(Alas, my tablet and\u00a0I are separated by miles. Sad face.)<\/p>\n
I miss college and I\u2019m not lying. I miss having food besides cereal and also\u00a0quiet because there\u2019s a firefight in the living room thanks to Call of Duty<\/em>. I want to study Dinosaurs and write my speech about voting. Also my cat has a limp, which is annoying because I feel bad shoving her off my keyboard and books when I need to work. She kind of hobbles away and I think, man, I didn\u2019t have these problems in college. When I wanted my friends to get off my computer and books, they just left. They also didn\u2019t make me feel bad because their legs weren\u2019t broken.<\/em><\/p>\n Anyway, my sister seems kind of irritated about that opening paragraph, which is upsetting because my college audience would probably laugh at it (or maybe they would think I’m a horrible person. I don’t know).<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t know that Stacey\u2019s leg is broken,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd also, the only reason you have cereal all the time is because you don\u2019t eat anything else in the fridge.\u201d<\/p>\n Not my fault, though I am hungry for some Burge food. Maybe it\u2019s because I grew up in a household where no one cooked, but I enjoy the cafeteria menu. I eat real food there, not the stuff you pour water in and microwave for thirty seconds. It\u2019s a nice change for someone who grew up on canned dinners and take-out.<\/p>\n I kind of wish my Dad would turn down Call of Duty<\/em>. I mean, at the dorms, I could just knock on someone\u2019s wall when I wanted them to lower their volume. Instead, I must go all the way downstairs just to say, \u201cDad.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEh.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDad, can you turn down the volume?\u201d<\/p>\n Then the little volume bar would inch its way back a notch or two.<\/p>\n \u201cThank you.\u201d<\/p>\n In fact, I\u2019m done listening to men dying in battle and gunshots. I\u2019m going to enact that conversation right now.<\/p>\n Well, that went nicely. We had a chat about the amount of work I needed to complete, which includes my speech about voting and studying. I\u2019m happy with the flashcards I made for Dinosaurs, which I created on a flashcard website (The Flashcard Machine). The site turns all your flashcard terms and definitions into a multiple-choice quiz and it\u2019s helpful for studying for the real thing.<\/p>\n I wish I weren\u2019t so afraid of homework. Maybe I would get it done faster if I didn\u2019t feel like it were a hassle. I bet if I look at it as a challenge, I\u2019ll feel differently, but I\u2019m reserving that for later because I want to finish this blog post.<\/p>\n Zach says I should write more about the campus. He seems to think I give too much experience and not enough Iowa, so here\u2019s a brief\u00a0campus walk-through:<\/p>\n The University is pretty. In autumn, the leaves change to a lovely set of browns and golds and everything looks pretty wonderful, especially at sunset, when the sunshine makes everything heavenly. Sometimes it gets weird at night because people have haunted rooms and you remember their stories and suddenly every creak and whistle becomes another ghost out to get you.\u00a0This feeling mostly follows horror movies, though, so try not to watch them in the windy seasons, like autumn and winter, because it gets dark early and the wind howls like crazy.<\/p>\n The river\u00a0flows by the main dorms, separating the east from the west, and everyone says it\u2019s beautiful, but I haven\u2019t had the time to gander. Sometimes I think about heading out there to write since everyone else does, but then I remember work and stay inside. It\u2019s warmer there anyway.<\/p>\n The people are a nice, well-tempered crowd with their faults and flaws like any group of people. Occasionally conflicts arise and people get angry, but it\u2019s not so much their fault\u2014it\u2019s more the fact that they all live together. Other times, competition finds the worst of people and tensions rise, but I wouldn\u2019t say it comes from the experience. It\u2019s mostly because we\u2019re teenagers and we walk in believing we\u2019re the best. However, I wouldn\u2019t blame anyone\u00a0for it\u00a0because we\u2019re still lovely people.<\/p>\n The classes are alright\u2014I prefer smaller groups to lectures, but with Gen-Eds, you can\u2019t do much else. If you do your work and show up on time, people tend to like and notice you, but if you fall behind, there are ways of making up work. Sometimes, you need to stay up all night and obliterate your homework like The Elite Four in Pok\u00e9mon Red<\/em>, but it\u2019s usually well worth it.<\/p>\n That said, if you finish your work before it\u2019s due and you\u2019re a god of smarts, you\u2019re well ahead.<\/p>\n \u2026And there\u2019s a ton more, but I should really write my speech.<\/p>\n I miss you, Iowa. 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