Everyday life at Miami

Hi. Remember me? I promise I haven’t disappeared… I’m just a little busy this semester and never got around to posting the entries that I had written. Time to start catching up!

As I’ve mentioned before, one of the benefits of being in Honors is that you have priority registration after the first semester—that means that you are almost guaranteed to get into all of your first choice classes! You can choose your favorite professor, the most convenient times, and the best location, and force adding is almost never an issue. While my roommate lucked out this year and only has TR classes (yes, that means she has a 4-day weekend), I wasn’t quite as fortunate… but I don’t have any 8 AM classes!

Because my MWF classes are a little irregular, here is a typical Tuesday/Thursday for me:

8:00- Rudely awakened by my alarm. Blindly poke at my snooze button from a half-prone position until it turns off. Fall asleep.

8:07- BEEP… BEEP… BEEP… open one eye, glare at the alarm, and hit the snooze again.

8:14- Check the time, roll over, and attempt to fall asleep again.

8:21-Get out of bed and get ready for class. Pack bag. Skim through a few passages in my books if necessary.

Note to readers: There is something very comforting about having a snooze button ritual. Setting my alarm for 8:21 just wouldn’t have the same effect! Also, I only recommend having such a ritual if your roommate wakes up before you.

8:50- Grab something for breakfast. I keep granola bars, Cinnamon Toast Crunch (with vanilla soy milk! I seem to remember that being on my list of favorite things!), and Cheerios in my room.

9:00- Run to King Café and buy something for lunch. Bring back to the mini fridge. I’m sure the people at King Café think that I’m totally weird because I buy sandwiches and sushi in the morning, but I don’t have time to stop for lunch.

9:15- Leave for class.

9:30- Class!

11:00- Class!

12:30- UA for a freshman class! (UA= Undergraduate Associate= undergraduate version of a TA. This can count for an Honors B experience, or whatever they call it these days. I’m old-school; I have “course” and “non-course” requirements. J)

1:45- Grab my sandwich/sushi/whatever on the way to…

2:00- Class!

3:30- Return to dorm. Take a brief nap. Extra sleep is never a bad thing.

4:00- Start reading. I’m majoring in English and German; reading is my life.

5:00- Go to the gym to coach. I started coaching when I was 15, and I currently teach two recreational gymnastics classes for our class program.

6:00- Finish coaching and go to Bell Tower for a sandwich or wrap. Return to gym to read.

8:00- Gymnastics—the sport in which you willingly throw yourself at and around inanimate objects! I’ll cover that later…

10:15- Return from practice.

10:45- Read.

Anywhere between 12-3:00- Finish reading! Bed!