1.Try to use your dorm key to unlock your 
 bedroom door. 

 2.Have your mom scan your ID card for meals. 

 3.Look for a tray to carry your dinner to the table with. 

 4.Walk two blocks to go to dinner. 

 5.Forget to dial the first three digits of 
 your friend's phone number. 

 6.Dial 9 when calling out of your house. 

 7.Use your calling card when calling your friends. 

 8.Walk to the post office to get your mail. 

 9.Yell "FLUSH!" 

10.Jump out of the shower just in case someone does flush. 

11.Try to latch the bathroom door because you 
   think you're in a stall. 

12.Take all your shower items to and from your room. 

13.Get dressed in the dark. 

14.Go nuts looking for the quarter slots on the 
   washing machine. 

15.Make junk food runs at 11:30 at night. 

16.Make popcorn just because you miss the    smell. 

17.Order pizza every Friday (or Sunday) night. 

18.Have one of your friends spend the night 
   because you can't sleep in a room by yourself. 

19.Move another bed, dresser, and desk into 
   your room because there is too much extra space. 

20.Hang pictures of your college friends on the 
   wall so you don't miss them. 

21.Hoard food under your bed for when it snows 
   and you don't want to go out. 

22.Walk around the neighborhood looking for a 
   computer lab (e-mail withdrawal). 

23.Fight your mother for quarters for the imaginary 
   snack machine and pay phone in the house..
 
 
 

 How to write a paper (the college way): 

 1.  Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a well lighted place 
with plenty of freshly sharpened pencils. 

 2.  Check your email. 

 3.  Read over the assignment carefully, to make certain you understand it. 

 4.  Walk down to the vending machines and buy some coffee to help you oncentrate. 

5.  Check your email. 

6.  Stop off at another floor, on the way back and visit with your friend rom class.  If your friend hasn't started the paper yet either, you can both walk to McDonald's and buy a hamburger to help you concentrate. If your friend shows you her paper, typed, double-spaced, and bound in one of those irritating see-thru plastic folders, drop her.  

7.  When you get back to your room, sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a clean, well lighted place with plenty of freshly sharpened pencils. 

 8.  Read over the assignment again to make absolutely certain you understand it. 

 9.  Check your email. 

 10.  You know, you haven't written to that kid you met at camp since fourth grade. You'd better write that letter now and get it out of the way so you can concentrate. 

 11.  Look at your teeth in the bathroom mirror. 

 12.  Listen to one side of your favorite tape and that's it, I mean it, as soon as it's over you are going to start that paper. 

 13.  Listen to the other side. 

 14.  Check your email. 

 15.  Rearrange all of your CDs into alphabetical order. 

 16.  Phone your friend on the other floor and ask if she's started writing yet. Exchange derogatory remarks about your teacher, the course, the college, the world at large. 

 17.  Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a clean, well lighted place with plenty of freshly sharpened pencils. 

 18.  Read over the assignment again; roll the words across your tongue; savor it's special flavor. 

 19.  Check your email. 

  20.  Check the newspaper listings to make sure you aren't missing something truly worthwhile on TV.    NOTE:  When you have a paper due in less than 12 hours, anything on TV from Masterpiece Theater to Sgt. Preston of the Yukon is truly worthwhile, with these exceptions: a) Pro Bowlers Tour b) any movie starring Don Ameche 

  21.  Catch the last hour of Soul Brother of Kung Fu on Channel 26. 

 22.  Phone your friend on the third floor to see if he was watching. Discuss the finer points of the plot. 

 23.  Check your email. 

 24.  Look at your tongue in the bathroom mirror. 

 25.  Look through your roommate's book of pictures from home.  Ask who everyone is. 

 26.  Sit down and do some serious thinking about your plans for the future. 

 27.  Open your door and check to see if there are any mysterious, trench coated strangers lurking in the hall. 

 28.  Check your email. 

 29.  Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a clean, well lighted place with plenty of freshly sharpened pencils. 

 30.  Read over the assignment one more time, just for heck of it. 

 31.  Scoot your chair across the room to the window and watch the sunrise. 

 32.  Lie face down on the floor and moan. 

 33.  Check your email. 

 34.  Leap up and write the paper. 

 35.  Type the paper, and while you're at it, check your email. 

 36.  Complain to everyone that you didn't get any sleep because you had to write that darn paper.