I'm not sure why everyone leaves for the weekends.  It's a sunday and there are about five spots open in the heterman circle.  I guess people's main excuse to leave is that there's absolutely nothing to do in Clinton (which is true).  But there are a lot of things to do in Jackson.  If i went back home i don't think i would be able to survive for a week because all of my friends are out of town.  As long as i'm with my friends there is always something to do.  For example...me and my friend were so bored one night that we took a  field trip to the new Kroger right next to the school..and it was so much fun. no joke.  We discovered an isle where there was about eight different cultures that had their own section of food.  They even sold Scandinavian food! then we went into the deli section and there was a sushi bar! but the best part was when we went into the ice cream section and we found pints of ice cream for ONE DOLLAR.  That officially made it one of the best nights since i've been here.  

I really need a job.  Pronto.  I'm running super low in money right now and i don't think the holidays are going to give me enough time to work.  I've wasted so much money on food from wolly world.  But i'm so sick of the caf food right now.  I might go back to working at Baskin Robins, which is where i used to work for a while before this year.  I loved it.  But the weird thing was that after i quit i haven't walked into a baskin robins since then.  

So only two more days until i'm off for Thanksgiving!  My mom  just informed me the other day that i'm going to have to meet them at the campsite that we're staying at.  This isn't good on my part considering that i am horrible when it comes to directions..and there also isn't any cell phone service where they are staying so if i make a wrong turn then i'm going to be completely lost.  Hopefully i won't get stuck in the middle of no where at night with no cell phone reception.    

I cannot wait until Thanksgiving..it's pretty much my all time favorite holiday of the year.  Besides Christmas and Easter.  Me and my family have our annual camping trip and drive down to this campsite called Turkey Fork..an appropriate name right? My family is very outdoorsy..so we pretty much go all out.  Except for the food.  When we go camping we don't settle for the easy bake cook in a box kind of food...we cook.  My dad brings this rotisserie oven to cook the turkey and my mom basically takes the entire pantry with us..It's going to be good to have a break for a while..even though i already have so much homework to do over the break but i'll manage..

So i'm sitting in skyranch right now with my friend Ivy and she keeps talking about how fat she is..it's starting to rub off on me..we've decided that we need to loose about 20 lbs. so we're just not going to eat...i think she's considering bulimia...totally joking.  It actually surprises me with how well i can concentrate on homework with all of this noise.  On the news it just said that an 8 year old kid killed his parents! can you believe that?! seriously...this new generation is so twisted and sick..the world is turning into complete trash..and i'd personally have to blame in on society and the media...when i was 8 years old i was playing with barbies..

This weekend i'm going down to the lsu vs. Ole miss game! can't wait!! I really should stay here and finish everything i need to finish but i've accepted the fact that i'm a procrastinator..

I love weeks where i have only one or two tests.  It's almost weird because i have all of this time to mess around but i'm still constantly worrying if i'm forgetting about any assignment that was given out.  Today was amazing because i finally realized after wondering around for a couple minutes, that freshmen experience and chapel are over!  I totally knew that already but somehow it managed to slip my mind.  

So i don't know how much more of the caf food i can take..I used to love it but now every time i look at the pizza it makes me want to vom. and yet i still eat it.  It's like everything is covered in grease and fat with a little cholesterol on the side..i think i've found the reason for freshmen weight gain.  The sandwiches are bearable, but after the 52nd time you have a chicken caesar wrap for lunch it starts to get old.

I am super excited about this weekend! Me and a few friends are going down to LSU for the game and i can't wait!(you should be jealous Professor Jordan).  It will be good to see a lot of my old friends again.  I haven't talked to most people since i left at the end of the summer.  I think we're leaving friday and coming back Sunday.  I just remembered that i have clothes in the dryer..  

This is actually the first time that i'm not rushing to finish my blog..i should do this more often.  So tomorrow starts the big day of my cross country season.  The team is leaving at noon tomorrow to drive to Texas for the most important meet of the year..Conference.  And the best part is the actual drive which is going to take ten hours..hmm can't wait.  We run on Saturday morning so we'll actually have time to chill for a day once we get up there.  I think our coach is taking us to the Alamo..not sure what to expect, but i'm pumped.    

