College Life

Utah State started school again today, and I was a little sad that I couldn't go.  Just thinking of the first week of fall semester makes me so happy.  I swear that the air gets a different scent, and I just love it.  There is just something about campus the first week that is so exciting.

Call me a nerd, but I love school (just not the homework part).

I was thinking today about my favorite year of college.

These girls take the cake, hands down.

Paige, Lindsay, and Maggie were my roommates during my sophomore year.

(We also had an adopted roommate, Brad.)  

Pretty much no one other than them will think this post is as hilarious as I do.

We couldn't have been more different, but couldn't have gotten along any better.  Pretty much everything we did involved:  eating, dressing up, and taking pictures.

I have 2000+ pictures of us from that year.

Our favorite activities included all three.

Here are a few highlights of the year:

Sporting Events:

Football - I don't think we actually lasted for a whole game though

BASKETBALL - still my true love

HOCKEY! - We loved the fights

Dressing Up:

Neil Diamond cover band concert

We got spray on tattoos and sported them for our first day of church

80's Rock Concert

Pink Ladies for Halloween

Birthdays:  We celebrated everyone's birthday with cake.  We never had candles though so we would pretend to blow out silverware.

Paige with her cornucopia cake that started it all

Lindsay with her snowman cupcake cake

Maggie and Brad share a birthday.  Their birthdays are in August, so we celebrated their half-birthday which is right around Valentine's Day...hence the "Kiss Me" lips cupcake cake.

And me with my alligator cupcake cake

Garbage Bag Sledding:  Who needs a sled?  We went down Old Main Hill in January with only garbage bags.  We wore them like diapers.  I really thought I was going to pee my pants from laughing so hard.

Garbage Bag Superheroes 

Funniest random activity.

A few other things I loved about this year:

• Maggie's cleaning outfit (oversized shirt, short shorts that said "Got Crabs?" on the butt, and huge headphones)
• We took disgusting pictures of ourselves, blew them up and hung them on the wall where people could see them through the window
• Maggie's Ultimate Aggie experience
• Becoming a True Aggie
• The recorder and The Name Game
• Knicole - my doll posterity - chillin' in the windowsill.
• Eating unlabeled food and saying, "Thanks Laura" (We had a roommate that moved out and left ALL of her stuff there.  We ate her food.  Months later when all of her food was gone, we would eat food that we didn't know whose it was and just say, "Thanks Laura," and pretend it was hers)
• Another roommate telling Brad that he needed to leave the apartment because being alone with him made her uncomfortable
• Creepo - the previously mentioned roommate's boyfriend that was ten years older than her and looked like a ten year old boy and old man at the same time
• Roommate and Creepo playing the piano and singing duets
• Mirror faces 
• Making s'mores over the stove
• Our paper chain that counted down the ENTIRE year and had all important events marked on it

One more memory:  This one is for Paige

Every Tuesday evening we would get left all alone in the apartment.  For some reason, we would always sit right next to each other on the couch.  We would watch The O.C.  One day we came up with a bunch of fake laughs.  A few of them were even given names:  Old Man, The Sheep, and of course...THE MACHINE GUN...it's a classic.  We decided to try them out on Maggie and Lindsay when they got home.  Rather than laughing at funny things with our special laughs, we would only laugh at things that weren't actually funny.  They would get so confused whenever we would do this.  We felt the fake laughs were a success.

What a magical year.  I miss seeing these girls everyday.