Life of a Random

I don't know if you got it from the title of this post, but preparing for college (for me  anyway) involved/involves A HUNDRED GAZILLION lists. That's right. And after all those lists scribbled on every available surface? You still forget stuff. It's a nightmare. Have no fear! I am here to help. Since I've been through this stuff already, I feel like I'm qualified to hand out suggestions. Right? (You hope so.) First of all, I know lists vary depending on all sorts of factors: are you a commuter (driving back and forth to school from home) or do you stay on campus? are you moving two hours away or two states away (hint: big difference)? It all depends and, of course, I can't cover all the variables in this post, but I shall do my best to cover the things related to living on campus and other general things that every  almost-college-student needs to know. The General Things: There are three enormously important things that you have to remember not ...

We have officially started the project Freshmen Assemble! Before I get into my topic for today, I want to thank Sophia from Ravens & Writing Desks and Ashtyn from Wonderland's Reader for helping me out with this, both by giving me suggestions for the project and agreeing to be a part of it. :) You guys are awesome! Whatever your personality type, I think the thought of college always  puts at least a twinge of nervousness in your stomach. It's normal. It's what happens when you enter a completely new and unfamiliar environment. AND those college-level classes. I understand. In fact, I am all sorts of nervous and keyed up because (at the time of the writing of this post) it's only three days until I move to a college two hours away from my home. I've never spent more than a night away from my family. My little sister is my best friend. And now I'm kind of freaked out because I've been launched into the world of adulthood (which, let me tell you...

Sunday Swoons  is a weekly feature hosted by Briana @Reader, Writer, Critic and me on the wonders of romance in fiction. We talk about anything from our favorite couples to what kinds of food we think fictional couples are (Sue us, we're creative like that). This Sunday we're going with re-writing the titles of certain books to describe the main couple's relationship. OR, you can go for another option which is re-writing the first line of the blurb to describe the main couple better. Link-up! Have fun! Eat chocolate! And don't forget to check out Briana's post. :) For a more detailed and complete list of rules, go here . NOTE:  We're not trying to steal from Cait's Honest YA's at all. Pinky promise. We could never compete with that ;) Having said that, go check them out. :) Sassy Spoof I'm not sure how this is going to go...as I have a questionable sense of humor BUT I'm gonna try. And you will pretend I'm funny. Right? Right...

I'm proud to introduce *drumroll* Freshmen Assemble  is a blog project that I thought of during the hectic process that is preparing-for-my-first-year-of-college. Basically, two other book bloggers and myself are going to write about our experiences related to college. When this project idea popped into my head, I literally couldn't get it out until I had typed down the (horrible) first version of rules and topics and sent a few emails out to other bloggers I knew  were headed for college this fall. Two of them replied and that's how this whole thing got started. They're awesome and I can't wait for you to meet them! I will be linking to their posts on each of my Freshmen Assemble posts (we will be covering the same general areas), so make sure to check them out and give them comment love. :) Introducing the participating bloggers: (Note: Links to the respective bloggers' blogs are in the Blogger Name @Blog Name ) When left to her own dev...

As I write this it is almost ten minutes past one and I'm about to face-plant into my laptop from tiredness. The reason why I'm up so late? Well, I have four Two-Dimensional Art exercises due tomorrow (which I'm gonna add were given yesterday). I also had to take care of a weird credit card charge that hopefully will be resolved now that I've looked into it and cancelled the right things (once again, fingers crossed). I'm going home for the weekend because it's my dad's birthday. I don't usually get a ton of homework done at home...just because I'd rather be spending time with my family. So, one of my goals this week is to get almost all my homework done by early Friday afternoon. Honestly, though, I'm kinda sick and tired of the huge to-do lists, late nights, and early mornings. I'd rather talk about how, yeah my art supplies are flung everywhere on my half of the room and maybe even a little on my roomie's, but I've learned a ...

I didn't know this prior to attending my college World Literature class, but apparently Nigerian literature is a thing now. Yeah. You didn't know either did you. Anyways, I learned this because our first book (that I just finished reading) was by a Nigerian author named Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It's called Purple Hibiscus . It seemed to me to be a pretty typical (in a general way) "classics" type literature, but I wanted to discuss the parts that jumped out at me with you guys. Mostly about themes and such nonsense. Purple Hibiscus is a story about a girl who is abused by her father along with her mother and brother. It's the journey of her discovering that everything doesn't exist on her dad's whim and finding herself where she didn't know she had herself. It was very sad, but also very deep and kind of struck a chord in me. Buuut at the same time, I didn't really like it. SO, I'm gonna go through my complicated feelings, in no p...

Heyyy. This is a double post since Briana was awesome and was chill with me taking a weekend off because of me being overwhelmed with school (I'm a freshmen in college if you didn't know). Originally, I was just going to skip last week's topic. However  I thought about it and decided that I would have time to write a little bit about it and  today's topic. It's late, but I say better late than never. Last week's topic was Couples on Covers . Briana and I thought this would be a good topic because there is no arguing that there is tons  of disagreement over couple-y covers, on whether we like them or not, or if we like one type over another. It's such a relevant topic. So have fun with it! I can't wait to see what you do with the topic. :) For a specific list of rules, you can visit my Sunday Swoons page. But the basics are-- please give credit to me for the link-up picture, link back to us either through me or Briana, and have fun. :) Also...