Officially College-Bound.

WE ARE PENN STATE!!

-My Penn State pride, LOL

As I rambled on about my exciting day at my Penn State Schuylkill campus on Facebook, I couldn't help but feel like I was rubbing it in other people's faces. So I decided to ramble on about it in my blog, not necessarily caring as to how others feel, but the fact that I can put my excitement into words.

IT'S OFFICIAL. I'm a college student. At Penn State. I got my ID, I got my schedule. I'm (getting to) paying my tuition. Can I say that I am one happy-ass motherfrucker?

Thursday night, driving to PA was LONG. Although campus is 2 hrs and 35 mins away, it's still a DRIVE....and there are ALOT of trees...I was so fascinated by the sunset, and the fact that I could see all the colors as the sun set. On our way there, my dad gets mad at me, thinking that I had put the address wrong in the GPS, and as it turned out, the Comfort Inn we were staying at wasn't even registered in the GPS system (-___-;;)

So when we finally find our way, we arrive about 10PM or so. Pull into the driveway, and in front of us was an "Adult XXX Videos" Store [lmfao, the concoctions we came in our mind about the area!] Turns out we were in the wrong driveway. So when we get to the right driveway, we realize we are the SOLE black people that were there...so jokingly, I say "Daddy, we better keep the car on watch tonight before it's trashed and mauled." Ahh....gotta love silly racist quirks at times. We get to our rooms, we wash up, and then we decided to explore (mind you, it 11PM!).

This is where my EPIC PHAIL rolls in. I finally decided to attempt a handstand by kicking up my hind legs (yes, now apparently I'm a dog.). Well in the process of me doing so, I managed to get my legs up, then fall back and try to bounce back into it. Instead, I fall, roll on my back and hit my head on the wall. So me, my cousin, and Marla, start dying from laughter at my stupidness. I laughed so hard, I pissed myself, and cried at the same time. LURVELY. I know I'm never living that one down!!

After the totally epic night, comes the morning. Mind you, we're the only black people in the hotel, and the 5 of us if you didn't know any better, looked like a real family. So next morning, we roll in for the complimentary breakfast, and everything gets QUIET. As in "OHMYGOSH, lookit them." kinda thing. I'm PRETTY DAMN sure one of them was waiting for someone to say "Laquateshia", or "My baby daddy ain't call for me in a minute". But after a while, when they realized none of that was going to happen, the atmosphere slowly changed, becoming somewhat relaxed. Marla's mom even left them a tip (HAH!, stick that in your juicebox and suck it Pam!)

And then came the totally awesome part that I've been impatiently waiting 2 and a half months for. Seeing the campus.
For some STUPID reason, although I had my camera, I completely forgot to take pictures of the dang place. It's probably because I was overcome with excitement and anxiety, that I totally went into overdrive.

But, all I can say is, the place is beautiful. Spacious, green, pretty buildings. Penn State lives up to it's name very well. Throughout the day, I couldn't help but think to myself "In less than a month, you'll be walking this walkway, going to class." That's another thing...the classes are SMALL. Even smaller than that of high school. Most of their max class sizes range from 24 to 30. I like that ALOT. Smaller classes means more attention, which all in all, I'll need alot of.

After the different orientations, came scheduling. Man, did the seniors screw us over HARD. Most of the classes left were scheduled at random times, and alot of the interesting classes, were already closed. I wanted to CRY when I found out Intro to Photography was closed. -__-;; I also want to cry when I found out that I didn't get much flexibility with my schedule because of the fact that I wanted to be a Nursing major. BUTTT, I still managed to get everything to work, and thank GOD my adviser was a nice guy, to the point that he fit me into the Bio class that I would need, even though it was closed.

ALTHOUGH my one downfall is that I have Intro to Psychology scheduled for 8AM, I think I can handle it because of the fact that I'm on campus, not taking 30 trains and a bus to get to class.

And that brings me on to my next thought...the campus is located practically in the middle of NOWHERE. The nearest Walmart is 20 to 30 minutes away, and that's just by car!! I'm going to miss having my corner store right around the block, my Key Food a half a block up...and most of all, my chinese food ;~; But hey, that'll teach me to appreciate NY more, when I come back.

I had more that I wanted to blab on about...but meh, I'm lazy. For now, I'm about to look up the books I need for my courses. Later gators!

PS- My schedule is as follows:
Intro to Psychology: M, W, F @ 8:00 - 8:50 AM
Math 21: M, W, F @ 11:00AM - 11:50 AM
Ancient Philosophy (I'VE ALWAYS wanted to take something like that :D): M, W, F @ 1:00 - 1:50 PM
Bio 129: M, F @ 12:00 - 12:50 PM
Bio Lab (UGHH): M, F @ 3:00 - 3:50 PM
Effective Speech: T, R @ 12:30 - 12:45 PM
Special Topics: T, R @ 2:00 - 2:50 PM && W @ 12:00 - 12:50