First Week of College DOWN. Like a boss.

So on Monday, the first day of classes started in IVC. Now, to fully explain my nerves and overall epic luckiness of this week, I must back up to a few days before Monday. My mom and I went to Fullerton College and somehow we couldn't prove residency over there, as this bitch at admissions refused to take any of the proof that we had of us living in California. Super awesome setback. Se we check at Irvine and see the semester starts January 9. And this is January 5. 4 days to try and enroll in classes that are all full, get all my information and residency verified, get to know my campus, talk to the counselors, and calm the fuck down. Awesome, I can so do it. So I get all my shit together and talk to the counselors and get away with not having to take the admissions test. We got a little nervous when it came to residency verification, but in the end, the lady used common sense and realized that if we had a HOUSE in California, then yeah, we probably live here.

Then Monday comes and I got to my first college class ever: Psychology 101. The thing is, I'm not enrolled, I'm just sitting on the class and I am HOPING to get an add code for registration. So, I sit up front and center and sit through my first ever college lecture. At the end, I rush up to the teacher and am the first of only 10 kids to get the code. SCORE. So, I enroll in Psychology and a Counseling class that will help me to figure out what the hell I want to do in the future.

Next day, I try to petition Speech 101. This time, it's not as easy at yesterday. There's a sub and he asks the kids who are trying to add the class to play rock, paper, scissors to determine the order of how we will get our add codes. So, I kid you not, my ability at rock, paper, scissors determined that I was second on the list! What what! And this sub is not "nice" at all. He starts kicking kids out from the list starting from the bottom. I am freaking out until he gets to kid number 4 and stops. And I somehow manage to get in to this class as well! Score. Then right after that, I go to Sociology 101. This is when I REALLY get a shock. The class is F-U-L-L. When I mean full, I mean all the seats (like 40) are taken up and there's a line of people along the back wall, just standing there, waiting for the teacher. And they ALL want to add the class. Some kids realize they're fucked and just leave the class. If I was less determined, I'd have done the same, but I really liked the professor and the subject! A really embarrassing thing that happened, though, was that I didn't eat anything between Speech and Sociology, so through out the whole lecture, my stomach starts making this VERY LOUD growling noises! It's really quiet in the class room and you can hear PPPFFFFTTRRRAAAAWWWWRRR coming from stomach. A mix between a fart, growl, and burp. That NEVER happened to me before and of course, my body decided to experiment for the first time in a quiet, packed college lecture classroom. Of course. *sigh*  I was pretty mortified. Well, at the end of the class, he asks those who want to add to come up to the front and write their names on a list and he'll pick randomly using a number counter. Like 20 people come up and I realize I have no chance and, sure enough, my name is not one of the 5 chosen. And, mind you, this was like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the add codes were the golden tickets and everyone freaked out if they were chosen while the rest of us dejectedly slunk away. The professor did tell us did if we wanted the class, we could come back Thursday and try our luck again.

Wednesday was Psychology again. Now, my teacher has a few rules. If you are late, you can either opt to dance in front of the class (YAY HUMILIATION) or bring the whole class food the next time we meet. Just no hash brownies. She specifically mentioned those, which leads me to believe that she speaks from experience. Whoever DID bring hash brownies to class before and gave one to the teacher deserves a prize. So, a kid was late and he decided on food. I hope it's good :D. She also has a rule that if your phone goes off, you must donate a dollar. This money will be used at the end of the semester for charity or for a pot luck or whatever. So, right next to me, this kid's phone goes off. And we ALL hear it. And he stays quiet. He doesn't fess up that it's him, even though it freaking goes off FOUR times. The teacher asks who's is it and he keeps quiet. This total annoying nerdy loser kid in front of me goes, "It was from this side!" The whole class groans, because yeah. He's one of THOSE people. And the guy next to me still doesn't do anything. And I really didn't want to be that bitch who's like, "It was this guy! Go give her the dollar!" so I stay mum. As a result of this, the WHOLE class is forced to give a dollar. I don't HAVE a dollar with me, because I have no money obviously and have to give it in next class. And while everyone's handing out their money, this kid STILL doesn't say anything, he just gives his contributing dollar. I just don't understand why he didn't just say it was him and give the dollar. It would've saved the whole class a lot of grief. So, that was an interesting second class.

Then I go to Speech on Thursday, it's pretty uneventful, besides the fact that we have another sub and we won't meet our teacher until Tuesday. Then I decide to go back to Sociology and take my chances. I get there super early and take a seat and set up my laptop. I have to interject real quick that my Mac has saved my life these past few days. I record the lectures and take my notes on this thing, it's so light weight and I am so in love. I might formally propose. God, I love you Macbook. OK, so before class starts, I make my acquaintance with this really nice girl named Amanda and we chat about Tim Burton films and the sex god that is Johnny Depp and whatnot until it's time for class. Can you believe that there's still a line of people waiting in the back to try and add this class? So, after a pretty awesome lecture, we all make our way towards the front. The professor says that those who were here on Tuesday are the ones he'll be adding today. Out of those 7 people, only 5 are chosen and guess who was Charlie-freaking-Bucket? "I've got a golden ticket..."

So, I got into all of the classes I wanted! As a total newbie, unprepared freshman! SKILLS, my friend. I'm gonna somehow balance 4 pretty legit classes this first semester and see how I hold up. So far the text books are pretty readable, and even though all my classes are in the morning, I haven't fallen asleep and/or been late! I think it's gonna be a good year...