Life at UAB: Strange First Semester

I am bored this Winter Break. I used to be swamped with studying, but now I eat, sleep, and watch Netflix. So I made a blog. About my college experience. Which was kind of weird.

First:

Once you accept a college admission, join the Facebook group. Best thing I ever did. You make friends before you sit awkwardly in your classes. My best friend in high school didn't make friends like this and didn't really get close to anyone while I joined UAB's group and now I have close friends and a boyfriend. Not for everyone but worth a shot.

UAB's Class of 2017 Facebook group

School events. OOH! I know! Pick me!

I was on campus for less than 24 hours and they bring in Karmin and a bagillion fireworks. We also had Jessimae Peluso (Girl Code) and Donnell Rawlings (Guy Code) come for Homecoming week.

I watched Karmin perform live :D

Donnell made a friend at UAB.

UAB doesn't have a very good football team but there is Auburn and Alabama for that. But soccer is where everyone goes. We have international players galore. Some of my friends obsess over a guy from the Netherlands.

I seriously haven't joined any clubs. I am going to, but UAB's selection that I have seen on Bsync sucks. But a bunch of clubs will just write in chalk on the Green (the big grassy area) sidewalks.

Or... you know... set up couches with donuts.

Dorms. What can I say about dorms?

Roommates are weird... If you have never shared a room with someone, it really sucks. Luckily UAB is awesome and we get a bedroom, living room, bathroom, and kitchen. So it isn't that bad.

Camp Hall (my room) layout

When I found out my rooming situation, 9th floor with a balcony, I went and I bought... WATER BALLOONS. Childish, yes, but so much fun! My roommate and I would throw them at the drunk people at 3am. Then my boyfriend had to hit an RA so that fun was ruined.

Classmate's reaction to waterballoons

People can be real dicks in the dorms. My roommate and I put up a whiteboard so that we could write messages like "I'll be out until 2 at the library, leave a light on please?"

A note my roommate left me.

Some idiots on my floor kept drawing cartoon penises on our board, writing "suck my dick," and ding dong ditching us. One day I had one of my really close friends over for a Netflix date (we missed our boyfriends... we needed girl time) and there was a knock at the door. I went to check and saw that some idiot drew a penis on my door with the words "suck my dick." I said to my friend "They could have at least drawn it anatomically correct. I mean if your penis looks like that you may want to see a doctor immediately." So she grabbed my marker and drew an anatomically correct penis on my board.

Anatomically correct penis

Same idiots put a used condom on our door -.-

Classes. Ew.

Classes aren't too bad. You end up with a lot of idiots in Alabama though. I had Gen Chem I with lab, Chinese 101, English 101, some form of higher level math, and Freshman Year Experience.

In general chemistry, you find those who genuinely do not understand the material. It's hard. Thank God I took AP Chemistry senior year of high school or I wouldn't have passed. My lab TAs were awful but not all of them are. My lab group members were cool but one either didn't show up or was high or was selling weed in class.

In Chinese, there are just the people who don't try. They want to learn Chinese because it looks great on graduate applications but you need to study.

In English, you get the people who ask the stupid questions. There was this one soroity girl who just kept talking and making the most ridiculous comments. We are all just like just stop, please. So my English teacher told her to shut up one day. The last week he said to us "Guys, don't ask me stupid questions" and she replied with "There are no stupid questions." The whole class shouted a synchronized "NO."

In math, I didn't pay attention. The homework was online. But there was one kid who kept calling my teacher "professor" in a really dorky manor. And then the girl who sat in front of me. UGHHH. Took all my willpower not to punch her.

Post about the girl in my math class

FYE is quite possibly the most useless mandatory class.

Confession pages.

I stalk them obsessively. There is Secret Life of a UAB Student, UAB Cupid, and UAB Confessions.

My post about how I felt the Confessions were actually saying.

A post someone made about MY BOYFRIEND! Still haven't figured out who to shoot.

Couples aren't allowed in the hot tub anymore :(

ROADTRIP!

Since I live close to UAB but not in Birmingham, roadtrips with friends happen. They're a lot of fun. I went to Tallahassee with one friend... it was kinda nuts. Almost died twice.

But! The soda machine broke and kept giving us soda.

And she came back with a ton of clothes...

Care packages?

UAB has this weird system. They give you this thing on the day you move in so parents can send you junk food in a box. My mom said "Nahhhhh. I'll pack the stuff you really like."