So, I was born and raised in New Jersey. I've spent my entire life in the state, more or less, until last year. Last year I started attending Goucher College in Maryland. Over the past year, I can sum up how I feel about Maryland very simply....





What the hell is up with this state?

seriously. what the hell. so you walk down the street and none of the houses have driveways or garages you can see. And there are no cars parked on the streets, or at least, not enough to account for the people living in these rowhouses that seem so common down here. There's never anyone in the front yards, which are all immaculate, not a single bike or trike or soccer ball can be seen on the perfectly manicured lawns with the perfect little gardens. But sometimes you come across these weird little alleys halfway down the block. An unmarked cement one lane road crawls down between the fences that border each yard. Yes, cement, not asphalt. And they manage to not only be sketchy at all times, but also sunny at all times. Seriously, Maryland, what the hell? Okay, I KNOW that these alleys are actually the accesses to true hidden driveways and the garages you can't see from the front.

Another thing, what the hell is up with this weather? It's autumn, a month that I think most Americans associate with cool dry weather, and it's been pouring all day, and it's been off and on rain for the past week! One of my Organic Chemistry classmates, who happens to be a Maryland native, said that autumn is usually the rainiest season of the year here. What? Excuse me... Maryland? you seem to have missed the lesson about Autumn Weather in state school.

You know what else gets me? There's no real autumn down here! I swear, you get three red leaves, one dog puke yellow leaf and then the rest of them all just rot off the trees or just die and turn brown! I don't get it! Where's the brilliant reds and golds dancing in the wind, swirling along the sidewalks, or laying on the lawn? What is fall if all the leaves just die or rot away? These poor deprived Maryland kids! Getting soggy second-rate autumns! If you can't get me a good show of colors, at least make it dry! Seriously, insult to injury. Maryland must have missed all but one lecture on autumn. And that one was the temperature.... That's right, here in Maryland you get soggy, colorless, cold autumns! isn't that fun?

Seriously Maryland.

Get your act together