It seems like no matter what grade I’m going into I always get super nervous and anxious the first day of school. Well today was no different.1 I started my last first day of school off with just one class and five hours of working at the CRWC (the Rec). My one and only class of the day was Intermediate German 1, which means I’m almost done with this pesky language credit. My professor sounded really cool (on ratemyprofessor.com) however I soon realized that trusting anonymous people with my college schedule was probably a bad idea. She ended up being pretty intense, which normally doesn’t scare me, but this is German and mein Deutsch ist nicht so gut (that’s about the extent of my German speaking skills, oh wait mehr Bier!).

The second half of my day was spent doing manual labor at the Rec, fixing lockers, and painting lines on the lacrosse fields (you’re welcome), and I loved it. It sounds weird but doing a job like this for hours at a time really helps you clear your mind. If I didn’t have this job I would’ve spent all afternoon laying in bed watching tv and dreading my long day tomorrow (all 5 classes from 9:30 am to 10:00 pm). And now I’m completely exhausted! Which is actually a good thing seeing how Ive been staying up all night the entire summer.

Well anyway, to all you underclassmen out there, just relish every second you have at the University of Iowa. It goes by so fast it’s unbelievable. Like the great Billy Madison once said “Stay here. Stay here as long as you can. For the love of God, cherish it. You have to cherish it.”