Destiny, Destiny, No escaping that for me.

So being my normal, overachieving self, I decided I needed another blog post today to make up for not writing one yesterday. I wasn’t really feeling up to writing about today earlier because it hasn’t been super-great, but I just got back from eating dinner with the lovely Sarah Bell who helped me realize the funny side of today.

I lived in Campbell last semester, and since I am a history major, most of my classes were in McClain and Baldwin. Those two buildings are on the other side of campus, for those who are unfamiliar with Truman. Truman is not a large school, but I still allowed about 15 minutes to walk to class and get a good seat. This semester, I have moved to the Lutheran House, which is closer to campus than Campbell Apartments. My classes are now in Magruder and Violette Hall which are only about a 5-6 minute walk away from my house. Since I haven’t gotten used to having a shorter walk, I have continually arrived way too early for my classes this semester. This morning, however, I decided that was not going to happen. I was going to be intentionally late for class. (This is big for me. I used to have nightmares about being late for class.) I waited until 8:55 to leave for Magruder. I walked slowly across the street and along the side walks. I checked my watch as I walked by Violette Hall, and it said 8:59. The overachiever in me started to get very anxious at that point because I knew I wasn’t going to be on time (I was still about 2 minutes away from the classroom and class starts at 9). I was worried that perhaps I had just picked the wrong day to be late; Chad would be in a bad mood for some reason and get mad at me. I walked more quickly as I got into Magruder. I turned to walk down the hall and as I got closer to room 2078, I noticed the lights were off. “Oh my gosh,” I thought, “I am later than I thought, and they started without me.” I came up to the doorway of the classroom, feeling anxious about being late, but also a little proud for finally being the last student to show up to a class. I walked in to find…



Chad standing by the computer in an otherwise empty classroom. I really shouldn’t try to fight destiny. I will always be early.

And that was just the beginning. Today was probably the worst day I have had in Biology. It was so hard to stay motivated. First of all, I didn’t have a chance to eat breakfast in my mad dash to be late for class so I was quite hungry during class today. Our lecture topic: food webs.


Also, Kudos to you if you can name the movie my title came from.