So tired...

I officially fail at blogging...
On a different note, though, I am really tired. It's not even 12:30, so it's not like it's that late, but I'm just tired tonight. Normally I'd just call it a night and go to bed, but I have a problem tonight. I told a kind of friend that I'd compare answers for our chem problem set that's due tomorrow. The reason he's only a kind of friend is because I don't have his number to text him and tell him to hurry up and get here so then I could go to bed... Argh. I'm thinking right now that I'm just going to resort to a power nap and just set an alarm for 15 minutes so I can be awake when he gets here.
Completely different note, my room looks nice and festive for the holidays! Woo! Less than two weeks until Charity is home! I really am going to power nap now, though, so 'ofa atu!

Oops...

So I may or may not have accidentally forgotten about the fact that this blog existed...
Oh well though! I'll just pretend like I've been posting a lot anyways, which means that I'll just give a preview of my next few days.  I'm actually pretty excited, because apart from class tomorrow, my weekend seems like it should be rather awesome. Without class on Friday, I have began to classify Thursday night as the weekend, so I'm looking forward to dinner with friends, and then some Jeopardy! I plan on continuing to watch Jeopardy almost every day over Christmas break. Be warned. But anyways, I'll then work on some chem homework before watching The Office and Grey's Anatomy. Woo! Maybe even Private Practice... That may be getting a little excessive, though. Anyways, Friday will consist of some homework, a chem review session, dinner and Jeopardy, and a free showing of Captain America at the local theater! I'm going with Sara to that, which will be lots of fun. I even get free popcorn and pop. Score. Saturday will be an interesting day with my freshman seminar field trip to New York City to go on a sound walk. I still don't know what I'm doing Saturday night, but I'm sure something fun will come up.  Sunday will be church, chem review (I have a test on Monday on thermodynamics... oh man), and work.  I guess that isn't as exciting, except for church, which I still love.  All in all it should be a good weekend, especially since it will mean Thanksgiving later in the week! This is really a pretty awful post, but oh well, I need to get to bed so I can wake up and do halfways decent on my German quiz in the morning...
'Ofa atu! : )

Poo-poo...

Well here's a really poo-poo from Princeton right here. Guess who locked themself out of their single room. Oh yeah. Except Princeton has a lovely lockout policy to make it all better. During business hours (8:45-5), if you lock yourself out, you have to walk to a building across campus to borrow a temporary replacement key that you have to return within twenty-four hours. Here's the catch: the third time you have to do this, and any subsequent times, you have to pay $30 for borrowing the key. It gets better. If you lock yourself out after business hours or on the weekend, you have to call Public Safety, which is an automatic $30 each time. At 6:30, I realized that I locked myself out... yet again. Last week I locked myself out on Tuesday, too, but it was only my first time, so I just walked over to New South (the building for the Housing Department), got back in my room, and everything was just fine and dandy. But today, since it was after hours, I couldn't really do this. Sadly, I also inherited this problem with spending money from father dearest, so naturally, I don't want to pay the $30 for P-Safe to come let me in my room. Luckily I have some friends that live in an 8 person suite and have a couch in their common room, so I'm camping out there for the night, but it's still very annoying not having my glasses or pajamas to change into. So now I have to wake up in the morning to go get a key, get into my room, and then get ready to go to class. Joy. Plus I have the added stress of knowing that I can't lock myself out. For the rest of the year. Even better. My goal is to tie my lanyard to my backpack. Hopefully that works. But that's the news from Princeton. 'Ofa atu!

