all while waiting for my clothes to dry

Things i now know about college:

1. dorms are small. no room for messes.
2. scarlet kills fish. rip salvador y jorje.
3. i now know how to get from morgantown to newark. without a map or gps. well.. i didnt have one the first time i went home either, but now i don't freak out looking for the exits :)
3. there is a short cut in brooks hall to avoid the stairs at the life sciences building. i love that short cut!
4. the steps up to my dorm aren't that bad. i pick a song and challenge myself to get up to my room by the time it's over haha
5. alarm clocks are dangerous
6. the food at stalnaker isn't that good. but the salad bar is pretty awesome.
7. the steps up to my car are KILLER. i will not be going on any joyrides.
8. walmart is a great thing.
9. classes are boring but i really should go to them.
10. hulu plus is the greatest thing ever
11. i like too many tv shows
12. i really like worshiping with cru
13. never have i ever isnt as terrifying as i thought it would be. lol, thats how shy i am.
14. it doesnt take that long to get to class.
15. i haven't straightened my hair once since i got here. i dont have time for that lol
16. i love cranberry/pomegranate juice. i blame jeff geshay.
17. i now know how to get to walmart, the interstate, and beechurst street. lol three more places then when i first got here.
18. i suck at falling asleep.
19. headphones are very handy.
20. i'm not a fan of putting away clothes. i don't mind doing laundry or folding them, but i always avoid putting them away.
21. there are always parties.
22. city and colour is a great band :)
23. i really need a job. just finished applying for another one before i started this.
24. it takes forever to do laundry. i've been sitting in here for at least an hour and i predict i will be here for awhile still.
25. its hard being four and half hours away from home.
26. mountaineer pride is crazy. i love it!
27. everyone wears blue & gold on fridays :)
28. quiznos tuna melt is delicious.
29. i miss sweet tea.
30. there is a guy folding clothes and talking really loud on his phone behind me. its awkward..

what i learned today.

My mom says i have been neglecting my blog. i guess i have been, but only because i haven't had too much to say.

I just wrote 13 letters to everyone telling them about college and that i miss them and i'll be back soon to visit. So i have no idea what to tell you now, since the people who read this will probably be getting a letter so i don't want to spoil the contents for you, so now i need to think of something else to say...

Here goes.. yesterday Scarlet spent the night in her friends dorm, and i had a semi breakdown because i miss all my friends and family, and i was feeling pretty lonely. i thought about how easy it must be for everyone who is staying at UD or somewhere in state, where they can see their family all the time and make plans with their friends for tomorrow, not for one weekend every two months. I thought about how cool it would be to be familiar with the whole campus and not get lost trying to get home. But then i got up this morning to listen to the church service through this handy dandy website where it streams live, and Pastor Curtis starts talking about Jonah. I know the story of Jonah, he was a prophet and God called him to reach the people of Ninevah, but Jonah didn't want to go and he was swallowed by a whale. Jonah decided to go to Tarshish because he was stubborn and the people of Ninevah were immoral and it would be hard to reach them. Going to Tarshish would just be easier. It hit me then that last night i was acting the same way. I was acting like west virginia was my Ninevah, and Delaware is Tarshish. I was thinking about how much i missed my friends and family, and how other people have it so easy. They didn't have to leave the people they love. Being almost five hours away is so hard. But i do love wvu. i love being at a school where i feel like it's mine. i knew no one coming here, and i liked that. I needed a change from Red Lion. i didnt want everyone to know my name. So God reminded me today that this is where he wants me to be, and that the right way is usually the hard way. i remember Curtis saying something about how we go so far out of the way to displease God. Running away might be easier for now, but i'd be displeasing God and that never ends well. I learned to be content with where i am. I want God to use me here at WVU. I want to lean on him when i'm having a hard time. So that's what i learned today. you're welcome.

Adventures

So I have survived the first week of college! go me! Friday night my roommate had her two friends sleepover in our dorm. i was a little nervous about this, since i am not a very outgoing person and i barely know these people, but it turned out to be a pretty good weekend. We took a walmart run and bought a bunch of board games which we proceeded to play all night long. We also brought home our fish, Salvador :) on the way back from Walmart Sarah had to try to parallel park. that was a fail. haha, we spent forever trying to do it and we were so nervous she would hit the car behind us. she drives a stick and it would always come so close to bumping the other car! We eventually found another spot though. We played our board games, i killed at boxers vs. briefs, which is pretty much another version of apples to apples except the subject is the person who's turn it is. We ordered wings from papa johns and stayed up too late telling stories. The next morning Sara was supposed to head back to her school (wheeling jesuit university anyone?) but Scarlet convinced her to stay another day and go to Pittsburg for shopping and dinner. It's probably about an hour from Wvu so we left around 4ish after scarlet and her mom came back from her birthday lunch. We shopped around for a couple hours, and i ended up getting a new pair of sunglasses, some earrings, and a purse. We grabbed some dinner and were on our way. We got a little lost, so we ended up not getting back until almost midnight. On the way back Scarlet, Cierra, and Sarah told me stories about high school and all the people they hated and the boys the dated. it was fun :). Once we got back me and scarlet crashed, ignoring the mess of blankets and games on the floor. I slept in and then got up and cleaned up a bunch. Then i decided to write to you all. I don't have any plans for today, besides a psychology quiz and maybe some laundry. it's nice not to have anything to do for a change. But tomorrow is back to classes and homework, blech. One more day closer to coming home next weekend though!

first day of classes!

