Things I've learned.... Haven't we been here before?

Yes, I'm pretty sure we have, but come on you can't tell me you didn't get a kick out of the first installment. At any rate here goes:

• Color Guard in Chicago is not Color Guard in Ottumwa
• 3/4 is bigger than 1/8... or is it the other way around
• Thing is neither a technical nor tactical term, nor is there.
• Teachers from foreign countries are very hard to understand, especially in french
• A stress fracture sucks.
• MRI's are the reason claustrophobia exists
• The Illinois flag will try and fall off the pole at the worst possible times
• Flag poles and chandeliers do not go well together
• The CTA is often times more reliable then the intercampus shuttle
• I have become more experienced in acronym courtesy of UIC and ROTC
• After 3 days in the field, then in a tightly packed van, the 3 day no shower smell gets to be a little more powerful.
• You haven't had an interesting birthday til you spent it on an FTX learning 1st aid, and weapons assembly and disassembly.
• College kids get at least a month of winter break.
• Even though there is a sign at restaurant that says please use other door, I will always try the door with the sign.
• Crash Bandicoot is awesome, but its also the only game I'm good at.
• My hand/eye coordination still sucks
• I have actually found someone that dances worse than me
  
• When moving out of the parents, one must consolidate ones things. However, I still ended up with a lot of stuff!
• I am still a blonde/ ditz
• I am further proof that not all snowflakes are symmetrical
• Cars can still operate if their gas caps are open
• High heels are still my friend, right down to the "pair" hanging in my living room
• My family and friends enable my penguin obsession
• There is people in my school who know people in Ottumwa
  
• Basketball is contact sport, mostly my face with the ball
• Me + coffee= HYPER
• I'm still the future of the US Army.... that should still scare you.
  
• For some reason I'm not allowed to have sharp objects for extended periods of time
• Pillars that hold up overpasses do not move, but they really really hurt.
• I spin when I tread water
• I still squeak, and I think it scares some people
• My hair will get into places/things I've never been/seen
• Due to the above statement a common phrase is "dammit sara/f***ing higgins"
• Most of my friends are a year or more ahead of me, or they are at a different school
  
• There are alternative pronunciations to Carnegie, frontier, and drought according to a certain history professor
• The saying everyone has a twin, well I think most of Ottumwa's twins are here in Chicago
• Romeoville nor the Chicago skyway are going to get me back to Iowa.
• There is no Sonic in Chicago
• There are days I wish I had a car, but my friends are eternally glad I do not, though I'm not sure why... I'm a decent driver.
• There is some irony having a british teacher for an american literature class
• I've changed some, but not much.. I'm still me only a little older.
• I've learned to stay away from the vegetarian option at UIC cafeteria's
• Staying away from UIC cafeteria's might not be a bad plan in general
• I can't march, because I'm from Iowa
• I apparently have an accent.
• I'm ticklish as ever
• bifurcated tree... thats all I'm sayin
• Hooker Mountain actually exists.
  

I was looking for a way to sum up my freshman year... looks like I found it! Hope it makes you smile! :-)

Oh yea, I probably forgot some stuff but I know you will all add to it for me.