Life as a Faux College Student

CAUTION: I've written this in a 19(not quite, but almost)-cups of coffee haze, so it may be quite disjointed and jittery. Caffeine does weird things to me.

I spent the night at Grace's again last night and naturally had a great time. But the real fun (and new experiences) began with the next day. Grace and I got up and I accompanied her to her government class where we talked about third parties and their importance and effect on the electoral process. It was fairly interesting but because I am currently in the AP Gov class at West, redundant. We've already studied third parties and the professor didn't talk about anything that I didn't already know. The debate that happened was cool though.

Afterward, Grace had Speech and seemed reluctant for me to accompany her so I got a cappuccino at the Einstein Bros and went to the Women's Center to read on the couches there. Soon after Lara texted me asking if I wanted to join her in her Physics lab class. I have absolutely zero interest in Physics but I decided it was better than sitting on a couch pretending to be cool. So I headed over to join Lara. The lab that she was trying to do wasn't cooperating and it was quite entertaining to see college students struggle over their equipment. You see, the atmosphere in college classes is so very different from that of high school. The student there (most anyway) are actually interested in the class of have some motivation for completing it and thus give so much more. And college kids are so much more relaxed about everything. So it's an interesting combination. Anyway, they finally got the experiment to work and Lara and I went to have lunch at the cafeteria. Surprisingly enough, the food was quite good. Certainly not Chipotle or P.F. Chang's but much better than West, at least. Lara then showed me around some of the buildings while we waited for it to be time for her Physics lecture and I decided to join her (I would've gone back to the apartment but I had no key). We found ourselves back at Einstein Bros where I met John, the tall, blue-eyed, dimpled, biological defense major who does crossword puzzles. Um, hello. We all talked and joked for a while and connected. But then he had to leave for some intellectual class and Noha found us and came to sit. I told her that I met John and Lara proceeds to nonchalantly announce that she has a thing for him. And I was sitting there shamelessly flirting. Oops.

Before things could get awkward, we headed to lecture and Lara didn't seem phased, so I let it go. We talked throughout the entire lecture and then headed back to Einstein Bros to wait for Evan before we headed to the plaza to shop for a shirt for Noha. We caught up with him and headed to the plaza where we proceeded to look at almost every store to find the shirt Noha needed. But had no luck. Around 5 Noha and Grace left us and Evan and I headed to Classic Cup Cafe to have some food, coffee and bonding time. We talked for hours, drank WAY too much coffee, and laughed. It was very refreshing; I hadn't seen him in too long and he is my main confidante, so it felt good to be able to talk about anything and everything. But the situation with him is strange because we are clearly friends but he took me to dinner, ordered my favorite dessert (cheesecake) when I was in the "Powder Room" (that's what nice restaurants call it, apparently) and talked about our married life. We even discussed kid's names and what couples should do for each other when married. He called me Mrs. Gage at one point. What is that? Ok, done with the aside. After dinner we walked around the plaza more and browsed the Urban Outfitters but headed back to the apartment around 8 because we found that almost every store closes at 7 on weeknights.

I talked to the girls at the apartment for a while and then finally headed home at 10. What a day.

Things to take away from this:

Don't joke about getting married with girls because we actually DO plan that kind of stuff. And it WILL confuse us.

College life is exhausting.

Making friends in college is so much easier than high school. you can talk to someone for 30 minutes and be friends if you want. There's none of this, oh I have to wait two weeks before it's socially acceptable to ask them to hang out or whatever. It's instantaneous. And I LOVE IT.

Don't mindlessly drink coffee, especially at dinner. Because you will become a hot mess.

I really like UMKC.