Why Rachel is Getting My Camera After Fall Break

This would be my one and only picture that I've taken with my camera since being on campus. Believe it or not, that's been for over a month now. Oops. What can I say? I missed some kind of picture taking gene that both of my older sisters seem to have received. It's a good think they like taking pictures so I can keep up with their lives, but no wonder Mom gets frustrated with me. The only reason I took this one was because I got a lovely package with my glasses and other assorted things and I was instructed to take a picture so Wesley didn't forget what I looked like and so the family could see my new glasses.  Apparently I did very well with that idea... over two weeks later. Moral of the story: In less than two weeks, when I see most of the family over fall break, Rachel will get my camera in the hopes that somebody can post pictures.
Apart from all of this, I'm starting to feel like I've been here for a very long time, while also like I've only been here for two days. It's a rather strange feeling. I have routines for things like my laundry (every week I alternate between washing my towel and my sheets with the rest of my clothes) and when I buy milk, but on the other hand, I still don't know what to expect from midterms next week. Also, despite having been on two band trips now, I still don't know what to expect when going to Harvard this weekend. The band never ceases to surprise me.  I discovered last post that I enjoy lists, so I'm going to go to sleep after a fun list of other things that have surprised me about college:
1. I still manage to get 7-ish hours of sleep on a typical night, which doesn't include Thursday nights when I sleep as long as I want. It's incredible.
2. I stay on my computer at what I used to think were obscene hours of the night to see if a certain sister might appear on Skype, but it doesn't bother me because I'd be up anyways.
3. I haven't gotten really fat yet, although I have gained a couple pounds, or at least I think I have. Oh well though, because the food is good.
4. I get to watch Jeopardy! almost every night with a group of my closest friends.
5. I might not fail out of Princeton. Heck, I might even be able to pull of decent grades.
6. I actually miss playing high school sports. And by that, I mean sports, because intramurals once a week just don't cut it.
7. It's much easier to tell when I haven't swept my floor than at home. Stupid hardwood instead of carpet.
8. I e-mail Miss Varley. Bahaha.
9. I don't have to fight for a shower in the mornings.
10. I haven't found the time to read a trashy romance novel yet.
But now I'm going to go to bed so I can get up, go to class, and then do lots of homework! Yay for college! 'Ofa atu! : )

Almost October

I guess I'm even worse at this than I originally thought I was, but oh well...
Anyways, it's almost October, which means that I've been on campus for two and a half weeks now for the fall semester.  I've pretty much settled into a routine, which is definitely much less stressful than the first week was.  Fridays are the best days by far, because I have no class at all!  This Friday won't be quite as nice, because I have an essay due at 5 PM... That's besides the point though! Mondays are probably the next best, because I only have two classes from 10 to 12:20.  I can't complain much about that at all.  Wednesdays are pretty nice too with the same schedule as Monday with a 50 minute small class discussion for chemistry, which is normally a 150 person lecture, from 1:30 to 2:20.  Although Thursdays are longer because I have class from 10 to 4:30 with an hour for lunch, they're still not very stressful because I know I don't have class the next day.  Tuesdays are really the only day of the week that I don't like because I have class from 10 to 4:30, which is then followed by two hours of band practice.  I really don't like not being able to start on homework until after dinner, but I just have to learn to deal with it.  In general, classes are pretty nice, but I'm probably speaking too early considering how I haven't had any tests or quizzes yet.  I was actually supposed to have my first German quiz tomorrow, but class got cancelled due to a medical emergency for my professor.  Shame that it got moved to Monday, which happens to be my birthday. Boo. Oh well, though.
Away from classes, I've found a few really great things that make my life better. In no particular order:
1. A plethora of libraries that provide fantastic study spots.
2. Murray-Dodge Cafe, which translates to free cookies and hot chocolate while visiting with friends.
3. Intramural frisbee. Enough said for anybody that knows me.
4. The marching band: Completely ridiculous, while still managing to sound good... Basically the opposite of Reynolds with much much cooler uniforms.
5. An awesome little church where the people are super nice. I look forward to it starting Sunday afternoon.
6. Pears in the dining hall.
7. The sense of accomplishment I feel when I realize that yes, I really am doing my own laundry.
8. Disney movies every Thursday night for a while.
9. Ice cream. Everywhere.
10. Great friends.
Basically, I'm starting to figure out why people like college, because there are other things that I haven't even mentioned.  I wonder if Tonga is as awesome? Who knows, maybe I'll get to find out some day! 'Ofa atu : )

