Bal a ncE

As everyone begins to settle, talk about the evening's events begin to spread through campus. Last year we were car deprived and unable to get away from school oursevles, therefore it was a question of where versus how. Our experienced friends, who had moved in the prior week due to sports, willingly took us to a place to hang out and meet new people. This is key to living on such a small campus. It's easy to get caught up in the same environment with relatively the same people. You are limited to the amount of "new" people you'll meet, so I try to take advantage of this and get off campus and out of my comfort zone as much as possible. Eventually friendships will form and enjoyable times will prevail over those boring freshman nights we all experienced last year. I've been told this is the hardest year academically, but also a hard year to balance of-site activites. A majority of your friends move off campus their second year and you want to stay in touch with as many of them as possible. There is not enough time in the weekend to do so. I have a feeling balance will slowly become my middle name.