So yesterday was the start of classes, and i think it went pretty well. I had Spanish, Biology, Sociology, and Psychology. Today is just math so i get to sleep in :) Tomorrow will be pretty hectic but hopefully fun. I don't have too much homework, some review work for Spanish and some reading for the rest of my classes. I'm pretty excited about Sociology. seems like it's gonna be a big ball of controversy. haha, the teacher is very upfront and he's hilarious. It should be interesting. I ended up being late to his class though, i had to hoof it up these ridiculous stairs,(even more ridiculous then the stairs up to my dorm) and i had to pee... both of which could not be done in the ten minutes i had to get to sociology. My bladder won that battle. Last night was also Fallfest, and the university has big names come in and preform for the students after the first day of classes. This year they had Kris Allen, VV Brown, Maroon 5, and Ludacris. My dorm is on this huge hill, hence the killer stairs, and me and scarlet just opened our windows and we could see and hear the concert. We caught the end of Kris Allen and all of Maroon 5. I'm not a big Ludacris fan but i did listen to the beginning of his set until i fell asleep. fun day:)

goodbye delaware, hello west virginia.

hello all! (well, probably just my mom..) It’s my first post from college! here goes.


Move in was pretty stressful, loads of traffic and i couldnt find the parking garage. but i eventually found it cuz i’m a beast like that, and then i walked over to my dorm and my parents had already moved my stuff in, which was super nice. even though i had to walk kinda far, it was awesome not having to lug much stuff upstairs. Once we rearranged everything in the room (which took waaay too long) me and my family made a target run and “unexpectedly” stopped at chilies. good stuff! we picked up a couple things we hadn’t thought of, tho i’m sure i’ll think of more soon. haha, i probably shouldn’t think about it actually, it’ll start stressing me out. i have to remember i have two more days before class and i have time to figure everything out. tomorrow Scarlet and I are going to take a stroll around campus so we can see where all our classes are. that will be helpful. its nice having an instant friend. I met our suitemates, or at least one of them. Her name is Az or something like that, i’m not sure how to spell it. She’s an upperclassmen, much like the rest of Stalnaker. Our floor meeting went well, we did the whole tell two lies and one truth and we’ll all guess which one is the truth. i said i played boys lacrosse, i was an exchange student in spain, and i tore my acl. There was a picnic for dinner tonight, i got to meet some of Scarlet (my roommate)’s friends, Cierra and her boyfriend. I’m having fun so far, no homesickness yet. i think it’ll hit tomorrow when i have a whole day to myself. though i think there is a hall meeting at 2:10 and then we are meeting some other people who organize stuff for our hall. i can’t for the life of me remember what they are called… oh well. I FINALLY got a key for my room, yipee, it’s official. I’ll upload pictures soon, the wifi on my phone isn’t working well so i can’t get the pictures off quite yet. Well i should wrap this up, Scarlet and all her people should be over here any minute. Once i start classes i’ll write again. hopefully it all goes well!


p.s. Sorry for all the posts today. i'm copying them from my other blog, http://jillbrittany.tumblr.com/ My other blog is quite complicated so for those of you who wanted to comment, (my mom) here you go.

welcome to the next four years of my life..

Here are a few pictures of campus. The first one is a crime scene house, with a random girl who walked by as i was snapping the picture. The second is my dorm, Stalnaker Hall. The next picture is Oglebay Hall where most of the science classes are, and the next two are me and Scarlet's dorm room. enjoy!

college anxieties

So, as of tomorrow, there are forty-eight days until i leave for college. AH. that seems so close, yet completely far away. it doesn’t seem real that in less two months i will be in the 304. haha. in so many ways i am ready. i’m ready to be independent, i want to be able to make my own decisions without any pressure one way or another, or any guilt when the decision i want to make isn’t the choice others want me to make. I want to be able to not have to explain my decisions to others. because sometimes there is no explanation.  But i’m also the most indecisive person ever. i’m nervous that i won’t have my parents or my friends right by me to tell me what they think, or give me advice on the best thing to do. i know that i can always call, but that would just feel like cheating. my life is my life, i need to be the one to make the decisions. i’m so excited to have my own place, even if it really isn’t just mine. I can decorate it how i want, put whatever or whoever i want in it, clean it or leave things everywhere because its mine. I’m nervous that my independence will make it hard to keep the relationships i already have strong, and that i won’t be able to find new friends at wvu. i’m sad that i wont be able to just drive over to emily’s whenever im freaking out… or that i won’t really know where anything is…or that i won’t have nice family dinners where i can talk about my day or random movie nights with my dad. i’m really gonna miss my church. sitting next to kyle and emily and shane, and singing along to adam or chris… it’s gonna be hard to get used to something else. it’s gonna suck not having my cats curled up at my feet and keeping me warm. or my dog following me around during thunderstorms. i know that i’m not losing all of these things, that i will still be able to come home to all of it… but thats just it. i won’t be home. but i’m psyched to get started in all this forensic stuff. it’ll be awesome to finally move forward. to accomplish something to move closer to the end goal. it’ll be awesome meeting new people, maybe even my future husband :) it’s gonna be great, i know that. it’s just gonna be tough leaving everything behind. i know i won’t be disappointed with what i get in return, but i am not ready to lose all that i have gained so far. and hopefully, i wont have to. i just need to find a way to make west virginia home. ugh. dilemmas. for now i will focus on getting all the fun stuff, like bed spreads and pillows and rugs. I’ll focus on making this summer the best that i can. i’m gonna spend it with the people i love and i’m gonna make some awesome memories. somehow i will figure out the rest.