The Starburst Diaries

Dear College.
It has been about five months since I started living on campus, attending your classes, and observing your activities. My very strong hatred for you has waned slightly since returning from winter break, but its far from going away. But that is a seperate story.
Since I began going to college, I've learned a few things. On a personal level, I now realize that my intolerance for idiocy is alive and well. Also, I am an excellent procrastinator. But time would have told me these things anyway, so I don't really owe the information to College, however the swiftness of the discovery does allude to some deserved credit.
I may have mentioned in my last letter that I had joined a club for a little while. This was probably the place I made the most friends. Of course, my schedule no longer allows me to go, and I had kind of started to fade out of the idea anyway. It was a political club, but I wasn't completely aligned with everything they had going on. They're a great organization though, and I wouldn't mind dropping by occasionally in the future if the deathgrip you have on my time would let up.
One of the most useful "life skills" I've aquired over the last few months is a grasp on public transportation. Buses, speedlines, trains, shuttles... I have figured out so much! My anxiety still requires the extensive previewing of schedules and numbers and stops and so forth, but thats okay! At least I'm actually stepping onto the vehicles themselves!
Really, I've just gotten to the point where I know where almost everything is and I can pass back and forth to different things without too much worrying. I've figured out the office hours of most of the campus, and besides the curse of distance getting to everything is pretty easy. I've also been in contact with a few different offices for different reasons, which may or may not be discussed in the future, depending on how things go. Overall I'm surviving "College" pretty well, and I'm learning a lot which is a total bonus!
-Sarah Elizabeth