Dreams are a strange thing. When you first wake up from one, you think your dream has some significance, but later, you always forget. I had two strange dreams when I was staying with my dad at the hospital a week and a half ago. The first one was this really strange mystery story that I was living though. It actually unfolded like a movie and had a conclusion too (i.e. the mystery was solved). When I first woke up from that dream, I thought it was one of the most spectacular stories I've ever experienced, so I told myself to remember it. But now, the dream hardly makes an impact on me. I do have notes though because I had my pencil and paper journal with me, so I jotted down as much as I could remember. Then my second dream was one where I was arguing with a family member, but not in my immediate family. I remember getting so huffed and puffed about it that when I woke up, I was already exhausted, like I had already lived though a day and was about to go to sleep. I wonder if I made noise when I was sleeping. But it probably didn't matter. I was in a hospital, so they probably just thought I was another crazy patient.
I'm cleaning my room now since I'll be here until early June. It's kinda strange because the room has hardly been touched since I left for college 5 years ago. I'm cleaning out my desk and I find this printout of something I found on the Internet back then about going off to college. Let's go through the list:
1. Get a local checking account at school.
* Yup, M&T Bank all 4 years at Cornell, and then Citibank in NYC.
2. Get calling card for long distance calls.
* Nope. My very first college phone bill was $250 bucks. Mostly because of a defunct long distance relationship.
3. Memorize your SSN
* Couldn't agree more, but it was also printed on my CU ID.
4. Err on packing too little.
* There's no reason to pack once you find the local KMart/Walmart/Wegmans.
5. Leave winter clothes at home if you start in September.
* Ha, winter at Cornell can start any day of the year.
6. Get an accordion file to store important paperwork
* A hanging file folder works equally well.
7. yada yada yada...there are about 50 things mentioned, so I won't list them all. But in retrospect, a lot of them didn't apply to my experience in college (especially the one that said "Get in a habit of studying in the same place at the same time everyday").
Ah, memories.
Posted by jupiterstar at February 11, 2002 04:20 AM