It's been a very long, chaotic two and a half weeks since my last post. Between working the second round of freshmen orientations on campus and moving into my off-campus apartment life has been crazy. Besides that, for the first time in my college career I am taking 18 credits. It's at the point where I am so busy that I have eight different calenders set up on Google calender. It's very stressful, but deep down I love being this busy. In high school I barely did anything besides show up to class. It's not even like I came to Seton Hall telling myself to change and get involved, it has just seemed to happen overnight, as has the first half of my college career.
The summer going into college is full of some of my most vivid memories. I will never forget how anxious I was coming to Seton Hall. I was going to be away from home for the first time. Being the first person in my family to attend college, nobody could even relate to what I was going through. Truth be told I was not very happy for my first few months at SHU. Nothing in particular upset me or made me depressed. I cannot even explain in words how I felt emotionally. Somewhere along the line the light bulb in my head turned on and I began to settle in.
And now here I am halfway down with my undergraduate studies. I was stressed beyond belief going to my first college classes, carrying a 16 course workload. Now I'm in six classes on top of trying to set up an internship, editing the school newspaper, and dj'ing at the best college radio station in the country. The most ironic part of all of this is that my job is to make freshmen feel comfortable on campus. Theoretically it's quite funny cause none of my students probably have felt like I did when I was in their shoes, but in hindsight I guess going through everything has made me better at my job, and a better person.
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