Wow...it is already May, and classes are coming to a close. The following is going to go on my web page as an update to the about me section. I found it appropriate (since you guys don't know my addy) to relay my year in review here.
Freshman year of college brought around some radical changes in my life. First of all, I moved about four hours away from home, to a place where I knew absolutely nobody. I was the only one from my High School that went here, and in my opinion, that was just as good, because it gave me the opportunity to meet several people. Over the course of my first semester alone, my group of friends slowly changed, from the orientation group to people such as Tammy, Jake, Jennifer, and Charles. In the online side of things, a lot darker things passed for me.
In November, I lost a very good friend, likely for good because of mistakes I made. Sara and I went through a really bad breakup, and the result was several friends caught in the middle of a flaming war between us. When the fires fell silent and the dust cleared, there was hardly anyone left. My friend from Illinois, Kat, was there in support for the first few months while Sara went out on her own. Four months after the bloodshed, Sara and I talked once more. She had moved on to another guy, named Jesse. When we talked about our friendship, she said she would never trust me again - and at that point, I decided our paths would likely never cross again. Even six months after the breakup I still think about her, but the anger I felt is gone. The time I did spend with her seems so distant and impossible to grasp - almost like looking back on a photograph you never knew you took.
Between then and now I became highly involved with the student government and clubs. Being the President of two clubs (University Newspaper and Spanish Club), I found myself getting involved with SACD, also known as Student Activities and Career Development. By the end of my first year, I became the treasurer of ICC, and have begun working on the budget for the Fall 2001 semester. While next year I will not be the President of Spanish Club, I think I will have enough to occupy me outside of that club -- socially, academically, or otherwise.
On the academic side, looking back, I find college even easier than High School ever could have been. You don't have to always go to class, you don't have to always do all your homework, you don't have to always care - period. You just have to be able to prove you know something when it is asked of you. Not all that hard for the easy classes, and for the more difficult ones, just keep everyone's expectations of you low.
The last week was very climatic, as I put in 96 hours straight without sleeping. I honestly didn't know what the human body could endure. Even now, after all is said and done, I wonder how I managed to do it. And then, without warning it hit me at 6pm that day - that my first year of college was over. It was so much a blur that it took me by surprise. Things from the fall semester seemed so distant, and the future looked so hazy; there was only one thing solid, and that was the present. I suppose that several years from now I am going to look back on freshman year and hardly remember anything that happened, except the major events in my life. For a first year of college though, it was nothing like I had expected. Who knows what the other three have in store.
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