FYE - Mallory Smith

Home sweet home!

Well, I'm HOME!!! True, I'll only be here for like, A WEEK, but it's still better then not going home at all. I left Wofford first thing on Thursday, drove all day, got home, finished my government paper, saw Pineapple Express (which is hysterical) with my BFF, Alex, and have just been hanging around with my family. Like I said, I'm home for about a week, I'm going to the beach, and then I'm moving in early because I'm on orientation staff! YAY!!!

I'm so excited to get back to school and see all my friends that I've been missing! True, I haven't really seen my friends at home either, but it's still really nice to be home, even if it is for such a short amount of time.  I'm really really excited to help out with orientation (it's going to be great!) and I'm really excited to meet my RPM group (whoever they may be....) and just get back to school. But first of all - I'm excited to just be home and RELAX!

Floored

Breaking Dawn was in my hands at 12:03 am. It was done at 4:53 am. It was 750 (ish) pages of AMAZING-ness. And now the series is over. :(

So, now that THAT's over with, I have a quiz tomorrow to study for, a final on Wednesday, and a 10-12 page paper due by Friday. YAYYYYY! (that was sarcasm)

Actually, the quiz shouldn't be that bad at all, same with the test. The paper's actually pretty interesting (an analysis of the presidential election this fall, who's gonna win, etc.) but it's just the tedious-ness of it that's gonna be annoying.

:( Still no pictures. Sorry guys!!!

Freaking out!!!

So today is like a HOLIDAY for me!!!!

Tonight, at midnight, the LONG awaited release of Stephenie Meyer's 4th book in the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn, finally happens!! I'm SOOOOO excited!! Thank goodness I only have one class to sit distractedly through!

Plus I made myself a list of tasks to keep me busy until 10 pm (thats when the pre-party starts at Barnes and Noble), and then at midnight, BOOK TIME!!! (side note - we're actually going over to Walmart at midnight because the book's $2 cheaper over there)

As always, classes have been keeping me pretty busy, but it's crazy to think that the summer's almost over! Summer school is done next week, and I get to go home for a quick amount of time, then go to a summer retreat for Tri Delta, the beach for a week, and then I move in! I've been getting all my information about move-in and orientation and RPM stuff......I'm just getting more and more excited by the second. I'm reallllllly excited to see all my friends that I haven't seen yet this summer and I miss them all lots.

I'm also stoked to go home and see my parents and siblings and friends there! Dang, do I miss them. :)

Well, I'm off to get ready for class, but I'll give an update when I'm done (and, provided Typepad stops HATING ME, I'll have pictures!!!!!)!

Birthday, hair cut, Dark Knight, and Mamma Mia!

It was my birthday this past weekend, and so I have lots of fun pictures for you guys!

Unfortunately, my computer is being really stupid and not letting me post them. SOOO, I'm sorry! I got bangs and got my hair a little bit shorter, which is exciting :) I saw the Dark Knight (AWESOME) and Mamma Mia! (also fabulous) and got to hang out with a lot of my friends. HOPEFULLY, I can get this to stop being stupid and post some pictures for you. But until then, I'm sorry!!!

AHHHHH!!!!!!!

THE HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3 TRAILER HAS BEEN RELEASED!!!!!!!

Can we all just collectively freak out with me???? Thanks.

Alright!!

So I'm FINALLY sitting down to write a blog, I know it's been a while - my apologies.

Grades from last session were posted (I did EXTREMELY well, so yayyy!!!) I was at the beach over the holiday break with my family, got tan (and not burnt!! WOOT), read the novel experience book for the incoming freshmen (which is a gazillion times better then the one we had to read, all ye be thankful), slept in really late, ate my mom's food, and (at least this is where I think I got it) got an obnoxious headcold.

There's a lot more people here for 2nd session (or at least there seems to be), but I think it's because a lot of the fall sports are already here. My Western Civ class is pretty much totally full, and my government class ("Election 2008") has 11 people in it, which is a pretty dece number.

Hmmm.....that's all I can think of right now, but if I think of anything I'll be sure to let you fun people know!

Apologies....

Had lots of tests and papers to do before summer school was over; now currently in a coffee house in Myrtle Beach with about 3 minutes to write a blog; will provide lengthier details when I'm back at school tomorrow!!

It's Almost July???

Though it didn't seem like it at first, the first session is almost over. Which is kinda crazy to think summer's halfway done AND even crazier/stress inducing to think that AHHH - tests and papers and lab reports, oh my!! Actually, not really, but it's just harder to be chill about things like that when all the crazy people around you (organic chemistry, economics classes, cough cough) are freaking.

ANYWAYS. So Meredith (my roomie) and I decided to go to Walmart the other night and get stuff for pb&j sandwiches. At 2:30 am. Lemme tell ya - best dang pb&j I've had in a while! I was really excited for it, as you can see in my picture.....

Tomas, Meredith, and I went to go see our friend Katy in a musical on Saturday night, after summer orientation. It was called "Smokey Joe's Cafe"; she was FANTASTIC!!!! I'm so glad we went, she was soooo good!!

Oh yeah, I'm apparently on the Wofford homepage??? Thank you people in charge of the website (and by that I mean Kyle and such) for that; at least it's a good picture of me. :)

Alright, my lab report's not writing itself!! Later gators!!

You're like my little duckies!!!

So summer orientation was today - I, as a FABULOUS orientation staff member, got to shepherd incoming freshmen around and show them the Wofford ropes. I feel I may have made a fool of myself several times, told a million parents that it really doesn't matter if you get Marsh or Greene (but Greene's better!! I lived there, HELLO), heard 75% of those ambitious people say they want to be a bio or chem major (good luck with that, you'll prob reconsider that many a time), and would jump and down with excitement upon hearing people were government, history, pre-law, or from north of the Mason-Dixon line. I also KNOW I made a fool of myself when I was talking to a group of students, describing what RPM's do, and said that we each get paired with a group of freshmen, and that "you're like my little duckies" (paired with duckie-herding motions).

[insert laughter and sarcastic remarks]

I also went to Costco today - EXCITEMENT!!! Nothing makes me happier than buying a case of pop and 2 pounds worth of coffee. Oh wait, something does - getting free samples and then finishing the shopping off with a hot dog and pop for a $1.50. Yes, Costco and cheap food and pallets full of bulk items makes me excited. I live a strange existence - you can tease if you want.

Let your epidermis feel those UVA/UVB rays!!

Hey dudes! Sooo, like Tomas, I also am at summer school, AND I also have had a pretty hectic and crazy schedule as of late, and hence, apologies cometh for my lateness and lack of blogging.   

I'm taking Western Civ (to 1815) and Psych: Concepts and Methods (aka introductory psych for us non-science majors - yayyy!). I was told in class by my psych professor that I exhibit signs of a Type A personality (wiki that if you are unfamiliar). Oh yay.

I was at Myrtle this weekend con my parentals for a little R and R, which turned into me getting some unusual tan/burn lines. First of all, I'm only burnt on the front of my body. Second, it's only bad on the sides of my waist and my shoulders and chest. Third, I used that spray lotion stuff - the "spray on and don't rub and don't worry about it" kind - and now I am the splotchy monster from the tanning lagoon. Yes, I have weird lines and such...it's like someone splattered the sunburn onto me.

I'm not partaking in the water fight festivities, because A) i just got out of lab now and B) I think it's best for me to stay out of the sun as much as possible at the present moment/condition of my skin.

Well, I think it's naptime for me....but I'll be giving tours this weekend for Summer Orientation and doing the O-Staff thing, so maybe I'll see some of you cool kids????

Later!!!