Freshman Year P.1-68
After I graduated high school I was super busy. I went to graduation parties like Sarah did. I spent a lot of time working during the summer and cherishing my last couple of months with my best friends. One thing I didn’t do was get into a relationship before I left for college because I know long distance was something I couldn’t handle. Sarah did get into a relationship and I am interested to see how that will turn out. I did a lot of college preparation starting in May, unlike Sarah who seemed to do everything last minute. She also didn’t seem thrilled about college. On the other hand, I was so anxious to go to college all summer long. The idea of a new beginning in a new place with new people sounded so refreshing and so far, it has been.
When I moved in, I had already met my roommate prior. We met through one of the Longwood Instagram pages and planned to see each other in June. When we met in person for the first time we instantly clicked. When Sarah moved in she didn’t know her roommate and I can’t imagine how nerve racking that could’ve been for her. Just like Sarah, my first few days on campus were spent going to presentations that were mandatory. Sarah seems very unprepared, she had no clue that she had an email for school. My first week of classes was pretty enjoyable. Although, I did struggle in my language class like Sarah was in the beginning. My face looked the way hers did when she was in French.
In comparison to Sarah, from what I have read, her and I seem quite different. She seems to procrastinate things, which I hate doing. She also seems slightly introverted and I happen to be an extrovert. So far, I like her roommate, and maybe she can bring her out of her shell a little bit. Sarah did just meet Liz’s friend and they seemed to get along well. Like I said earlier I am interested to see where her relationship goes with Ben. I really like this book from what I have read so far.
I very much agree on your comparisons to Sarah during the summer. I wish I got to meet my suite mates before the school year started but I constantly was texting them so I knew enough about them to the point I was not scared to meet them to the extent that Sarah was. As you said I am happy that I was also prepared and was not stressing like Sarah was a week before move in.
Dear writer,
I can relate to being very busy after graduating high school but I didn’t go to too many graduation parties because I kept my friend circle very small because I knew I wouldn’t see many of them after high school. One thing I actually did was after graduating I started talking to a guy which we made official in June and we made this distance work well and I came home on the weekend and he plans on coming up here some weekends. I wasn’t really nervous about college because I decided to room with my cousin and friends from high school so I wasn’t really worried about getting to live in a space with people I don’t know. I’m the type of person I like to be either ahead or on the pace needed I don’t like to be behind or procrastinate because that will stress me out.
Dear writer,
I am really glad that you are having such a good time so far with your college experience. We do seem to be having almost polar opposite experiences though. I, like Sarah, did get into a relationship back in February and so far it has been tough but so worth it. I, also like Sarah, came to Longwood not knowing my roommate and it definitely is something of a culture shock to me. My roommate and I are completely opposites of each of other but so far it seems to be okay like that. We are having one thing in common, however, we both have had a pretty enjoyable first couple weeks of classes. I am lucky in that my classes have not, so far, been too difficult and give me plenty of time to study between each. I wish you nothing but the best moving forward throughout your time at Longwood.
Dear writer
When reading your comparisons with Sarah I realized that we are quite different and have different comparisons, like for example how both of y’all were very busy and had graduation parties. Yes, I was busy, but I didn’t go to any graduation parties or even have my own because I just didn’t want one. But I do relate when you said you spent a lot of time working before leaving because I was working a minimum of 45 hours a week and it was pretty draining after a while. I was in a relationship before school, but we would have been 13 hours apart from each other and we both sadly knew it wouldn’t have worked out so maybe Sarah will realize the same thing even though it was so hard for me to let her go. And I was just like Sarah; I did a lot of preparation last minute and didn’t care too much about college.
Also, for me it didn’t show me who was my roommate online I couldn’t really meet up with him to get along. But when I first moved in, we got along pretty fast and enjoy his company a lot and hopefully it will be the same for Sarah. And just like you and Sarah I also attended in the busy first week of school with all the mandatory meetings with our peer mentor times included. One thing I couldn’t yet relate to is the struggle in language classes because I don’t take one now but I will take Spanish next semester so who knows maybe it will go the same way. But in all I would say I’m quite the same as Sarah but I’m getting better at not procrastinating also slightly an extrovert and also can’t wait to see how her life turns out in college.