My First Saturday At College

Would you like to know what I did with my first Saturday at college? It was actually really fantastic.

I have this new clique that fluctuates between 5 and 8 people. This morning it started out with 5. We call ourselves The Breakfast Club. I'm Claire, Molly Ringwald's character, the "Princess". Anyway, the five of us went to breakfast on Hilltop, and the first thing the cashier says to us is "Hey are you all freshmen? Do you want a job?" So... we all got hired on the spot to be dishwashers in the cafeteria. Sweet. I start on Thursday.

After that eventful morning (which, by the way, this all occured around 11AM. I like not having band camp), we went to my friend's room and we sat around on Facebook, updating our statuses to "So-and-so has got a job!" Then we all commented on and liked each others' statuses. It was intense. Then we sat around and were extremely lazy for a good hour or so, and then we decided to buy our books.

At UWEC, you can rent most of your books. I only had to pay for one. I paid an astounding total $36 for five textbooks. Well, technically one textbook, but... I got 5 (for the price of one!). I also got a free stick of gum. Yep. One individually plastic-wrapped stick of gum. Awesome.

Then we went back to my friend's dorm to decide what to do with the rest of our day. Our intent was to explore the city, so we hopped on a bus on lower campus and sat on it full cycle just to see where it went. Then we got on another bus to see where that one went. It went into the neighboring city of Altoona, and there were tons of creepy homeless-looking people and a spooky old lady who kept staring at us.

At the end of our epic 2-hour bus adventure (bussing is free for UWEC students, by the way), we ended up just a couple of blocks away from where we first boarded. So we rode on a bus for 2 hours to go somewhere that was 10 minutes away from the residence halls.

And then we went to dinner at Dooley's, and then we went to a $2 play! It was really good, albeit incredibly depressing.

So in order to take our minds off the massive cloud of sadness left by the play, we went back to my friend's dorm, and by that time it was just four of us girls left. So we found the worst fanfiction ever written ("My Immortal"), and we had a Reader's Theater for an hour and a half.

Pretty much the most epically lametastically awesome Saturday I've had in a while. I love college.