College = awesome.
I just want to run through a sample day (coincedentally, TODAY) so you all can get an idea of how many sweet things you can do at college.
7:30 am: Woke up, took a nice long HOT shower and took my time getting dressed (neither of these luxuries were available to me in high school, unless I woke up at like 5 am)
8:45 am: Ate Special K red berries (but the generic Meijer brand) in my room, while watching Today. I don't think I really like Meredith as much as Katie Couric, but Martha Stewart was on and she taught me how to make some SWEET blueberry blintzes. I am SO making those as soon as I get home and have a kitchen.
8:55 am: Left for class.
9:00 - 10:35 am: Bio lab. We basically counted kernels of corn and tested some human genetic traits in ourselves to make hypotheses for the genotypes of the parents and then use statistics to check the difference between the predicted and observed results. Aka, way more fun than high school chem labs ever were.
10:45-11:00 am: Sat on the couch in the English hall and chilled.
11:00-12:15 pm: American Lit. Not gonna lie, this was the low point of my day. I was kind of falling asleep while we were reading Emerson's "Brahma".
12:15-12:45 pm: Lunch in A-town (cafeteria). I had Jamaican jerk chicken and it was fabulous. Also, I FINALLY got some banana pudding with wafers!!! (Side story: in CapReg, Mark's banana pudding hype started at like... the third show of the season, and was an incentive for us to score higher. We finally got banana pudding in San Antonio, and OF COURSE the boys ate all the wafers before I got any.) (I am really into capital letters today. Sorry.) Anyway, point of story: banana pudding with wafers is basically the best thing that ever happened to pudding.
1:00-2:15 pm: Spanish... not the most interesting thing in the world, but we were talking about culture, including all the dances that evolved from Cuba. Not only did this make me think of Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (Blair, Laura, Puffy, back me up here... is it not the most fabulously awful movie of all times?) but it also reminded me of last weekend when I took my little sister to Fiesta at 11:00 pm in downtown Indy and she learned how to salsa dance from some random Hispanic man hahaha. Also, there was a prospie visiting our class, and so I talked to her, and I felt good about it, because I always wished people would talk to me when I was visiting colleges.
2:15-4:20 pm: Ummm, I'm not really sure what I did... a little bit of Bio homework, but definitely not two hours worth... OOOH I know. Facebook has this awesome new(ish?) feature called Friend Game in which they quote something from one of your friends' profiles and you have to guess which friend. So basically, the more stalkerish you are, the more skills you have at it. It is an excellent waste of time.
4:??-5:15 pm: Nap time. I was cold. I HAD to take a nap.
5:23-5:29 pm: Mad dash on bicycle(me)/rollerblades(Courtney) to get to the HRC in time for....
5:30-6:15 pm: PILATES! Thanks to a combination of four semesters of maxing out girl's gym, plus doing Amy's wicked abs exercise alllllll summer, I am kind of awesome at Pilates. Which is good. Also, it made my back feel better!
6:36-6:54 pm: Dinner at A-town. They had cheese quesadillas, which is one of my favorites. CapReg should get some - they're from Sysco. Also, I had PINEAPPLE! Pineapple was a very rare yet quite beloved fruit on tour.
7:00-7:35 pm: first BUSF meeting! I just got selected to be in the Butler University Student Foundation, which basically coordinates the relationship between the current students and alumni. And bring leaders on campus, aka awesome people, together to hang out. Anyway, I found out I am on the Dinner With 10 committee, which was my first choice! I get to help coordinate dinners with an alumni and ten students in their profession/major. It's an awesome networking opportunity and I get to go out for nice dinners!
7:40-8:35 pm: Tau Beta Sigma/Kappa Kappa Psi interest meeting. These are the national band service coed sorority and fraternity on campus (nerdy, I know, but it's me we're talking about.) I am not sure yet whether I want to do it or not, but I think I will probably go through the interview process to learn more about them. Also, awesome people like Val and Dave (and Katie at the UGA chapter!) are in it, so it has to be pretty cool. Any advice on the topic would be appreciated.
9:00-10:00 pm: Ballroom Dance club! Pretty much the sweetest thing you could ever think of doing on a Tuesday night at BU. (Hear that boys?) We did the hustle today, which is not the hustle you're thinking of, but a lot like swing dancing, and it was SO MUCH FUN. I'm actually pretty good at this one, especially when I dance with theater or dance major boys, because they actually know what they're doing.
Now I am back and wasting time until I finish my bio homework. I have English homework too, but I also have a three hour break between Bio and English, so there is always the possibility of further procrastination! This is shaping up to be a good week. Not stressful like last week with all the interviews, but full of fun and enriching things to do. So, I'm still kind of working on the finding good friends thing, but as long as I'm doing what I love, I figure I've got to meet some good people eventually.
PS. My across-the-hall neighbor Caitlin made PRIDE OF CINCINNATI 2007!!!! GET IT!!! I am so proud/jealous/motivated to start working my ass off for drum corps tryouts.