Fall Semester

Apparently I'm really terrible at this idea of blogging, but luckily I think you'll forgive me : )
But anyways, I was home for an entire week after the end of FSI, which was pretty incredible. Basically I got to relax and do not much of anything, or at least that's what I tell myself. In all reality, I went to Cleveland and back twice, Pittsburgh for a day, two football games, and eye doctor's appointment and a volleyball game.  I also went out to lunch and dinner a few times, so I definitely wasn't home that much, but oh well, it was still nice.  Since then, I've been back on campus for only four days, but it already seems much longer.  There have been obscene amounts of information thrown my way, and it shows no time of stopping.  For as many times as I've been told that it's ok that I don't know what I'm doing with my life, you'd think that they'd quit trying to tell me what to study and do, but I guess not.  The good news is that there are definitely all kinds of cool things to do, like going to a cappella concerts and dance group performances, which I've already done.  I also plan on going to a marching band rehearsal, a Quidditch tournament, an Ultimate pick-up game with the club team, a comedic musical, and a comedy act!  Probably the most exciting is my plan to have dinner with Kylee Headland tomorrow though!  I'm also making new friends in addition to my friends from FSI, so overall I can't complain much.  I do have to get off to an academic advising meeting to pick my classes though, so 'ofa atu! : )

One week left!

So I apologize for taking so long to blog.  I had every intention when I started this of blogging every couple of days, just to keep you up to date and to avoid super long posts, but apparently that failed.  So I have to go back to last Saturday when Aunt Jayne, Uncle Karl, Christopher, and Stacey came to visit me. Needless to say, it was incredible getting visitors, but apart from that, we went out to dinner at a super nice seafood place.  I was rather adventurous and tried calimari for the first time as an appetizer.  I also got to eat a lot of bread, because I happened to be the only one that was not eating Paleo.  The main course of shrimp scampi pasta was delicious too.  I was a very happy camper after that meal, which was by far the best that I've had since being here.  But I wasn't even done yet!  Then we went to the Bent Spoon for ice cream.  It was the third time that I've been there, and as before, it was incredible, although one of the best parts has to be how I have 9 out of 10 punches on a punch card that will get me two free scoops of ice cream and I haven't paid for any of it by myself!  After they left I went back to doing homework, but the next day I went to a Baptist church service.  That was a new experience for me, because I was one of only four non-African American people there and I had to stand up and introduce myself... That's ok, though.  The music was pretty incredible.  I don't think the next week was very exciting... I went puddle jumping sometime in there, which was exciting, but that's all I can think of.  So on to this past Saturday when I went to New York!  That was awesome.  One of the best parts was the fact that my group ended up being really small, as in two RAs, me, and my friend, Sara.  Because of that, a lot more stuff got paid for, we could do almost whatever we wanted, and we got to take lots of ridiculous pictures.  One of my favorite parts was getting McDonald's, which is probably rather sad, but also the truth.  I know Rachel is disgusted by this, but I miss fast food in general, which doesn't exist in Princeton.  But anyways, I got back at 10-ish Saturday night (I can tell you more about the actual trip when I talk to you), and proceeded to stay up until 4 in the morning trying to write some of a rough draft that was do the next day.  I did still wake up early enough to go to church, though, so I went to visit the Presbyterians with Cornellius.  It was about what I expected, rather impersonal, except the pastor, who was actually from Pittsburgh and knew where Sharon was.  I always get rather excited when I find anyone from western Pennsylvania, so that was exciting!  I then stressed out a lot about getting my rough draft done and my math project, but they both did get done, which was good.  So now I'm starting to wrap up everything... my last Ways of Knowing class was today, my final essay for it is due Saturday, and the final is on Tuesday.  Math is a little more with class tomorrow and Friday, a project due Friday, a problem set due Friday, another project due Sunday, and the final on Wednesday along with all kinds of review for the final, but that's ok... after that I go home on Thursday!  That's enough of an update for now... 'ofa lahi atu! : )

I survived midterms!

So Tuesday and Wednesday this week meant midterms for both of my classes.  Beforehand everyone got in lots and lots of studying, myself included, but sadly, the main point of Princeton, and probably college in general, is to try to surprise you with some new question that isn't exactly like what you studied.  A lot of people were definitely unhappy with their grades for both tests, but personally I was really excited! For the first and I can almost guarantee the last time, I got a 103% one of my midterms!!! WOO!!! On the math one, I got a B+, which I was also super excited about considering how I knew I missed the last question that was 10 of the 100 points of the test. But just in general, it's so exciting to think that I'm over halfway done with FSI! I'm already looking forward to seeing everyone at home and going out to eat at fast food with dad.  It's also really convenient that the week I get to go home is Labor Day weekend, so I get to go to the camp reunion! In the nearer future, I'm excited to get to play in a program wide dodgeball tournament tomorrow, because after being involved in sports for four straight years, not being physically active is really starting to get to me.  Also, this Saturday, Aunt Jayne, Uncle Karl, Christopher and Stacey are all going to come take me to dinner. Score! For the time being I'm just going to ignore the fact that I also have an essay due Sunday, a project proposal due Monday, math homework due Monday, and reading for Ways of Knowing due Monday... oh well. That's what I get for coming to college. Ofa atu!

