SIUC

Last night I had a dream about one of my favorite places, Southern Illinois University Cdale!! As I spent more than enough time there during my college career it is only fitting that I miss it every now and then. My dream however had more to do with going back to school there for another couple years. I started to move my stuff back into the Dove mansion (Sig Kap house) to live for 6 months and then I moved it into my old apartment next to the old Theta Xi house, which I am pretty sure most of this people who go there have no idea where that is! Anyway I lived in a house while I was there that was just well not in the best part of town and I had a dream that I was with one of my old co workers from Gatsbys and he tried to play a joke on the poeple who lived there but they took it seriously and came after us. So basically we ran and then it morphed into a different situaiont from living in our haunted house on Forest, believe me it was haunted!!! I can't rmember a whole lot from there on but it was crazy. It made me start reminiscing about the old times from the crazy water balloon fight with th ATO's, to movie nights with the girls, crazy formals, where my roommate became black out Mandy and army crawled under the the bunk beds in the sleeping dorm and puked under one of them; at the meeting on Sunday someone found it and she didnt admit it to anyone for a long time! Anyway my last year there I lived next to the TX house and every morning at 3 am I would hear the boys next door screaming outside my window trying to get Sadie and me to come out and drink with them. Those boys had the cops at their house more than I had them at the bar! One time I set off a bunch of smoke bombs on them because they had been throwing firecrackers inside the hall between ours and Michelle and Lindseys place! I had had it and wanted revenge, I fed Craig a lot of alchol and he passed out and set one off in his room, unfortunately he was too drunk and didnt wake up so we had to punch out his cardboard windows (he had punched out the real ones earlier in the year) and save his life. From that day on he has owed me his life! I really got to meet a lot of amazing people thorugh out my time there, I have met my future bridesmaids, my best friends, the boys who make me laugh, and all of my friends for life. One of my my best friends I have known since the second week of school! Sarah Hanson and I rushed fall 02 the same time and both decided to pledge the same house. Once we received our bids for Sigma Kappa we had to break into groups to seperate us for the walk to the houses,I went to my group completely terrified and unsure what to expect. I only knew what sororities were based on tv and books, but I timidly stepped up to my group and this pretty brunette girl gives me the biggest hug ever and says", Oh my god we are going to be sisters" and starts kinds jumping around! I had no idea what to think of this girl at the time except that she was a nutcase, believe it or not she ended up being one of my best friends. We have the circle of trust and dont go a couple days without talking! I also noticed that if you went to another school to party they really didnt know how to drink. Melissa and I would go to U of I tailgates and we definitely held our own there, it was just diappointing realizing you could outdrink most people! When we go out in the city now and bring new people along it is always a trip! I guess we just had more practice and dont get as wasted as fast but other people seem to not be able to keep up. If you have been out with us and you werenot an SIU member than you know what I am talking about! I miss my college life and all the fun that I had, but I am also enjoying living an adult life now and not having to deal with some of the drama that was involved in the college lifestyle! I wish I could write every great memory I had but that would be next to impossible!So for now enjoy a couple of my memories and know a piece of me will always be left in Carbondale, probably sitting at the bar inside Gatsby's!!