Tonight was INSANE...we had our KT pledge test that turned out to be a pop exam considering they told us the test was going to be tomorrow.  I feel like i failed, but there were more questions than i thought i knew.  There was so much information to know in the first place..but i don't think i was the  only one who looked confused.  

So my suite mate Anna Boyd just came in from her LT senior night covered in ketchup, mayo and mustard. She looks beautiful!  oh man i wish i had more to talk about but i don't.  As hectic as everything feels right now you'd think i could easily write a four page essay of my life story..

I've never realized how disgusting a bathroom being shared by four girls can get when you haven't cleaned it in a couple weeks.  We actually had to schedule a clean up session so that everyone would be able to help out.  I've really tried to keep my room clean..the worst part is keeping up with laundry.  I managed to make two huge piles of dirty clothes that had been building up for the last two weeks.  One was overflowing out of the laundry basket which you couldn't even see, and the second pile was in a random corner of the room...Now that i have spent basically my entire weekend washing clothes, i feel like i can breath.  

Homecoming was pretty exciting..The game was good, however we started loosing right before i left so i didn't hear how it ended.  I am SOOO glad that follies are over.  It was fun, and i just want to say that Karrie Kirk is hilarious. I almost died laughing when she sang "My heart will go on."  Civitan was AMAZING.  The deserved to win for sure.  

This week is going to be the busiest week of my life..I have a combination of three big exams, then i have to study for KT elephant court, and on thursday the cross country team leaves for conference which is pretty much the most important race of the season.  I noticed here at MC that professors love to schedule all of their tests in the same week.  I wonder if they plan that.. 

Fall Break was great! I loved going back home and seeing all of my old friends again since the summer.  No one had really changed and it felt like i saw them the day before.  It was weird because i actually anticipated coming back as soon as i had left.  My mom decided that since i had gone off to college, she was going to redecorate EVERYTHING.  When i came back on tuesday night, all of my friends acted like they hadn't seen each other in about a year...i can't even imagine what's going to happen during Christmas break.  School has actually settled down for me lately.  I've basically been putting everything into cross-country and tribes..and tribes..and more tribe stuff.  I love it though..people are already talking about informal.  So many of my friends have already gotten dates..i just want to make sure i live through follies and survive my final pledge exam.. 

I think my body is just starting to physically get used to the stressful, overbearing and hectic schedule that i've been working through everyday.  I had a cross country meet this morning, then right as i got back to school i had follies practice until 5.  It's a saturday night and all i feel like doing is going to bed at 7:00pm..that's how cool i am. 

Here i am, turning in a late blog..I absolutely, completely forgot.  At least i have much to talk about.  This week was a good week for me. Busy, but good.  I love how all of my assignments are usually due no later than a thursday so i have friday and the weekend to chill out a little.  So i have a story that has been stuck in my mind for the past few days.  The other day when i was walking to class i noticed a couple getting into the car.  The guy walked to the passenger side and opened the door for the girl.  (This never happens back at home)  He then took her bag off of her shoulders and placed on the back seat. (This is what got my attention)  He then noticed that her dress had fallen a little out the car so he neatly tucked it inside.  Right before he shut the door he pulled the seat belt out from behind her so she wouldn't have to reach around her head to grab it...(at this point i am fully enthralled with what i'm seeing) He finally shut the door, got in, and drove off.  If anyone says that MC boys are wimps then they are 100% wrong.  I can guarantee that you won't see anything like that anywhere else besides in clinton.  At least i haven't.  I'm just getting used to people opening the car door for me which is a very strange at first.  Especially when you're not even expecting it.

So this weekend we had a cross country meet at the trails.  I love cross country.  But i absolutely loath waking up at 5:30 every morning to go run.  It has been getting harder and harder trying to convince myself to sit up and start moving out of bed.  I can actually tell that i'm not getting enough sleep because i'll constantly catch myself staring out into space during class and i'll end up missing a big important part of a lecture.   

