A Look Back

I found an old post of mine from my freshman year at Drake, and I thought it would be a good laugh to go through and comment on this post and see how things have changed.

A Year End Toast

since the end of my first year at college is at a close, I figured I would steal Skates' idea and recap all the craziness that insued.

This year I...

-learned that you can survive college by only going to your classes on a semi regular basis (still works)
-studying blows
-learned never to take a class with Goldford or Fuse (I have advised many to stay away and managed to never see them again)
-became a TKE girl
-spent the majority of the weekends at the TKE house (still do)
-learned that frat guys arent all dicks (except for Faulker) (a good portion of them are)
-learned that all sorority girls aren't all bitches (I wouldn't say bitches, but they are not my friends)
-took my first 3 shots of tequilla (I can't even count how much tequilla I've had since then)
-took care of a friend while she was praying to the porcelin gods (I had to do that again for the same friend a few months ago)
-spent many nights in the bathroom (never had to do that again because of alcohol)
-took care of another friend while she was praying to the porcelin gods
-learned to keep me awaky form the whiskey sours (haven't had one since)
-learned that a Jew can dance. They have their own dance...its called the Jew (I hardly ever dance anymore)
-learned the true value of rap and hip-hop (It's kinda lost its glory for me)
-perfected the art of dancing on a support beam (Damn I was a tramp!)
-woke up with many random bruises from the night before (Still happens)
-spent the night at the TKE house (It's happened a few times after that...but not many)
-got many FABULOUS lap dances
-smoked 15 cigarettes in one drinking night (Now I'm lucky if I smoke less than that a day)
-learned to make friends (no longer scared)
-danced on a fence
-dropped my cell phone in the toilet (Now I just break them the normal way. And Steph still won't let me live that incident down)
-danced on a radiator
-helped hold a guy on the pool table so multiple girls could assualt him (He is now in a commited relationship)
-watched porn with 3 girls on a saturday night
-watched porn with 2 of the TKE guys on different nights (We've had many porn and popcorn nights)
-went to a porn store with 2 guys and a girl (Now we stick to the Lumber Yard)
-walked girls around with a leash
-pulled a knife on a guy (And I'd do it again)
-learned the art of thefting (I had a klepto phase, but that is long gone)
-learned to love pussy beers (I can't stand them!)
-kissed a girl more than once (And proceeded to do it again)
-had a guy sleep in my bed 3 times (Wow. This was back in the day when I thought this was scandolous)
-learned that I love the smell of men's cologne (I still can't help but fall for a guy who's wearing Very Sexy For Him)
-got a free lunch (Still do)
-learned how to get a free drink (I still use this technique when I go to the bars)
-learned that trying to drink your worries away NEVER works (It has worked since)
-collected over 200 bottle caps (I ended up using them in a gift I made for my bf. We broke up and he still has it)
-went to dinner at 5pm religiously (I hardly call anything I eat a "meal" anymore. More just a series of snacks)
-cannot count how many times I have ordered chinese food
-made friends with the Jimmy Johns guy (He quit long ago)
-watched jackasses break down the Herriot door (And made it into the security reports)
-made friends with the girls downthe hall very late in the year (These girls no longer talk to me)
-have told my mother everything (still do)
-have had my mother tell me everything (still does)
-had more than one panic attack (I can't even count them anymore)
-swam in the reflecting pool in a thunderstorm (Hacen't topped that one, but damn that was a fun night!)
-had to take cover in the basement
-learned to hate fire alarms (let me sleep and burn!)
-learend to live off of subs, pizza and pasta (I still do, but I don't love it like I once did)
-cannot function before 9am
-learned to never have classes before 11am (Every class starts at 9am)
-learned that Dead Day is not actually for studying (hooray for sleeping in 'til 4pm) (Still true)
-tore into more than one teacher on their evaluations (I even got one of my professors fired)
-ate my fair share of Easy Mac and cereal (I haven't touched Easy Mac since my sophomore year)
-had sex on a noisey super-loft while a friend was sleeping below (that super lof was the greatest invention! Thanks Skates!)
-now have a greater appreciation for Disney movies
-tattooed myself at 2 in the morning (It has since vanished)
-had a picture of me making out with a girl posted on the internet (I still haven't found where it is. And keep in mind that this was BEFORE myspace and facebook...so it was kind of a big deal)
-corrupted an uber Catholic (She is now fully tattooed, a Suicide Girl and getting married in July)
-can now recite the entire script to the movie Snatch (I lost my copy and haven't watched it since)
-helped 3 guys smuggle a keg into the basement (That keg was later confiscated)
-exercised by walking to Kum and Go and Walgreens (I no longer walk, I drive my lazy ass there and back)
-took a friends car to Minnesota more than once (She dropped out and moved to Missouri. I haven't heard from her since)
-learned to LOATH the bus (I never rode the Greyhound again)
-leanred that Iowa isn't all that bad as long as I have my Skates and my TKE boys (Skates and I hardly ever talk anymore, and I have never hated Iowa more)
-learned how to get free cigarettes (Still do)