• Pretzel M&Ms
• Keeping things in perspective
• Portland
• Patagonia Re-tool snap tee

• Chopping walnuts
• The smell of apple cider

• Toy Story 3
• Toy Story 3 in 3-D
• The Great Gatsby
• Harry Brown
• Killers (2)
• The Emporers Club
• Iron Man 2
• The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
• The Karate Kid
• Letters to Juliet
• Winter's Bone
• Salt
• Inception
• The Kids are All Right
• Despicable Me
• The Oxford Murders
• Get Low
• Eat Pray Love
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• Table for Three
• Whatever Works

• That one cannot print wirelessly, and the wildly inefficient process one has to go through to print (ex: in the library)
• That the neighborhood the school tries to make us make use of is really a minefield of gang activity and people getting mugged.
• Club sports cost so much extra ($300 a semester for crew)
• The athletic facilities are so outdated and so few

• Clive
• William
• Jamie
• James

• Had a staycation
• Watched professional kite-fliers preform and learned about kite aerial photography
• Went to the University of Chicago Oriental Institute Museum's exhibition of mummy Meresamun
• Was nearly killed on Lake Shore Drive when two mattresses strapped to the roof of a car in front of ours flew off into opposite lanes
• Saw countless movies
• Went to the Botanic Garden
• Walked the gardens of the mansions in Lake Forest/house in Lake Bluff
• Saw the Badminton Girls-on multiple occasions
• Earned A's in Earth Science (WITH a lab!!), Microeconomics, AND Macroeconomics
• Met some cool people-Laura's school friends, Eileen's school friends, summer schoo...

• Murder in the Sentier
• A Year in the World
• Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him

• http://www.vimeo.com/3237836
• all 4 on this page: http://vimeo.com/fiftypeopleonequestion
• any video on this site: http://www.potterpuppetpals.com/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9f-6jygR...
• incredible http://www.youtube.com/user/StarKidPotte...
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShh...
• http://vimeo.com/5471619

There were actually a number of things I did like about college that I can never remember when pressed, so here they are:

• Al
• Ryan
• Audrey
• Melissa
• Roze
• Rachel
• My lovely roomate
• My gorgeous dorm
• My PA
• That I made friends with new people
• The food was pretty good
• The Rec Center was beautiful
• My trainer/the private locker room (aka my sanctuary)
• My excellent advisor
• The Honors College
• The brand new beautiful J-School
• The lawn in front of my gorgeous dorm

• Gavin Creel
• Heath Ledger
• Anne Hathaway
• Reese Witherspoon
• Jake Gyllenhall
• Ricky Ullman
• James Maslow
• Lindsay Lohan
• Nathan Kress
• Oliver James
• Kat Dennings
• Jonathan Rhys Meyers
• Blake Lively
• Rachel McAdams
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Zooey Deschanel
• Emile Hirsch
• Wesley Taylor
• Robert Pattinson
• Kyrsta Rodriguez

• Ralph Lauren Rugby
• Antrhopologie
• Bloomingdales
• Neiman Marcus
• J.Crew
• Tangerine (in Chicago)
• Cinnamon Boutique (in Chicago)
• Montmartre (in NYC)

• The Princess Diaries
• Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
• Legally Blonde
• The Parent Trap
• Amelie
• 10 Things I Hate About You
• Mean Girls
• State of Play
• The Triplets of Belleville
• When Harry Met Sally
• Charade
• What A Girl Wants
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 1&2
• Clue

• Canada
• Mexico
• Guatemala
• The Bahamas
• England
• Spain
• France
• Italy
• Switzerland
• Morocco
• Argentina

• Bastille Day 5k 2010-29:56 (9:40)
• Take Steps for Kids 2010-32:28
• Bastille Day 5k 2009-34:13

• DSLR camera
• either a Fuji or Polaroid instant camera & film
• Adobe CS5 Creative Suite
• Apple HD Monitor
• iPad?
• Bose QuietComfort 15 Headphones

• Random questions to ask people you meet
• Random/funny facts about yourself
• Go-to outfits for last minute dressy occasions
• The latest headlines/what is happening in the world that day

• "Ironic" side ponytails
• White shoes (there are exceptions, but not many)
• People who brag ABOUT BEING BRAGGY

• The gigantic suite common room
• Yina and Carrie
• Harris
• Alex S.
• Sharon
• All of the WUSAs
• Bethany
• That Alex reached out to me before we even really knew each other
• The fact that our bathroom is cleaned TWICE A WEEK!!!
• My computer case coming
• The FOOD!!! Soft serve, brisket sandwiches, great fries, brownies, pizza, any other junk food...
• Erin and Ryan visiting-and going to H&M and Pi
• The art school
• Walking around campus
• Rediscovering H&M
• The pedometer racking up the steps each d...

