Home Sweet Home

He's Just Not That Into You

Stayed home today for the first time in a while. Figured I'd rest before work tomorrow, which starts at 7am, meaning I'd have to wake at 5am (in less than 8 hours ahh!). Got woken up this morning mad times. First my mom comes in to get my laundry and then my brother's teacher calls and I had to talk to her. Then I had to write down the teacher's message and put it on my brother's desk. After that it took forever before I could fall asleep again lol. I woke up around 1-ish and just chatted online all day haha.

I started and finished the book, "He's Just Not That Into You" that me & viv bought together.

Tried playing with Peanut again but failed because he hates me =[ Then my mom came home and she told me to make her a card???? Weird.

Then I got into an argument with my mom. It all started because I asked her if my dad and her was coming to my graduation. She said probably not because my dad doesn't know how to drive there (I needed them to drive because I got mad crap to take back home). I told them I'd give them directions but she said that its not going to help. I kind of got annoyed because it's really typical of my parents to not try new things and play everything safe. Every time they are challenged, 9 times out of 10, they would just not try to do it.

So the argument soon got onto the topic of me going away to college. She said I should've stayed in the city and I disagreed and said that going away to college gave me so many new experiences that I could've never gotten if I had stayed in the same place all my life.



I just couldn't agree with her at all. Would I have really gotten just as many new experiences if I had stayed in the city versus living away from home? To me, it'd feel like going to high school all over again. I'd probably hang out with the same people, go to school, go home, rinse & repeat. There's nothing wrong with hanging out with the same people and I absolutely love my friends in the city but I love broadening my horizons, meeting new people, seeing and experiencing new things--and that's something I associate with picking up my roots and moving it somewhere else; surround myself with brand new people, in a brand new environment.

Maybe it would've been just as new and exciting to go to college in the city but I didn't want to be in the city always. Sometimes it's just nice to be in a new place and the biggest thing for me was being independent from my household. Rochester isn't exactly far but it's definitely different.

D-day (aka drinking day)

I thought about all the things that I got in Rochester that I may or may not have experienced if I had stayed in the city:

1. Greek Life ( i don't care what they say, it's NOT the same being greek in a commuter school)
2. Living on my own & living with others
3. Doing my own laundry LOL
4. TRAVELING! I've been to so many new places
5. meeting all these interesting & new people--especially international students
6. taking care of myself
7. Tae kwon do
8. house parties! lots of them!
9. frat house parties haha.
10. planning and executing events
11. snow doesn't faze me anymore
12. SLEDDING behind the school on lunch trays haha
13. walmart <3

There's a ton more but this is just random things off the top of my head. I know it all seems like social things but that's just what it is. That's life--experiences and people. Academics can only take you so far in life, but without the wonderful people you've met along the way, you'll end up short. That's why I was so adamant about going away for school.


take a back seat and enjoy the view of the city that never sleeps

One thing I really appreciated about going away to Rochester is that it really made me realize how much I absolutely missed the city. There's nothing like your hometown and no matter how far I go, there's only one place I call home. New York City. I'm always dying to go back home, to my friends, to my family. Going away may be exciting and all, but there's seriously nothing like home sweet home.