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I frequently wander over to UNL campus between classes at Energy Square in hopes that I will run into someone that I know, friend or otherwise. It is rare that I do. But I continue to look about because of the possibility that I may escape seclusion among strangers at school by encountering someone whose face, voice, and gestures are familiar to me.
I also enjoy observing how acquaintances react to seeing me. When some see me their eyes dart quickly back to their book or feet as to avoid smalltalk. While others approach me, ask me a few questions about what I am doing with my life, perhaps suggest that we get together soon, then go on their merry way, and I do not see them again, or at least not until I bump into them again several months later.
Sometimes I feel like Lincoln in a small town, but when I am here, on campus, there is so much unfamiliarity in people's faces that the population seems huge.
I also enjoy observing how acquaintances react to seeing me. When some see me their eyes dart quickly back to their book or feet as to avoid smalltalk. While others approach me, ask me a few questions about what I am doing with my life, perhaps suggest that we get together soon, then go on their merry way, and I do not see them again, or at least not until I bump into them again several months later.
Sometimes I feel like Lincoln in a small town, but when I am here, on campus, there is so much unfamiliarity in people's faces that the population seems huge.