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Christmas Presents
OH hey...I forgot to tell you all the cool stuff I got for BU Christmas!
From Dmitriy: The collector's edition of LOTR trilogy, all red bound and with really gorgeous designs. With appendices and maps and all kinds of LOTR nerd stuff...I love it :o)
From Kristin: A turtle that moves it's head and legs and stuff and sits in front of my fish tank, and a claddagh ring...very perty
From Ashley: A cat-gargoyle thing that sits on my mantle....he's so cute!
From Raffy: A lovely charm bracelet and matching earrings...they're so shiny! (hehe)
From Silvia: Doctor socks with stethescopes and pills and stuff, a christmas picture frame and....a new friend! His name is Rufus, and he's a blue dragon, and he's the coolest dragon ever! (But he doesn't like it when you play with his tail and he will NOT wear a nose ring!)
So yes...I had a very good day yesterday! And here's a lil something for all of you!
Before I came to college I wish I had known:
That it didn't matter how late I scheduled my first class, I'd sleep through it anyway.
That I could change so much and barely realize it.
That you can love a lot of people in a lot of different ways.
That college kids throw airplanes too.
That if you wear polyester everyone will ask why you are so dressed up.
That every clock on campus shows a different time.
That if you were smart in high school, so what?
That I would go to a party the night before a final.
That I could sleep until 12:55 and still make my 1:00 class.
That my best friend is the worst roommate.
That you can know everything and fail a test.
That you can know nothing and ace a test.
That I would never watch the news, and I would be totally out of touch with the world happenings.
That home is a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
That the more money your parents give you, the less you have every time you check your account.
That parties get old, and sometimes you just want to kick back and watch a movie.
That most of my education would be obtained outside of class.
That friendship is more than getting drunk together, but I met most of my friends through drinking.
That I would be one of those people that my parents warned me about.
The free food served until 10 is gone at 9:50.
That you could be totally broke, but still have enough to go to a party.
That I would go home every weekend my Freshman year.
That I would laugh at all the Freshman going home every weekend my Senior year.
That Sunday is a figment of the world's imagination.
That Psychology is really Biology. That Biology is really Chemistry, that Chemistry is really Physics and that Physics is really Math.
That my parents would become so much smarter in the last few years.
That it's possible to be alone even when you are surrounded by friends.
That friends are what makes this place worthwhile.
Top Ten Reasons that College is like Preschool
10. You cry for your mother.
9. You cross the street without looking for cars.
8. Snack time is a necessity.
7. You bundle up for the outdoors without caring what you look like (because everyone else looks as stupid as you do).
6. You stay at home and play games with your friends.
5. You wear your backpack on both shoulders.
4. You wear big mittens.
3. Playing in the snow is a legitimate activity.
2. You take naps.
1. You look forward to grilled cheese sandwiches.
You know you've been in college too long when...
You actually like doing laundry at home
4:00 AM is still early on the weekends
It starts getting late on the weeknights
Two miles is not too far to walk for a party
You wear dirty socks three times in a row and think nothing of it
You'd rather clean than study
"Oh no! How did it get so late!" comes out of your mouth at least once a night
Half the time you don't wake up in your own bed and it seems normal
Minesweeper is more than a game it's a way of life
You schedule your classes around sleephabits and soaps
You know the pizza boy by name
You go to sleep when it's light and get up when it's dark
You live for getting mail
Looking out the window is a form of entertainment
Prank phone calls become funny again
It feels weird to take a shower without shoes on
You start thinking and sounding like your roommate
Blacklights and highlighters are the coolest things on earth
Rearranging your room is your favorite pastime
You find out milk crates had so many uses
Wal-mart is the coolest store
The weekend lasts from Thursday to Sunday,(or Wednesday morning to Tuesday night)
How to write a college paper
1. Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a well lighted place with plenty of freshly sharpened pencils.
