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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.

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