Be Happy - College

I graduated from architecture school over two years ago and have never been so thankful to leave a place. Architecture school was rough to say the least. If it hadn’t been for my husband and fabulous roommates, I don’t know how I would have survived. My roommates, Katie, Lauren, and Liz, always managed to make me smile through it all. I will happen to be visiting two of these lovely ladies in Boston this weekend! So in honor of my old college roommates I am going to list some of my favorite college apartment memories….

- Lauren’s room used to be between the kitchen and family room. The kitchen’s vinyl flooring extended right to the edge of her room. I am not quite sure how this started…but Katie and I would spend a good amount of our time trying to moonwalk in front of Lauren’s room. We would carry conversations on with Lauren while we passed her room doing bad moonwalk imitations. Actually, Katie by the end was pretty good at the moonwalk. I, on the other hand, never seemed to get the hang of it and just spent my time sliding awkwardly along the flooring.

- Our apartment’s attic had an unwanted tenant…squirrels. We used to be able to hear them scampering around up there, chewing on the few storage items that were up there. Truth was we were all terrified of the attic squirrels. They never harmed us, but every time you entered the attic there was this overwhelming fear. You would hold you breath waiting for the squirrels to come charging at you, screaming in their little squirrel voices, “Intruder! Charge!” To avoid this catastrophe from ever happening, we developed a warning system for the squirrels. Anytime one of us had to go up there, we would bring the flash light, take a deep breath, open the door, start stomping on the stairs and shout, “Squirrels I am coming up!” I spent many lunches hearing my roommates stomping and shouting at those squirrels. That memory will always make me smile!

- We used to have this one professor who always extremely serious, had his classes at 8 am and spoke in this monotone voice. He was a lot like Ben Stein in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Needless to say I don’t think I was ever able to stay awake in his class. One day he was going on and on about how nature preferred even numbers (most animals have four legs, we have two legs, etc). He then made his first mistake and asked a rhetorical question, “Think about it. Are there any animals that have an odd number of legs?!” Katie, who was sitting next to me, shot her hand up (which woke me up), and shouted as if she had been waiting her whole life for this moment, “STARFISH! They have five!” I don’t think I have ever laughed so hard. Our professor’s face was priceless and ever since then he had to include the infamous starfish into his lectures!