2. Check your e-mail.
3. Read over the assignment carefully, to make certain you understand
4. Walk down to the vending machines and buy some coffee to help you concentrate.
5. Check your e-mail.
6. Stop off at another floor, on the way back and visit with your friend from class. If your friend hasn't started the paper yet either, you can both walk to McDonalds and buy a hamburger to help you concentrate. If your friend shows you her paper, typed, double-spaced, and bound in one of those irritating see-thru plastic folders, drop her.
7. When you get back to your room, sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a clean, well lighted place with plenty of freshly sharpened pencils.
8. Read over the assignment again to make absolutely certain you understand it.
9. Check your e-mail.
10. You know, you haven't written to that kid you met at camp since fourth grade. You'd better write that letter now and get it out of the way so you can concentrate.
11. Look at your teeth in the bathroom mirror.
12. Listen to one side of your favorite tape and that's it, I mean it, as soon as it's over you are going to start that paper.
13. Listen to the other side.
14. Check your e-mail.
15. Rearrange all of your CDs into alphabetical order.
16. Phone your friend on the other floor and ask if she's started writing yet. Exchange derogatory remarks about your teacher, the course, the college, the world at large.
17. Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a clean, well lighted place with plenty of freshly sharpened pencils.
18. Make yourself a power snack
19. Check your e-mail.
20. Check the newspaper listings to make sure you aren't missing something truly worthwhile on. NOTE: When you have a paper due in less than 12 hours, anything on TV from Masterpiece Theater to Sgt. Preston of the Yukon is truly worthwhile, with these exceptions: a) Pro Bowlers Tour b) any news report involving the
President
21. Catch the last hour of Soul Brother of Kung Fu on Channel 26.
22. Phone your friend on the third floor to see if he was watching. Discuss the finer points of the plot.
23. Check your e-mail.
24. Look at your tongue in the bathroom mirror.
25. Look through your roommate's book of pictures from home. Ask who everyone is.
26. Sit down and do some serious thinking about your plans for the future.
27. Open your door and check to see if there are any mysterious, trench coated strangers lurking in the hall.
28. Check your e-mail.
29. Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a clean, well lighted place with plenty of freshly sharpened pencils.
30. Read over the assignment one more time, just for the heck of it.
31. Scoot your chair across the room to the window and watch the sunrise.
32. Lie face down on the floor and moan.
33. Check your e-mail.
34. Leap up and write the paper.
35. Type the paper, and while you're at it, check your e-mail.
36. Complain to everyone that you didn't get any sleep because you had to write that damn paper.
Top 13 differences between highschool and college
1. In high school, you do homework. In college, you study.
2. No food is allowed anywhere in high school except during lunch. In college, food must be provided at an event before students will come.
3. In high school, you carry your book bag on one shoulder. In college, you carry your book bag on both shoulders.
4. In college, professors can tell you the answer without looking at the teacher's manual.
5. In high school, you're told what classes to take. In college, you get to choose them, that is as long as the classes don't conflict with each other, that you have the prerequisites, that the classes aren't closed, or already full or not offered this semester, and you've already paid your tuition.
6. In high school, fire drills are planned by the administration. In college, the fire drills are planned by drunk fraternity guys coming home when the bars have finally stopped serving (Which is at 2 am.)
7. In high school, when the teacher said "Good Morning" you mumbled something back. In college, when the teacher says "Good Morning", you write that shit down.
8. In college, the weekends start on Wednesday.(WOOHOO!!!!!!)
9. In college, it's much more difficult to figure out the course schedule of that man/woman you have a crush on, in order to figure out where he/she will be on campus at a certain time so you can 'accidentally' bump into him/her. Once you've obtained that info, it's much more time-consuming to run between classes to that place where you know he/she will be to 'accidentally' bump into them.
10. In high school, you drink Coca Cola. In college you use it to dilute Crown.
11. In college, when you miss a class, you don't need a slip from your parents saying you were skipp-... uh, sick that day.
12. In high school, you can't go off campus for lunch, because it is not allowed, for some of us. In college you can't go off campus for lunch because you can't afford it, and you don't want to move your car.
13. In high school, people that drank, were zoned-out, had untidy clothes or hair and were called losers. In college they're us.
Tada!
Love you!
Gina
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