Stupid, stupid bet.

This past week has been marked by one large gap in my diet. Desserts. Anybody that knows me knows how much I love desserts, especially ice cream. Rachel even told me once that she wouldn't let me marry a guy until I looked at him the way I look at ice cream.  That should really tell me something about my eating habits.  Apparently some of my friends here at college picked up on that fact pretty quickly, too.  What else was I supposed to do except have ice cream with at least one meal a day when it's free and all you can eat? My particular downfall was the chocolate chip cookie dough. Mmm... But anyways, they picked up on this, and the one morning when I was drinking some chocolate milk, one of the boys asked me if I was hiding ice cream in the milk.  I said of course I wasn't, why would he think that? And his answer was that I just liked ice cream that much, and he didn't even think that I could last one day without it. Another part of me is super competitive and hates being told what I can't do, so of course I had to say that I could easily do that. Well somehow that single day without ice cream bet progressed to the rest of the summer term without ice cream to who out of three of us can go the longest without dessert. Dang. It really doesn't help that some of the restrictions also include candy, doughnuts and chocolate milk, which I tried to argue, but apparently it counts as melted ice cream. At least I still get to have whipped cream on my pancakes! For as much as I eat dessert, it really has been surprisingly easy to substitute my typical dessert in with fruit at the end of a meal or one of the dining hall's fruit smoothies, but occasionally it gets a little difficult. A couple examples include the bag of snack sized candy that my RA always has on hand, the ice cream that everybody else eats in front of me at meals, and even the cake after the church service that I went to this morning.  I could just take Mom's advice and eat whatever I want as long as it isn't right after a meal, but that really isn't the point of the bet, and I feel the need to prove my point.  So until Andres gives up (Hafeez is already out) it looks like I'll be putting off the dreaded freshman fifteen! Ofa atu!

Well I'm here now...

I have two older sisters, Charity and Rachel, that were in foreign countries when I found out that I was accepted at Princeton.  Both of them also had regular blogs at the time and suggested that I should start one when I went to Princeton.  The main stipulation was that I had to follow the family tradition of having an alliterative title.  Tidbits from Tonga and Snippets from Scotland were both appropriate, but when I asked them what mine could be, the best Charity could come up with was Poo-poos from Princeton.  Even though Rachel didn't like the idea very much, I decided that in honor of Charity I would start that exact blog.  I sincerely hope that nobody other than Charity reads this, but considering how she's still in Tonga, I guess that I can bear to blog every now and then to keep her updated on my life.
So to begin with one of these updates... I've been at Princeton now for two weeks at their incoming freshman program, FSI.  I am taking two classes for the summer, Mathematical Modeling and Ways of Knowing.  Both of them are the most difficult material I've had to deal with, ever.  It's worse than AP Physics and AP English combined!  But, I'm slowly starting to get the hang of things, which would also explain why I have the time to create a blog.  Back to the classes, though.  Mathematical Modeling is a calculus based course that involves a lot of learning how to use a software program called Matlab.  I hate Matlab.  I consistently spend 3 hours a night at tutoring sessions to try to understand that class.  The other class is much better in my mind.  It involves studying a different discipline each week and how each discipline can look at the same piece of work in a completely different light.  We started off with philosophy, last week was art, this week is history, next week is sociology/anthropology, the week after that is science, and then we have a week of working on a research paper.  I like this because I get a taste of quite a few subjects and can see how I feel about them, which is super convenient considering how I don't have the slightest idea of what I want to do with my life.  I don't like having to write a paper every week, but I guess that's just college.  There's the basis of the boring stuff, Charity, I'll post more later. Ofa atu! : )