Before I left home, thoughts had crossed my mind about making a blog, where I would write an interesting/happy/unusual/educative happening that happened to me each day. In the beginning whirlwind of college life, I discarded the idea as impractical- there is way too much studying to be done! But then I decided, why not? I'll try it.. and if I don't update every day, well, there's not *actually* a blogger-police who will hunt me down and shoot me. 

So here it is.. the beginnings of my life at Northwestern!

Most unusual fact of today: my Russian teacher wrote "vodka" водТка and pronounced the phrase "у моста" - "у мОста". The other girls that know Russian as well as I did (silently) thought that was hilarious. I was a bit appalled. She is a university professor, after all!

Biggest accomplishment: finally turning in my health forms! They have now been processed, which means I finished the last thing on my official checklist of things I had to do. Hooray for me and responsible living! (I guess I should probably wash my dishes too, to make my responsible-ness complete.)

When I laughed the hardest: Last night (at 1 am, so it technically was today) when Tricia checked her email and found out that Chapin only had 30 spots for the formal, so the four of us (me, Rachel, Lora, and Tricia) all completely went off our heads and wrote checks, pulled out cash, and came up with the entrance fee and then snuck upstairs in our pj's to stick our envelopes of money under Tommy (our president's) door, making us the first people to sign up, 6 minutes after the official email went out. Needless to say, our "sneaking" was not very quiet at all...

Well, I'm actually going to try and go to bed 'early' tonight- it's only 12:30! Incredible. But congratulate me with my first post, and we'll see how quickly I can catch on to this "blogging" thing...