July 9, 2010 10:30 AM

Good morning!

I can't say I've ever done this before - but after I got the idea from "Julie and Julia" (the movie with Amy Adams and Meryl Streep), I thought, why not give it a shot? I've got enough free time anyways, and maybe this will keep me from staring at the Internet and watching silly video mash-ups while sighing and watching the clock out of the corner of my eye.

I am 19 years old, female, and originally from Houston, Texas. I applied to Rice University during my senior year of high school, along with several other schools that were decent and sent me a lot of mail. I was in the top 15% of my graduating class, and we were a smart class.

However, I didn't make it into Rice, so I spent the last two months of my high school thumbing through information packets of the schools I had carelessly applied to as 'back-ups'. Finally, I decided on Rochester Institute of Technology since they had let me into their Honors program and given me a decent amount of money. Then, they offered me a summer program experience that would let me live in the dorms for free, take a few classes, and get paid to do research the summer before my freshman year.

So that made it final, and my parents dropped me off at the beginning of July in the care of total strangers - did I mention that no one from my high school had even heard of RIT? - for the next years of my life. I was nervous and confused, especially by the 70 degree weather and the presence of Uggs and gauges (the pieces of tubing that some people put in their ear piercings to stretch them out). There were hardly any people who weren't white, and I went my first couple of weeks of college without hearing a single word of Spanish (which was really strange since my mom is fluent and, well, I'm from Texas).

I made friends, learned to live with weather below 90s, and settled in Rochester and its quirky habits. I'd never been around so many computer people before in my life, and going from not being allowed to touch the home computer (my dad thought I was cursed) to living down the hall from people who had three or four screens and wrote computer programs in their free time. I learned what StumbleUpon and 4chan are, I saw thebest404pageever.com, I even learned a little about video games and how to use my roommate's Mac when I was too lazy to turn on my slow PC.

So why start a blog now, Molly? You aren't doing anything interesting - no strange projects, no weekend adventures across the countryside, no crazy things (outside of the normal). Well, I know, but I get so bored at work when no one comes up to the desk (at the library).

So this is a compilation of my boredom, my thoughts on life, etc. Maybe the things I've done in the past few days, yadda yadda. If anyone actually reads this, you can send in suggestions! I might even post things up about what I'm eating or strange events that happen (I hope some happen!).

Please enjoy!