Life of a First Semester College Freshman

Hello! This is my first posting on my first blog. I'm hoping these will soon become entertaining to friends and strangers alike.
The title of this post should be fairly self-explanatory. Since I am new to the world of blogging I must give you all a little background. I'm not about to go tell my whole life story or anything because any important details will eventually become known later in the future. But if you are a friend reading this or not, you may not know about all the "joys" I encountered upon entering college. So as my first ever post I will continue to ramble on about my first semester of college.
As of late November 2005, I received my acceptance letter to Cal State Fullerton. Some considered that an acheivment, others not so much. However, I felt very accomplished and happy for myself. I knew I wanted to go to Cal State Fullerton ever since my sophomore year of highschool when I first became really involved in theatre. CSUF has an AMAZING theatre program and I decided that was what I wanted to do in life (I think) and so Fullerton was where I was headed. But of course, it wasn't as easy as that. My school in Temecula failed to inform me about everything that needed to be known upon entrace. One big thing was not telling me about housing at Fullerton. Apparently to get a dorm, I should have applied for housing when I applied to the school. When did Jessica apply for housing you may ask? IN APRIL!!! Yea a little late right? Except, I wasn't going to give up just yet and so I held on to the hopes that maybe, just maybe I'd be given a dorm. But then August comes around and wouldn't you know it, Jessica was about to become one of the many grumpy commuters traveling west on the 91. School started somewhat ok, I made a new friend named Liz. Ok now before I continue, let me tell you about Liz. I decided to sit by her in class because she walks in, sits down, and just exclaims fairly loud "I'm not gonna lie, I'm a freshman and I have NO idea what I'm doing". After that I just knew I needed to hang out with her. Ever since then we've become really really great friends. We enjoy the same things and pretty much think the same thing at the same time. We had three classes together and next semester we will hopefully have four. Now, back to the story. My class schedule looked something like this: Monday: Art of Theatre 10-10:50, Intro to Stagecraft 11:30-12:45, Scenic Lab 1-3, Oral Communications 4-5:15, Theatre 478B 7-9:45: Tuesday: College Algebra 7-8:50: Wednesday: Art of Theatre 10-10:50, Intro to Stagecraft 11:30-12:45, Oral Communications 4-5:15: Thursday: College Algebra 7-8:50: Friday: Art of Theatre 10-10:50. Fun right? Yea most of it was. Anyways, before I get to the pros and cons of the college experience I'll get to the non-school related part of first semester. After two weeks I decided I could not do the commuting thing and I quickly found some girls looking for a roommate and I checked it out, then my mom checked it out, and before you knew it, I was moved in. Things were...you know what, I'll save my apartment experience for a later post. Anyways, I also found a job as an Avid Tutor and you know what? I actually like going to work as opposed to more than half of people older than me who hate their jobs. But again, another story for another post. So back to school. Instead of rambling on more and more I will just speak of the positive highlights for now. Meeting some amazing new friends, have techie movie nights, getting an A on my first ever midterm, being more outgoing and actually meeting people, meeting people from Campus Crusade, met a great friend Ryan through Crusade, TSU Crusade party, my party, roadtrip to Humboldt, Seussical, all other CSUF productions, Christmas Crusade Party, watching plays and seeing stuff I built, selling my books and getting 46 dollars back! A pretty good year right? Yea not so much. Now lets look at the cons I experienced this first year of college. The list is actually very very short. The only downside was my Intro to Stagecraft class...well not so much the class as the teacher. Again, this will be explained in another post but to give you a brief rundown, the teacher Bill Meyer, accused Liz and I of cheating and then behind our backs underhandedly "handled" the situation to the point that Liz and I couldn't appeal it if we wanted to. A jerk? Yes, a class A jerk.
Well I hope you enjoyed this rambling of my first semester at Cal State Fullerton and I hope you look forward my future posts.

Future Posts:
*Apartment
*Work
*Cheating Scandal


Quote:
"I do not know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody"
~Bill Cosby