Well, my exams are over. All done. Strange sense of calm now that all the hoopla around them is over. People are moving out everywhere today. It's like move-in weekend, but in reverse. Only me and like 3 other people on the hall are staying until tomorrow, well 4 including the RA. 8 am tomorrow is when my folks are coming to load up the car. Got most of my stuff packed by now. Just need my sheets (after I finish sleeping tonight) and my computer (after I finish typing this entry). Everything else has been neatly arranged into sorted bins using the utmost care ... I hope you didn't believe that. `` I never knew I had so much stuff, especially in my desk drawers. Papers and receipts and movie tickets and everything under the moon. It all basically got tossed into a large brown paper grocery bag to be sorted out later.

Also I took waaay too many clothes with me. Looking through all the shirts and stuff I have here, I bet I only wore about 50% of them, even waiting on average a month between laundry loads. Speaking of that I've come up with a plan. See I usually wait to do clothes until I'm either out of underwear or socks. When that happens, I'm kind of forced to do them soon. By that time I've amassed massive amounts of clothes that usually end up being a good 3 very full loads. Then they all have to be folded, and its just a hassle. So I've got a plan for next year. I'm only going to bring 2 weeks or so of socks and underwear. Thus causing me to run out sooner and subsequently do my laudry more often. Resulting in a more enjoyable folding experience. I think it might work. Maybe. Aside from that I realize how lucky I am to have a room on the first floor. I see all these people carrying varitable chest of drawers down 3 flights of stairs. Tough. Then I think to next year when I'll be living on the third floor of the dorm, and how I'll have to do the same thing. I'm packing lightly next year. ``

Speaking of next year, I am living on grounds. Got a suite with 5 other people in a place called Gooch. Its about 5 minutes or so walking distance from where I am now, so the location isn't so bad. I went in with a group of 4 other people when we signed up for housing. So I'll be living with Sean (good friend from my hall), Ben (also a friend from my hall), Tyler (my current roommate, for those who don't know), and Brian (friend I met in engineering). Including me that makes 5 people, but we got a 6 person suite. So who's this mysterious 6th party? Who knows? We've tried to find out, but housing doesn't want to tell us. Weird. Anyway, the cool thing about housing in Gooch is that everyone gets a single room! No more roommates. All 6 rooms empty out into a "living area". Kind of like an apartment. Fairly nice.

Saw Jessica's list of stuff "I did" and "I did not" in college list and thought it was a cool idea. So here's my answers. I'm sure I won't get everything, I know I won't. But these are the things that came to my mind first.


I did:
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Think for myself
Pull an all-nighter
Things I never thought I would
Things I never thought I could
Smoke a hookah
Pass
Go to parties
See a bunch of movies
Meet the most interesting people
Come to like Halo
Buy a CD
Become addicted to AIM
Have quite a few firsts
Eat sushi
Visit my high school
Become spontaneous
Order pizza at 1:30 am
Broaden my horizons
TP two houses
Buy a rose
Feel at home
Sleep for 14 hours
Go hiking
Skipped 6 classes (5 because I didn't feel like going, 1 because I just forgot, lol)
Learn a great deal
Have the best year ever


I did not:
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Get drunk
Get stoned
Become otherwise intoxicated
Steal anything
Kill my rommate
Have a bed time
Enjoy washing my own clothes
Take near enough pictures
Regret anything I did
Ever realize how cool it would be


I'll probably add to both of these lists later as I think of more, but that's what I can think of at the moment. How I wish I'd kept something like this blog since the beginning of the year to keep track of all the craziness that went on. I just looked at my writing "College" and I had completely forgotten about that. Good thing I wrote it down. I'll still be remembering stuff that happened here years from now I'm sure. Too much stuff to comprehend at a single time.

So at the end of one year looking onto another. This has been all at the same time the most intimidating, interesting, fun, exciting, exhilerating, and liberating time of my life. I'm definitely going to miss this place. All the people and memories. The people I'll see again for the next three years. But the memories I'll keep for much longer than that.

After I submit this entry I'll be taking apart my computer and getting all my stuff together for tomorrow morning when it will all be packed into the van. So this will be my last entry from good old 109 Hancock. My home away from home. Talk to you guys and girls tomorrow. Hope everyone had a good day!

Later.

wow
you did more than i did. im jealous. i have to go cross out / move one item, though.
» ikimashokie on 2004-05-08 02:11:43

*grin*
I wouldn't bother being jealous Jess because next year, if you let me, I'm dragging you to do almost everything ;P *giggle*
» EngelGenannt on 2004-05-08 06:45:55

*pokes Chris*
Seems like you had fun. Which is good, because I don't want to stay at home much longer -_- lol. Good college exp.
» EngelGenannt on 2004-05-08 06:46:37

i still wont
have done that much. o well.
» ikimashokie on 2004-05-08 06:57:49

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