You would never know that after all of these months without a post that I am, in fact, alive. I know, I know, it's been a long time with not a word, but I am back my lovelies! With winter break having begun, I finally have some free time and a break from the responsibilities that come with getting a college education.
If you hadn't known before now, I am a college freshman. I am proud to say that I have now completed one semester of my college career, and I am so thrilled to have a month off. Don't get me wrong- I love school. In fact, if being a full time student was a job and could pay the bills, I would apply for that job in a heart beat, but sadly that isn't an option. Between my studies and sorority obligations, my other pleasures have been put aside for the past months. I haven't had time to pick up Mindy Kaling's
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) much less make a blog post. But that's enough for excuses. You didn't come to my blog to read excuses and frankly I didn't make this blog to write those excuses down.
Now, on to the good stuff: what I've been up to.
In the past months, life for me has completely changed. I have moved out of my childhood bedroom where I had four glorious walls of privacy to myself into what I lovingly consider my box of a dorm room. Don't get me wrong- I love living on campus, but going from your own room to suddenly sharing a room can be an adjustment. Not to mention being in a suite with five other women who all have to share a bathroom... But that is a story for a different time. Like when I write my autobiography and all of my lovely readers run to the nearest Barnes & Nobles to buy it (just kidding... we all know I can't commit to writing a novel much less making a blog post regularly). I do love my roommate though. She's awesome, she's sassy, and sometimes people think that I steal her ID because we have a resemblance that only poor quality university ID offices can generate. I would consider her to be my best friend and my closet confidant when it comes to all things of college life. She was there for me when I started the stressful yet exhilarating experience of sorority formal recrutiment all the way up that time I wanted to be the loser freshman who runs to the library the second someone makes a yak about hiding $300 in books across the library.
Besides sharing close living quarters with other girls I had never before met, I also had to learn to study. Yes, I had to learn to study. If you think high school is going to teach you how to study in college, you are most likely sadly mistaken. Not even all of my AP classes taught me how to study, and in my senior year I took three of them. The entire game changes in college. You can't just do the study guide and consider it ample preparation for an exam, mostly because study guides can be rare in college. Nope. You have to study. Like crack that book open every night, review your lecture notes, and make flash cards kind of study. Every night you are studying. If you don't have actual homework, you better be studying. There is no more "I have nothing to do" nights because there is always studying to be done. Learn fast before an exam comes up on you like a brick wall. We've all been there, but make the crash less painful.
I also hinted at joining a sorority. Yes, it's true everybody! I am a sorority woman now! I know there are mixed feelings and much speculation about sororities thank you to media portrayals, but I promise it's not this big scary thing that everyone's mom, dad, and grandma are afraid. It's really okay to be in a sorority! Carrie Underwood was a sorority woman and she's phenomenal. Go sorority women- kicking butt and changing the world and just being overall awesome. Sororities rock. I could go on and on about sororities, but if my story really wants to be told, that's means for a separate post because it is just so much more than you can imagine. It would blow your mind.
In the midst of all of this, I've more or less just been coming into my own. College is a challenge. It challenges everything. I cannot tell you how many experiences I've had where something I believe is challenged. I've learned to stand up for my beliefs, and I've also changed my beliefs. College is learning. Learning about everything. That seems vague, but if you're in college or have graduated college, you know what I'm talking about. Everyday you learn a new lesson. You discover a little more who you are. You become the person you always were, but now you're a little bit more defined.
I realize that this post has become extremely lengthy, so I will stop it here. I promise more posts to come over this next month, and I promise to keep posts coming even when I am back at school.
With that being said....
LMJ
