A typical day in my life at Carolina

Hot chocolate with extra whipped cream is definitely worth waking up for. But then, so are most things around here.

I like to start my day off with a visit to Strong's Coffee on Franklin Street for my morning chocolate fix before heading off to class. I pick up a copy of the Daily Tar Heel (DTH) along the way, scanning the headlines as I walk. I also notice the guy who always wears a t-shirt and jeans even when it’s below thirty degrees, the three girls who carry their books in identical diaper bags, and the attached-at-the-hip couple who have to kiss each other goodbye in front of the Steele building every morning before they go their separate ways for 75 minutes.

Even though Carolina is a pretty big school, you definitely cross paths with a lot of the same people on a very regular basis. I plop myself into a desk and flip to the DTH crossword puzzle while I wait for class to start. I usually don't put it down until I finish it, which requires some work during the lecture, but we'll just let that stay between you and me. College is all about multi-tasking.

After classes, I go back to my house off Franklin Street, grab a PowerBar and a banana, change my clothes, and stroll over to the track to meet my team for practice. We stand around for a few minutes and try to guess what today's workout will be before Coach arrives to send us off on our warm-up. We jog the two mile loop around campus and then come back to the track to stretch and mentally prepare for pain. Workouts hurt. When they are over, however, everyone is feeling pretty grateful to still be alive, and we jog the two mile campus loop again to cool down, and then head over to the Kenan weight room to lift for an hour or so.

By the time we get through in there, it’s usually around 7 pm, and I am HUNGRY! So it’s back to the house for a good solid several hours of eating whatever I see and hanging out with my roommate. Engaging in more multitasking, I tackle the homework as I eat further courses of my rather large supper. Classics and Philosophy homework consists of two things: reading and writing papers. Thus this is what I do. Once I have gotten through the night's work, I try to hit the hay. I'm pretty tired and sore at this point, but it has been a good day.