The Transcript

Issue date: 2/4/10 Section: Opinion

A is for Alarms

…and the thousand of times people wish they would never go off.

How many of us in the morning have wished - regardless of the fact we're in college - we could sleep in every single day?

I know I have, and my wishes are always dashed against the cold tile floor of my dorm room when that horrible little screecher shrieks its blaring "Good Morning Sunshine!" to the tune of the worst sound I could find in my repertoire of alarm sounds or just some ring tone I mistakenly thought would be nice to wake up to.

No, that never seems to be the case. I can safely say that I've never woken up saying to myself, "Oh, wow! I love waking up to 'Life After You' in the morning! What a great way to the start the day!"

But I digress and, unfortunately, I must come to the conclusion that alarms are a part of everyone's daily routine, no matter how much we wish to just hit the snooze button. (Doing so might accidentally turn it off, but then that provides us with the opportunity to sleep in at the expense of the class that we will either be late for or just miss entirely.)

B is for Boys

…and the absolute obsession that girls have with them.

Boys. Can't live with them, can't live without them, and yet they're one of the reasons girls love to come to college.

They're always a part of a college girl's life, whether we want them to be or not, and a majority of the time, usually after a not so good party night, we just wish they'd be gone all together.

That's not to say though that there aren't those special few on campus who actually know how to treat a girl, but most of the time, we just end up finding boys who think with their moxie more than anything else.

And it's the worst with college men. What college guy wants to find a good girl to settle down and have a decent relationship with? Pretty much none of them. It's all "grab and go," but there are still those special few who know how to use their head over their southern counterpart.

Although most girls say they want to find a relationship, they'll make the mistake of "giving and going," thinking it'll end up where they want it to and then realizing the next morning that an encounter meant nothing.

That's when girls begin the downward spiral of obsessively analyzing every little thing that happened to try and make sense of it, when the bottom line is that they got screwed over. Literally.

C is for Classes

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