you may be burned to death or skinned alive or worse.

[rocknload]

I'm never living in a dormitory again. This is like the third time I've been sick this semester, maybe even the fourth, and when the time you spend ill is roughly equivalent to the time you spend well, something is really goddamn wrong. I think the fact that the girls here sleep about fifteen to a room is a major factor, here, but there's not a whole lot I can do about that now, except complain bitterly as I sip my Theraflu.

I'm also going to take this opportunity to let you all know how disgusting I really am. I've purchased a container of vanilla cake frosting. I plan on eating the entire thing, without putting it on a cake.

Comments

[bustahead.livejournal.com]

Euuuuw...fluuuuuu...*knows the awful hell that is being sick*

And no. Vanilla cake frosting is made out of epic win. Enjoy it! What's really gross is eating chinese chow mein. For breakfast. Cold.

[unicorn]

You are describing my freshman year, minus the vanilla frosting. Maybe everyone's immune system just needs a semester or two to adjust to the toxic onslaught that is college?

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Fuck that, man, there will be no adjustment here. Living in the dorms is like an affront to my pride already; turning me into a constantly sniffling, coughing, whimpering thing is just too much. Besides, I dunno that being repeatedly infected with various strains of the flu is something you can adapt to.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Heh. Breakfast must always be eaten cold, I think. Even if it is Chinese chow mein. Or pizza.

[unicorn]

Well, not necessarily adapt to, but your immune system can produce more badass virus-fighting cells and become more sensitive to things that might turn out to be bad so it can kill them.

[arcesso.livejournal.com]

I LOVE FROSTING WITH NO CAKE 8)

And dammit stop making me afraid of going to dorms next year. But, I hope you feel better soon!

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Just don't pick the Maricopa dorm, if you come to UA! I'm actually pretty used to the sleeping arrangements in the dorm, I'm just sick of being sick and I think that's a major contributing factor.

[arcesso.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of digging UT right now because they have 4-bedroom suite dorms with a kitchen and living room *o* I just need to apply for a bazillion scholarships because housing and board is all I have to pay for. ♥ Marine Corps.

But - Maricopa isn't a freshman dorm for UA, is it? Because you entered as a junior, didn't you?

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

I need to have Terminator nanobots injected into my bloodstream, that'll do the job for me!

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Lots of my floormates are freshmen, so I dunno. I think my roommate is a freshman, too. I seriously just checked the prices and applied for five of the cheapest ones - I had like two weeks to find a place, so I wasn't exactly picky. I don't really know much about this place. It is nice, though, in that you can stay up as late as you want and you won't bother anybody.

If you're going to get a dorm like that, why not just get an apartment close to campus? I bet you won't have trouble finding one in Texas.

[arcesso.livejournal.com]

That is always a plus! But, staying up super late will probably be a bad idea on my part or I'd never make it to class.

Maybe, especially because property in Texas is really cheap so apartments probably are too. Austin especially. I dunno, we'll see how it goes, but dorm life is like... part of college, so I'd rather do dorms my first year and maybe an apartment after I'm a junior or something.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Pffft, that's why you don't sign up for morning classes! Or don't sleep! C'mon, how many college students do you know that actually sleep enough at night?

It's a seriously overrated part of college, I'd freaking kill someone to get an apartment. Mostly because it'd come with a parking space and I could actually bring my car down. And I've done this before, too, when I was a freshman at NAU and living in the dorms my roommate was absolutely insane, I was worried about sleeping in the same room as her. I have no idea why people are eager for this experience.

[arcesso.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I don't wanna feel like I missed out on my day. I think I'll probably get like one 10-o-clock class so that I can get in, get it over with and get on my way while still making sure I'm up at a decent hour.

My sister really liked one of her roommates at NAU, she wound up being one of the bridesmaids at her wedding. And it's a really good way to, like, meet people. But, I'm considering Greek Life too, so I guess that serves the same purpose.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Heh, three days a week my first class is at noon, so I usually get up at like ... eleven-fifty, since the class is right across from my dorm. But then there are days like today, where my first class is at nine-thirty and my last one ends at nine at night, so I guess I pay for that.

Really? Why? I'm genuinely curious, pretty much everyone I know would rather eat a bullet than sign up for a frat/sorority, so I don't even know why anyone would join or what they even do or anything.

[arcesso.livejournal.com]

Ouch! How many different classes are you taking?

Well, my government teacher joined one at the UA when she went, and she said she really enjoyed it. It's really like a way to meet people and build friendships, and some of the better sororities and fraternities have enough clout to get you a job reference I've heard. "Lifetime friendships" and all that. I honestly have no idea what any of it means but I'm all for making friends as long as I don't have to, like, do a keg-stand to get in. I'm pretty sure I can't even do a headstand.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

I'm taking linguistics, Chinese, Spanish, and German. I only have three of them today but they're so spread out and I can't really do anything between them, it's irritating. Plus today I had to spend three hours putting together our group midterm project for Chinese and my brain is just fucking fried. I'm in the cafeteria with the intentions of studying a bit before German. I have yet to even begin this.

Well, I think it's mostly the guys that make news going through the physically abusive stuff like that. The nasty sororities seem to do emotionally abusive things. So you're in the clear! Uh. Sort of.

[arcesso.livejournal.com]

At least, uh, Spanish is easy? D: Fuck man.

Rofl I have gone through the worst emotional hazing imaginable over the past four years by being in JROTC - emotionally abusive I can handle.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

It's a third year advanced grammar grammar, entirely taught in Spanish and crap. It's actually not that bad and probably my easiest class, but it's not all that easy, alas. We get our midterms back tomorrow and I have no idea how I did, and I kind of feel sick just thinking about it.

The ones that make the news are fucked up shit, man. Like, I remember one where they made the pledges strip down and blindfolded them and let a bunch of frat boys go at them with magic markers and circle and label everything the guys thought was subpar about the girls' bodies.

[arcesso.livejournal.com]

Agh, shit. My sister took that, she's pretty much fluent in Spanish, so I learned basic Spanish by osmosis, but advanced grammar fuck that. Maybe French, but definitely not Espanol.

That is when I would say "Dude are you kidding? Bye." Again I say: fuck that. They say you can leave at any time, once they say strip down that is my cue to leave.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

I'm minoring in Spanish, so next semester I'm taking like, exactly the same thing JUST HARDER, and then it's literature and stuff. I sort of want to take another year of French, so that I'll at least have had two years of it - I want to join the Peace Corps, so that'll probably come in handy! - but I have no idea how the hell I'd fit it in.

Yeah, me, too. But a bunch of the people that go through that sort of thing probably really want to fit in, and you know how teenagers can be... :/