<p>bluirinka, in what town did that happen? lol thats crazy</p>
<p>lol. Fair Lawn. The Dirty Russian Ghetto and my former hometown lol</p>
<p>lol i love how their sports teams are the Fair Lawn Cutters… so funny lol</p>
<p>lol. supposedly it has to do with pirates, but i just envision angsty teenage girls dressed like sluts, crying and cutting themselves in front of a mirror.</p>
<p>LOL</p>
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<p>which constitutes the majority of the Fair Lawn female population anyway.</p>
<p>KIDDING! There are some great people in Fair Lawn…but that doesn’t stop me from being SO glad I moved here.</p>
<p>What am I afraid of? </p>
<p>Well, this isn’t Dartmouth specific, but I’m afraid of getting the gothy angsty girl as my roommate, who wears excessive black eyeliner, listens to angry music all the time (thank god for the widespread use of iPods - I hopefully won’t have to hear it), and does her side of the room in all black. This started out as a joke among my friends, me getting the goth girl (I am one of the preppiest girls at my school and will end up doing my side of the room pink and green… gulp), because we’d be polar opposites. This is sort of a “joke” fear but, either way, I’d much prefer a nice, normal roomate more similar to myself. Thank goodness that on my college tour, all the gothy people I saw were at Brown. ;)</p>
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I’m also afraid of running out of money, willywonka. Right now I never really pay for anything and depend on the Mummy/Daddy bank for handouts tous les temps. But if I go to a $40,000 school, I doubt they’ll be keen on constantly re-charging my debit card like they do now… Problem is, I’ve never worked, and will be gone the first two weeks of summer to France - I can’t really ask a new employer for the initial two weeks of my job off. I would start working now, but I am one of the track captains so I already have an after-school commitment.</p>
<p>Oh, the trials and tribulations of my life!! Overall, I’m more afraid of becoming an alcholoic than anything else during my time at the D. :p</p>
<p>I’m gonna start my first job cause if I don’t, I’ll be the only one of my friends that doesn’t have a cool job lined up (well, Jeremy at the dairy isn’t that great but its mad bank). I might work at a J Crew thats opening in the mall. I want to work at Express, but you get paid on commission and I always get hit on by the guys that work there. Sometimes I think its some game.</p>
<p>I wanted to work at this sports shop called S****** (name blanked for safety), but the lucky few that get to work there get paid less than minimum wage. They just get awesome bonuses and stuff. This winter, if i would have worked there, I would have gotten a minimum of 24 ski passes, not to mention discounts up the wazzoo, free demo,etc.</p>
<p>I’m sorta afraid of becoming an alcoholic, but more of losing my attitude. I mean, out here in California, we’re soooooooo more laid back. I couldn’t believe how up tight they were on the east coast this summer. I don’t want to come back and get mad at my friends for being normal.</p>
<p>Totally work at J.Crew!!! I would work at one (since I… <em>gulp</em> memorize the catalog), but le sigh, there’s not one close enough. And you’ll be able to aquire an extensive D wardrobe with your discount, which is more important than actually saving money, right? ;)</p>
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This is personally amusing to me - I don’t know anyone who describes themselves as “laid-back” - it’s more “type-A, driven, obnoxious, uptight, and tense” over here in the GP (MI). You crazy west-coasters… <em>shakes head bemusedly</em></p>
<p>Everyone where I live is already an alcoholic, so I’m not that worried about it, although I do joke on the topic. The D will just be transplanting myself from one soaked culture to another.</p>
<p>oh, you’re from Grosse Pointe?</p>
<p>Yep. You’ve heard of it?</p>
<p>lol actually yeah, but from a weird source, it was in A Prayer For Owen Meany lol</p>
<p>I’ve never read it - was it good? How was GP related to it? (I’m a bit curious… lol)</p>
<p>oh, it’s a wonderful wonderful book. It was kind of a trivial reference. they were getting a new headmaster from some town in Illinois - was it Lake Falls? And how it’s like the WASP racist capital of the world (this was back in the early 60’s though). And someone said that Grosse Pointe was more to Detroit what Lake Falls was to Chicago than what some other town in Colorado was to Denver…i just remembered that b.c i’ve read it like five times and there was a TV show a while back called Grosse Pointe lol</p>
<p>that was probably the most confusing explanation ever lol. i’m going to go take a shower :-D</p>