Oh Tiiiime! Where Have You Gone??

Hello all!

Can you believe it's been exactly one week since classes started? I've already gotten behind on reading. I stayed up until 12:40 reading--or should I say skimming--a novel. Twas quite dull and boring. But--thankfully--the reading isn't due 'til next Thursday!

The printer in my dorm isn't working! It's TERRIBLE!

The day slowly, progressively was...better.

My Wellness class really made me think of how poorly I manage my time (I'm a freshman! It's difficult! I spend too much time on the computer...tehe).

I had a revelation today. In my Global Lit class, we were discussing the plot triangle-like thing (you know, the exposition, initial conflict, rising action, falling action, and denouement) and types of conflicts and I was getting excited. I don't know whether it was because I knew what we were talking about or the fact that I really enjoy English. I have yet to drop my Business to a minor...(I may drop it completely if it's boring enough). But I know I love English. Reading and writing fiction.

After my classes, I ate, ran a couple errands, and prepared for my last class of the day...German. It's excruciating to have a class at the same time as the Vikings (and more importantly TVD).

I exercised for like fifteen/twenty minutes (10 of those minutes spent on the bike).

Pizza party tomorrow! Woo!

Thanks!
God Bless!
Tiff

Quick Blech!

Hey all.

I'm not excited. I just read 84 pages over the course of 12+ hours. Doesn't sound bad right? Well, I just remember the reading was due today at 11:50 and I remembered it at, oh, 9:30 last night. :P All the reading was about a research paper anyway (I get to write another one...greaaat. *headdesk*). The styling is different, and we are supposed to use footnotes or endnotes. Urk!

I have SO much to do.

Off to class!

Thanks!
God Bless!
Tiff

A Lanyard Is A College Student's Best Friend

Hello all!

Quick note. I bombed my speech. I spoke too fast, my throat was dry and scratchy, and I skipped a funny part of my speech.

I tried a mango smoothie today (it was a free sample)...I didn't like it that much.

I still have a dirty glass sitting on my desk from last night. I need to wash it soon. Like now.

Anyways, as of 2:45 p.m., I've had a pretty good day after Oral Comm (oh, I watched three squirrels chase each other before class, by the way). I ate breakfast with Ella and Jocelyn. Global Lit was interesting. I didn't do a homework assignment! Apparently we were supposed to read 30 pages...well, under Tuesday on the homework syllabus thing it said the homework for today was the 30 pages and I looked at Thursday and that's when we were supposed to be discussing it...so thankfully all we did in class was present information we researched last Thursday. Then we started reading a story (my awesome teacher started reading it out loud and doing actions, too!).

Dinner-time was not as bad as last Thursday. Sure the place was pretty full, but I sat by someone from my Global Lit class (she invited me...so nice!!). She is super nice and funny and pretty and such a sweetie and easy to get along with. Her extremely cute boyfriend sat by her, too (what a catch!), and he is the same as her (except she did more talking...which I'm fine with). Anyways, they made the cutest couple!!

Oh, each time I've seen one of my high school classmates, he's waved and smiled at me. We sat at the same table and didn't know it today until two guys left. We waved and smiled at each other. Even though we never really talked much in high school, it amazes me and makes me happy to know how kind he is. You absolutely rock, dude!! Such an awesome person... :)

On the way to my Wellness class I ran into one of my OLs! It was nice to see him.

Wellness wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Originally I groaned and was extremely reluctant and wary of this class, but I actually like it so far. The teacher is very nice and laid-back.

I'm going to go do a crapload of reading now. And clean my dirty cup and spoon.

Thanks!
God Bless!
Tiff

What Happened To My Day?

Hello all!

I think I've finished all my homework that's due. It's nice to be...done? My speech still needs some polish, but I'm giving tomorrow morning anyways. I woke at nine this morning and ate at 9:45 (I slacked and talked before heading to breakfast).

