Finally...

Hey everyone,

I intend for this post to be brief so that I can go to bed (and go to class early tomorrow morning). We'll see how well I do...

This morning I enjoyed a brisk walk to class. It was a balmy 14 degrees outside, and wind chill brought it down to -2 degrees. Negative degrees are very bad, in my professional opinion. In fact, anything below about 50 is not desirable unless I am near a fire, hot chocolate, my girlfriend, and a Christmas movie.

ADD Moment: Kudos to you if you know the temperature at which the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales meet. Don't google it. If you don't know, check the bottom of this post.

So this morning on the way to my class in the near Arctic conditions I had a unique experience.

Since I sleep until the last possible second before falling out of my top bunk, dashing to the shower, putting on as many clothes as possible to stay warm, and trekking to class (bike doesn't ride well in ice) I usually am in a hurry in the morning. Consequently I don't dry off after my shower quite as well as I should.

And this morning my hair froze.

I have very thick hair on my head. Since I didn't dry it or have a stocking cap to place on my noggin (my GF loves that word) my hair froze in a solid block of ice on top of my head that provided economics class with entertainment all hour. As it melted it would run ice cold water down my neck and into my shirt. Mmmhhmm....so awesome!

In my last freshman seminar class of the semester (praise God!) we had to write down some of the things we have learned in our first semester of college. I will end by including my list for your pleasure: what I really learned in college.

1-If the temperature is below 32 degrees, dry your hair, because otherwise it will freeze.

2- Never eat a chocolate chip cookie in the dining hall. If you do, you will become addicted and have to eat one every time you go.

3-Buy a bike to ride around campus because it saves major time. Do NOT ride the bike in the rain until you are ABSOLUTELY certain the brakes will work in the rain.

4- During your senior year of high school, come up with a good login name and password to use for the six different internet accounts you must open for your classes in college. Use it for everything and write it down so you don't forget it.

5- If you are female, you have the advantage of wearing rain boots when it rains. Buy yourself (or have someone else buy them for you) a great pair of rain boots. If you are male, go to Wal Mart and buy lots of socks.

6-If you want to actually do something productive, get as far away as you can from anything called Facebook, blogging, the internet, or your room mate trying to beat you at Super Smash Bros. Translation: try to go to the library, a coffee shop, or some study room somewhere.

7- If you must walk to class, don't necessarily follow the sidewalks. The diagonals are much faster. If you do this, you know exactly what I'm talking about. If you don't do this, people like me are the reason that there are tracks of dead grass that crisscross the middle area of your campus.

That's all for tonight.

Adios.

P.S.

-40 degrees F/C

Same thing.