7:30 am: Woke up, took a nice long HOT shower and took my time getting dressed (neither of these luxuries were available to me in high school, unless I woke up at like 5 am)
8:45 am: Ate Special K red berries (but the generic Meijer brand) in my room, while watching Today. I don't think I really like Meredith as much as Katie Couric, but Martha Stewart was on and she taught me how to make some SWEET blueberry blintzes. I am SO making those as soon as I get home and have a kitchen.
8:55 am: Left for class.
9:00 - 10:35 am: Bio lab. We basically counted kernels of corn and tested some human genetic traits in ourselves to make hypotheses for the genotypes of the parents and then use statistics to check the difference between the predicted and observed results. Aka, way more fun than high school chem labs ever were.
10:45-11:00 am: Sat on the couch in the English hall and chilled.
11:00-12:15 pm: American Lit. Not gonna lie, this was the low point of my day. I was kind of falling asleep while we were reading Emerson's "Brahma".
12:15-12:45 pm: Lunch in A-town (cafeteria). I had Jamaican jerk chicken and it was fabulous. Also, I FINALLY got some banana pudding with wafers!!! (Side story: in CapReg, Mark's banana pudding hype started at like... the third show of the season, and was an incentive for us to score higher. We finally got banana pudding in San Antonio, and OF COURSE the boys ate all the wafers before I got any.) (I am really into capital letters today. Sorry.) Anyway, point of story: banana pudding with wafers is basically the best thing that ever happened to pudding.
1:00-2:15 pm: Spanish... not the most interesting thing in the world, but we were talking about culture, including all the dances that evolved from Cuba. Not only did this make me think of Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (Blair, Laura, Puffy, back me up here... is it not the most fabulously awful movie of all times?) but it also reminded me of last weekend when I took my little sister to Fiesta at 11:00 pm in downtown Indy and she learned how to salsa dance from some random Hispanic man hahaha. Also, there was a prospie visiting our class, and so I talked to her, and I felt good about it, because I always wished people would talk to me when I was visiting colleges.
2:15-4:20 pm: Ummm, I'm not really sure what I did... a little bit of Bio homework, but definitely not two hours worth... OOOH I know. Facebook has this awesome new(ish?) feature called Friend Game in which they quote something from one of your friends' profiles and you have to guess which friend. So basically, the more stalkerish you are, the more skills you have at it. It is an excellent waste of time.
4:??-5:15 pm: Nap time. I was cold. I HAD to take a nap.
5:23-5:29 pm: Mad dash on bicycle(me)/rollerblades(Courtney) to get to the HRC in time for....
5:30-6:15 pm: PILATES! Thanks to a combination of four semesters of maxing out girl's gym, plus doing Amy's wicked abs exercise alllllll summer, I am kind of awesome at Pilates. Which is good. Also, it made my back feel better!
6:36-6:54 pm: Dinner at A-town. They had cheese quesadillas, which is one of my favorites. CapReg should get some - they're from Sysco. Also, I had PINEAPPLE! Pineapple was a very rare yet quite beloved fruit on tour.
7:00-7:35 pm: first BUSF meeting! I just got selected to be in the Butler University Student Foundation, which basically coordinates the relationship between the current students and alumni. And bring leaders on campus, aka awesome people, together to hang out. Anyway, I found out I am on the Dinner With 10 committee, which was my first choice! I get to help coordinate dinners with an alumni and ten students in their profession/major. It's an awesome networking opportunity and I get to go out for nice dinners!
7:40-8:35 pm: Tau Beta Sigma/Kappa Kappa Psi interest meeting. These are the national band service coed sorority and fraternity on campus (nerdy, I know, but it's me we're talking about.) I am not sure yet whether I want to do it or not, but I think I will probably go through the interview process to learn more about them. Also, awesome people like Val and Dave (and Katie at the UGA chapter!) are in it, so it has to be pretty cool. Any advice on the topic would be appreciated.
9:00-10:00 pm: Ballroom Dance club! Pretty much the sweetest thing you could ever think of doing on a Tuesday night at BU. (Hear that boys?) We did the hustle today, which is not the hustle you're thinking of, but a lot like swing dancing, and it was SO MUCH FUN. I'm actually pretty good at this one, especially when I dance with theater or dance major boys, because they actually know what they're doing.
Now I am back and wasting time until I finish my bio homework. I have English homework too, but I also have a three hour break between Bio and English, so there is always the possibility of further procrastination! This is shaping up to be a good week. Not stressful like last week with all the interviews, but full of fun and enriching things to do. So, I'm still kind of working on the finding good friends thing, but as long as I'm doing what I love, I figure I've got to meet some good people eventually.
PS. My across-the-hall neighbor Caitlin made PRIDE OF CINCINNATI 2007!!!! GET IT!!! I am so proud/jealous/motivated to start working my ass off for drum corps tryouts.