College. It's everything you'd expect.

Who knew all those stereotypical college flicks with the greasy frats, trekkie fanatics, artsy hippies, and platinum blondes all living in melting pot bliss was completely true. It's probably surprising to me because my high school experience was nothing like that of High School Musical or Clueless. On the contrary - complete polar opposite contrary. An all girl Catholic academy situated in the center of an urban city does not equal HSM. I knew better than to actually think "high school is just like in the movies". But college on the other hand, well it's exactly like it is on the silver screen. Right down to a single red plastic cup of beer being kicked around on the stained cement floor of a basement frat party dressed in sweat, humidty, sexual tension, carelessness, and illegible speech. It's a real beauty to experience, but of course i'd rather be strolling down Soho or getting lost in Central Park. I've always been told i'd love college because i've always been "mature for my age" - an "old soul" if you will. I've been here for about three weeks and I really don't feel the epiphany of freedom and release people have been going on and on about referring to my being "raised in a bubble". Maybe it's because of where I am. I really would prefer going to school in NYC, but of course i'd be drowning in debt. City people are my people. The kids here at Rutgers seem to kneel and praise at the altar of the apparent apparel trinity that is Hollister, American Eagle, and Abercrombie&Fitch. There's no inspiration. Nothing moves me - neither the landscape nor the people. Maybe I'm being too judgemental for only three weeks. Maybe I'll find some individuals I can actually connect with as myself. I have yet to meet someone completely moving in the midst of about fifty thousand students. God. 

KELCIE.

The End of The World As We Know It!...Well Maybe Not.

So if you've been up to date with current world and scientific events, then you've probably heard of the possibly breakthrough experimentation which is to be conducted in Switzerland on this very day. From what I recall on some educational/political channel which my university provides, a scientist (please forgive my vague recollection and look up the facts on the matter which I too will do after I get my thoughts out before I lose them. Ignorance is bliss, is it not? but of course bliss doesn't last forever) in Switzerland is attempting to prove how exactly the Earth came to be. With a 17 mile long underground tunnel the experiment will, in the words of the newsman, "smash atoms together which may consequently lead to the creation of a black hole(s) in the Earth's atmosphere"-which is a big No No in a doomsday-esque sort of way. So the worst that can happen is the entire Earth might be sucked into an endless, timeless, soundless, and shapeless black hole in the name of science? I'm not really sure what I feel about the situation except that I'm surely not going to the ends of the earth and doing everything I possibly can before it's all over and we all perish in A Wrinkle in Time tesseract fashion. I don't believe the world is going to end as we know it. I think it'll be pretty kick ass to have a black hole in our atmosphere or wherever. Imagine the possibilities from what we can learn from it so close to home. Alternate universes? Time travel? The answer to the real 'Warmest Jacket on Earth' which the Gap falsely calls all of their winter jackets? I know I'm totally putting aside the fact of how the earth was formed but God how I love heavenly bodies and all the things floating above our heads up there in that grand vast sky everyday. I feel all fuzzy inside just thinking about our immense planet slowly circling the sun in that infinite universe. If this truly is one of the last hours of our planet I bid you - late night reader - adieu, but otherwise bring on the black holes. I'm ready for some excitement. 
KELCIE.