• Coco Before Chanel
• Post Grad
• Public Enemies
• The Cove
• The September Issue
• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
• Fame
• 9

• Annie
• A Chorus Line
• Hair
• Hairspray
• Thoroughly Modern Mille
• Oliver(2)
• Avenue Q
• Rent (2)
• Legally Blonde
• Wicked (2)
• Boeing Boeing
• November
• Bombay Dreams
• Mary Poppins (2)
• The Last 5 Years
• Mamma Mia
• Company
• 42nd Street
• Wonderful Town
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Brooklyn

• Matzo Ball Soup
• Orangina
• Kiwi
• Pizza
• Watermelon
• Limes
• Clementines
• Buttered alphabet pasta
• pasta
• Bananas
• Raspberries
• Salted Edamame
• Pocket's
• French Fries
• Donuts
• Vosge's Chocolates-Barcelona Chocolate Bar
• My mom and grandma's salad and dresssing
• Ritter Sport Chocolate Bar with Biscuit
• Le Pain Quotidien Belgian Sugar Waffles and Manhattan Chocolate Chip Cookies

• Being well informed
• Reading-i.e. being able to tell me about an author/book you love
• Not drinking
• Being a good singer
• Being an actor
• Not being a tool/obnoxious

• American Apparel V-necks
• Hanes men's white V-necks
• Hunter Rainboots
• Flip flops
• Jeans-skinny, bootcut, flared, and otherwise
• Button down shirts
• Rugby polos
• Scarves
• Seersucker/tiny blue and white striped men's shorts/women's pants
• Big sunglasses

• Fishtail my hair
• Cook
• Meet people for the first time
• Pack light
• Pack everything by myself, for school

• Iceland
• Pakistan
• India
• Chile
• Japan
• Brazil
• Ireland
• Scotland
• Greece
• Turkey

• It's safer to just never assume anything

• Sleeping at a reasonable hour
• Making some money
• Applying for summer 2011 internships
• Going into the city WAY more
• Letterpress class
• CSS XHTML class
• Excitement for Seattle/Portland
• Must begin compiling recipes to take to school
• Cluster proposal
• Study Abroad misc. forms
• Planning visits to friends at school
• Getting answers about classes from advisors
• Finding study abroad proposal

• Macabre
• Splendid
• Pantaloons
• Nincumpoop

• A longish plaid shirt
• Other shirts that are cute and aren't just v-neck tees
• A big canvas tote
• My other shoes
• Cardigan sweaters in neutral colors-gray, off/white, brown, etc..
• High waisted skirt and a shirt to go with it
• My plaid Theory dress to be sent to me
• Black tights
• Rainbow flip flops
• A chambray shirt
• Gray Converse All Star low tops
• Black Pixie pant from J.Crew
• Anything and everything from Free People and Anthropologie
• A big black Longchamp tote

• Make a list each day for 365 days
• Listen to every single song in my itunes library
• Be on the Crew team
• Clean my room
• Aim not to procrastinate

• Phoebe in Wonderland
• The Proposal
• Almost Famous
• Born Rich
• Defiance
• Changeling
• Transformers
• Star Trek
• Angels and Demons
• The Brothers Bloom
• Night at the Museum: Battle for the Smithsonian
• Up
• My Life in Ruins
• Lemon Tree (Etz Limon)
• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
• (500) Days of Summer
• The Ugly Truth
• The Answer Man
• In the Loop
• Factory Girl

At which I am pretty good:

• Bocce Ball
• Tennis
• Badminton
• Baking
• Cooking
• Getting good grades/studying
• Unknowingly discovering bands/artists/brands/designers before anyone else I know does
• Taking pictures

At which I kick ass:

• Being a good friend
• Being loyal
• Finding the perfect gift for people
• Creating lines out of nowhere
• Being my own person
• Reading
• Articulating the good and bad aspects of a subject/thing

• Doubloon
• Lush Life
• Deep Gold
• Maximum City
• All the Harry Potter Books
• Spud
• Freshman
• Girls of Riyadh
• The World in a City
• Persepolis
• Sleeping Arrangements
• The People of Paper
• The City of Falling Angels
• 1984
• Secrets of My Suburban Life
• Samedi the Deafness
• The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys
• Letter to A Christian Nation
• Pleged
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog

• "College is what you make it." I believe you mean college is what you make OF it, but regardless I am sick of hearing this from anyone and everyone I meet/read about in college books-of course you determine what you do at school-this is so obvious I don't understand why it is ever stated, it's not like anyone else is saying "College is not what you make it"-stupid.
• "There is no bad choice"-once again in reference to picking a school. Oh how wrong you are! I made a bad decision the first time and am now trying to undo it!

• Judge (as in "Don't judge me!" typically uttered while person is preforming an action that most would deem bad)
• Random
• Gay (as in "That's so gay!" No, whatever you are so moronically referring to is not homosexual in nature-you mean to say stupid-SO SAY STUPID! Unless of course you really do mean that something is homosexual as in, "That man wearing the neon pink mesh tank top, short shorts and making out with another man is so gay!" Then go right on ahead and use it.)
• Hookup (really, wtf does this ever MEAN anyway?)
• Like (although, like, I like, say it all the like time too)
• Organic (yes, I like ecology and health too-but this is just overused)
• Kegel (after a year of immature college freshman boys screaming this out each nigh...

• People who are dishonest
• People who are manipulative
• Lemon chicken
• People who drink for entertainment
• People who have no interests
• People who have no interest in traveling
• People who are ignorant

• Murder in Belleville
• The Basic Eight
• The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry
• Twenties Girl