Up and Coming

For the zero amount of followers at this time. I will be posting info, updates, links, tools and all other aspects of a "tool kit" for you all to use. I attend SUNY Cobleskill so I will be posting things about that campus and other local SUNY schools for you to browse. :) Enjoy.

Facebook Info Hub

So I was floating, or "creeping" around Facebook today and came across some posts to boys and girls heading off to college. They are all worried about what will become of their relationships when they ship out to college. Trust issues are surfacing, lives are changing. It is difficult. Now me personally, didnt go through this, but I watch a few of my best friends go through it. What will be will be. If you are meant to be together then nothing will happen. Don't worry about this stuff until you feel they need to, like if youre not even at college yet, chill, relax, enjoy one another. trust is a big deal, and some of you may have insecurities and relationships that work work out. It is just a chapter of life.

Some people like going off to college free to experience everything brand new. It is their choice. There are also those who are so deeply in love with their high school sweetheart that it just wont matter. It is all a choice. Take what comes and be happy with it.

I'm An RA Now.

In the winter, January 2010 I got a the position as a Dorm Resident Assistant. And I love it! So now that I've said that I can saefly say Ive been trained to write this blog. I'm trained in college health, safety, drama, classes, social situations, parties, alcohol, and just about anything else you can think of having to do with your years at college.

It is currently July. That means in a month or so, classes start, you move in, or back in, meet your roommate, new or old. And go through another year of schooling. I cannot wait! I'm working on campus for this summer and I must say, not a fan. I work everyday for the typical 8 hours, and in a month, students will come back and ruin everything. Now, All the blame certainly doesnt go to them, but also to administration for not using smarter and better money managed ideas to spruce up campus. My work as of now will be a waste come fall. So just a note to everyone, take care of your campus, cause I'm sick of doing it. And tell your supiriors what you'd like to see in your surrounding living quarters. :)

White Board Retaliation

So in most dorms, atleast around here, we have white boards on the outside on our dorm room doors. Now in the past two years Ive had only one semester where people that didn't like me wrote on my board. Now all they did was erase my name and not my roommates, or write that I was a whore..(I'm not) Now this year I wanted to start super fresh, which I am...I figured I wouldn't have to deal with it. Until I got to my room yesterday afternoon. I came back to my room only to see that on my board someone had written, "Amanda is a whore-able person". Now I went to a few friends and ranted and vented about how I felt and how i seriously couldnt get over the fact that people had already started this on the first day of the semester.

Come to find out it was my cousin, playing a joke. Now in my group of friends there are a few such friends that would pull a joke like that. No biggie. But I don't like it when it says something like that and then there is no name under it, so that "credit" can not be given. So I went through one night of wondering who wrote it, whether they meant it or did it as a joke.

Sooo all in all, my point is. If you write mean things, but mean them as a joke, SIGN YOUR NAME. lol. And if you mean it seriously...grow up and stop writing mean things on dorm doors.

To Parents

I just moved back to campus today and I have a freshman roommate. She brought almost nothing. I am sometimes told I bring too much. But what some people need to understand is that I live here. LIVE here. It is my home for 8 out of 12 months. I'm going to bring as much as I want/need. Both for fun and for necessity. So Parents..get off your college kids back and help 'em pack.

Pot Luck

Seeing as this is my own personal blog and my own personal opinon, I am obvioulsy I am subjecting myself to the publics own opinion on me and mine. I go to college and I see tons of stuff going on all day everyday. Things that I either partake in or that I choose to not take part in. One of those things that I do not take part in is Pot smoking. Within my group of companions (I won't call all of them friends) more than half smoke pot.

The boys used to go to the store in town just so they could clam bake the car. They would recruit freshman, they would hide it in their rooms (Moms..when you buy the Ziploc sandwich bags...it's not to store sandwiches) My ex-boyfriend had a roommate who would cleverly purchase the skunk weed, as many of my fellow students would do, to make it less obvious well the smell would reach the noses of our superiors. My ex would laugh at me when I would comment about the skunks on campus, and for a while let me believe that's what I was smelling. I soon learned different. How nice of him..to treat me like a damned child. I'm bitter, but to continue..

He would also smoke it despite my heartfelt pleas, and the fact that it made him a complete ass. He would steal from the local Walmart, both expensive and non-expensive items. I of course, never found out that he was smoking all the time because he went to great efforts to hide it from me, until after we broke up. Not surprising.

I even had adults telling me I should smoke to relieve stress and to relax. His extended family no less. Now I've got my cousin smoking it, I've got my little sisters friends contemplating doing it, with the approval of parts of their own family. Crazy. And I hate seeing it.

So when you go off to school...I suggest not smoking it. Cuz lets see...My ex failed his last semester, the families of some of the people I know live not so top notch lifes and can't, or won't get good jobs. Their houses are cheap and messy, they are irresponsible, and here I am, a non-"smoker" and I have money, my own good job, a good reputation, I don't steal, and I'm super smart.

You choose. I'd hate to see you get caught and kicked out of school. But then again, if you smoke and get caught..you kind of deserve it.

Legitimate Writers? Try Again

Ok so my dad is a news junkie. He watches it, he reads it, he talks to it, and when he surfs the web, he catches news waves. He was reading todays Times Union and found an article he thought I'd enjoy written by other college students, about tips on being a student.

I read some of the entries each alumni had written, enjoyed some, and frowned at others. The ones I liked included tips about club joining, gym workouts and parking tricks. Then I moved on to the closer and laughed out loud.

This guy from Manhatten College closed his statment by saying that college would be the best years of your life no matter what and that the transition was rather easy. Not word for word, but I just got to the basics. I laughed because...GOD I hope these aren't the best years of my life and it was NOT and easy transition.

Everyone is diffrent. And I dont know about you guys, but when someone writes an article that will be seen by hundreds, they would be smart to write towards a wider audiance rather than those 24/7 happy-go-lucky freshman to be's.

When I write my posts here, I try my best to make sure I hit upon every point, that everyone gets a say, a voice, a tip. I write for the ones having a hard time, and for those who are having a blast. I do not sugar coat it, nor do I cast a black cloud over every event having to do with after high school education.

So I say, to all of you "legitimate writers" please consider everyone. I'd be bad technique to not cover all your bases.