What I want to know is how they decide what people's e-mail addresses are. Not just at PC, either; I'm talking about colleges everywhere because some of my friends at other schools have whacky screenames, too.

I'm going to put my faith in the system and hope that a machine just takes the person's name and information, puts them together in the most hideous way possible, and spits it out. I mean, could any human being seriously give Sam Melly the e-mail address "smelly@providence.edu"?

If you have a longer last name, you won't realize just how important those final letters are, either, until their gone. All the time that I've been leader of the band (ha ha), I never knew how very important the "ra" at the end of my name was. Now they're gone and I've been reduced to some backup drummer. Was it really so hard to leave the "ra" in peace? It never hurt anyone.

But alas, for the rest of my college career, I'll be doomed to people thinking that a caveman gave me my surname because it just sounds so absurd when you say it.
McNama.
Ew.

Speaking of e-mail, it's one of the biggest reasons that I like to write on this blog. Not only do prospective students get to read an accurate portrayal of freshman life at PC, but all my friends and family have a way of keeping up with what I'm doing.

When you get to college, you'll find that you'll get whims to write letters or e-mails to your relatives and friends, and there you'll be, hours later, barely through with grandma's, and you still have a few more to go.
It takes forever to e-mail everyone personally!
So just make sure, before you leave for school, that you don't promise to write all the time because, realistically, it just doesn't work.