change is usually rejected
So I'm being an Awkward Andy getting plum juice all over myself and dicking around occasionally writing fic during the deadline day at work so I think I'm going to try and look a little productive right now.
Yesterday, a coworker at work asked me if I was looking forward to going back to school and I was about to say yes because I started thinking about how much I really enjoyed living together with a bunch of people and seeing them all again after class, which was usually fun, but I settled with a useless, "I'm not sure" because when I actually thought about it, my living environment is going to be drastically different.
My first year of dorm life started out rocky since I attempted to befriend a couple of people I just don't get along with, but things got much better after I found a lot of people with similar outlooks and interests. As always, I was intimidated and quiet in front of the upperclassmen (and we had a majority of our floors be upperclassmen since a lot of them stayed in housing) but by the end of the year I was close enough to them to say what I wanted and we had a couple nights of just watching stupid movies and being jerks to each other. Weekends were often spent in relatively solidarity as we went out, though as time went on, the upperclassmen just let us alone. While I wasn't particularly close to any of the second years, I still enjoyed seeing them and listening to them interact.
This year, a lot of them have already moved out and there is a considerable amount of people in my year moving out as well. A big part of my house will now be incoming first years, who will all probably be new and derpish like we were. The best thing about having a lot of upperclassmen around was that they seemed to know what the fuck they were doing, and that made us feel like we knew what the fuck we were doing. I think I'm going to miss that kind of easy confidence. Our RA has also graduated and she was one of the nicest people I knew; our new RA hasn't made any effort to actively reach out to us yet so I'm not sure how he's going to be like.
hellozinnie, in her typical social girl attitude, commented before that social media and phone contact would be enough, but I don't think it is in this situation. I'm not close enough to the people last year that I can just call them up and hang out in their apartments and vice versa. I'm definitely a lot closer to the people in my year, and while most of my friends are staying with me in housing, it's going to feel a little different at first being the "upperclassmen"? Hopefully things end up feeling as fun as the middle of the year was.
In other news, though, I am excited to start actually exploring the environmental studies major so I hope that all goes down great too.
Yesterday, a coworker at work asked me if I was looking forward to going back to school and I was about to say yes because I started thinking about how much I really enjoyed living together with a bunch of people and seeing them all again after class, which was usually fun, but I settled with a useless, "I'm not sure" because when I actually thought about it, my living environment is going to be drastically different.
My first year of dorm life started out rocky since I attempted to befriend a couple of people I just don't get along with, but things got much better after I found a lot of people with similar outlooks and interests. As always, I was intimidated and quiet in front of the upperclassmen (and we had a majority of our floors be upperclassmen since a lot of them stayed in housing) but by the end of the year I was close enough to them to say what I wanted and we had a couple nights of just watching stupid movies and being jerks to each other. Weekends were often spent in relatively solidarity as we went out, though as time went on, the upperclassmen just let us alone. While I wasn't particularly close to any of the second years, I still enjoyed seeing them and listening to them interact.
This year, a lot of them have already moved out and there is a considerable amount of people in my year moving out as well. A big part of my house will now be incoming first years, who will all probably be new and derpish like we were. The best thing about having a lot of upperclassmen around was that they seemed to know what the fuck they were doing, and that made us feel like we knew what the fuck we were doing. I think I'm going to miss that kind of easy confidence. Our RA has also graduated and she was one of the nicest people I knew; our new RA hasn't made any effort to actively reach out to us yet so I'm not sure how he's going to be like.
hellozinnie, in her typical social girl attitude, commented before that social media and phone contact would be enough, but I don't think it is in this situation. I'm not close enough to the people last year that I can just call them up and hang out in their apartments and vice versa. I'm definitely a lot closer to the people in my year, and while most of my friends are staying with me in housing, it's going to feel a little different at first being the "upperclassmen"? Hopefully things end up feeling as fun as the middle of the year was.
In other news, though, I am excited to start actually exploring the environmental studies major so I hope that all goes down great too.