Ten on Tuesday

All the questions are about college. Should be fun! Until you realize that I was a big old speech geek and my college experience was a pretty geeky one. Whatever….

1. Where did you go to college?

Creighton University. I found a picture of myself from first year of college. A part of me really doesn’t want to show it to you because it’s so ridiculous. But the other part of me is itching for comments on this darned blog so I’m gonna do it. And I expect lots of, “WHAT THE HECK?” and similar comments. Are you ready? Are you ready for this?

Oh. Heck. Yes. Can I just give you a rundown here? Leather jacket. Jeans with a boys belt. Cross necklace. Goodwill T-shirt. Long hair and, of course, the coffeehouse glasses. Why did I ever grow out of this hot girl phase?

2. What did you study?

International Relations with a focus on African Studies. Is it any wonder I went to law school? What in the heck was I going to do with that degree?

3. Was college really all that it was cracked up to be?

Yes. I loved college. LOVED it. After I got over the whole homesickness thing my first semester, of course. And then I hated it again my junior year when Susan Schnase AND John Campbell left me to go pursue bigger and better things. But whatever. I liked it.

4. How far were you from home?

1,000 miles.

5. Did you have the same roomate all four years?

Nope. First year was Lorrie the sex maniac who LITERALLY did it in the bed next to me. On multiple occasions. But here’s the deal: I never did figure out when these boys came in. We’d go to sleep at night just the two of us in our room. The next morning, I’d wake up to moaning and whatnot and bam! There was a boy in there making his presence VERY known. I am not putting a picture on here to protect the innocent. Or the promiscuous. Whatever.

Second year I lived with Denise. She will agree: don’t live with your best friend. It’s a recipe for disaster. But even though we went nearly 2 months without speaking to each other, we had lots of fun when we were actually getting along.

We had a quote wall and celebrated random holidays like world smile day and ate chilis takeout every Thursday night while watching Friends.

Third and fourth year I lived with Allison. Allison was John’s best friend/roommate’s girlfriend. We didn’t know each other at all except for the couple times we all hung out at the boys’ apartment together. I needed a roommate. She needed a roommate. So we kind of out of nowhere decided to live together. We didn’t even know each other’s last names when we were filling out the deposit paperwork. She will agree: sometimes living with a nearly-complete stranger means finding one of the very best friends a girl could ask for.

6. Where did you order food from at 2am?

I was asleep at 2 am. There are only 2 times in college I can think of being awake at 2 am. 1) I had really bad cramps and took way too many midol. Midol is full of caffeine. Denise and I stayed up making web videos for my sister. Awesome, I know. 2) John and I had our 2nd date—we went to a wedding and then hung out with a bunch of friends afterward and stayed up talking all night long. Okay, there was a little smooching in there too.

7. Did you date in college or were you tied down?

My freshman year, I was dating my high school boyfriend. Things didn’t go well from 700 miles apart so we broke up. Maybe it’s not so much that things were going well as it was that he saw the picture from #1 above and realized that maybe Molly Mac didn’t quite have it going on. Then I started dating John about a month later. So I guess a bit of both?

8. Funniest drunk college moment?

Folks, I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: I like me some alcohol but I’m pretty much a one or two drink kind of girl. Honestly, that night I was all sorts of hopped up on Midol, I may as well have been drunk. Seriously. I wish I could find you the videos. I sound like an idiot. I thought I was hilarious because I took everyone’s door tags with their names on it and put them on the ceiling so when they woke up, they’d be all confused. And I’m wearing a furry baseball cap. To this day, I have no idea where that hat came from or where it went.

9. Did you make it to class on time?

Almost always.

10. What was your favorite class in college?

Good question. I don’t know. Probably Gender Communication because I took it with John and I did better than he did. And that’s saying something because John graduated Summa Cum Laude.  I’ll tell you what my LEAST favorite class was: Food and Society or some crap like that. I can’t remember the name of it but it was a senior seminar class. Everyone had to take a seminar and it was just some dumb pointless class. So Denise and I decided to take it because we figured it’d be about food and we’d get to eat in it alot. WRONG! VERY VERY WRONG! I think we talked about the history and importance of salt for like 6 classes in a row. It was terrible. And we only got to eat ONE time when the darn teacher brought hominy for us to try. NO THANK YOU! He brought it on a day where we were on the third of 5 classes focused solely to the importance of corn in America. BOOOORING. And very disappointing.