I am literally the ONLY person I know at school who doesn't know all the words to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire." Like, I just told two of my floormates how crazy it was that almost everyone in Significant Others knew the whole song, and they said something like, "Really? You don't?" I never thought I'd say this, but I'm completely by ( Read more... )

I've found that since getting to college, I hit my head on things a lot more often. The frequency of me hitting my head on things, actually, has probably increased by 150% at least. Northwestern is pretty much no country for tall people. Or something.

...went something like this last night in the NMQ lounge ( Read more... )

Some things about college:

• Regional slang spreads in dormitories faster than - uh... chickenpox. A number of my floormates have taken to saying "hella," which apparently hails from Seattle; from my roommate's hometown in Texas we get "epic fail," which is used to describe situations in which one party fails miserably - and often embarrassingly - at ( Read more... )

Step 1: Put your iPod on shuffle
1: Write down the first line of the first 25 songs that play on the iPod, no matter how
embarrassing it is.
Step 2: When someone guesses the song title and artist correctly, strike through/delete that first line (and tell who guessed it). DO NOT USE SEARCH ENGINES!!!

1. Let it never be said that romance is dead/' ( Read more... )

First, reading about the Pilgrims' arrival on Plymouth Rock is way more exciting when you listen to Johann Sibelius' "Finlandia" at the same time.

Second, dorm life is awkward. And pretty hilarious.

Third, I freakin' love college.

I want my life to be sponsored by Nike.

It's September 1st. Most of my friends have left for college by now, but I have another two weeks to go before move-in day. The big idea of it hadn't really hit me until today when I was using the bathroom (which is, of course, when most big ideas finally find their way to my brain). In this particular trip to the loo, I ran out of toilet paper, so ( Read more... )

Me: "Well... I did kind of get lost. I guess I went too far on the 169 South because I didn't realize there was no exit directly to 35. But it didn't faze me or anything. I kept my cool and just got out at a gas station, asked directions, and turned around and went the other direction for like fifteen miles. But, like I said, didn't faze me. Rose ( Read more... )

The Top Ten Reasons Rafael Nadal No Longer Needs The Wimbledon Of My Heart

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