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Haven't updated in a couple days, it's been super busy...

I survived my first weekend of being an official college kid.  Yay!

My clothes also survived their first time in a college washer.  Yay again!

Homework takes up way too much time, and it's really weird getting used to not having every class every day, like in high school.  Meaning, I forget about things, like homework.  The other day, I checked the website for my honors seminar class at, oh I don't know, 9ish in the morning and found out I have a paper due that day at 2.  Luckily, I start class at 11 on Tuesdays, but that was a crazy two hours and a really crappy paper.

Moral of the story, time management and organization, kids.  It's important.

Tip of the Day: Invest in a planner.  Write in it, look at it, it helps, trust me.  Also, use sticky notes.  Sticky notes are my new best friend.  They're nifty for reminders, and you can put them anywhere you'll see them: your planner, computer, mirror, bulletin board, wherever.  They're great.

(Fresh) Man Vs. Machine

So I've decided the only thing I really truly hate about college is my building's computer lab.  I have my own shiny new MacBook, but no printer.  But hey, it's ok, cuz honors kids supposedly get free printing. You just put your stuff on a flashdrive and take it down there and print it off.  Easy, right? 

False.

Objection #1 : The computers are PCs...

Objection #2 : The printing isn't entirely free.  We have to bring our own paper.

Objection #3 : The printers suck.  Like seriously.  I have not been able to print one thing off smoothly.  The ink's out, there's a paper jam, it just decides it's not gonna print, or it's gonna print my 14 page English syllabus twice...one time it even printed something that was nothing even close to my environmental science paper (and I was the only one using the lab at the time...sketchy).  It's extremely frustrating.  I'm about ready to go buy my own printer.

But....I did beat the printer today for the first time!  Not like actually hitting it, but I won.  I got my biology notes to print off, formatted correctly, on the first try.  Yes!

Observation of the Day : Husker football is too popular for its own good.  I just spent like an hour waiting to pick up my pre-ordered tickets, the line was crazy!  But hey, I get to go to all the home games, so it's totally worth it.

And...it's Friday!

What I learned in school today...

I just got back from my biology lab where we literally spent almost three hours "learning" how to measure stuff.  I'm not even kidding, we had to learn about the metric system and scientific notation.  And then we weighed pecans and measured the length of dead animals they borrowed from the museum.  I'm pretty sure we did that in like 6th grade... well not the dead animal part, just the measuring.  I guess that's why it's Biology 101...

On a related note, I also learned it's a good idea to invest in an umbrella.  The city of Lincoln had a freaking monsoon this morning, and trekking across campus in the rain is not a whole lot of fun.

Tip of the Day: Always know where you're going.  I went on a run last night, and I started out on this bike path and I just decided to see where it went.  I ended up in the sketchiest neighborhood ever.  And instead of just turning and making a loop back to campus, there was a huge, fenced-in train yard so I had to end up going like a mile out of the way.  But I survived and I made it back.

Now I'm off to dinner and yoga class....whoo hoo!

Freshman 101

Right now, I'm sitting in my dorm room, not yet bogged down with insane amounts of homework and I have like 40 minutes until my next class.  So basically I'm bored out of my mind, which is why I'm doing this.

I'm new at this whole college thing.  I've been living in the dorms for a grand total of 5 days, and I have a day and a half of classes down.  I'm a freshman, one nameless face among thousands of others, but so is everybody else right?  Awesome.  So this is it, this is Operation College.

I think the most consistent thing I've noticed so far is that organizations that really care about you will give you free stuff.  We're paying thousands of dollars a year to go to school, so of course college kids love free stuff, especially if it's edible.  I've been promised free food by everything from church choir to residence hall council to horticulture club.  But the coolest thing I've got so far is a plastic headband with a giant foam Arby's logo (you know, "I'm thinking Arby's").  Is it useful? No.  Practical? Absolutely not.  Does it have any real purpose? No way.  But is it awesome? Oh hell yeah.

Tip of the Day: Plastic spoons do not work for scooping ice cream out of the container.  Steal soup spoons from the dining hall for that, (with every intention of eventually returning them of course) it works much better.

Cara