my freshmen september

Well, its offically OCTOBER. Even typing it sounds weird. My "freshmen September" is behind me and I have successfully made it through my first month of college.

The things I've learned so far:
- Always wear shoes in the shower.
- When at dinner, if your one of the last ones to get your food, look for your friends and where their sitting ahead of time so that when you actually have tray-in-hand you dont look lost and sad.
- Make sure shoes are comfortable on Tuesday's and Thursday's... walking the length of the campus in under 10 minutes creates both blisters and makes you look like you need someone to help you get there.
- If alone and awkward have a pretend conversation with yourself on your cell, no one knows theres no one on the other line.
- Don't make eye contact with the creepy guy in Biology. You will get eye-raped.
- Deodorant. check. always.
- Shave legs every 2 days, I didn't realize how often I were shorts (or always) and thinking about your legs is sometimes low on the list of "to-do's."
- Bring room key to shower. If not, your roomate will asume you have one, leave and lock the door, and your left standing.. naked and sopping wet, wandering the halls looking for an RA. Yeah, thats neat.
- Take drinks from boys that you've watched them open. Date rape is out there, I'm always on the alert!
- Drink lots of water. It's really weird but its all too easy to forget about liquids.
- Bring hot cocoa/coffee to Bio in the mornings... provides something for me to focus on oher than holding head up.
- Check oufit before you leave your room.
Story: Hil wanted to go get food, I was in my pj's, I said OK! yeah, grabbed my keys and left. Thought everyone was looking at my cute new sweat shorts.. nope. just the paul frank boy breifs underneath them.
- If you hear a skateboard, move quickly to left side of sidewalk. They won't wait for you.
- Gym: always grab a hand towel and make sure to pick the machines furthest from the weight room side. They're are too many guys who create distractions in there and I've had 2 close calls keeping my balance on the treadmills.
- If its past 1 and a guy tells you your beautiful and you ask him his name and he takes a couple seconds to answer and then kinda falls over and spills his beer on you..... he won't remember your face/convo in the morning even if he tried.

I have probably like 478 more lessons learned but my list is getting kinda long!
Dinner time, then more PSYC studying. woho!