I'm currently lying stomach down on my bed in my dorm room eating my new favorite snack, white cheddar popcorn, as my roommate works on a Power Point she needs to make for her BOAL piece. I've been here for a month now. It's been the fastest month of my life. I leave CMU in two weeks and I feel like I haven't started yet. I want to catch you up on everything, so this might take a few posts. I kind of want to dedicate each post to one aspect of the program so I can focus myself a little bit.
This post will be dedicated to just the LIFE here.
Lessons Learned:
1. Carry an umbrella with you all of the time in Pittsburgh. It's probably the most A.D.D. weather I've ever experienced. I was talking to my friend, Tamer, on AIM the other day and we started talking and I remember looking out the window and it was bright and sunny and hot. About five minutes into our conversation, I look outside and it is dumping BUCKETS of rain.
2. Steal apples, not computers. In order to save some money, I steal apples from the cafeteria. I don't think they mind, because they aren't O.C.D. about leaving the cafeteria with food like UCLA is, but I'm sure they wouldn't be happy little pumpkins if they found out I was smuggling at least 20 apples a week into my dance bag. HOWEVER, I am indeed an UNhappy little pumpkin because exactly two weeks ago my laptop was stolen from the third floor of the drama building during a rehearsal. Thankfully, I was able to get a new computer and have my pictures backed up, but I'm still sad my baby of 2 years is gone. May she rest in peace.
3. In dorm life, 2 A.M. is the new 11 P.M. Seriously, I know of no one who sleeps before 1:30 A.M. here in the dorms. I mean, our lives are crazy busy, but never thought about homework and stuff until I came here. Chadwick looks like a joke compared to the amount of stuff I have to do. Right now, I'm surprisingly done with homework, which is why I have this pocket of time to write in the blog, but yeah. Life is ridiculous.
4. Middle-school style cliquiness never leaves us. There are a couple of intense cliques here and I like to meander among some of them, primarily one though. It's weird, because I'm friends with like 1-2 people from each clique so I feel odd, but I guess I "belong" to one. The people here are really great and it's amazing to share my passion with SO MANY TALENTED PEOPLE. I love it.
5. I am spoiled. My dorm room is HUGE. I can try to capture the size in picture form, but its like... a beast. We have so much floor space it's ridiculous. I absolutely love it.
Well, that's all I have for now. I will go on to post the other specific blogs right now.
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