THIS IS A TOP TEN LIST.

The Top Ten Reasons New School Years Rock*

1. Well, there's the learnin'. And new pens and pencils. And cracking the binding of a new book.

2.  A clean notebook with nothing written in it yet. 

3. Playing hooky. (here's to having no interests. except to get my hands on that flipping sweet white jacket.)

4. The smell of library books.

                                                                               

   

                                                     

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6. First day of school outfit. 

7. Making perfect eye contact with a kindred spirit when people say silly things in class. 

8. The instant do-over for new year's resolutions. 

9. When professors say funny things. (more on this later).

10. Stockholm Syndrome and the friends that make it all ok:

*even when it's not fall.