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i love college ridiculously. i can't explain how great it is.. sometimes i feel more at home here than i do at home. don't get me wrong, i love going home and seeing my family and my boyfriend and my friends that i barely get to see anymore.. but here is just a different thing. i don't feel quite so.. controlled. when they say you're on your own, you're really not. there's people here to look after you and make sure you don't go nuts. just subtract the parent factor. you take what they taught you but you don't necessarily have to use it in everyday situations. you are on your own to a certain extent.. but everything is a choice. you choose when to wake up. you choose what to eat. you choose to go to class or party all night and fuck the reading for the next day. you choose where to go and what to do. it's friggen great. about the people here.. okay so i've only gotten to know a handful, but so far i've noticed that it's twice the open minded-ness and half the vanity & shallowness of your typical high school crowd. even if i'm walking around campus alone, i feel like i fit in more here than i ever did in high school. high school was a square hole and i was a round peg. in college the hole is slightly rounder.. if that makes any sense.
as i'm typing this, i'm sipping on a frappuchino and thinking about the week i've had so far. my roommate is asleep, the rest are watching tv and way too tired to talk to each other.. and i just got in from intro to philosophy. i never had more perfect circumstances to write something..
anyway, i got here early on sunday to get some work done and settle in for the week. i went to the computer lab where i typed up my last entry and got a lot of schtuff done. my classes involve a LOT of reading, but it's not so bad when you understand it or it applies to your life. when i got back to the room, me and sandi were hyper as hell. we stayed up til 2am talking about our weekend and trying to untangle the stupid beaded curtain that we bought from spencers. no luck. getting a shower curtain instead ;]
monday, i went to my classes.. i loved all of them. my new US history II professor is the same woman i had when i had to sit in on a lecture for one of my orientations. [ramapo is famous for their 345703 orientations]. she's great. i actually cared about reconstruction in the post-civil war south. i would've slept through that class in high school. in my first year seminar class, we went outside and played games LOL. that class is pointless, but fun. we untied a human knot and played some kind of "get to know you" circle game. i can't believe i'll be getting 3 credits for this class. anyway..
when i got back to the dorm i packed and left for the shuttle to mahwah train station. i waited there for a while and talked to a mother and her two sons.. they were just there to watch the trains because the boys just love watching them speed by. i thought that was cute :o) then i decided to call my own mom and actually tell her where i was going. she wasn't mad or upset like i thought she would be.. i think she was more nervous for me than anything. but she accepted the fact that i'm almost 18 and in college and she can't exactly "control" what i do anymore, and i was proud of her for that. she told me to be careful, and i told her that i refused to be careful. in fact i was thinking of jumping in front of a train just to see what would happen ^_^ haha my dad and i make fun of her for that all the time. i just had to call her at every station. there were 3.. i took a train to secaucus junction and then got on a train to trenton. both of those were free with my student ID. in trenton i had dinner at roy rogers [i thought that restaurant was extinct?!] and then took a septa train to philadelphia. ok, so i almost took an amtrak train to florida because it was on the track that the septa was supposed to be on at the same time it was supposed to arrive. that would've been an adventure. but luckily, some guy at the ticket machine told me differently :o) that's another thing.. i loved taking the train.. i talked to a lot of interesting people. and get this.. two different guys on two different trains asked me if i went to NYU, because i looked familiar. what the crap??? apparently one of my clones escaped and decided to go to college. oh well..
my last train arrived at market east at 9 where i met mark.. i ran to him like i hadn't seen him in days. really i just wanted it to be like those movies where the girl, by chance, sees the love of her life in a train/bus/whatever station and just knocks him the fuck over. yeah.. i'm a loser.. you don't have to tell me ;]
anyway, we met up with juan, jay, and kim and then went to the hard rock cafe with some of their friends from AIPH. i didn't eat anything but i bought an a tanktop with a guitar in a heart with wings :o) ahhh.. the infinite danger of a debit card. after that we took another train back to jay & kim's place. that apartment gets nicer and more interesting everytime i'm there :o) we watched jason's portfolio.. it was extremely impressive and very professional looking :) i really wished i could've seen it on the big screen. he's graduating next week.. keep this name in mind.. jason zapata.. i'm sure you'll here it again soon enough ^_^
the guys started watching resident evil and since me and kim can't stand the movie, we started drinking appletinis haha. i was on an empty stomach though so that was the only thing i had to drink. for some reason i just wasn't in the mood to get drunk. i guess that's a good thing? we watched family guy for a bit and then went to bed.. mark and i slept on an air mattress that just decided to deflate on us overnight. we woke up about 345003 times, one time mark tried to convince me that it wasn't deflated, that we weren't really on the floor hahah. another time, we just couldn't find juan. we looked at the couch and only saw a blanket and a pillow. we asked kim where he was, and when she got right up to the couch, she realized he was there. apparently he was curled in such a tight little ball that we couldn't even see him! hahah.. idk i guess you had to be there.. but it was funny as shit at the time. and after fighting over the blanket all night, i woke up completely underneath the blanket and mark was curled up into a ball next to me, shivering. i guess i won LOL. yup.. sleeping with my boyfriend is always fun..
