Limbo and Graduation

This past week I finished college. Graduation is in about a week. This post is devoted to the effects of college on me and my friends. What we've learned (not necessarily in the classroom), what we've seen, where we're going, and so on.

1. Staying up all night kills brain cells. Apparently this is completely true, exhaustion is equatable to being drunk and it kills brain cells. I pulled several all nighters, and got A's on every project that was worked on through the night all 4 years. Also, staying awake for over 72 hours causes one to dream while awake. Almost make it there... but not quite.

2. How to talk like an adult. It's so much easier to get your point across when you actually know words that mean what you're trying to say.

3. Just because you are friends, doesn't mean you should be roommates. I lived for about a year and a half with some friends and it didn't really work out so I got randoms and I love them. Not that that's true for everyone.

4. There is no substitute for gameday tailgating. Three national championships in 366 days. Enough said.

5. [adult swim] = best thing on TV. Next to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert of course.

6. Everyone knows everything about the economy (and the future). People watch way too much news commentary. They don't take them the time to generate their own views, the steal those of others, whose flamboyant news shows are annoying at best.

7. There is nowhere to park. Ever. Unless for some dumbass reason you want to valet your car in "downtown" Gainesville, in which case you're in luck! They've blocked off 7 of the 22 available spaces for you!

8. Pizza. The 8th food group. Good for every meal, hot, cold, leftover, fresh, sober, breakfast, and midnight snack.

9. High heels Are only for dressy presentations and interviews, and falling down in downtown clubs.

10. Your favorite show will be canceled and then brought back again. IE Futurama and Family Guy.

11. Grocery shopping is a numbers game. Beer takes precedence over vegetables, and energy drinks and potato chips are irreplaceable.

12. (from my friend Jay) Nucleophiles are prone to attacking the carbon in a carboxyl group that will move the double bond up to the oxygen.

and finally,

13. Life is as easy, difficult, troublesome, fun, exciting, tiring and as ludicrous as you make it to be.

So here's to those moving on, and those moving up. Good Luck my friends!