I'm guessing you're going to a private? I'm going to be heading off into college this fall, and I really hope everyone's friendly.

Yep. I can't say I'm thrilled with the private college experience. I hope you have fun at college, though! Which one are you going to?

I'm gonna be going to NYU. It's mad expensive as far as privates go, but my college process sucked and it's the only school I got into. Thank you Mom and Dad for not letting me apply to safeties. I'm not hyped about staying so close to home for college, but I have to take what I can get. And I got into the program that I wanted, so I can't really complain (besides me being a super broke college student).

Aww, I bet it'll be fine! I only applied to this school because I didn't even want to stay within my home state. Now I'm three states away and miserable. I really want to live at home again. I'd volunteer to cook dinner on the weekends if I have to.

You'll still get the freedom to do the things you want without your parents breathing down your neck. You're in college and you have the right to go out and do things.

It's just a matter of ability. for me, my ability to go out is hampered by 1) too many of my dormmates wating me to go to the club or the bar with them (translates to getting drunk), 2) I'm flat broke, and 3) I'M DROWNING IN HOMEWORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

haha 2 and 3 are my problems. Well...and the only thing to really do around here is go to bars, which I'm not legally old enough to do and I don't actually care if I am hence my lack of fake ID.

I'm old enough to go to bars, but I don't have an ID. Hell, I don't have ANY kind of state identification.

*stretches* Augh. I just tried that Just Dance game, and let me tell you...if you thought DDR was the most embarrassing game out there, think again.

There's quite a bit to do where I live. You just have to be willing to go to travel a little bit.

The only things there are do to where I'm from are...drive about an hour to the nearest "city" to do anything. Not something you can do every time you get bored.

It's about 8 minutes in any direction where I live if I want to find a city. An hour and a half to the capital, which is where all the concerts and shit goes down, then half an hour to my college town which has a lot of stuff to do if you just look for it. I basically live up there during the week.

Aww...I love DDR. And I've wanted to try Just Dance for a while. :lol: Then again, embarrassing only has a small existence in my mental dictionary. haha

I'm without car, or any reliable transportation. There are movie theaters and stuff, but they're way out of my way. And gas is too expensive for anybody to want to go do any of that stuff.

Just Dance is fun...and I imagine the real DDR is better than the floor mat home version (which is the only thing I've been able to try, all arcades have shut down where I live), but Just Dance is hilarious. You're flailing all over the place trying to copy strobe light figures on the screen. The moves were actually pretty good, though. I was, however, extremely disappointed in the Pussycat Doll song.

I have a car...I hate the gas prices, too, though. All of my friends live miles away from me for the most part, so it's hard to hang out with them. Especially with regular being 3.50 a gallon. Though, that is low for the country's average, so we're a little better off.

Originally Posted by HappyStarr

Aww, I bet it'll be fine! I only applied to this school because I didn't even want to stay within my home state. Now I'm three states away and miserable. I really want to live at home again. I'd volunteer to cook dinner on the weekends if I have to.

You'll still get the freedom to do the things you want without your parents breathing down your neck. You're in college and you have the right to go out and do things.

That's true. I feel that getting out of the house and living in the dorms is the first step to freedom, haha. It's just hard trying to smile and be nice when my dad brings up things like, "Oh you can visit every weekend." How do I put "Yeah, right" in nice sounding words?

Aww, try to make a compromise. When I left, my dad was saying things like "And you can call home every night? I'll call you." And he really did. He called me multiple times a day, while I was in class. It drove me crazy. So I told him I'd call on weekends. Most of the time I do. But lately I haven't since he's been calling me a lot lately.

Try to compromise. Let him know you don't want to feel pressured into going home every single weekend. You can visit once or twice a month or something, but he knows he's going to have to let you go.

One of my friends is kinda like that, but that's mostly him forgetting about the time difference between his time zone and mine. We used to be in the same time zone, but in high school his family moved out to California, so...yeah. Me and the rest of our little group of friends managed to get him on Gaia though, so communications haven't ended.

Thanks HappyStarr, we'll see how it goes. It's just that he's known for obsessive parenting, and I swear I will lose it if halfway through the semester he calls me Friday night and goes, "Hey, we're five minutes away from your residence hall."

Most of my friends are staying on the East Coast, so I don't think we'll have the issue that you have, TaiyoTsuki, thank goodness. Although I do have a friend who's in California right now, and the time difference works more to her advantage than mine.

I think I'd rather be living in Cali than Illinois, which is where I life right now. Well, except for the earthquakes, but at least they don't have tornados.........

No, but they have californians... arguably worse.

LOL sarofset, that made me laugh. Also there was that whole UCLA YouTube video borderline racism incident. Illinois had one of my college choices (that unfortunately rejected me).

I go to a school which everyone thinks is a community college, but it's a university. lol. I hate having to explain it to people. And I hate getting the "I want to go to a real school" bit when I tell my friends the school is good.

Aw, that sucks. Don't mind your friends that much. As long as you like it there and you're getting an education you want, that's what counts, right? Compared to my friends, I got into a not so good school, but I'm being optimistic because I'm going to be able to have connections and internship opportunities like nowhere else.

Ah. It is nice to add to my list of people that have issues with Californians. ;) Best jokes in the world. Lol.

Well, at least that's good, Ox. :yes:

I have to go to a friggin' award ceremony tomorrow. Please. Somebody shoot me now. I don't want to drive two hours to the state capital for an award that I didn't want to do the work for in the first place. On a school night. >.>

I'm getting a little tired of bullshitting this one thing. I'm glad this is at least the end of it. Argh.

Haha, the one thing I got my Californian friend is that the word "solid" is very in right now. Don't think it's ever going to catch on in the East Coast, but still.

But at least you're getting an award, no? What's it for?

hahaha I bet I could get it to catch on. :D

Oh no. Please don't, lol. You're so awesome the entire world would start using it, Happy. And then where would we be? In a solid world, that's where. Hehe.

It's a Girl Scout Gold Award...I was never in Girl Scouts but my mother got me involved without asking me when one of my friend's mom's meddled me into it because she wants her girl scout group to have the most gold awards in Colorado. Which it did achieve that after I got mine. (I'm just being formally presented it tomorrow)

400 hours of my life I will never get back...doing work I had absolutely no passion for. Ah well.