we all woke up around 11 and got mcdonalds for lunch.. blahh i hate eating mcdonalds, especially twice in one week, but it wasn't bad. after lunch we went back to jay's place and watched some weebls stuff on his computer. stupid yet addicting. especially the salad fingers.. that just creeped me out. so of course i had to show it to my roommates last night ;D so mark juan and i left to drive back to carteret.. we dropped juan off at home and then drove to ramapo. the drive was a lot shorter than i expected.. mark finally met all my suitemates so that was cool. we basically just hung around and ate my mom's chicken parm and watched pulp fiction. it was great spending time with him ^_^ i really miss him when i'm here, but we've been really lucky this week.. we've been able to see each other everyday except for today. that pretty much never happens with us. so i'm happy..
when he left, me and the suitemates bonded over shit conversations and the usual hahah. we had a pointless meeting with our RA and then had to sign agreement [over things we agreed to when we first got here]. we were all supposed to go to a party in the apartments, but i decided to be a loser and stay here and finish reading for philosophy. sandi and cj went and couldn't even find the place, so they just came back lol. i'm glad i didn't miss much. jen invaded our room and we had some ridiculous late night conversation before bed. it's amazing that i had the earliest class this morning and i stayed up the latest ;p oh well.
i didn't really have a problem waking up this morning and i actually enjoyed my philosophy class.. the lecture was very interesting and i wasn't afraid to speak up about things.. i really like plato.. but anyway..
now i'm just sitting here eating a hot pocket and making up new words with fred. when sandi eventually wakes up [lucky bitch] we're gonna get our nails done with the suitemates.. then later on we're going into the city to meet roxanne for dinner :) i miss that girl!!! i can't friggen wait for tonight. but i'm gonna go read some history so i can actually sleep late tomorrow. ["late" meaning 9am opposed to 7].
yay for jewish holidays!
i'm going now..
always n forever,
manda
as i'm typing this, i'm sipping on a frappuchino and thinking about the week i've had so far. my roommate is asleep, the rest are watching tv and way too tired to talk to each other.. and i just got in from intro to philosophy. i never had more perfect circumstances to write something..
anyway, i got here early on sunday to get some work done and settle in for the week. i went to the computer lab where i typed up my last entry and got a lot of schtuff done. my classes involve a LOT of reading, but it's not so bad when you understand it or it applies to your life. when i got back to the room, me and sandi were hyper as hell. we stayed up til 2am talking about our weekend and trying to untangle the stupid beaded curtain that we bought from spencers. no luck. getting a shower curtain instead ;]
monday, i went to my classes.. i loved all of them. my new US history II professor is the same woman i had when i had to sit in on a lecture for one of my orientations. [ramapo is famous for their 345703 orientations]. she's great. i actually cared about reconstruction in the post-civil war south. i would've slept through that class in high school. in my first year seminar class, we went outside and played games LOL. that class is pointless, but fun. we untied a human knot and played some kind of "get to know you" circle game. i can't believe i'll be getting 3 credits for this class. anyway..
