Living the Dream

Today's Guest Rambler: David White aka D., Uncle D, Dave
Relationship to Aimee: Youngest sibling and only blood-related brother
Future Occupation: Plans to invent something brilliant, become a billionaire, invest his money, and retire under the age of 30.
Note from Aimee: I've been hopeful to get a guest blog from D and on the last late night of his vacation he delivered! Thanks D.

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The other week some of my roommates and I were eating at our schools cafeteria and playing a game called “Would You Rather”. For those of you who don’t know of this game it consists of a person thinking of different possible scenarios that would be challenging for the rest of the group to decide between. For example, the questions range from hard ones like “Would you rather make out Jessica Alba or Scarlett Johansson?” (Gotta go with Scarlett on that one) to extremely hard ones like “Would you rather make out with Rosie O’Donnell or Whoopi Goldberg?” (Unfortunately Whoopi takes the crown on that one…Rosie disgusts me). No more then ten minutes after playing this game the topic turned to which president we were going to be voting for in the upcoming election and why their issues were pertaining to us. No, your eyes are not deceiving you. In a manner of ten minutes the group went from talking about making out with Rosie O’Donnell to politics. You have just witnessed a paraphrased version of a typical college conversation.

For those of you who don’t know me my name is David White, I am Aimee’s little brother, and I am living, walking, proof that the college years are truly THE BEST YEARS OF YOUR LIFE.

I realize that most of you reading this blog are friends of Aimee’s and most likely over the age of 26. I also realize that some of you will refute the above claim citing reasons such as, “I am a few years out of college, have a great family of my own, and feel that I am living the best years of my life” and “I have a stable job doing what I love while making tons of money at the same time.” While there is absolutely nothing wrong with these claims and hope to be fulfilling all of those goals in the near future, I’m going to give you some reasons why I feel my life is just a little bit better right now.

1. The People: I am currently enrolled at a school called Western Washington University where the current total enrollment is over 13,000. 13,000 people!!! All of which live within about a ten-mile radius of each other. There are all different types of shapes, sizes, colors, and personalities of people. If you cannot find someone to hang out with out of a crowd of 13,000 people then your name is Jack The Ripper Junior, and your days consist of playing the video game World of Warcraft and your nights consist of sitting in your parent’s basement alone and in the dark eating endless bowls of frosted flakes, listening to Pink Floyd’s The Wall and devising a plan to blow up the world, then coming to the conclusion that in order for that plan to succeed you would have to leave the house which, would be impossible for you because that would mean interacting with people. Lets just skip the details say that there is a little someone for everyone at college.

2. The Living: As of right now I am currently living in a very large house with 5 of my very good friends, two big screen HD TVs, and a pool table. In my humble opinion housing doesn’t get much better for a 20 year old. I am a sophomore, which means that I did go through fun nightmare that they call the dorms, but the dorms is where you meet most of your friends and I feel that the reward at the end of the big and dark dorm tunnel is a big house with a pool table and your own bathroom. (On a side note: I feel that sophomore year of college is the best year of college as well. Freshmen year you are just getting acclimated and everything is just one big giant mess, and when I see a senior at a party being thrown by sophomores it kinda creeps me out, I guess you could make a good case for Junior year as well but I'm a sophomore so that’s what I like right now.)

3. Convenience: I live in a mostly college town everything that I every need is only a five minute drive away. Fast food? Take your pick of anything thing you can think of? Pizza? We have about 5 different joints all with different styles of deliciousness. Nice restaurants? There is a restaurant that sits on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean, now if that isn’t romantic then I just don’t what the hell is. Everything you will ever need all with in a five minute drive. And if you want to come home for some family time and maybe catch a Seattle Supersonics Basketball game downtown then its only a short hour and 15 minute drive back south.

4. Members of the Opposite Sex: All I have to say on this subject is that in a school of 13,000 people about 7,000 of them are female. I’ll be generous and say that about 70 percent of those females are single women. 7,000 females and 5,000 males…you do the math.

5. Learning: In my opinion the very best thing about college is learning. You can learn anything about every thing that you could ever imagine all at times that appeal to you. (I for instance am a night owl so I take classes at 11 am so I get good nights sleep). I was looking at the classes you could take at western and if I were to type all of those down it would be about twice as long as this blog post which, as I look now, is getting pretty damn long.

In conclusion I would like to acknowledge that I do realize that, in time, the party will get old and I will want to move on to bigger and better things like a steady job and a good family. But right now it feels like things are going pretty dang good, so hopefully after reading this post you will sit back, relax, and play a dirty game of “Would You Rather” and remember the good ole days of college, courtesy of your old (or new) pal Dave.