After breakfast, I went back to the dorm and grabbed my Wellness book and started reading Chapter 1 in this lounge-like area with a piano in it. Then at 11:30 I started to go to the library, but ended up going back to my room and bringing my wellness book with me. I showed up at the library on time for my archaeology class. We spent the entire class period finding our way around the library as looking for magazines in the hidden stairwells and finding articles and using the computer and walking the floors and reading and skimming. Then...I ate dinner with Natie, Katie, and Jason. We looked at the posters at the poster sale and made off to the bookstore. We went our separate ways then.

I had a catering training session from four to five-fifteen. It was...a bit confusing to be honest. I need me some black tennies. We walked mostly. They showed us the key box. And the Jones Conference Center where we're most likely to be catering the most. And we got a small handbook.

I still miss home. And family. And friends especially. And freezing my butt off at football games.

Anyways, after catering, I worked on my speech. I was supposed to meet up with people, but they bailed due to all the random heavy rain. I went and ate supper by myself for the first time. Later Tessa and I met up on the fourth floor (we're in the same dorm) and practiced in front of each other.

I haven't had a pop all day! :) It's so tempting to get pop at each meal because there's a pop machine. They have Dr. Pepper (or is it Pibb?), Coke, Cherry Coke, etc. I often go with Fruit Punch. Milk or chocolate milk is for mornings. I've gone through nearly a quart of milk in two days!! Okay, that may sound like a lot, but it's only four glasses of chocolate milk. I'm still thirsty. Capri Sun just doesn't do it.

After practicing, I grabbed my Wellness book (and it's eight p.m. by now) and make for the piano lounge when who do I run into? Audrey and Jesse!! We talked for, like, twenty minutes. It was fun! I showed them my room! Still no pics yet :( . They're on my camera, but I'm in too big of a hurry to finish writing this to put them up. I took the pics earlier today. I think. Did I mention I put up my poster?

Oh, we're under a flood warning watch thing. :P Just my luck...

Wish me GREAT luck on my speech tomorrow (and with my other classes and homework as well)! I need sleep...and to brush my teeth.

Oh yeah, if you need my college address, just ask.

Thanks!
God Bless!
Tiff

Schedule

Hello all.

I'm not as peppy as usual lately (as you can probably tell by my lack of enthusiasm). Instead of doing my homework, I decided to finally post my schedule!

Monday/Wednesday/Friday:
Archaeology Today 11:50 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Tuesday/Thursday:
Oral Communications 8:00 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.
Global Literature and Human Experience 10:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
Wellness 12:50 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Introduction to German-Speaking World I 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.


Anyways, I just got back from breakfast. Apparently there was chapel today and the choir sang! I'm so upset I missed it! I had no idea! I ran into one of my OLs and he told me about it.

Well, off to catch up on some reading. And at three, I'm practicing my speech at the library. Then at four it's off to a catering meeting. Then, I need to crack down and study-study-study!!

Thanks!
God Bless!
Tiff

I Want To Go Back...

Hey all.

I am back at my dorm from home. I miss home already. I brought more clothes and food this time. I should be calling this place "home," but the name doesn't fit. I want to go back.

I haven't had time to do any of my homework! I've been too busy unpacking and cleaning and organizing and reorganizing. I can't keep my desk clean. It's a mess. Thank goodness my roommate isn't back yet to see me going crazy.

I am so worried about keeping up with homework! And living on my own in general. I have yet to do my own laundry. I really don't like going places alone yet. I'm worried about making and keeping friends. I wish life/time had a pause button so I could catch up.

I know I keep writing it, but I'll post pictures and my schedule up soon. :P

Oh! On the good news side, I finally got my wireless set up. I'm in my room as I'm writing. :)

Thanks!
God Bless!
Tiff

Orientation Week

Hello all!

Oh, where to begin? Hm, perhaps the beginning!!

On Sunday, I left around 11 or 11:30 (Oops...we had planned on leaving at, um, 10...oh well). We moved my stuff in--it felt like soo much...but when it was all unpacked, it seemed...decent--with the help of Jasmine and her father. I'll get a pic of the room later. But I had to sign off on some papers to get my key. And I picked up my Cobber ID (VERY important...I need it for eating).

