What college has taught me so far
2 min readMar 17, 2016
- I don’t like the taste of coffee, I like the taste of sugar.
- Buying that umbrella was pointless because even when it does rain I don’t use it.
- Fog is exciting.
- California beaches require more layers of clothing than Florida beaches do.
- Eating three square meals a day at conventional times is next to impossible when my mom is not the one cooking them.
- God has an uncanny and confusing and frustrating and beautiful sense of timing.
- I am not the person you want to have around during a medical emergency. Seriously. Avoid it at all cost.
- Friends are found in unexpected places.
- Sometimes the hardest decision is knowing when to quit. Changing directions (and changing your major) does not mean you are a failure for not seeing your original decision through to the finish. Knowing what is healthy and right for you is a far greater sign of success than holding on to something that is making you miserable.
- Expressing yourself is hard, but necessary and worthwhile in the long run.
- Nothing ever goes the way you expect it to. People plan and God laughs.
- I do miss my dogs but I do not miss their fur coating every single thing that I own.
- Friends who understand the way you think are important, keep them around.
- I am exceptionally bad at estimating the volume of leftover food when putting it in containers.
- Chocolate makes 80% of all situations better. Chocolate cake, 95%.
- Calculus must be studied.
- Making my bed every day is a really great thing to do.
- Discussing controversial topics with people who hold different viewpoints does not lead to the world exploding, but is actually rather interesting.
- Hiking is not as terrible and tragic as my father caused me to believe.
- Home cooked food and puppies are good enough reasons to go anywhere.
- Napping is a really beautiful and terrible form of procrastination, as is cleaning.
- I make friends with people who are scary similar to my parents.
- Faith and trust are more valuable than I realized.