University
Many of you participate in these posts where you answer 10 questions each week. As you can tell, I don’t participate. However, this week, I read Lisa’s list of questions all about college. And I was intrigued. Many of you know where I went to school, but I don’t think you really know much more than that. So, this week, I’m answering some questions to give you a glimpse into my past life.
1. Where did you go to college?
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — GO HEELS!
2. What did you study?
Mathematics (shocking, right?!)
3. Was college really all that it was cracked up to be?
I had some amazing experiences at college; most of them were outside the classroom.
4. How far were you from home?
Plenty far. From Boston to Chapel Hill was about a 12-hour drive or a couple hour flight. Far enough away that mom and dad never showed up to surprise me … and I never went home to do laundry.
5. Did you have the same roommates all four years?
Nope! First year, I was matched with a great gal from Southeastern Missouri in a high-rise dorm. Second year, a suite-mate from freshman year and I roomed in an all-girls dorm. Third year, I was an RA and was afforded my very own room. Fourth year, I moved off campus into my sorority house and had three other roommates (so help me); I spent much of that year escaping to the dorm room of a dear friend.
6. Where did you order food from at 2AM?
I tried not to order food after midnight. But, when we were starving after leaving the bars, many people took a trip through Time Out, where the staff was rude and the chicken was greasy. And if we made it home and needed something to eat, calls were always made to Gumby’s (Gumby sticks, please!).
7. Did you date in college or were you tied down?
Ha. Now, that’s funny. I definitely wasn’t tied down. And I didn’t really date. College was far too much fun for me to be bothered with being serious with boys. (I’m not kidding.)
8. Funniest drunk college moment?
What happens in Chapel Hill stays in Chapel Hill … especially when I was wearing a sorority shirt that said, If you don’t remember it, it didn’t happen.
9. Did you make it to class on time?
When I went to class, I was always on time.
10. What was your favorite class in college?
Sadly, my favorite classes had nothing to do with my major. I loved psychology and sociology classes. At one point, I considered minoring in psychology, but my school didn’t offer that minor at the time.
Now it’s your turn. Where did you go to college and tell me one of your best/funniest memories from your time there!
August 18th, 2010 at 6:39 am
This is great, I may have to do it myself.
I went to the Lancaster University in the UK for my first and third year, and the University of Maryland, USA, (Go Terps!!) for my second. I have some great memories from both places, but I think just hanging out with my friends, drinking tea or eating far too much ice cream while watching Buffy marathons is up there. I loved my time at uni. I would do it over again in a heartbeat.
(A painful memory from that time is going to the local nightclub for the first time and a girl in stilettos standing on my foot, crippling me. The next day my foot was the brightest blue of a bruise you can imagine.)
August 18th, 2010 at 7:51 am
I never would have guessed you were a math major. Ever. I went to a small liberal arts school — West Liberty in WV, not to far from my hometown. I never had a roommate (was an RA for three of the years) and have so many wonderful memories from college. Drinking behind the library with friends, having a big party the night before we graduated, and having a major crush on one of my professors.
August 18th, 2010 at 7:53 am
Math? Really! Wowza! Especially interesting considering yesterday’s post :)
I actually hated college, which is sad because I was really looking forward to it. I started my freshman year at a small Lutheran University outside of Columbus as a 4th generation -- needless to say the one Walmart in town and endless drinking wasn’t doing it for me, so I transferred to the larger UK my second year. As a transfer to a big school with no Kentucky roots to speak of, I got pretty lost in the crowd. And my Chinese homework. No wonder I went to grad school on the other side of the country. I was ready to start OVER!
August 18th, 2010 at 8:07 am
I went to Siena College ner Albany NY, I can’t tink of any really stand out moments but just randomly making friends throughout my experience. The girl I met doing laundry the first week of freshman year, well we became good friends and now lives a few blocks from me. My neighbor freshman year tuned out to be one of my closest friends.
I look back at the little moments, like hanging out in the floor of the hallway just talking to people, eating really bad wings, watching crazy movies at all hours, sneaking drinks into the dorms.
One of the funniest moments, was when I was with my friend who I met doing laundry and we were sneaking out milk from the cafeteria (they were very tough on sneaking out food) and she had the bottles pressed inside her shirt, as we were heading out she yelled “Hurry up Christina, I am leaking, I mean the milk is leaking” as we ran into the entire baseball teem. They never looked at us quite the same again.
