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09/16/03 10:35 PM: morris stegasaurus, and more “normal” advice.
typical college life, i am soon finding out, consists of the following important activities:
1) waking up. the actual process of waking up, i discovered, is a lot more painful than in othr situations; that is, one’s eyes just refuse to open at 8am for a physics lecture hosted by a man who may or may not wear the world’s shittiest toupee.
2) learning how to shave one’s legs in a 4foot by 4foot stall, while wearing shower sandles. if anyone has any tips, please let me know.
3) finding your niche. the old, corny statement of “do what you want” truly applies – you will find the most beautiful people if you just go explore on your own. if you want to go to the coffeehouse for the poetry slam, or try out for improv mafia, or be naked at midnight for theatre of ted – do it, and don’t be ashamed to admit that you have a crush on morris stegasaurus after you hear him slam one tuesday night.
4) painting on the quad; but, do not paint on the quad when the lady bugs are in attack mode. they will ruin paintings that you are trying to make for your mother.
5) calling home. it’s comforting and allows you to be grounded.
6) eating many meals a day. four to six. seriously. boosts yr metabolism, allowing you to sleep sounder (and we all want this!), as well as eats more calories in the end, saving you from the freshman fifteen.
7) alas, doing homework. do it right away, so you can go play frisbee on the quad at midnight with your friends and your dinosaur of a friend. which reminds me: meet a dinosaur as soon as possible.
8) using your id. your id = your savior. in my case, my “redbird card” allows me to eat all on campus meals (southside is the best food on campus for the record. and jet teas are addictive), as well as acts as a debit card at the isu bookstore and alamo ii bookstore and other places. but carry cash, because deadpan alley, house of funk, the coffeehouse, and avanti’s don’t take the redbird card.
9) blasting the speakers. you end up “pirating” a lot of music. friends let you burn and borrow their cds, or you end up instant messaging someone halfway across the country saying “hey do you have this cd?” by the way, dave, thanks for all music i’ve gotten thus far from you.
10) learning that, most importantly, college is about compromise, but not too much compromise. if your lifestyle and ideas begin to feel threatened, get out of that position as soon as you can.
and, lastly
11) drinking green apple soda. jones soda bottles hold infinate truth. drink as much as you can.
adrienne canzolino is a freshman at illinois state university in normal, illinois. she is a new writer at whichwayup, and is having entirely too much fun at college, learning how to play guitar properly, and planning on living on the first floor of colby hall in a quad next year with the three most amazing girls she knows.
Esther
1. Go home and shave.
2. Don’t shave. Wear pants all the time.
3. Develop good balance.
That’s it. Have fun and good luck!
zten (feeling backwards)
I’ll get there sometime.
Welcome to posting at whichwayup.org.
adrienne
and i adore college thus far, and love writing about it.
shawn
when john lennon demanded folks give him some truth, i bet we had no idea that he meant jones green apple soda.