when i got back to the dorm i packed and left for the shuttle to mahwah train station. i waited there for a while and talked to a mother and her two sons.. they were just there to watch the trains because the boys just love watching them speed by. i thought that was cute :o) then i decided to call my own mom and actually tell her where i was going. she wasn't mad or upset like i thought she would be.. i think she was more nervous for me than anything. but she accepted the fact that i'm almost 18 and in college and she can't exactly "control" what i do anymore, and i was proud of her for that. she told me to be careful, and i told her that i refused to be careful. in fact i was thinking of jumping in front of a train just to see what would happen ^_^ haha my dad and i make fun of her for that all the time. i just had to call her at every station. there were 3.. i took a train to secaucus junction and then got on a train to trenton. both of those were free with my student ID. in trenton i had dinner at roy rogers [i thought that restaurant was extinct?!] and then took a septa train to philadelphia. ok, so i almost took an amtrak train to florida because it was on the track that the septa was supposed to be on at the same time it was supposed to arrive. that would've been an adventure. but luckily, some guy at the ticket machine told me differently :o) that's another thing.. i loved taking the train.. i talked to a lot of interesting people. and get this.. two different guys on two different trains asked me if i went to NYU, because i looked familiar. what the crap??? apparently one of my clones escaped and decided to go to college. oh well..
my last train arrived at market east at 9 where i met mark.. i ran to him like i hadn't seen him in days. really i just wanted it to be like those movies where the girl, by chance, sees the love of her life in a train/bus/whatever station and just knocks him the fuck over. yeah.. i'm a loser.. you don't have to tell me ;]
anyway, we met up with juan, jay, and kim and then went to the hard rock cafe with some of their friends from AIPH. i didn't eat anything but i bought an a tanktop with a guitar in a heart with wings :o) ahhh.. the infinite danger of a debit card. after that we took another train back to jay & kim's place. that apartment gets nicer and more interesting everytime i'm there :o) we watched jason's portfolio.. it was extremely impressive and very professional looking :) i really wished i could've seen it on the big screen. he's graduating next week.. keep this name in mind.. jason zapata.. i'm sure you'll here it again soon enough ^_^
the guys started watching resident evil and since me and kim can't stand the movie, we started drinking appletinis haha. i was on an empty stomach though so that was the only thing i had to drink. for some reason i just wasn't in the mood to get drunk. i guess that's a good thing? we watched family guy for a bit and then went to bed.. mark and i slept on an air mattress that just decided to deflate on us overnight. we woke up about 345003 times, one time mark tried to convince me that it wasn't deflated, that we weren't really on the floor hahah. another time, we just couldn't find juan. we looked at the couch and only saw a blanket and a pillow. we asked kim where he was, and when she got right up to the couch, she realized he was there. apparently he was curled in such a tight little ball that we couldn't even see him! hahah.. idk i guess you had to be there.. but it was funny as shit at the time. and after fighting over the blanket all night, i woke up completely underneath the blanket and mark was curled up into a ball next to me, shivering. i guess i won LOL. yup.. sleeping with my boyfriend is always fun..
we all woke up around 11 and got mcdonalds for lunch.. blahh i hate eating mcdonalds, especially twice in one week, but it wasn't bad. after lunch we went back to jay's place and watched some weebls stuff on his computer. stupid yet addicting. especially the salad fingers.. that just creeped me out. so of course i had to show it to my roommates last night ;D so mark juan and i left to drive back to carteret.. we dropped juan off at home and then drove to ramapo. the drive was a lot shorter than i expected.. mark finally met all my suitemates so that was cool. we basically just hung around and ate my mom's chicken parm and watched pulp fiction. it was great spending time with him ^_^ i really miss him when i'm here, but we've been really lucky this week.. we've been able to see each other everyday except for today. that pretty much never happens with us. so i'm happy..
when he left, me and the suitemates bonded over shit conversations and the usual hahah. we had a pointless meeting with our RA and then had to sign agreement [over things we agreed to when we first got here]. we were all supposed to go to a party in the apartments, but i decided to be a loser and stay here and finish reading for philosophy. sandi and cj went and couldn't even find the place, so they just came back lol. i'm glad i didn't miss much. jen invaded our room and we had some ridiculous late night conversation before bed. it's amazing that i had the earliest class this morning and i stayed up the latest ;p oh well.
i didn't really have a problem waking up this morning and i actually enjoyed my philosophy class.. the lecture was very interesting and i wasn't afraid to speak up about things.. i really like plato.. but anyway..
now i'm just sitting here eating a hot pocket and making up new words with fred. when sandi eventually wakes up [lucky bitch] we're gonna get our nails done with the suitemates.. then later on we're going into the city to meet roxanne for dinner :) i miss that girl!!! i can't friggen wait for tonight. but i'm gonna go read some history so i can actually sleep late tomorrow. ["late" meaning 9am opposed to 7].
yay for jewish holidays!
i'm going now..
always n forever,
manda