I can not believe I have been at LIM for a little over a month already and that it has been a month since my last entry. The time has flown by so fast that I have absolutely no idea where it went. It is already the end of September, which means that midterms have approached, but I will get back to that later.

So many things have happened in the last month. For one, I definitely feel like a true New Yorker now. I do not know how it happened. I mean, I used to be a nice girl from New Jersey, but now I get caught up in the morning rush hour with other New Yorkers, not batting an eye to the weird things I see on a daily basis, and getting super annoyed at the slow walkers and tourists that plague Fifth Avenue. It is so weird. I really feel like I am a native New Yorker now and I really can not picture being anywhere else besides here. I have no idea how I survived 18 years in New Jersey, when New York was right here, only 40 minutes away from my house. I have truly fallen in love with New York in the last month, and it is absolutely amazing. Every time I walk down the street and go to the Promenade and watch the sunset over Manhattan, I really can not believe that I am here and my heart just fills up with such happiness that I really am here. Wow. I sound like such a dork, but whatever. I love New York so much that I do not care.

I think part of me loving New York so much is that there is so much to do here compared to my town in New Jersey. In my hometown, the town is pretty much dead at 9 pm, and the only things you can really do are go to a house and hang out, go to the movies, drive around, go to the center of town, or go to Applebees after 10 pm for half price appetizers. And those are only things you can do at night During the day, forget about it. You might as well just sleep all day and watch TV because there is absolutely nothing to do. But here, in New York, there are literally a million things to do. I have been to the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, shopped on Fifth Ave, hung out in Central Park, gone to the Laugh Factory, spent some nights in the Village. That is Greenwich Village, for those of you who are not from the tristate area. And that is just the beginning of it. I have done so many things that I am having some trouble remembering them all LOL.

As for classes, it has become time for midterms. Seriously, midterms hit me like a rude slap in the face. It was just the beginning of September, and I had some of my midterm assignments, such as my assignment for Intro to Visual Merchandising. For that class I had to compare two stores (I chose Ferragamo and Betsey Johnson), go to the stores and get whatever I could from them, such as bags, catalogs, applications, etc, draw a floor plan, collect advertisements, and make comparative graphs and write a comparative analysis, and put it all together in a binder. A lot of work. Well, the procrastinator I am, I kept telling myself I had soooo much time. I mean, it was only the beginning of September. Well, the time flew by so fast that before I realized it I was opening my planner and I saw that my project was due in a week. So basically, for 2 days, I just got grande mocha fraps from Starbucks and just let the caffeine do its job and spent the days after I got home from school doing that project. What made all of this even worse was that I had other midterms to study for, plus my regular homework. I was just so stressed and it was horrible. I definitely learned my lesson, albeit the hard way, not to procrastinate anymore. I am sharing my experience as a cautionary tale, so for those of you who procrastinate, break the habit right now.

Other than that stressful school week that occurred as a result of my procrastination, everything else has been wonderful. I feel like I have finally adjusted to college life and I know my way around now and everything, and it is great. Everything has fallen into place and I cannot wait to see what the months ahead are going to bring.

Talk to you guys soon.

Daniella Klammer