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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13545 on: August 15, 2011, 11:14:31 PM »
I am going to Rutgers in New Brunswick, NJ (NYC suburb), hopefully to transfer into the Pharmacy program later on. Right now, I'm undeclared.

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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13546 on: August 15, 2011, 11:46:14 PM »
Good luck, Mac and Victor!  Just take it one day at a time as you begin college.  It'll certainly seem intimidating at first, but those feelings will fade with time.  College life has a lot of advantages compared to high school life, so make sure you explore everything that is available to you.

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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13547 on: August 16, 2011, 12:03:04 AM »
I, too, will be moving into a dorm for the first time this week.  I am pretty excited to be out on my own.  Good luck to everyone else starting school/college!

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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13548 on: August 16, 2011, 01:04:26 AM »
Oh, the dorm life.

My first roommate used to watch porn at all hours of the night and invite the whole floor in to watch.

My second roommate used to like watching me wake up every morning as he stood over my bed.  He was gone within a few days after I discovered him doing that.

My third roommate was pretty nice, but he snored so loudly he could be heard in rooms at the other end of the hallway through two closed doors.  He moved into a different building after a couple of very sleepless months for me.

My fourth and fifth roommates were more or less normal and very agreeable people.  :)

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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13549 on: August 16, 2011, 01:32:35 AM »
word of advice to those staying in resident halls/dorm rooms...don't ever set off the fire alarms overnight. you'll be dead the next morning.  :club: :P

I'll be an RA in one of our oldest highrise resident halls on my campus (Concho. Often called Dirty Conch lol), which is actually scheduled to be demolished next year. We were suppose to be living in our newest resident halls (Plaza Verde - fancy name), however, the contractor failed to meet the deadline, so now we're being housed in overflow with 500 angry freshmen. haha oh well.

I'm looking forward to this year, lots of challenges - but so ready to take them on. one by one.  B)

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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13550 on: August 16, 2011, 01:35:41 AM »
My short time as an independent college student living in the big city on her own will be coming to an end in a few months. I've decided to move back with my parents right after I graduate. It was fun while it lasted, though. :)

For those who are entering the college life on their own, I wish you the best of luck. It's gonna be a ride.
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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13551 on: August 16, 2011, 02:13:53 AM »
word of advice to those staying in resident halls/dorm rooms...don't ever set off the fire alarms overnight. you'll be dead the next morning.  :club: :P

During my freshman year I lived in a dorm building just for freshmen.  Idiots set the fire alarm off in the middle of the night at least three or four nights a week every single week.  And I'm not exaggerating, either.

The fire department was just down the street, but they had to not only check for a fire, but also check every single room to make sure that everyone has evacuated the building.  (As the school year went on, more and more people stayed in the building for obvious reasons, even though they got in serious trouble for it.)  The average time we spent standing in the street in the middle of the night was just under three hours.  During the winter they usually opened the lobby of the student union for us to get out of the cold, but that stopped after the fifth or sixth alarm in a row, so from that night on we had to stand outside no matter what the weather was.

Because of all that, I started sleeping in a full set of clothes with my boots or shoes (depending on the weather) and my coat right next to my bed.  It honestly took years and years and years for me to get out of the habit of wearing street clothes at night - it really did!  To this day, my heart literally stops whenever I hear anything that sounds like that fire alarm, especially if it's at night.

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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13552 on: August 16, 2011, 05:56:08 AM »
Being in the shower when the fire alarm went off was always one of my biggest fears while living in the dorms. I avoided it for over three years until one morning last year, it happened. Not a good experience.
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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13553 on: August 16, 2011, 08:59:39 AM »
Ugh, why do people always do immature things like that? I would hope the fire alarm isn't pulled while I'm in the bathroom!

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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13554 on: August 16, 2011, 10:10:24 AM »
Unfortunately, classes have started for me already, but I'm not in my dorm yet. My morning nausea/vomiting is really becoming a big problem. It's been happening everyday now for 4 days. The doctor thinks that I'm very anxious and that my stomach is overproducing acid, so I'm on Prevacid right now. Unfortunately, not much change yet. :( I'm pretty worried about this, and I really don't want it to be anything serious. I feel okay in the evenings, but mornings are miserable. Anyone else have anything similar to this? I don't think I'm that afraid of school. I am so clueless, though, and quite worried.

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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13555 on: August 16, 2011, 10:52:56 AM »
The UK definitely has the best game shows.  Pointless, The Chase, and The Cube are all really great to watch on TV.  Of course, it's worth pointing out that they invented Who Wants to Be a Millionaire first.  They put our TV shows to shame.
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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13556 on: August 16, 2011, 11:19:53 AM »
Ugh, why do people always do immature things like that? I would hope the fire alarm isn't pulled while I'm in the bathroom!
Not every time a fire alarm goes off does someone pull it. They are required to have regular fire drills.
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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13557 on: August 16, 2011, 01:14:45 PM »
I start college on the 31st  :twothumbs:

Not every time a fire alarm goes off does someone pull it. They are required to have regular fire drills.
Colleges are too? I thought that law only applied to public K12 schools..
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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13558 on: August 16, 2011, 01:38:24 PM »
Ugh, why do people always do immature things like that? I would hope the fire alarm isn't pulled while I'm in the bathroom!

Wow... TMI, dude. TMI.

I start college on the 31st  :twothumbs:

Not every time a fire alarm goes off does someone pull it. They are required to have regular fire drills.
Colleges are too? I thought that law only applied to public K12 schools..

For safety reasons they have to do fire drills regularly. :P
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Re: The Front Porch
« Reply #13559 on: August 16, 2011, 05:09:36 PM »
Being in the shower when the fire alarm went off was always one of my biggest fears while living in the dorms. I avoided it for over three years until one morning last year, it happened. Not a good experience.

I was lucky that it never happened to me!  However, out of a justified fear of that happening, I always brought a full set of clothes with me to the shower.  I can name plenty of times, though, when some poor, dripping wet sap ended up having to exit the building in just a towel.  :)