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" Can I just comment on how happy this past week has made me? Like Zac Efron, Penn Badgely and Joe Jonas all fighting over your undying devotion kind of happy (yes, there have been times when this has happened to me...in my dreams)! Being three hours away from home, I haven&amp;#039;t really had the luxury of visiting with friends and family with the exception of Labor Day weekend. This week, however, I was pleasantly surprised when my friend, Stephanie, who I have known since the tenderhearted firefly catching and lunchbox days (sorry for the Taylor Swift reference; her new song is ridiculously amazing), came to visit me on Wednesday. She is a senior in high school and is touring college; fortunately enough for me, UNC happened to be one of the schools she is looking at! While the time spent with one another was short, it was amazing being able to reconnect. When the weekend rolled around, a couple of my very best high school friends, Marci and Alex, spent the night here. They even braved the loud and the proud Carolina fans preparing for our first home football game. That is saying a lot considering their schools, Appalachian State and NC State, are huge rivals of UNC - pretty sure that means those girls would take a bullet for me. To my dismay, we couldn&amp;#039;t go to the game because guest tickets are crazily priced, but we still had a great time shopping, going to see Easy A (great flick), and grabbing coffee. It&amp;#039;s just nice to know that while there are so many changes going on since the start of college, there are still some things that stay the same. Now, what needs to change is the ridiculous amount of studying I have to do, so I can do well on my first college test ever on Thursday. EEEP! No worry beef curry, XOs, and all that other jazz, Katie :) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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