ASU: First Day, JR. Year

I woke up on Tuesday with the scene from Finding Nemo stuck in my head, where Nemo is waking up his dad with, "First day of school! First day of school! First day of school!" Then, I said a little prayer about this semester, that God would give me wisdom and guidance, and motivate me to push forward even in the toughest times, and to help me have a good day of classes today.

As I arrived on campus, I located my 9 am, 450 person lecture, and Fall semester officially began. After my two classes at the Tempe campus, I have two at the West campus (lovely). I make the 20 minute walk from the MU to the light rail station, where I planned to pick up my bike, light-rail it home, grab some lunch & head to West.

Stolen. My bike got stolen. Shoot! It's name should've been Old Faithful, since it was my mountain bike that cost $70 in 6th freaking grade (I was just about as tall then as I am now, another fun experience in my life). It had green paint, and the breaks only worked on one side. I hope whatever sucker stole my bike learned about the break malfunction the hard way: I hope he ran into a pole.

Panicking and not sure what to do, I call Liz who precedes to look up the bus I'm supposed to take to West, low and behold it is in fact right next to the MU, which is 20 minutes away, and it leaves in 20 minutes. Oh joy.

I literally got there right when the bus pulled up, & yes there was running involved. I sat in the second row, & I look out the window. "Hmm...that looks like Kara." I think to myself. She turns her head, "Hmm, that IS Kara." Kara happens to be the girl in high school who slept with my ex while I was dating him- wonderful. She is now boarding the same bus as I am.

I pull out my phone, fiddling, fiddling, trying not to make eye contact. Guess who decides to sit right freaking in front of me....Kara. I still kept to myself as she stared directly at me, probably half wondering if she should move seats, and half wondering what the odds were at we'd be on the same bus, in the same two rows. Funny, I was thinking the same thing.

For the next HOUR I avoided eye contact & endured the awkward glances that were coming my way. I was very ready for this day to end. I get to West, went to Bio, and met up with Lizzy and Daniella for some much needed Chipotle and Starbucks.

Well, the Starbucks after a full bowl at Chipotle was not a good idea. I preceded to go to my next class, Accounting at 6 pm.

6: 15 rolls around, and no one is in the class. Hmm. I check MyASU, and guess which class is only on Thursdays. I trudged back to the bus for the hour long ride home. I called my boyfriend, asking for him to pick me up, knowing I couldn't handle the whole walking/light-rail situation after today.

While waiting, my feet began to sting. I look down, how wonderful. Red ants and covering them, and proceeded to bite. That was the icing on the cake, of my first day of Junior year. I hope the rest of the semester goes better than Tuesday...

ASU: On Wheels

There is a distinct kind of student at ASU main campus: casual, usually pretty trendy. But then again, right now not being trendy, is trendy. People usually carry their books in backpack, girls either carry their books/binders or have a large purse holding the contents of their life.

(In fact, I've even seen girls with the backpack/purse combo. I feel like that's a lot of luggage to tote around."

At West campus: Rolly-backpacks. I've never seen so many rolly -backpacks in my entire life! I mean I remember when that was popular in like 4th grade because that's when our backpacks got "heavy," but I never expected to see them in college. Some people even have little crates with lids, on a miniature dolly system, wrapped together with bungee cords. Now personally, that'd be the way I'd take care of business, if I ever wanted to invest in a rolling device to carry my stuff. 

Next up: Tamagachi's and Bouncy balls will become the next biggest thing that college students love. Since those were the next coolest items in 4th grade.