This is not the night before Chirstmas

When I wake up in the morning at promptly 6:30 am (yes I'm a morning person) snow will not be falling from the sky. No presents will be under a green Christmas tree. My milk and cookies will still be here. Tomorrow may not be Christmas but the felling in your stomach right before may occur. I know you remember laying in bed the night before Christmas thinking "did I get everything I wanted" and for all you bad kids "did daddy really tell Santa to get me coal". That's how I feel right now, and I'm sure you do my fellow college freshmen. Nervous just does not cover it. Its more complex than that. More complex then the day before high school even more complex than the night before graduation. This nervous feeling is laced with excitment also. I'm really excited to get the feel for my professors. I was a huge teachers pet since kindergarten all the way through high school. Still college is different and some teachers just are not interested in anything but grading you. Pass or fail they don't care about your home life. I'm hoping to find some that care about more than my student id number. A plus is I have all female professors, and I have faith in the universal since of understanding that we women have.

Now let's get back to today. By now you know it is not Christmas Eve and its not even winter yet. It is the day before my first (I mean our first, were in this together) college class. The big day that could change our college  career forever. First impressions are key next to networking. You go right ahead and be the quite kid sitting at the back of the class, never raising a hand. I prefer to get there early, sit in the front and ask more questions then a phone operator.

Take my advice and make the most out of your first day no matter how many classes you have, get up. Get the feel for the campus when it's fully alive. After your last class look over the syllabus and text books. Be two steps ahead, and not one behind.

Since I am such an early riser I think I should make new advice to follow; get your rest. I would be wrong not to follow my own advice so off to sleep I go.

Tomorrow starts a new chaper in my life. I plan to write in red ink and go page by page. My book will be written not with just a happy ending, but one I can be proud of.