The first week of college is nothing compared to the first week of high school.
The first week of high school is all about seeing people you haven't seen all summer. Looking at them and figuring out how much they changed in just a matter of three short months.
It's about catching up about things that went on during summer which in involves, gossip, vacations, parties, and even tragic events.
It's about about discussing new brands that have hit the shelves.
Most of all all the new classes and figuring out what classes you have with your friends, and even classes where you'll have to make friends with someone because you don't have classes with your friends.
It all ties together eventually.
College?
College isn't about clothes, gossip, friends, not even classes.
Well I take that back.
It's about classes.
It's about finding your way around campus while all at the same time trying not to be late for class and finding the class.
It's completely exhausting.
The first day of college was shocking to every freshmen there.
We had homework.
The homework wasn't getting your parents to sign health sheets.
It was a five page essay.
An essay about yourself.
You had to include everything about yourself in this five page essay.
Most teachers would be happy with any student willing to do more than five pages but no.
That's grade school.
College if your essay is suppose to be nine page that means nine pages. No more, no less.
In my case it's only five pages about myself.
Louis had left a note on my bed saying he was having lunch with his father tonight so I had the dorm to myself.
Louis had really defeated my expectations of him.
I expected him to be unclean, lazy, boring, geeky, and even gross.
He was the opposite of it all.
He cleaned.
He was interesting.
So far he's proven to be smart.
I sat the desktop in out room ready to write.
Louis had said the desktop was a college starting present from his father.
Considering his father owned the place he must know about all the essays they will be assigned through out these two semesters of school.
If Laura ever got to meet him, she was sure she'd ask him about it.
"Let's do this." Laura spoke to herself for a boost in energy.
She opened a blank document and started between the keyboard, her fingers, and the desktop screen.
Herself wasn't interesting.
What if they had to present theses essays.
What if the professor read theses out in front of the class, addressing the names on the paper too.
Laura wanted everyone to think she was interesting not boring.
Plus her English class had a good amount of hotties, including Louis.
There was a knock on the dorm room door and Laughing jumped back to the moment she had hit Louis in the nose with her shoe.
She decided against picking up any shoe this time.
"Who is it?" She asked.
"Tyonnia." Tyonnia said.
Laura opened the door.
"Thank God yours here. I need help with this essay." Laura said flopping back down in the desktop chair.
"I can help you. I've finished mine already." Tyonnia smiled grabbing a bottle of water out of the mini fridge.
"What?!" Laura face nearly dropped.
"It wasn't hard Laura. All you have to do is tell about yourself. Tell about your life experiences. Talk about memories, even past relationships." Tyonnia said trying to throw Laura ideas.
"I've never had a serious relationship, we both know that." Laura said looking over at Tyonnia rather bluntly.
Tyonnia nodded.
"You've had plenty of life experiences. What about that time you walked into the boys bathroom on accident? The time you passed out in front of the class because you had to present a science project? Oh oh oh wait I have a good one! What about that time you jumped from the roof of my house?! You include it was almost three stories up." Tyonnia smiled as if all her ideas were inspiring.
They were.
"They all make me sound clumsy." Laura told Tyonnia. "I want to sound not boring."
"Anyone who jumps from a three story roof into a jumpy house will never be boring." Tyonnia said rising an eyebrow at Laura.
"I can't make five pages out of that one event." Laura mumbled.
"Talk about the time when you and O were eleven and got lost in Walmart. How your mom didn't even notice that we were missing. How she left Walmart thinking we were in the backseat but we were really on the toy aisle looking at super hot male barbies. I'm not ashamed of that either." Tyonnia smiled.
Laura laughed.
She laughed so hard she fell out of the desktop chair and onto the floor.
"I so remember that! You were rubbing the abs of the life guard male barbies! You were so into sexy males at a going age." Laura said wiping tears from her eyes.
"Who wasn't?!" Tyonnia laughed spilling her water a little on the floor.
Laura gave her a napkin.
"I wasn't."
"Oh Cole on Laura! Till this day you still refuse to admit you were looking at the life guard male barbies. You wouldn't have came with me if you weren't looking at them too." Tyonnia stared throwing the wet napkin at Laura.
"Okay okay okay fine...." The room got quiet..."I was sort of looking too."
The busted out with laughter.
The dorm room door opened and they both froze.
"It sounds like they're twenty girls in here and it's only you two jeez. What's so funny?" Louis walked in smiling at them both.
Tyonnia stood getting off Laura's bed.
"You'll know whenever you read Laura's essay." Tyonnia smiled making her way to the door.
"Goodnight you two." She gave a wave and disappeared through the door into the night.
Louis looked at Laura.
"Why does she do that?" He asked.
"Do what?" Laura asked.
"Makes a silent dismissal of herself."
"She's done that every since we were little. I'm used to it." Laura said turning back to the computer screen.
She started typing away.
The ideas she had just incountered from her best friend, she was sure she would finish this essay way before its due date.
