things i have learned in my first week of college courses

1) TAs are actually superhelpful. Our econ TA? Nice, smart, and very chill. Plus, she tells us the "tricks" and things we should watch out for on our professor's tests.

2) The easiest way to get a variety of healthy foods at the dining hall is by varying the types of salads you makes for yourself at the salad bar.

3) Libraries are awesome.

4) Study carrels and study rooms in the library are awesome.

5) Leaving the bathroom door open after a long hot shower will almost certainly set off the smoke detector. Leaving the bathroom door closed causes the bathroom to be disgustingly humid for hours.

6) Buying individual snacks (like small bags of cookies and chips or whatever) is expensive, but buying large boxes of snacks causes me to eat ridiculous amounts of junk food in short time periods.

7) I actually do miss my parents.

8) Having roommates who have to go to class four hours earlier than you sucks.

9) Some professors are brilliant, but completely disorganized. Example: my Shakespeare professor apparently didn't bother to preorder one of the books at either of the two bookstores affiliated with the university. NOBODY HAS IT. And I can't figure out how to order it on Amazon because my address at the dorm is no fewer than six lines, which Amazon doesn't allow.

10) My high school is crazy. Seriously. There are kids here who feel like they're buried by the workload. The workload here is easier than at my school. Seriously.

(Can I just point out that for once I'm publishing a post that relates to the title of my blog?? Congratulate me!!!)

Two things

One.

You know you're a chemistry nerd when you see that someone has written =O in their away message and instantly identify it as ethanal methanal.

Two.

I WILL BE IN *poof* IN 14 HOURS.

For the first time in my life, we have a president who's not stuck-up and out of touch. So the United States doesn't look like it's being run by a moron. Thank god.

not dead.

Busy.

The year is winding down at last, thank the lord.

But tonight I need to finish a second draft of a paper, and then maybe study for chem. I had planned to write a history essay tonight, too. And I should be in bed already.

So perhaps I shall return tomorrow, once the craziness has subsided slightly.