It makes me want to cry. It really does. Out of all the tragedies that have happened in the last decade - 9/11, VT, Katrina - this is the one that has personally touched me the most. I applied to Northern Illinois, I have friends that go there, and one of the victims was from a town right next to mine. My friend asked me to keep her friend in mind ( Read more... )

What the hell?

I cannot even begin to express how I feel right now. You see this all the time in the news, but everything just feels so much different when it's a university 30 miles away from your home. When you have friends that attend that university. When the victims come from towns nearby your own. When, hell, the Tribune reports that the ( Read more... )

So it's 10 minutes after midnight, and I have only just managed to physically wrench myself away from the curse that is Facebook after wasting probably around 2 hours on it. I just simply cannot concentrate on my work right now. I have all these assignments and projects to work on, but I can't focus, I can't concentrate. And what's the point of ( Read more... )

Less than a week ago, it snowed 10 inches and students all around campus were groaning about the lack of a snow day ( Read more... )

First comes the horniness, then comes the sadness, and finally, there goes the one we all know and love - the bitchiness.

Any one else in agreement?

So here I am, sitting at home (as in back-in-Bartlett-home!), trying to get a good start on this weekend's homework so that I'm not killing myself over it Sunday night. I'm doing fairly alright on this "NO PROCRASTINATING!" resolution this year. Although I should probably admit I haven't really quite started on this peer response thing yet nor read ( Read more... )

Had to see this movie for my music class. It was amazing; so suspenseful and incredibly romantic at the same time. Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine are so beautiful together, it was chilling. Olivier was just so damn good-looking! I've seen him before once, in the old version of Pride and Prejudice, but I didn't like him so much in that one. But ( Read more... )

I am not in a happy mood. I lost my cell phone on the bus while on the way to the school gymnastics meet tonight, which made me even more sour because I wanted to text a certain person about the Bulls game tonight, to, well, get him to start talking to me again. Speaking of, I ended up drunk calling another somebody last night, and whether that has ( Read more... )

This 'j' key is not working properly! I have to practically slam it in order for it to show up on the screen ( Read more... )

So, uh, it's nearly midnight and I still have a pile of reading to sort through for tomorrow's classes. But this chair is extremely uncomfortable, my stomach feels weird, and I'm about ready to pass out for the night.

I have managed to see at least one person that I know in nearly every class but one. It's so odd. There's a girl on my floor in my ( Read more... )