I learned::
- Packing and unpacking becomes an art when you move every 6 months.
- Not everyone here is as marriage obsessed as you would think.
- Sometimes the people that are more obsessed with it are the last to get married.
- Making dinner for all your roommates on a rotating schedule works for 1 semester only.
- Bringing your stuffed moaning dinosaur from childhood to college is always a good idea (conversation starter between new roommates).
- Taking two different marriage prep classes was a good choice- one first semester when it was for fun and one when engaged and it actually mattered.
- Pudding and donuts is the question. Yes is the answer.
- Labeling all your bananas individually is necessary.
- Sometimes your roommates are not your friends at all.
-You know you're accomplished at yoga when you master this pose:
- You can survive off top ramen and pickles for an extended period of time.
- Your first date at college is sometimes a dud.
- Chubby Bunny is the best option for Friday night fun.
- Sometimes its a national emergency when you run out of Pizza Pringles.
- Sometimes you make friendships that change you for the better.
- And also for the worse.
- Making new friends is always easier as a freshman.
- When you lose your drivers license in the couch cushions and your roommates find it for you, you are forever indebted to them (and should tackle them with gratefulness).
- Sometimes you use a lid as a plate and a ladle as a spoon when you're out of dishes.
- I always love snow, even in the spring months.
- Swedish fish and N*Sync are the makings of a good road trip.
- Sometimes people pretend to act drunk whilst playing alcohol-free soda pong. And it's obnoxious.
- Missions make boys so much more attractive.
- Nylons can fit two heads in one pair and makes for siamese bandits.
- 80's is the best theme for dances.
- A bond happens when all roommates have CTR rings on.
- A pink streak in your hair is necessary for testing limits and self discovery.
- It's okay to have a Justin Beiber poster hanging in your living room before he turned into a jerk.
- Learning hip hop makes you feel like Nicki Minaj.
- Chicken Nuggets are a great bonding experience.
- Especially when you feed them to a baby chick dropped off at your doorstep.
- Taco Bell tastes best at 2am.
- Sometimes your best friend flies from California to Washington, and drives back down to Idaho just for your surprise birthday party. Sometimes those are the best friends ever.
- Cheesecake brownie Ben 'n Jerry's solves all problems
- Planking is the best and I wish it would come back.
- Halloween thru New Years is the best time of the year.
- When you catch a creepy spider in your cup, sometimes its okay to throw that cup out...the window.
- A bus of tacos isn't worth all the hype it gets.
- Sometimes you have to try different kinds of ice cream (or boys) to know what you like best.
- Only the cool teachers take you on field trips to Yellowstone and make volcanoes from Mentos and Coke.
- The best roommates let you make their hair into beaded dreadlocks.
- Memorizing the entire Proclamation to the Family can be done in one night.
- Making thousands of cookies is the best sort of homework procrastination.
- Having photo shoots by yourself is often a good choice when you're the only roommate without a date on Friday night.
- Piano is a hobby for me, rather than a major.
- Wet toilet paper rolls make for great fake poop pranks.
- Adopting a fish was a great choice...until roommates abducted and killed it
- Sometimes the love of your life is sitting next to you in Chemistry. And you didn't even know it.
- If said man can rock the heck out of your heels and make you brownies whilst protecting you with a nerf gun, you know he's the one. (Also, bacon roses help).
- Camels got sass.
- The Skycoaster ride at Lagoon is a good indicator of how tolerant your fiance will be of you in your marriage.
- Soup cans work wonderfully as ankle weights.
- Sometimes the best semester of roommates is the last one you'll ever have.
- Wedding petticoats are fun.
- Getting married within 2 weeks of your cousin and best friend is awesome.
- Getting married is the best thing ever.
- Going to Disney World as newlyweds is pretty great too.
- Sometimes you don't know how to be a housewife and your egg drop soup looks like vomit.
- Dance parties are still fun when you get married. And even more fun when you get to have a sleepover with your date.
- Sometimes this is necessary in your home because of where you met.
- Buy a plunger before you need a plunger.
- Putting on a blood drop suit and running around is actually more fun than it sounds.
- You can't transfer your own motivation to someone else.
- The couple that exfoliates together, stays together.
- You can surprise yourself when you jump into fitness and do a Try-a-Tri.
- Farm animals enjoy selfies.
- Once in a blue moon, random celebrities grace the town of Rexburg.
- Fruit by the Foot makes the best car streamers.
- Getting a puppy is sometimes the perfect addition to your family.
If you made it this far...congrats.
Basically, I've had some great times here at BYUI. And I wouldn't trade those memories for anything. Thanks Rexburg, it's been real.