After Jasmine and I got a little settled in the room, we decided to walk around to get to know the campus better. We ended up in the auditorium at, like, 3:30 or 3:45. We were supposed to meet our Clubs there at four anyways; it was funny how we just happened upon the auditorium. Sadly, we had to split up because I was in Club 28 and she was in Club 34. Anyways, I met the group leaders (Garrett and Amanda). I was the second person there. I received my beanie and orientation book. Once everyone arrived (I made small talk with people sitting by me), we met at "our spot" aka the grassy knoll outside Memorial Auditorium. We played icebreaker games (the first game was saying our name and saying an animal that started with the same letter, for example, "Tiffany the Toucan" because Tiger was taken...but we had to go in a circle and repeat all who had gone before; next we played Bunny Bunny...no idea how to explain that; then Toilet Tag; and finally Ninja.) Then, we headed off to dinner and watched some upperclassman perform. After all that excitement, we headed to our dorms and had a meeting for the floor and met our RA and people on the floor.

Monday: We ate breakfast and then headed off for the "Hands for Change Service Project" which, for us, entailed going to a daycare center for children from low-income families and cleaned up around the place. People cleaned the walls, kitchen, shed, windows, etc. Me and three others washed tables and chairs. We had to scrub some of them down because they had paint stuck to them! Five or six of us chilled in the kitchen, eating one doughnut each, relaxing and talking. Then we got to play with the children. We had to give piggy back rides and get put in jail multiple times. Then we sat with the children as they ate (and they picked on me! lol. one ginger kept poking me and blaming it on someone else, and two girls were putting their feet on me and pretending to suffocate me with Jocelyn's beanie). After setting up mats for nap time and washing hands and having a dance party (they played La Bamba and everyone got into a conga line), we had to depart (Justin Bieber was playing...only the guys were dancing lol) and eat lunch back on campus. Then we reflected on what we did and how it helped the workers and the community. Basically we just exchanged funny stories about the children and were amazed at how much time we saved the few workers there (there were 22 of us there and each set of three or four people did 20-40 minutes worth of work at the center). At 1:45 there was a ceremony telling about what all clubs just did and the activity on campus that sponsors that. Next we were supposed to go to an Advising Seminar, but both the OLs (orientation leaders) mistook it for free time. So Garret took five of us girls on a walk to DQ. It was windy and hot out, and my hair blew into my blizzard. Dinner was with our residence hall/floor. Then cabaret. Cabaret was a bunch of upperclassman singing and dancing and showing off musical talents. It was FANTASTIC. And some of the guys were, well, you know, HOT. (One guy sang SO amazingly and I was sitting in my seat just going nuts, and then a group came on and danced and ripped off their shirts, and one guy sang a song he wrote--amazing piano playing--and there were a few bands and the MC's were hilarious. One MC dressed as Sarah Palin and sang a song about Minnesota set to the tone of "A Whole New World.")

Tuesday: Breakfast. Then an orientation seminar on Technology. Lunch (where we went around the circle and told the club our fears, then pet peeves). I ran my labtop down to tech to see how to get wireless, but I needed to buy some wireless adapter thing. Department previews were next. I freakin' got my beanie stolen by some bastard on roller blades. I--being the flippin' nice and polite person I am, though, said "May I have my beanie back, please?" and he was a dick. I am regretful to admit I spent the next hour contemplating ways to make his life heck (cancer, having him paralyzed, shoving needles into him and pushing him off a ten-story building, etc.) (and I only say "regretful" because I shouldn't be thinking of others like that, wishing them harm and all; it's un-Christian-like. But I was pissed beyond belief...though, you know me, I bottle it up and imagine acting out). I sat through the business preview and was bored out of my skull. I ran my labtop back to my dorm, but by the time I was done, I thought I had missed the start of the next preview (and I really wanted to go to the English preview because that was my preference! My favorite! My main major!). I hung out in the bathroom, texting...and still fuming over the snatch. Then, I met with my advisor (Knutson) to discuss classes and the future (there were three other students there as well). She was so awesome! She's a writing professor who loves cats! After the meeting, I talked with her about English (it wasn't a connection type of talk, but it was a start!), and she gave me a booklet and a bag. Then, there was the library tour (where we kept bumping into the student president's group and he kept repeating what Amanda and Garret were saying lol). We glanced around the Farmer's Market (basically people set up booths with food they've grown...not much though, sadly). Then we went to a science building to discuss the summer book read. I didn't say anything about the book because, um, I skimmed the entire thing in two days. What I got from it was what I already knew about staying firm with one's religion except this was about the author's life. I kept my mouth shut during the discussion because I didn't want to start a religious debate.

