My Only Year At HCH

For now, I will only ever spend one year in university. That might change as I get older, but this was my only year in residence. Oh Holy Cross, you have shown me so much and I have so much thanks. I never thought my year here would be as amazing as it was. After you have lived here for a few months, there are a few things that happen to everyone else.

-You know the sound of people's footsteps in the hall and can identify them.
-You know what everyone's towels look like from the shower.
-You know whos laundry you're folding when you want to use a dryer.
-You will procrastinate. No matter how hard you try not to, procrastination will always hit you.
-The Olympics never fails to bring everyone together.
-Even if it's three in the morning and you could swear you're the last one awake in your hall, you hear the bathroom door open and know you're not alone.
-No matter what time of the night, there will always be someone that you can talk to if you really need them.
-Inside jokes lurk around every corner and they are waiting for you.
-If you have hundreds of dollars left on your meal card by the end of the year, you're someone's new best friend forever.
-If you can find a show online for someone, they will love the most you until the next person helps them out.
-There's always a tv show that someone wants to watch with you.
-If you don't have a text book for a class, someone in your hall will.
-Looking for a shirt to go out tonight? Someone in your hall has one to spare!
-You'll eventually learn the sleeping patterns of at least half the people in your hall.
-If you have a tv, everyone's in your room at some point.
-But if you have an N64, you can't get them to leave.
-There will always be more than one person in your hall that you want to steal music from.
-If you desperately need to print something off, someone in your hall will print it off for you.
-Cars? You don't really need one of those. There's two perfectly good feet and a bus pass for you to use.
-Stickertag will be the sketchiest part of the whole year.
-It will make and potentially break friendships.
-But you know who your friends are when you make an alliance and those in your hall bring you supper rather than let you run down to the caf completely exposed.
-In HCH, you will always make friends to last. Friends that are more than just school friends you see in class. Friends that you eagerly wait the week at home to be able to see them on the weekends. Friends that also get mad at you, because you aren't old enough to go to the bars yet, but they wait until your birthday.

This year has meant so much to me and has taught me so much that I feel like I will never be able to repay the Cross for all that it has done for me. I thank everyone who's helped me in one way or another and all of the friends I can't wait to see after school's over.

NEW:

Just to make this post even better, when you live in the Cross you:
-You know where everyone in your hall sleeps.
-You know what side of the room their bed is on.
-You know which desk they study on.
-You know what kind of computer they have.
-You know where they go to the bathroom.
-You know where they shower.
-You know which shower stall they prefer.
-You know what color towels they use.
-And to add to this creepiness, you know what kind of underwear that they wear...

Ring, Ring, Ring, You're Calling The Telephone

rockerboy300 says:

You want to hang out next weekend?

horselover97 says:

Yea, sure. ^^

horselover97 says:

What are we going to do?

rockerboy300 says:

I don't know. We could go bowling, or play pool, or...uh...go to the park??

horselover97 says:

Yea, sure. That sounds great. ^^

horselover97 says:

Anyway, I have to go. Call me later this week, alright?BYEZ!!!!

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rockerboy300 says:

I don't have you're phone number....

Has this ever happened? Or a similar situation in which you were chatting away on MSN or at school, and you decided that you two wanted to make plans for the up and coming weekend or event? And in the end, nothing flew because one said to the other, "Call me!"

How many people do you talk to that will tell you, "Call me!" Hmmm?

How many people have ever said, "Let me call YOU!" ?

There is probably a really big difference in numbers there. There is about 3 or 4 people that I can remember that have called me this year. And not, the "Call me for directions." or the "What's so-and-so-what's-'er-face's number?" calls. These would be the people, "Hey, you wanna hang out today? We're doing this really cool thing and thought you'd liked to join!" I can rightly say that of about 95% of my friends tell me to "Call me!" The other five percent, "Yea, just come on over...whenever. I don't care." Now, I want to know why that is. Why do people always tell other people to call them?

I want to say, about 90% [if not more] of my school either has MSN, facebook, deviantart or different combinations of the three. Most people will sit at home and talk to about four to six people at a time, surf through facebook while uploading stuff to deviantart. So, with all of these different online communications systems people know that they can talk to ALL these different people and not have to remember a single phone number. But what I'm trying to talk about doesn't involve simply remembering phone numbers, it's about calling people. But I think I'm getting there.

Receiving a phone call is like receiving a letter in the mail that's not some scam, bills or mistaken mail; it's rare. when rare things happen to people, it makes them feel special. Which everyone likes the feeling of. Because, when someone is special [in the way that I'm talking about] it makes people feel as if they are b-e-t-t-e-r than other people. Who doesn't love, if not like, that feeling?

So, people like feeling special, that's a big news flash. Now, I wonder if I can connect this to lazyness. Yet again.

Well, two friends agree that one will call the other to make plans. And so later on that week the one friend in charge of calling is playing some really intense game of Age of Empires 3 online [wicked game!] and they suddenly remember that they have to call their friend about plans. That person decides that they will call the friend after the game. However, after the first game, one of the online players challenges the friend to another game. Ending up winning the game against a player 4 levels higher then the friend, the friend just kinda forgets that there was something he/she was supposed to do. But, that's not really lazyness, it's forgetfulness. But let's not pin all the blame on one friend, let's head over to the other.

When the two friends decided that they were going to hang out, both friends left with little daydreams of what they were going to do that weekend. Playing grounders at the park, laughing down the street to a gas station to get ice cream. But then, a friend ends up running into the second friend [the one that said "Call me!"] and that friend ends up completely forgetting that they had said they would do something with another friend. So, from that instant, he/she nearly completely forgets that someone was supposed to call them. And when no one calls them, what do they do? Call the friend right away and make plans!! No. Just, no. If only things happened that way.

So who really is to blame for situations like this? The one who forgot to call? Or the one who forgot someone was to call them?