Retarded USC Girl

Tomorrow I graduate.... odd feeling..... but a DAMN good one. Ah well, I am just ready to graduate. It has been an amazing trip. Let's recount some of those golden moments...

-Melissa and me in the Geo with that hot ass gum
-Dr. Cox rawwrrr! He makes suspenders look good
-Feast Day
-Farm House Parties
-"Hey Yo, Don't be Hoe, Pass me a Dor-i-to"
-Pond House Parties
-Bluffton
-Estill
-Hampton
-The Commons
-Moose
-Bates West
-Whaleys Mill, Monroe and Tommy
-Tripp "Fuckstart her face!"
-Tripp "Party boy!"
-Buddha- "Ashlyn... that is the worst thing I have ever seen".
-Mo "This religion thing is a lost cause".
-Do yall remember John? butcherdeath? lmfao
Damn we have had an amazing ride. The hot professors, the boring lectures, the dates, the drinks, the well umm.. other stuff. I have had a real blast. Looking back... I like to think that I seized the day.... or should I say, the years.

The big college to-do list that I give to everyone.
1. Join a Sorority/Fraternity
2. Live on campus
3. Live off campus
4. Drink heavily
5. Read "The Catcher in the Rye" You will appreciate it more now
6. Date ... a lot. Dont limit yourself to a "type"
7. Concerts... go to as many as possible
8. Spend time on the roof
9. Walk leisurely
10. prank call people
11. "take one for the team"
12. Become a regular at a bar before you turn 21.
13. Road trips
14. Learn some great drinking games
15. Dance in front of the mirror before you go to the club -- assess how dumb you look
16. With regard to 15.... dance anyway... regardless of how you look.
17. Take the beer scooter home
18. Work on campus
19. Get to know someone who is famous in their own way (internet, radio, etc)
20. Listen to DJs and love them
21. Learn how to stalk
22. Get a cute email addy (this will take you far)
23. get a foam pad for your mattress
24. Get mono..... and give it to other people
25. Fart in a stairwell
26. Memorize Steel magnolias and The Long Kiss Goodnight
27. do the Doc Holliday drinking challenge
28. Wrassle in Pudding
29. Get a great advisor
30. Have great profiles and away messages
31. When the kid upstairs IMs you.... meet him.
33. Call people by nicknames.... skidmark, buddha, mo, and sethipoo are my fave ones
34. Laugh at yourself... esp when you do number 25.
35.Karaoke at Wally's... or any other really shit bar far from campus.


This isnt the end.... all things come full circle. new beginnings.... new doors.

posted by Ashlyn @ 1:38 PM 0 comments

Some days, God is good. I mean good as in "so unbelievably kind". Yesterday was a great day... i say yesterday because I havent been to bed yet... I am actually referring to tuesday.

Why was it great. Well, a class I knew I had an F in.... because I only showed up 4 times... I got an A in. MY German professor also forgot about the exam and didnt show... so no exam and i get my A in german! ohh yeah!

I am sleepy and off to bed :) good night, moon...

Oh and Seth.... We will always have Fort Worth.... :) Mr. Super FUn Spring Break Adam Hark. :)

posted by Ashlyn @ 12:13 AM 0 comments

The sad fact of academia: when you have done well in a class... so well in fact, that you can utterly bomb the final and still do relatively well in the course... you get to this state where you don't care anymore. You are not concerningw ith furthering your knowledge and your real interest in the subject matter has dried up. All you want to do is be done. It is senioritis at its best.

I have done great in german this semester.... due in large part to Jeff. But as I sit down to study for the final.... I knwo that I dont know the material.... and the oddest feeling hits the pit of my stomach.... I utterly dont care. I know a little of this and even less of that,..... not enough to mirror the fact that I actually attended most of the classes.

The funny thing is.... everyone I am talking to these days is in the same boat. "Just get the exams over with! I dont care how I do!". Sometimes, caring isnt worth it. You just need to relax.... in the grand scheme of things... it really doesnt matter. In ten years I am not gonn be shitting stones because of my grade in German 109. :) Besides, I cna afford to make like a 50 on this exam! :)

Congrats to all the graduates. Best wishes.

Book you need to read: Turd Ferguson and the Sausage party by Ben Applebaum and Derek Pittman.

posted by Ashlyn @ 2:00 PM 0 comments