August 18th, 2010 at 8:50 am
I studied economics at UC Berkeley. And like you, my favorite classes had nothing to do with my major. I should have paid attention to that! And my favorite memory is probably seducing a TA….who later became my husband!
August 18th, 2010 at 8:59 am
Gumby’s! Oh, how I love their Pokey Sticks (that’s what they are called at Mizzou). My brother & I had some when I visited him a few weekends ago! So yummy.
favorite line? “when I went to class, I was always on time.” <-- made me laugh out loud :)
August 18th, 2010 at 9:16 am
Just stole this from you- thanks!
It’s hard to remember funny drunk moments. Not only are there so many, but they are also hard to remember! :-)
August 18th, 2010 at 9:29 am
I kind of want to participate in this questionnaire because it’s SO FUN! Maybe I will just be a week behind on Ten on Tuesday and do it next week.
I went to 2 different colleges. Started out at a smaller college and then transferred to University, this is really common in Canada but (from what I read anyways) it doesn’t seem that common to do this in the U.S.
Oh the drunk moments. Too many to count. Why I need to fill out this survey I think :) Hehe
August 18th, 2010 at 9:40 am
So you studied maths… interesting ;)
August 18th, 2010 at 9:41 am
Just the other day I was wishing I could go back to college. Not many responsibilities and lots of fun. The learning part was fine too, but not the main experience of college for me. Sometimes I think college is more for growing up than for learning school type subjects.
I really have nothing but good memories from college…even the ones that should be bad like having the police come and give me a breahtalizer for public drunkenness (not the official term, I am sure) which registered .38 or .038, whatever means I was so drunk I couldn’t see. I can’t even imagine being so irresponsible now!
August 18th, 2010 at 10:00 am
Yay Heels! Like you, the best parts of college were not in the classroom. And my friends from college are still some of my best friends ever.
August 18th, 2010 at 10:35 am
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, School of Business. And my goodness, there was no way I should have been a business major.
Most of my funny memories involve underage consumption in campus bars and why they allowed 19 year olds access to bars is still beyond me. But oh the FUN!
August 18th, 2010 at 12:41 pm
University of Utah (Go Utes!). Economics. Far enough away from home that my parents never dropped in, I never took laundry home, but my dad would take me out to lunch once a month. I don’t even remember more than 2 of my several dozen roommates. Middle-of-the-night food runs was always Beto’s Tacos or The Pie Pizzareia. I dated, got married, and got divorced in college…so, um, there’s that. I never was drunk, always made it to my 8:30 am classes on time (and one horrible semester, a 7:30 am class), and my favorite class is a toss-up between Art History and Modern India.
And in another 9 months I’ll FINALLY have the damn degree. ;o)
xox
August 18th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
This was so fun to read! Always fun to hear about other people’s college experiences. I didn’t realize you were in a sorority (and some of my commentors said the same thing when they read that I was in one). 3 roommate -- wow, that’s alot of estrogen in one room…
Ah how I miss college. I mean, it’s great to have a career and an income, but things were just a little bit simpler back then…
August 18th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
The best parts of college were definitely not in the classroom!
I love that you studied Math, were in a sorority and were too busy having fun to bother seriously with boys. Proof once again that you defy stereotypes!
August 18th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Michigan State! And Pokey Stix rocked. When my friends and I got them, I would literally hover over the box and “claim” the middle section. Because those were the cheesiest/greasiest, obviously!
In related news, my friends didn’t always like ordering Pokey Stix with me ;-)
August 18th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
1. Where did you go to college?
Christopher Newport University
2. What did you study?
Communications (should have stuck with English)
3. Was college really all that it was cracked up to be?
I enjoyed college but I would have done better taking a year or two off between high school and college
4. How far were you from home?
Too close. I lived in my parents house the first year.
5. Did you have the same roommates all four years?
Nope. First year it was my parents. Second year it was three fraternity brothers. Third and beyond it was my ex husband. And my last year it was an apartment by myself.
6. Where did you order food from at 2AM?
Tried not too but we did do a few late night runs to 7-11
7. Did you date in college or were you tied down?
Tied down. In hindsight I wish I had done this differently but you can’t change history.
8. Funniest drunk college moment?
Uhh…I plead the 5th.
9. Did you make it to class on time?
I usually tried to get there on time but when I was commuting I’d sometimes be late.
