What I've learned in College...

Hey y'all, time for an update again, I guess. Thanks to my 3 or 4 faithful readers for checking in from time to time, it makes it all worth it, lol.

What I've Learned In College

• You DON'T use conjunctions in formal writing.
• If you enter a GDSU computer lab, you will feel a strong, sudden urge to go to the bathroom immediately upon login. This is not an exaggeration, it is an unescapable fact of life- be prepared.
• If you are like me and are uncomfortable using crowded public restrooms, it is important to know which ones are most likely to be empty. At GDSU these include the bathroom in the Southernmost end of the 2nd floor of Mak, the one hidden in the vending machine room to the right of the MAN entrance, and the 2nd level bathroom smack in the middle of KirkHoff.
• Bathrooms built after the 80's will not have an anteroom where you can dump your backpack- in these situations the proper thing to do is lean it against the door in your stall. Ew.
• Register the very first minute you possibly can. I know this, I just haven't put it into practice yet. But it seems like it would really help.
• Don't plan on using a college computer the week before finals.
• With the exception of above, computers are readily available any time after 4 pm.
• Lunch in the Landing is easiest to come by at 3 pm. The pizza is good, the ice cream is not. Pop is the same everywhere.
• The best bus seats are the two back corners, because you can prop your feet up. Unfortunately I didn't discover this until recently. The absolute worst seats are the first two seats where the back of the bus rises, because basically your at the eye level of anyone who is standing, or any of the sideways seats on a crowded bus because the view is inevitably an eyeful of posterior. The exception is if it is a good lookin' posterior. But still.
• There are some good points to Classical Music, particulary this once piece by Bach and Appalacian Spring by this one composer, but there are also pieces that should have been left to dissapear into the mists of time. I speak of the musical contemporaries of modern artists, particularly the opera Wozzak and the Hiroshima thing, where violins basicaly are made to imitate an atomic bomb and air raid sirens. My ears will never be the same.
• Book buyback can make you feel rich and cheated all at the same time.
• Ratemyprofessor.com is the brainchild of a very intelligent and benevolent person.
• Spanish classes are best taken with people you know, late at night.
• However, it is not a good idea to schedule days where you only have one class from 6-8, the timing is awkward, really splits your day up weird.
• One of our presidents died from food poisoning from rotten cherries.
• Spanish speakers have a very definate idea about what a pretty girl/heroine voice should be in animated movies. I'm pretty sure the same woman does the voices for Jasmine, Beauty, and the various other animated princesses and love interests in the Spanish films I've seen. Either that or all beautiful Spanish girls have the same voice.
• College isn't as great as it's cracked up to be, but not as bad either. It's survivable, as long as you have enough money and or brains, food, support, and manly fortitude.
• College Algebra is so much easier than high school Algebra. Go figure.
• It's really amazing how often you see people you know, even if, like me, you don't know all that many people. Just to prove me right, my cousin saw me in here and popped in to say hi. We have our Spanish exam in 1/2 hour.
• The best part about college, is, of course, break.

Happily, I will be on break in 3ish days, which will start a flurry of applications and resumes, and hopefully land me a job. I will also be working on (YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!) OUR COTTAGE!!!!!! Yep, you read that right, my fam bought a cottage on a lake about 20 minutes away from our house, right next to our cousins' cottage. How we came to get it is a long story, as is our refurbishing efforts and, hopefully, our adventures while spending time there. Hopefully I'll get around to telling this story sooner or later, and I also plan on updating the Clyde blog w/ Darren, so stay tuned for that, and check out Dren's profile to find the link if you haven't seen it! And I quote Scarlatti, "Tara!"