Dorms and Apartments

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, ...

So, who else never thought this day would come? My roommate is currently singing to herself in her room [I](It's 9:00 AM). [/I]haha [B][COLOR="Magenta"]Living on campus[I][SIZE="1"] (or in an apartment of any kind where you have roomies)[/SIZE][/I] is really entertaining. [/COLOR][/B][LIST][*]We have [B]random people knock on our door[/B] in the middle of the night. [*]We [B]play the game of "who will take out the kitchen trash"[/B] because we all think that the other ...

[I]I am currently sipping on a freshly poured [URL="http://nutritiousisdelicious.blogspot.com/2009/11/twenty-and-counting.html"]?dorm-made? latte[/URL], checking emails, chompin? on a bagel smothered in peanut butter and, of course, typing up this post. [/I]As, I stated in [URL="http://www.collegetips.com/forum/blogs/emily/160-take-people.html"]my post yesterday[/URL], the dining hall does not have the wide array of food options that might come flying out of your [I]krafty kitchen[/I]. ...