit loops, granola bars, and Mystic Pizza on DVD.
On Saturday we thought it would be cute to feed the ducks, geese, and swan from the duck pond. Unfortunately I have no pictures of Kate being swarmed by the ducks, but if I did I imagine it would be a pretty humorous picture.
Later on Saturday, Emily decided it was Madelyn from Belize's birthday. Except it wasn't her birthday...Emily just wanted us to get free food at Chili's. She put quite a bit of planning into a fake birthday party. Here are the rest of the nice girls Emily and I associate with in the hall: My (except she pronounces it as "me" so when we were all trying to introduce overselves, it was confusing), Kate, Kara (who is tall and laughs at me when I talk, so she is likeable), Emily, me (what a cute picture), Avery (from Kansas. End of explanation.), Jessie, Madelyn (all th's are pronounced as d in her world), and Courtney (she doesn't talk but she is Kara's roommate and they have a lot of food...so they are likeable).
My anthropology professor just e-mailed my class to tell us about her pet rabbit (picture included). Another one of my professors is 31 - and has a PhD and has taught here for 5 years, plus some time at Cornell. How is that possible?