Posts published in “Mind of a Freshman”

I first smelt it on my way to the Chinese Student Association meeting. Cruising down campus on my booster board to Burchard Hall with the wind rushing past me, I was enjoying the pleasant smell of the campus until my dream world got interrupted by something foul.

Most people’s biggest fear of entering college is their choice of major or making the right friends. My biggest fear is having college be High School Part 2. 

There comes a point in everyone’s life where you need to say enough is enough. While for some, that might be because of an annoyingly strict professor or an overbearing parent, for me, it is none of those things.

It was around 1 a.m. and I was walking around the back of Pi Kitchen with a friend. I stumbled across a little furry blob on the floor and got down on the ground to look at it.

If you had the chance, would you jump into a time machine back to your childhood? If you are like me, you will surely, and not for any reason related to escaping obligations.

We’re in that awkward part of the semester where classes are having their final tests before actual finals, you’re being forced to speak to people you haven’t talked to all semester for a project, and your four overdue assignments are lingering over your head.

You know that scheduling your classes for the next semester is going great when you spend four hours redrafting because none of your humanities courses fit in.

I have a very special connection with this year’s musical, The Addams Family, as do many of my other cast members.