Dorms and Apartments

[I][COLOR="DarkOrchid"]Lorelai: Hey, you didn't wake me up.
Rory: I set the clock.
Lorelai: Yes, but see, the clock stops ringing once I throw it against the wall giving me ample time to fall back to sleep. You, however, never stop yapping no matter how hard I throw you, thus insuring the wake up process.[/COLOR][/I]

This is how I feel when Friday rolls around (aka Today!). I end up setting my phone alarm for about 15 minutes after my alarm clock and placing ...

[I][COLOR="DarkOrchid"]Lorelai: College is loud!
Rory: Yes, it's part of our training. It's right up there with the bad food, the sleep deprivation?[/COLOR][/I]

Yes folks, it?s loud. Live in the dorms and you are simply asking for it. [B]I don?t care if your school is known as a ?party school? or not.[/B] By the way, I do not like that phrase?basically all colleges are party schools of some form or another [SIZE="1"](I have never been to a private school. ...

If you could be?meh, I was going to start this with a question, but no one ever cares to answer and I don?t have anything witty to say to laugh at myself, [I]so I shall refrain[/I]. You know the old saying?[B][COLOR="DarkRed"]A dog is a man?s best friend?[/COLOR][/B] [I][SIZE="1"](That would be what we like to call a rhetorical question...Not meant to be answered. Perhaps I should use them more often? ;))[/SIZE][/I]

[B][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Yea, well coffee ...

Let?s kick off the series [B][URL="http://www.collegetips.com/forum/blogs/emily/185-balancing-act.html"]?Balancing Act?[/URL][/B] by talking about [B][COLOR="DarkRed"]Living in a Dorm[/COLOR][/B]. Oh dear. What a broad topic. Where should I start?

After three semesters of living on campus, I have come to [B][COLOR="DarkOrchid"]a few enlightening realizations[/COLOR][/B].

[I]First, it takes no longer than 15 minutes to get just about anywhere ...

I am currently eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich off of a [B]Cookie Monster paper plate[/B]. [I]I guess I should be eating cookies?seems more fitting.[/I] But I digress. Because, sometimes, you just need to feel like a kid again. Or, perhaps the cookie monster plates were on sale and I?m a broke college kid. [COLOR="Magenta"][B]One way or another, ?kid? is at the root of the phenomenon.[/B][/COLOR]

I bet you never thought of a paper plate as a phenomenon. Then again, ...