10. What was your favorite class in college?
Either my children’s lit or my young adult lit courses. I loved those classes. If only I’d stayed with English as a major.
August 18th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Part of me regrets not attending college when I was younger. I didn’t figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up until I was 25. By then I was married, mortgage, day job so went to University at night’s & weekends. Took me 9 years to finish my degree. But finish I did. So there’s that. But going to school at night means you miss out on University life.
But. And here’s the very important kicker. Boy am I ever glad it all worked out this way. For had I gone to University after high school like my friends did, I would never have ended up in America and would never be living with the love of my life.
August 18th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, CA. I got my associates there. I studied information management. I would say it was a good thing to do. I went 5 semesters and really enjoyed the experience. I lived at home at the time, so was only a 30 min drive from home to school (on an average traffic day) No roommates. Hardly any food at 2am, but did stop at Naugles (a South Calif taco place) a few times around midnight. I dated and actually ended up getting married before my last semester. Sadly, I missed out on the drunken college experience (I made up for it before college and later in my 30′s). Almost always made it to class on time. And my favorite class was English. Loved it (and still love it).
August 18th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
I went to Azusa Pacific University, a private Christian school in the San Gabriel Valley in CA. I have so many great memories (mostly outside the classroom), but one of my favorites actually did happen inside class: my very first day of my very first class, the professor pulled out a glass with some kind of liquid in it, and he said, “So, who’s up for a sip of scotch?” Everyone gasped and started murmuring, like, “Is this the right school? Is this guy really a professor?”
(Turned out it was only apple juice.)
August 18th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
I went to Wellesley College outside of Boston (but you knew that) and have a ton of fabulous memories of my time there. There was the time my first year roommate and I ran outside to dance in the rain, the time my floor held an impromptu water fight during reading period…in the common room, the time my entire sorority went skinny dipping in the lake after a formal, the time we explored the maintenance tunnels that ran underneath the length of the campus (only to surface and make snowmen in our t-shirts), and that one anti-Valentine’s Day party at the Pfoho Belltower where all of the conversation hearts said things like, “It’s not me, it’s you” and “My roommate is better in bed.”
August 18th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
A maths major -- very cool!
I went to a Texas Southern University in Houston, TX. Best time of my life. All my very best friends are the ones I met freshman year and am so happy they are still a huge part of my life.
I was also in a sorority. And many of my best memories were road trips to sorority and fraternity parties across Texas and Lousiana. There were also the trips to Mardi Gras and beach parties in Galveston.
I was a serial dater in college. I thought it silly to be tied down to one guy when there were so many different ones available to take me out all the time! ;)
August 18th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
I can totally see you as a psychology major -- you’re so good at analyzing and giving advice. I really had no idea you majored in Math! I’m impressed you have such strong verbal/written skills along with your number knack. I am sadly challenged in the Math dept. I was in above average classes all through school, but when I took the placement tests for the junior college I attended out of high school, I scored a 90% on the English and a 42% on the Math. Thus sealing my fate as an eternal calculator user.
August 18th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
I went to Purdue and majored in Elementary Education. My least favorite class was U. S. History. I worked really hard for an F (the only F in my life). I took it again the next semester and worked a lot less for a B (different prof). Interstingly enough I am now teaching fifth graders U. S. History and doing a bang up job. Sometimes some of the worst students make the best teachers. One of my memories is the blizzard of 78. Purdue closed for 2 1/2 days (the first time in their history). We were quarantined to the dorm…., but somehow the liquor stores sold out. We stole cafeteria trays from the dorm and used them as sleds on Slayter Hill. I lived in a dorm one year and in apartments the other 3 years. My grades were much better when I didn’t live in the dorm.
August 18th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
A math major?! Nilsa, I’m going to need to lie down just after contemplating that one. You earn major points for that one. Wild!
August 20th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
I like this idea, it gives readers a little inside to your early life. I think I just might do it myself, especially since college life for me in Venezuela is so different to what people experience in the US.
August 20th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
What a fun post!
I went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and I adored it there. Such a beautiful campus. My funniest memory from college? Well, one time, a Jimmy John’s delivery boy ran into my car. Not like he hit my car with his car, though. No, I stopped at a stop sign, and he was running with his delivery and actually ran into the side of my car…and then kept on running. Subs so fast you’ll freak and all!
September 12th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
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