Things I've Learned From College #3

Buy rain boots.  You walk places a lot.  In the rain.  The very cold rain.  Which inevitably picks up at the most inconvenient moment, like when you and your friends walk out of your dorm to head to Deg for dinner.  Luckily, trekking all the way across campus at Susquehanna is not the same as, say, trekking all the way across campus at Penn State.  Still, it feels significant when your feet are soaked.  I never wore rain boots until I got to SU.  Now my rain boots and I are very close friends.

Plus, they even doubled as snow boots last night when those flurries finally stuck to the ground!

Things I've Learned From College #2

The top bunk is not such a scary place.   Before arriving at school, I feared rolling off a top bunk.  I've since discovered that to be an irrational phobia.  If I didn't roll off a normal height bed on a regular basis, why would sleeping higher up suddenly send me flying off the mattress?  Admittedly, it can be a pain to climb down from the top bunk in the morning, especially if you have an alarm to turn off.  A big plus, though, is that when people are hanging out in your room, nobody is going to be sitting or eating snacks on your bed.   The top bunk is not communal property.  It’s your own. And that’s a pretty valuable thing.

Things I've Learned From College #1

I thought it might be fun to sprinkle this blog with some short entries on the topic of "Things I've Learned From College."  These probably won't be academic-focused, because let's face it, I'm learning a lot academically and this blog shouldn't be a textbook.  Mostly, I will concentrate on things I'm learning about college life, whether that involves living in a dorm, scheduling classes, or being independent. 

Things I've Learned From College #1:
Never forget your cell phone charger at home.  Ever.  I brought my charger home with me during Fall Break.  I thought it was packed securely in my laptop case on my way back to SU.  Not the case.  Luckily my parents found the charger and sent it to me in the mail.  Even so, as a college student and a teenager, those phone-less days, well, they were trying times.  So a word of wisdom--to everybody else out there, and mostly to myself: always check that you have your cell phone charger with you before heading back to campus.