Things I’ve Learned

Things I’ve Learned Since Coming to Moody that are Neither Academic nor Spiritual:

• Big Burger Thursday = Pizza Day
• The Red Line always, always, always smells bad.
• Taco Tuesday is only worth it if you get there before the second section of NT or OT gets out
• The bakery on the way home from church has no entrance.
• If I fail a quiz because I was on the phone with a crying friend, I’ll actually remember it.  If I pass the quiz, I’ll forget.
• I’ve been missing out on a lot of good movies.
• There’s no substitute for a sky full of real stars.
• I really, really, really love my family.
• The pace I need to walk to ensure that I never have to open my own door when there are guys in the group 😉
• The exact number of minutes it takes to get from my room to Sweeting 3 (seven), Alumni Auditorium (two if I take the stairs, five for elevators), or Torrey-Gray (five) for class or chapel.
• How many times I can hit the snooze button and still have time to make coffee, brush my teeth, and put my hair in a ponytail (up to three).
• The subtle differences in accents between Michiganders, Minnesotans, Missourians, and Pennsylvanians.
• CPO is generally a disappointing place.
• The amount of pride I have for my state is ridiculously large, even given the number of Michiganders who attend Moody.
• I’ll never be able to refer to us as “Moodies” without feeling like a ridiculous poser.
• Don’t walk to Ghetto-Donald’s in the dark without boys.
• I don’t care if bro-sis is an elaborate matchmaking scheme, I love those guys like we were actually brothers and sisters.
• Whistling is maybe more obnoxious than any other noise (except gum chewing/snapping)
• Road trips with college friends are infinitely greater than road trips with high school friends (except the road trip where Jocie and I went to GR with a trunk full of Value-Zone food. That has yet to be topped).
• Every band I want to see comes to Chicago. This is one reason I am very, very thankful for my job.
• It’s hard to find concert buddies when you like obscure bands that most Christian homeschoolers have never heard of (ie, NOT Chris Tomlin or Hillsong…)
• Dude. Immune systems are incredible.
• Commons meal replacements are the way to go.
• Being sick at college sucks, but it’s better when you have friends to make you macaroni and cheese.
• It’s almost as easy to pick out Moody students wandering the city as it is to pick out tourists.
• Tourists, in general, are really naive.
• Food is expensive.
• I’m a really slow laundry-folder.
• I’m not as good at photography/school/graphic design as I once thought I was.
• I love the view of the skyline from Oak Street Beach.
• I know what Oak Street Beach is and how to get there.
• I like coffee and spinach.
• I just might enjoy city life as much as I enjoy country life.