ya boy started college

hey guys welcome back to another blog entry im finally in college! i know it hasnt been two whole months yet but so many things happened between now and then and i really need to get them off my chest.. so lets get down through the rundown!

first of all, since the last post, which was about the cruise 2 months ago (damn has it really been that long it still feels like last week) nothing much happened between the cruise and my move in day.. it was all just volunteering at the library and packing and messaging my friends from the cruise (its crazy how our group chat isnt completely dead to this day even though its been 2 months we still talk quite often)

so september 12th comes around which was when im officially out of the house.. i spent the past decade in that house and now im never seeing it again 💔 and from there i stayed at my cousins house for like a week before i actually move in cuz move in isnt until the 17th

while i was at my cousins house i spent the whole time walking the dogs and doing some pre-orientation canvas course that we had to do before actually moving in.. and then the 17th comes around.. i remember getting jollibee before going to campus, my dad called right when we were supposed to go down the freeway so we completely missed a turn and had to take a really long detour

anyways we finally make it to college.. this place felt so much more majestic with all the tall buildings, and then i come to my dorm.. sandy beige popcorn walls with metal bars. ew. i got a cart to put all my stuff in and went to my dorm room, which was completely empty except a few beds and desks as expected.. but oh boy is this room getting a make over.. i also got to meet some of my suitemates and we really got along together

so i was in my room eating the cold and soggy jollibee chicken and i decided to wander around to explore the campus.. mind you that this is a huge campus and its really easy to get lost.. and thats exactly what happened to me. i was doing a challenge where i tried to navigate the whole campus without using directions, but i ended up on the complete corner of campus and when i got back it was already nighttime 

someone knocks on our suite.. a group of girls with pizza. hell yeah! girls! me and my suitemates decide to go to the beach with this group of girls and mind you its like 9:30 at night.. and so we went to the beach in pitch black darkness and day one is over!

the next day we had an orientation, and we were all split into groups of about 12 each and we all did icebreakers.. despite the bad rep i honestly thought orientation was fun but that was probably only because the group i was with was actually fun to be around and im still friends with like 4 of them

three days into college and i already went to my first college party! there was a lot of beer and drunk people (i didnt drink any cuz im a good boy 😇) and then the day after our suite and the girls from the floor above us planned a trip to an aquarium and we brought along some guys from the first floor and thus gives birth to our large friend group of like 30 people we call the birches (cuz the aquarium is called the birch aquarium)

us birches do board game nights every weekend cuz one of the guys from the first floor is a huge board game fanatic and owns literally every single board/card game in existence, and we also do movie nights every saturday at 8pm hosted by none other than me because i brought a tv from home.. at this point i started to feel comfortable with being in college and im really loving it here

the first week, before all the classes started, was all just events to get us first years to get a feel of how college is, and to meet people and get free food. we also had this dance competition thing called unolympics where we compete with other colleges to perform the best dance routine and i was one of the dancers! we lost tho but the winning colleges dance was pokemon themed so ngl they kinda deserved it

for like 3 days i was living on my own but then my roommates moved in.. the first one of them is a huge weeb and hes a league player and also he snores really loudly, and i didnt think the other one existed cuz he had no social media presence whatsoever and he was the only one who wasnt in our suite group chat.. turns out he does exist he just never uses social media.. props to him

after the first week our classes finally started! the problem is that all of my classes are like a 15-30 minute walk from my dorm cuz the campus is so freaking large.. but worry not! the next weekend my brother came to visit and he passed along his old scooter from his own college days! it made things a lot more convenient cuz i could get to the other side of campus in only 10 minutes where it would usually take 30 minutes to walk.. but on the other hand it was also dangerous and i almost died

one day (october 2) i was riding on my scooter but i was going 30kmh on a downhill intersection and i had to turn, and all this was happening while i was calling my dad on the phone.. yeah you probably know where this is going. as i turned, i fell off my scooter and hit the ground, scraping my knee and arm and hip.. it really hurt but i walked it off. some guy came up to me and asked me if i was fine and i was like yeah and just got back up and hopped back on my scooter, broken arm and all, and picked up the phone and water bottle from the floor and just left. surprisingly my phone didnt crack at all. now i know not to go 30kmh on a downhill when im about to turn

two weeks later (october 13) i went to target on my scooter to buy groceries, and so of course i park my scooter at the bike parking and wrap the lock around it and do my business, but 15 minutes later after i finished, i returned to the bike parking lot and lo and behold, my scooter disappeared! i looked around frantically cuz i thought i was just blind but no i actually just got robbed.. the worst part was that this happened around the same time a bunch of scooters also disappeared, so i was some victim of a whole scooter heist.. i filed a police report but nothing happened since. i talked to a target security guard but the security camera didnt capture the crime cuz the quality was so bad and it was at a horrible angle.. maybe get better security cameras? no one from my family knows what happened cuz i never told them, but theyre probably gonna find out eventually so i feel like i have to tell them soon

moving on from this depressing sob story, lets rewind back to october 11th which was a saturday (keep in mind that every saturday at 8pm we have a movie night with the birches) after our movie night, the birches wanted to do something cuz its the weekend and we can do whatever we want without the burden of studying.. so we decided to go to the new gameroom that opened the day before. it has all you can think of: billiards, ping pong, air hockey, foosball, bowling, mahjong, and yeah thats all.. maybe not everything but its a hotspot for the birches since it opened

for our first time being there, we decided to check out the karaoke place and i sang my heart out (karaoke is literally my favorite activity ever if you ever see me at karaoke i will be screaming my lungs out) and we tried out all the other stuff, but after midnight the gameroom closes so what better time than to go to the beach! a few of us got tired so only 6 of us went to the beach (me, the socially offline roommate, a guy from the first floor, and three girls from the floor above us) and we hung out there for a bit

at this point our entire friend group was already starting to see romantic connections forming amongst each other, and i myself started to develop feelings with one of the girls at the beach.. we went stargazing and talking about each others lives (it was me and the 3 girls cuz the other two guys went off on their own cuz they have their own problems) and at that point i was having the time of my life it felt just like february 23 (the best day of my life)

a week after the beach episode (october 18) and our group went out and about again playing card games in our common area, and it was at this point the other guy from the beach came up to me and was like "not gonna lie [the girl i like] is cute" and i was like "oh" in the most deadpan and remorseful way possible.. i had to explain him the day after that i had a thing for her and so we went to the rooftop to talk about my feelings for her. he encouraged me to shoot my shot but idk im still very nervous about how it will end up cuz like i cant just go up to her and tell her out of nowhere but at the same time everyone in our group is already developing romantic relations with each other so its only a matter of time until she gets caught into one too. i have been thinking about whether or not i should ask her, but i think i dont want to rush it, so i think im just gonna keep developing a closer bond with her until we both feel comfortable with each other.. but the guy who talked me into it keeps trying to push me into asking her so i feel more or less obliged to do it sooner or later so i dont really know what to do.. next weekend is gonna be a problem cuz im visiting family which means i wont be spending much time with her, which means shes gonna spend more time with the other guys and she might start something with someone else.. oh it must be so fun being so miserable!

tl;dr i started college, scooter shenanigans, girl problems