Ohs ma gawd! College!

So, today, Friday August 18th, 2006, was the day that I, Gabriel E. Martinez, moved into room 3045 of West Pritchard at the fine college known as Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. You know what this means? Par-tee? No, not yet, there's way too much crap left to do, and I'm slightly tired from what I already had to do.

Surprise, surprise, I had an early morning today--had to get up at 5. Of course, because of my nasty little habit, I slept around midnight or so, mostly due to all of the last-minute packing I had to take care of. Unlike my friends who also had to wake up early, however, I had to drive for half the trip on the way down. That's a two and a half hour trip with only five-ish hours of sleep. ... not the best of circumstances, especially since I'm one of the least attentive drivers to ever hit the road. Oh well, we all lived, right?

Eventually we arrived at the big VT (VPI, Hokieland, etc). Thus the gargantuan task of unpacking began... and ended in about fifteen minutes. Really, the fact that I packed maybe a third of what my sister packed her first year (it took so long.. so many good men gave their lives) and that John, my roomy and life partner, and his parents helped me out definitely sped up things. So I got settled in, though it took a few more hours of random unpacking to actually finish, and things were looking pretty nice. You walk into our room, the spacious 12x14 area, and can see the bunk beds--yes!--desks, random school supplies, and the sort strewn throughout the room. All in all, it's not too shabby.

Afterwards, down to Deitrick (spelling?) we went to have a bite to eat. This place is freaking (yes, freaking) awesome! Basically you pay about three bucks and get to eat all you want. All-you-can-eat places rarely attract me, but even for a guy with a small appetite like me D2 is still a great place to eat. Depending on when you go (breakfast, lunch, dinner) there are things like fresh omelettes, burgers, pizza, tacos, all more or less right in front of you. Only three bucks!!!

... ok, enough ranting about the food--there are actually even more places just as awesome around campus--let's move on to the rest of the day.

Oddly enough, the initial shock of being in college really never hit me all at once. Instead it came slowly in short spurts. One such moment occurred at the University Bookstore where, obviously, we bought the books for our classes. How glad I am that I didn't have to pay for those. Not only would I have a large hole burnt in my pocket, I would have had to live with the fact that they were best used as weights. Other than that, there were no truly memorable moments. At times, while me and Sahil and John all sat in one of our rooms, I'd randomly get that strange feeling that I was out of my parents' house for good. Just one of those "things are changing" type of feeling.

Well, it's somewhat late-ish and I feel tired so I'm gonna go sleep. I have a ton of things to do (including that University Honors project...meh) so tomorrow will be a long and busy and, hopefully, productive day. Til next time then!