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Day in the Life: Abby Goreham ’15

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Photo by Tela Ebersole.
Photo by Tela Ebersole.

8:00 a.m.—First alarm goes off. Consider waking up to finish reading, decide against it because #YOLO.

9:00 a.m.— Second alarm. Think about what to wear while I lie in bed for 10 extra minutes checking Twitter, Snapchat and Facebook.

10:00 a.m.— American Studies with Kesho Scott #Amurika.

11:30 a.m.— Finish class. Meander on over to the Grille to find Emma [Falley ’15] and go to lunch.

12:25 p.m.— Leave dining hall. Check mail. No mail #unloved.

12:30 p.m.— Try to call my mom on my walk back to Clark. Rejected.

12:35 p.m.— Start doing homework.

12:37 p.m.— Give up. Spend hours tweeting and Snapchatting instead.

5:20 p.m.— Dinner with the baseball guys before they go to practice #favorites

5:24 p.m.— Aggressively say hello to Will Bennett ’13.

7:00 p.m.— Walk through the Grille to see if anyone is there. No one particularly interesting. Try calling my mom again. She answers! #success

7:30 p.m.— Set up in the Psych Commons. Accidentally sit in on a mentor session.

9:15 p.m.— Accidentally sit in on another mentor session. Is this a sign I should be a Psychology major? #nope

10:28 p.m.— Grille study break.

11:32 p.m.— Return to Noyce. Haven’t done any work, but I decide it’s time to go home anyway.

11:45 p.m.— Stop in the Grille yet again. Get distracted.

12:25 a.m.— Finally home. #snoozin’

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