First off, congratulations to anyone who gets the joke, to all those who don't, go read or watch Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Secondly,
this is it, by this time tomorrow, I'll be home. Then I will search for
a job so I can afford to come back next year. I have a short list
of things you should know about the end of the school year at college.
You
will have leftover dining plus money. You will be unable to spend
it. I just got back from getting dinner at Out of Bounds.
There was nothing there. There were no chips, none! Nothing
to drink but milk, not even water. They were even out of the good
batteries, the double and triple A's that my roommie and I have been
buying to burn up dining plus money, so I had to buy q-tips. I
still have like, 12 dollars on my dining plus and two meals to spend it
in. My advice, stock up before everybody else realizes they have
forty dollars of dining plus to spend and they start buying all the
food you want.
You must defrost your fridge before you can take it home or else it will make a massive mess. That would be bad.
Packing
cannot be done before the last minute, despite what parents
think. There is a certain amount of stuff that can be gotten rid
of, but most of that isn't packing so much as throwing stuff
away. The vast majority of stuff I have, I need. I predict
staying up late tonight to get this stuff packed up. (Boo!)
Packing is a depressing process.
First
to go are all the happy things like posters and toys, then you have to
start getting rid of the stuff you still need, and you have to live
without. Things like a large selection of clothes. I have
hardly any clothes left here right now. All the fun things go
away, except the internet. They can't take that away from
me! They can't! I won't let them! (I'm not addicted
to facebook and youtube and wiki and memory alpha and online comics, no, not me.)
Next on the list, selling back your books. Bookstores are out to make a profit, not to give you a good deal.
Sorry. They will give you half the price they would have charged you
at the beginning of the semester. My roommate actually got a pretty
good deal for some of her books. The main problem is that they won't
give you one cent for an old edition of a book, even though most of the
time you can get through a class just fine with the old edition. My
roommate bought an old edition of her history book for $16 instead of
spending like, $60 on the new edition and the only difference was in
the last chapter, so she was just fine. You may find some books that
you want to keep, but there will always be those books you can't wait
to be rid of. I mostly just don't want to lug those heavy things home,
so guess who's going to be selling books back tomorrow.
Everything
you have lost over the year can be found under your bed. Unless you
lofted it. I intend to do that next year, these rooms are just a tad
small for my liking. Anyway, I found my super special awesome skull
flip-flops, the evil shoes that give me blisters, a book, like, three
hair ties, and my glasses case under there, and a lot of dust bunnies.
That
leads me to another point, you will have to completely clean your room
before you can leave. If you don't, they charge you by the hour to have
it cleaned. Not fun. It might be advisable to dust a little more
frequently than we did. That is to say, ever.
Now a short note for incoming freshmen. (Sorry, I couldn't resist the pun.)
Enjoy that week they give you before classes start. I envy
you so very much. I spent it worrying and fretting about my
classes, but now I know I'm going to miss it next year. I am
going to miss it so much.
Overall, I think I have
learned a lot this year, not nesecarily things I will need to know in
real life, like the names of the fully digivolved forms of the
digidestined's digimon (say that five times fast), or how long it takes
to ride the bus to the movie theatre (4 minutes), or how long it takes
to walk back because I forgot to look up the nearest bus stop (18
minutes), but I have learned a lot. I have made some friends in
my classes that I intend to keep in touch with, and I have one super
special awesome new friend, my roommate. I have a cool new hobby
that she has been teaching me, spinning, as in color guard. I
like rifle the best, but that is mostly because I like the sound the
strap makes when I catch it. I have discovered the joys of
watching children's anime shows, Pokemon are cute, but Digimon has way more plot than I ever gave it credit for. And Yu-Gi-Oh! is fun to watch, but I must admit to enjoying the Abridged Series better. It is just so funny. (I like Yami best, buy my roommie likes Seto Kaiba.)
I'm
not saying I haven't learned anything from my classes, its just that
most of that wasn't what I would consider life altering. I read a
lot of stuff that I enjoyed, like Beowulf and the books I reviewed for
my Young Adult Literature class, but I also learned that Candide really
isn't as funny as the professor told us. It wasn't that I didn't
get the jokes, I got them, I just didn't think they were funny.
But I learned from it.
I've enjoyed this year and learned a lot
and I hope next year is just as good. Thank you all for reading
my blog this year. I hope you have a good summer.