So i've come to realize that my procrastination habits have gotten worse since college.  A perfect example would be this blog.  I had the entire week to write two paragraphs of whatever is on my mind, and i decide to do it two hours before the due time.  I really need to get it together.  Maybe i'm having too much fun.  Someone mentioned to me that it really helps if you study a little every night so you won't be freaking out the night before, like i usually do.  I never in my life thought that a western civ test would be difficult, however when i signed up for classes during orientation, i didn't realize that i chose the hardest western civ teacher at MC..lucky me.  After studying the night before, i felt like i was going to be in good shape.  I memorized all of the main subjects we covered in class and even got together with a study group (which i have never done before) and i was determined to get an A.  As soon as i was handed the test paper i almost chocked on my gum.  There were some questions on the test that made absolutely NO sense to me.  At one point during the multiple choice section i started to play "Eeni meenie minie moe" with answers B and C.  I have not yet seen my results and honestly, i'm slightly afraid to see them.  If this one turns out the way i expect, hopefully the professor will let us drop the lowest grade of the semester.

I'm pretty excited about rush this week.  At first i was a little apprehensive, and wondered if i would have time with my schedule to fit anything else in without having some kind of nervous break down.  But after watching the skits this weekend i'm pretty much in love with all of the tribes.  I think thursday is when you find out which tribe you'll be in.  Or i think they call it squeal night..don't quote me on that. 

The Weekend

Last week flew by.  I now notice that teachers are starting to get more intense with their assignment schedules.  I've already had so many assignments due, but i've noticed that the testing is so different than highschool.  I never bothered with studying from my sophmore to senior year, so i didn't plan on studying any when i came to college.  I wanted to scream as the teacher handed out the first quiz of the year because i completely had no idea what any of the answers were.  Now i almost feel paranoid when someone mentions the next upcoming test.  I still don't feel like i'm in a good routine to get things done, and i end up rushing to finish everything at the last minute.  Everyone says how much time they have on their hands to study throughout the day, so why am i not getting everything together?  

Cross country could be a reason.  It's very time consuming but it's something that i love to do.  This weekend the team went to Pensacola, Florida to compete, and both the girls and guys teams scored for second place.  The day before we raced, we had some free time to go to the beach and eat dinner.  I absolutely love college running..much more than highschool.  In my hometown, cross country wasn't taken seriously as a sport.  Here, it's just the opposite.  The workouts are definitely getting me into shape.  Every morning we start our workout at 6:00am and run for no less than an hour..monday through saturday.  When i first heard about this before the season started, i almost flipped...i don't do mornings.  I might physically wake up at 6:00am, but mentally i'm asleep until about 10:30am.  Somehow, i've managed to stay with it, even through the cold, dark and wet mornings that have already been in effect since the weather has been bipolar to the max. 

I ended up going to the game on saturday night but only stayed for the first quarter.  I heard that we had won but not sure by how much.  This coming weekend is the LSU vs Miss State game and I'm so pumped! Go Tigers!!  Hopefully i'll be able to make it to a game this year but not sure how it's going to work with my schedule. 

My name is Paige Duracher and I'm a freshman here at MC. I'm from Mandeville Louisiana, which is right across the lake from New Orleans. Coming to MC was a totally new experience for me, considering I've grown up and been around the same people for eighteen years, and didn't know a single person when i first stepped on campus. It has been a total culture shock for me. The people are different, the food is different, and the environment is different. One of the first things i noticed about the people here, are that everyone is super friendly..and very approachable. For example...I've learned that if a complete stranger is walking towards you on the street it would be considered rude if you didn't give them a appeasing smile. Another thing I've noticed here, is that the food is very good! Especially the mac and cheese..which has now sparked an obsessive addiction for my craving of easy macs. However, everyone here in Mississippi puts white gravy on EVERYTHING. like seriously, everything. On biscuits, potatoes, pancakes, and even on eggs! I was like what is up with this white gravy?! So i tried some and almost threw up. The environment is something that i totally enjoy. except for the hills. I feel like I'm about to have a heart attack while walking to each of my classes..but it's getting better.