Going home is great. Its wonderful to be so close that i can just hop in my car in drive the hour north. What's not so wonderful is my propensity to forget things. Everywhere I go, I always leave a part of me behind. Usually it's something that I need, like my textbook or my wallet, or my plane ticket. This of course makes me neurotic about checking to see if I have everything (I inherited my mother's list-making skills) - yet every single time I go somewhere, something gets left behind. And so this post was born.
There's really not much to do on campus with out a computer. Actually that's a complete lie - there is a ton of things to do on campus without a computer but its hard to figure out where they all are unless you have a computer to tell you. The tricky thing was that I had a computer, I even had a computer battery - what I did not have was my computer charger. I am lucky enough to live in a dorm with a computer lab built in, (Bunting-Cobb represent!) but in the same way that there is no place like home - there is no virtual world like your own computer. I love my computer, I love that my passwords save so that I don't have to actually remember them all (I know - not safe), I love that I have dedicated web pages to learning yoga or organic chemistry, and that I can learn organic chemistry while doing yoga in my room with only my roommate looking at me like I'm a complete nut-case instead of 7 or 8 other girls watching me perform a dolphin while deriving the nomenclature of alkenes. Really my computer is where my heart is. Needless to say, leaving my computer charger at home left me with limited personal computer access (I thank my loving family for mailing it to me, and for the post office for making a speedy delivery)
Side note: I was really only away from it for 3 days, sad right?
The Good:
- More time to do book work.
- More time to work out.
- More time to spend with friends.
- More time to sleep.
- More time to relax.
The Bad:
- No resources for a paper = no writing of the paper = rushed writing later.
- No way of knowing where I was supposed to be for specific clubs.
- No ability to roll out of bed and catch up on the world
- I had to walk down 3 flights of stairs and then back up three flights of stairs just to see the weather.
- I am a neurotic e-mail checker - I couldn't check every 5 minutes.
The Ugly:
- All of the 97 e-mails I had to go through when I got my charger back last night.
- Replying to all of the e-mails.
- Sending additional e-mails out myself.
In all honestly, I love sending and receiving e-mails, it makes me feel important, but I like them less when there are 97 of them and I have papers to write and tests to study for.
And so, for anyone reading - if you do not have a computer that you can bring with you to school, you wil honestly be okay - there are plenty of computer labs, libraries, and friends that will let you use theirs. I some how managed to get my virtual fix using these resources and survived. But for those who are possibly a little to obsessed with the plastic box filled with metal like I am - bring a computer. Its a rough life without one.
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