Sleep deprivation
It has officially been a week since I began my adventure on the campus of Ohio Northern University and it has been interesting to say the least. College is such a different feeling from high school, the people, classes, and the dynamic. This week has been hectic starting off on Wednesday, I did not start packing until that day because I had been so busy with work, it just completely forgot about it until then. Packing everything up for school kind of just made me realize that high school was over, I wouldn't see my friends for a long time. I then proceeded to cry about it but then I thought about how I would meet new people and started to feel better, kind of.
I woke up Thursday morning and was extremely excited because I knew I was going to start a new chapter in my life. I couldn’t wait to meet my roommate and all the friends she had met throughout her week of Habitat for Humanity. When we arrived in Ada there was already a huge line going through town, when I saw the line my anticipation only grew. I was stressing about nothing and taking it out on my mom like usual, which I apologized for when she left. We got me unpacked and organized and then my mom and grandma left ☹ I linked up with my roommate (Elizabeth) for the rest of the day, we went to all the welcome weekend activities together. Thursday night we had play fest and I got the chance to meet a lot of my dorm mates and other polar bears! We ended up not going to bed until 1 I believe and then woke up super early Friday.
Friday morning, I went to ExploreONU, that was surprisingly fun. We got to walk around campus and find where our classes were and then got to feed the geese and name the black swans (p.s. their names are ad and Klondike). There really wasn’t much Friday during the day but Friday night, that was the most fun I had during the weekend. It was the Foam party, even though whenever I walked under the foam fountain in the middle, I felt like I was suffocating. My new group of friends ran into a lot of new people and took a few pics. I snuck away to go on a late-night Walmart run with my sister which was less then eventful besides the fact that I didn’t get back to my dorm until 2 A.M.
Saturday, I didn’t do much, I just hung out and got adjusted to the new place until the show SPC put on. The show was called Mission IMPROVable, it was an improve show that was hilarious. They put on skits and told jokes that were really bad it was just a really funny show. The actors put together different combinations of words suggested by the audience and somehow pulled it out by guessing the words (I was confused most of the time, but it was fine). The show was fun, but the concert was better. The band played mostly country and Elizabeth, Emaleigh, and I all danced like lunatics. The concert ended at 10 p.m. and we weren’t tired, so we went back to the dorms to play Exploding kittens, where we meant Logan, Zak, Davis, and Austin. They were all chilling in the lounge, naturally we invited them to play, we ended up playing for a long time. Once again not making it to bed until 3 a.m. because we went star gazing and for a walk.
Sunday, Liz and I went to welcome fest and signed up for random stuff out of sleep deprivation. Seriously, we signed up for Frisbee and astronomy. Like why? We are awful at Frisbee, we can’t even catch the thing or throw it properly. I’ve concluded that we did it because we were not thinking straight because of lack of sleep. After welcome fest we went to Greekapoloza, which I had the most fun at. We stayed at that until it was time for the movie on the tundra. They played endgame and I’m a total geek for marvel movies, so I had to stay for that, obviously. Here is where I get to the fact that college is a trap. It just wants you to be tired for the rest of your life because every night I didn’t go to bed past 1 a.m. I am not complaining but I kind of am.
As a fellow incoming freshman I totally understand every aspect of this post seeing as I, like you, did not get to bed until 1 a.m. or after just about every single night. Although, I found it to not be as detrimental because of the fact that classes start a lot later than high school. Therefore, I didn't have to hear the ringing of my alarm clock go off at the beautiful time of 5:45 a.m. So, all in all I would say freshman has been pretty good for me so far as well.
ReplyDeleteReading this brings up some good memories. I graduate at the end of this semester and oh how I wish I was still a freshman. I remember the first two weeks here like it was yesterday. I felt so free because I only had to answer to me (and the occasional RA). We went driving late at night with no destination, ate whatever we wanted, and were constantly on the move. I even got my first tattoo and died my hair within the first month of arriving to ONU.
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