"When in doubt, go in not out"

By: Kelly

Well, well. What has happened within the past few days? Time is flying by here; I can't believe I've been here almost a week already. It feels like it's been 2 days. There has been a lot of movie watching and a lot of eating good food. Classes start tomorrow and I am REALLY nervous. When I try to think about why I'm nervous I can't really figure out why. My classes (at least tomorrow) aren't difficult to find and it's not like we had any summer homework we're going to be tested on. Part of it is that professors seem so much more intimidating than the idiotic (well, mostly) teachers I had in high school that I would ridicule on a regular basis since I knew more than they did. At my school it was really easy to get good grades and stay on top of the class so we'll see if I can handle it being around tons of smart kids. Right now I feel pretty confident because I know my perfectionist tendencies.

One thing I've realized is that even if you can count all of the people you know here with both hands, you WILL see them all over the place, even with a huge campus and 50,000 kids. It doesn't make any sense, but it happens. I ran into the Mohammad kid again and he looked at me weirdly and was like, "Do I know you?" and when I said his name he looked at me like I was a complete weirdo. It's funny when people seem almost insulted that you remember them when it should be the other way around.

Today after dinner at Pita Pit the sky looked like it was going to pour buckets so I planned on hurrying back to my dorm at the opposite end of the campus but I got extremely lost off campus in a pretty sketchy area (at least to me). Some guy yelled "You ride that bike REEEAAALLLLL good gurl!" and I was pretty miserable as my bike lock repeatedly fell of the back of my bike and my brakes screeched loudly (I need to get them fixed). All I can say is THANK GOD for the kindness of strangers. For every wolf-whistling car rider there is a kind walker who will help you pick up your bike lock as it goes flying into the street. I ended up following this really nice and cool-looking girl named Malia back to her dorm and then figured out how to get back from there. My new motto is "when in doubt, go in not out". Ew, not like that you sick-o. I mean, when I'm lost, rather than veer away towards the main roads so I can take direct paths, I'm going to take the meandering paths through campus.

Anyway, nothing of too much interest to report. I'm watching Harry Potter and waiting for the premiere of the next season of Keeping Up with the Kardashians while perusing my German textbook. I like college. But I miss everything at home. I wonder how long it will be before I stop feeling like I'm just waiting for Thanksgiving when life will be "normal" again. I have to realize this IS the new normal. I'll end this scatterbrained post on an upbeat note by saying I was incredibly excited today to hear that the Onion cast is coming to UF this year! Heck yes. Miss you Monica, we have to skype again soon!!