the days fly by, and less than a month into the academic year i have 4 'mid term' exams scheduled for the next 6 days.
things continue to go well enough. classes are just short of manageable, which is to say a million times better than they were in high school. this time last year i was literally tearing my hair out (in chunks, as i slept), panicking over the 1 october deadline for my early action application, editing essays like mad, filling out forms to the max.
right now i am trying to ignore my immensely intimidating civ books and bio powerpoint slides, and i am getting damn good at it.
last night after i studied a few hours for a calc two test, i treated myself by meandering my way to cunningham where s was kind enough to have me over. a bunch of us just sat around, and his drunk roommates were highly entertaining. they lobbed water balloons from the sixth floor at unsuspecting, innocent passersby. it was hilarious. (but now i will never be able to walk in their building without taking special note of who's home first.) i lamented over the red sox loss, drowning my sorrows with a few swigs of jack daniels (p.s. i am not an alcoholic). feeling very badly about drinking on a wednesday night, s walked me back to good ol' mcvin around 1ish. i showered at the speed of light and set my alarm bright and early, scrawling myself a note across the snooze button reminding me to study for calc more in order to make up for my time spent imbibing.
i was in the caf by 730 this morning, calc books open and chem in the on deck circle.
i really need to relax.
good thing i only have 4 exams next week.