Wednesday: Breakfast. DS (dining services) meeting--boring and confusing...paperwork. Orientation seminar on being broke (thanks for the reminder :P ). Lunch. Orientation seminar "What's It All About" was so...INTENSE!! There were three scenes. The first was a guy bringing two friends (another guy--who was black--and a girl) to meet. It was a "drama." After the scene ended badly, we--as in the audience--were allowed to talk to the people onstage--who stayed well in character. It turned into a sexism/racism debate and people actually left the auditorium! The next scene was about a drunk guy pushing another drunk guy to drink more. The first drunk guy was having fun and drinking and his girlfriend was the least drunk of them all. The discussion wasn't too bad. The last scene was the most...unsettling. It was about rape. It was only a boy and girl onstage. They actually made-out! The girl just wanted to cuddle and not have sex, but she was sending mixed signals by touching the guy so much, and he just forced himself onto her. They didn't actually have sex onstage (pervert!). I was uncomfortable. The discussion wasn't too bad. "Wanting to watch Glee doesn't end in sex" was something said by an audience member and fellow club member to explain what the girl wanted. After that was the resource fair (booths to look at for help and such). Then we got to attend the President's Reception and Ice Cream social which was basically our club got dressed up and we shook hands with President Dovre and his wife and ate ice cream and cookies in the backyard. Then we had a photo. Supper. And sleep.

Thursday: Super busy! I'll post my schedule in another post. But anyways. First class got let out early for the Opening Convocation and Beanie Toss. More classes. Then Toy Story 3 in the auditorium!! Popcorn was served on Frisbees. I nearly cried this time. Such a great movie.

Friday: Only one class. I got to sleep in 'til nine am! Usually I had been getting up at, like, seven am (I usually stayed up watching Family Guy or something 'til eleven or midnight because I had to rest). The dance! Our floor dressed as little children with each person wearing a letter of the alphabet on our shirt! Four guys actually came to our dorm randomly looking for people to put make-up on them. They were dressed as people from the 80's. Two of them came into my room, and I took a couple pics while other people got them ready lol (they came with the 80's outfits on). Pics to come! The dance was...fun? At least people were dancing. There was no room anywhere because of all the people. You couldn't go anywhere without touching someone. Since it was a theme dance, some of the theme outfits included crayons, Lady Gaga, Jersey Shore, cowboys, togas, boys in bikini tops and jean shorts, shirtless guys, write your phone number down shirts, classy, masquerade, ninja, etc. And people showed up in normal clothes, too. All the grinding towards the end of the dance was disgusting. Seeing it on TV is gross, but seeing it in person...*shudders*. Oh, and some guy randomly tried to kiss another guy!

Funny story: At lunch on one of the first days, I was looking around and doing a whole bunch of double takes because people looked like students from high school. I did so many. So while getting in line for Italian food (that was the country this week), I see someone who looks like Jesse. He was wearing a black and white shirt and had glasses and blondish/whitish hair. His back was to me. So I looked for a bit, then he turned around. Yeah, it was Jesse!!

Random things to note:
I got two packages in the mail: One was from B&N, the other from home (cable cord).
Dorm rooms are quite dim.
I've been kept SUPER busy all week.
I had to make a trip to the library for a book I apparently didn't need, but ending up stopping by there later for a different book.
Lanyards are quite helpful.
I get three meals a day.

Thanks!
God Bless!
Tiff