THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GRAY AREA IN MY LIFE!
I’m either running late for class or I don’t have class that day.

Anyway here are some things I’ve learned my first three weeks of college:

1.) Bikes will hit you.
They will hit you and not feel bad. Beware. All. Bikers. I repeat: beware all bikers.

2.) Greeks are EVERYWHERE.
The Greek alphabet? Yeah. Learn it. The Greeks are all over campus. They tend to wear their letters, but on the off chance you see a Greek that’s not you can play a rousing game of “Guess the Frat”. (Note that this takes special skills that you may not develop until your second year on campus. I’d say your sophomore year but this is my first year on campus and I’m a sophomore so…)

3.) GET TO CLASS EARLY.
Would I steer you wrong? Take it from a girl that likes to sleep in with the best of ’em. You’ve got to stop. That’s my piece on it.

4.) Coffee
It’s important. You need it. The world around you needs you to have it. Just find something that makes you pleasant okay? It might not be coffee for you. I for one however am I professional only-spend-money-on-coffee-er.

5.) Suck it up and do it.
Whatever “it” is. Do it. Homework due tomorrow and you’re up late? Too bad. Just do it anyway. You’re going to be tired. (See 4) My point? We all have things we don’t want to do. Just get it done and thank yourself later. For me it was getting my geology homework done at 3 a.m. and having to nap on the break room table at work for an hour. That’s okay. People get it.

Just remember to stay at happy as possible and that if ONE day goes horribly, terribly, awfully wrong you will ALWAYS have the power to just try again tomorrow. And of course you’ll always have me here. That’s right, you. You reading this. You have me.

XOXO,
NBNealie

P.S. Don’t forget that you can email me any time at nothingbutnealie@yahoo.com