2007-07-17
Eh, maybe hate's a strong word
I'm home and utterly exhausted. I've had a busy two days and I need some sleep soon.
Okay, so I don't hate it as much as I did yesterday. I'm not in love with my school yet, but I don't hate it. Yesterday was just a bad day for me because I got lost on the way to the school. I drove around for nearly and hour and a half, going in circles because I couldn't find the building because the school website does not offer specific addresses so I could not MapQuest the directions. By the time I arrived I was thoroughly ticked off and I was late, so I couldn't drop off my bag in my room, but had to carry it around all day. I am sore from carrying it up and down stairs, for two days (I had to bring it back as well).
Also we were all assigned into groups so we could get to know each other, etc. We had to do ice breakers and name games. Not my idea of fun. Then the Orientation Leaders encouraged us to ask them questions about campus life, and the only questions asked were "How do I get alcohol?", "How do I get a fake id?", "What are the frat parties like?" Stuff like that. I am not the type of person who drinks or gets a fake id to go to a club, or who would like to go to a frat party. I felt so out of place.
I was in a bad mood because I had no one to talk to and I felt out of place. People kept talking over me, and I hate that.
Today was a much better day because we got to spend the day alone without our groups. So I did what I had to do without being surrounded by a bunch of strangers who were planning on going to a club tonight.
The biggest reason I hated it was that it brought back memories of camp and my People to People trip last summer. Both miserable.
But I think that if I can make friends naturally and not be forced to hang out with a group of people, I won't hate it so much. I cherish a lot of the friends I had this year at school, and most of them were people I were friends with for years, but only recently began to grow close with.
I will say this though. My dorm is ACed, but at a price - it's at the absolute farthest end of the campus, far away from all my classes. And it's all uphill, upstairs, and no elevators in the dorms. I won't have to worry about the Freshmen 15, huh?
unchallenged at 7:57 p.m.