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| My room this year--before it got messy! |
Not as new as coming into Susquehanna as a nervous freshman wondering what college will entail.
But still new. New enough that I am curious to see where this year takes me. New enough , even though I’m familiar with my friends, this campus, and the routine of work and classes, that it’s taking a bit of adjustment to get back into the swing of things.
Or more accurately, to start a new swing of things.
Something I have to tackle this year is how to maintain and balance friendships with people who I used to live with but now don’t get to see on that same, day-to-day basis. Only a certain set of my friends have that same right-down-the-hall status. Also, I’m still acclimating to living alone. I definitely need to work out a cleaning routine because, without a roommate to consider, I’ve let things get a bit disheveled. Clearly, this isn’t the biggest issue with living alone, but it’s something I should probably work on!
In another entry, I talked about how being a sophomore was good because I had a comfort zone from which to start. That’s still true. However, that comfort zone has had to shift and budge a little. It’s been altered—it’s been pinched by some discomforts, forces of change. Discomfort isn’t a negative, though. No year can be the same as the one before. And next year I may, all over again, be contemplating on how to adapt to the changes of a different academic year.
I’ll admit that, right now, I have a bit of nostalgic longing for my freshman year. I see people enter Hassinger—people that aren’t me—and go a bit gooey on the inside. Facebook shows me status updates from “this day in 2010,” and I relive that fresh, exciting period of time where I was just really discovering and getting to know the friends I have now.
I’m hoping that next year my time as a sophomore will elicit the same feelings.
