No big blog today, since my Mondays are chock full o’ classes (4!!). I was lucky that my 8am photography class got out about an hour early today (it being the first day and all) so I figured now would be as good of a time if any to whip up a quick post. I can’t promise how blogs are going to work out for the first few weeks of the semester, as I find myself busier than expected, but I will make an effort, I promise. This Thursday you’ll get my Cribz: Junior Edition video from our new dorm, which should be fun, and hopefully we’ll start cranking out Cooking with Gandalfs again soon. Lots of things coming up on the website, so BE EXCITED! Continue reading “First day jitters” →

Remember that time I wrote a blog at the beginning and end of last semester, talking about my expectations and final thoughts on my classes? That was cool. I liked that. So I’m gonna do it again, since tomorrow I leave Colorado again for my junior year of college! Continue reading “Fall 2012: Classes and Expectations” →

Music: The Ghost Inside by Broken Bells

Let’s face it; when you move in, your dorm room, whether it’s your first or last year of college, looks like a partially furnished mental prisoner’s room. It’s hard to make it feel like home when you know you have to move out in a year, and you can’t repaint or install shelving, but that’s where I come in. Today, you’ll learn how to make the most of your dorm room, temporary as it is. Continue reading “HOW TO: Make the Most of Your Dorm Room” →

Put together in less than an hour. Song: The Ghost Inside by Broken Bells

A lot of you seem to like lists, so here ya go! The 15 worst parts about college.

1. Walking up and down four flights of stairs to do laundry once a week.

2. People having sex in the next room, apparently unaware how thin the walls are.

3. Neighbors blasting dubstep at 4am.

4. Finding yourself in an unfamiliar city with unfamiliar people and trying to make a home out of it.

5. Core requirements that are completely unrelated to your intended field of study.

6. Freshmen orientation.

7. Moving in.

8. Moving out (packing up all the stuff you’ve collected over the year, finding places to sell back textbooks, getting a storage shed, etc, all while trying to study for finals)

9. Running out of meals on your meal plan a month before Christmas break.

10. Core requirements.

11. Mindless prerequisites for the classes you actually want to take.

12. Missing class for an activity (sports, speech and debate, etc) and catching hell from the one professor who doesn’t believe the world turns unless you’re in his classroom or doing his homework.

13. Being completely alone at first.

14. Knowing you’ll have to move out of the dorms and onto real life soon, with next to no safety net.

15. Core requirements.

My mother and I share a punctual trait that, though in some cases can be inconvenient, is generally a helpful trait to have. I am rarely late to class, meetings, dates, movies, parties, etc, and even if I’m generally the first one to arrive (which can be awkward when it’s a party), I never miss anything. Especially now that I’m in college, where I have complete control over my schedule (no parents waking me up for school), this punctual trait has come in handy. Why pay for school if you aren’t going to go to class, or you miss the first ten minutes every day? So these are my tips to never be late to anything ever again. If you’ve ever had problems with this, I promise, if you even follow a couple of these tips, you’ll come out ahead. Continue reading “HOW TO: Never Be Late To Anything Ever Again” →