3 Rules for Freshmen

In order to better adjust to college life at ISU, there are three rules that all incoming freshmen should know.
1. Bring an umbrella.
Walking to class in the rain is horrible and it’s even worse if you don’t have an umbrella to keep you dry. Without an umbrella you end up getting soaked and then you have to sit through your classes in wet clothes and it’s definitely not comfortable. An umbrella is also helpful because it helps keep your backpack dry so that way you don’t get to class and realize that you paper you spent so much time on is now ruined from the rain.
2. Eat dinner early.
When I was back at home, my family didn’t eat dinner until around 7:30 so I have always been used to eating dinner at a later time. But that’s something that quickly changed thanks to the dining centers. On Fridays and Saturdays the dining center closes at 7 so If you don’t eat before that, and then you miss out on dinner. Another reason to eat dinner early is to make sure you actually get to eat something good. Whenever there is a popular dinner offered, the line is extremely long all night. That causes the dish to be gone quicker. Therefore all the good things go quickly so make sure you dinner early.
3. Avoid 8 AM classes.
Since my high school started at 7:50 every day, I thought that having my first class 8 am would be no problem. I was wrong. I never felt fully awake in my 8 am class last semester. There’s a lot more going on during the weekdays then there was in high school and because of that I didn’t go to bed as early as I did while in high school so I was getting less sleep. All I wanted to do while I was there was sleep. Therefore, it’s safe to say that I didn’t pay as much attention as I should have. Now this semester I don’t have any classes before 10 and I am much happier with my classes.

Without a doubt, my favorite television show would have to be One Tree Hill. I started watching it in the eighth grade and five years later, I still watch it every week. When I first heard of the show I thought it sounded okay but it didn’t sound like anything special. But as soon as I watched the first episode, I fell in love with it. The show is about two half-brothers named Lucas and Nathan. They don’t live together and rarely spent any time together until high school. They have nothing in common and are different in every way yet they go to the same school and they both are on the basketball team. Throughout the seasons there lives become even more intertwined and they have to learn how to become friends with each other. The show is constantly filled with drama and you never know what is going to happen next. Now that the show is in its sixth season, all of the characters are out of school and are trying to figure out what they want to do with their lives.
It is my favorite show because I am always waiting to see what is going to happen because it is very unpredictable. I also love the show because the story line never seems dull. It is always very interesting and I love watching it. I like not knowing what could happen next. The show also plays amazing music. They constantly have bands on the show and they are always some of my favorite bands, so that makes it even better.
One Tree Hill is a great show. It is definitely a show that is targeted towards girls therefore I don’t think guys would be that interested in it but there are still aspects that a guy could like. For example one of the main characters, Nathan’s life revolves around basketball so there is constantly a story line that has to do with basketball on the show. No matter the reason why you decide to watch the show, the drama, the music, or basketball, I highly recommend watching it.

An advertisement that I can easily recall would be one of the commercials for Cingular. The commercial is showing their new phones that make texting simpler and they are trying to get the customer to purchase unlimited texting. In the commercial the daughter is constantly texting. Because she sends so many text messages, she only speaks in acronyms. The mom is upset that the cell phone bill costs so much because her daughter texts so much so she asks her who she could possibly be texting so much and the daughter responds with only acronyms and says “IDK my BFF Jill”. That line has been repeated by many people after that commercial aired. It is probably the most memorable part of the commercial. The mom then takes away her daughters phone so that she can no longer text. I think that it is an effective commercial because it successfully gets the message across which is to buy Cingular phones and add texting to the customer’s cell phone plan so that they won’t have to pay extra charges. It was a good idea for a commercial because just about everybody in today’s society uses text messaging as a way of communication. It is also humorous and very memorable and many people know the lines that are said during the commercial. The main reason that I remember this commercial so well is because off how many times I have heard people say “IDK my BFF Jill”.
Even though the advertisement was successfully done, it did not want to make me purchase the product. I have a different cell phone company and I don’t have any problems with it, therefore there is no reason for me to begin using Cingular but I did end up buying unlimited texting on my current cell phone plan so that I could avoid extra charges. So even though the commercial did not persuade me personally, I think that it was still very effective with getting its point across and I think that many people are able to remember that commercial.

I’m not a fan of a cold weather at all and I can’t wait until it warms up. Because I hate the cold so much, summer is my all time favorite season. I love everything about it. I love that it is warm outside. I love being able to wear just shorts and a t-shirt instead of having to bundle up every time I want to go outside. I also love going swimming and since I have a pool at my house I can go swimming almost every day in the summer. My family always has cook outs and people over to swim during the summer so I can see everyone that I haven’t seen in a long time. Another one of the things that I love about summer is that there is no school, so that I can have a break from tests, studying, and doing homework. Therefore I have a lot more time to relax and just have fun with my friends. I also get to see all of my friends a lot more because we won’t all be separated and off at different schools like we are now. We normally end up going to a concert or two over the summer since that is when most bands go on tour or we will take the train up to Chicago and spend the day going shopping. We all always have so much fun when we are all together.
The main reason that summer is my favorite season is because my family and I end up going on vacation almost every summer. We normally end up going out to Arizona because that is where most of my family currently lives. Arizona is one of my favorite places because of the warm weather and it rarely rains so being there makes my summer even better. I love seeing all of my family since that is pretty much the only time of year that I get to see them so I look forward to it all year long. Every time I go there I never want to go back home.
I’m already counting down the days until summer comes and it is warm outside once again.