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- Eating all the pasta and potatoes you’ve never wanted
- Whale sightings as you watch the sunset during dinner
- Having classes only 7 days during the month of February
- Using Wikipedia for research and getting news from the ever-accurate Yahoo (Free Sites)
- Not having access to any social media and not minding one bit
- Perpetually not knowing the day of the week
- Having three continents of clothing in your daily wardrobe
- Being friends with the entire ship and being able to open up to anyone
- Skipping class because the curtains rocking in the union make you feel seasick
- A place where ‘Stand-Up Punning’ is actually considered a talent – and enough to make it into your first talent show
- Losing your homework in Viet Nam
- Eating breakfast with your professors
- Holding twelve kinds of currency in your wallet
- Having the greatest extended family in the world, and feeling like royalty when they treat you to pizza
- Spending 45 minutes to send one email using the ship’s WiFi (and 2 hours to send in blog posts)!
- Getting used to time changes as a semi-daily routine
- Monthly lifeboat drills
- Always looking forward to the next open mic night
- Shaving your head on Neptune Day
- Finding your own little ‘enclave’ or spot on the ship to make your own
- Making friends with everyone in the crew and feeling amazing when they begin knowing your name and small-chatting with you
- Remembering only how to say ‘Hello’ and ‘Thank you’ in foreign languages
- People paying over $200 for 10 boxes of Girl Scout cookies at auction night
- Signing each other’s world map at the end of the semester
- Feeling extreme amounts of pride for your sea (Bering!) and shipboard community
- Constantly reevaluating life and learning to place far more emphasis on interpersonal friendships- a fresh start of sorts
