In this episode, I have just landed in college. Let the shame spiral begin!

My first night, I am drowning in loneliness until I make friends with my roommate Rhonda. We start drinking together and party our first weeks of college away.

I make friends... a lot of friends. Just like my high school days, I start making out with girls in secret corners of our dormitory and the bars I am calling my second home.

I have a hookup that is so bad I can't even write the details down. I say, "It's fine..." and then, "I guess what was fine about it was that I wasn't alone..."

The night after my hookup, my roommate doesn't come home, and I find out that she has also hooked up with him. I'm furious (and hurt) and my college experience almost implodes.

I also, for the first (and only?) time, ask myself: What Would BUDDAH Do? lolololol but it's more like What Would Bob Marley Do? (???)

I don't know. Things are weird. Get ready for a bumpy ride.

P.S. I thought I would get through college in one episode, but I only made it to mid-October in the first hour... so we'll see what happens.

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