“Most
people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get
too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.” – Brian Andreas, www.storypeople.com
Hey! So I’m really excited to be
starting up my blog as one of the student SHUbloggers… I thought I would start
off with a nice little quote up there from this cool website I found. As a lover of words in general, I love quotes
and I enjoy finding ones that fit exactly how I’m feeling at a certain moment
in time. And with the recent change of
scenery in my own life, I definitely feel like somebody is shaking things up
and making sure I’m not sleeping through my summer vacation!
I left Sacred Heart a week ago, barely
two hours after my last final (British literature—and I’m still crossing my
fingers waiting for that grade haha) and yet my room is still filled with boxes
and suitcases filled with clothes, books, etc. I guess it hasn’t really sunk in yet that I’m
going to be home for another four months, but I’m working on getting everything
unpacked. It’s great being home again; I
missed all of my Long Island friends and my
family. This summer I’m a supervisor at a
local ice cream/smoothie/juice store, so I jumped right back into working this
week, and I’ve already hit all of my regular hangouts with my friends:
Starbucks, Applebees, and (best of all) my living room couch. Slowly but surely, I’m working my way back
into a routine again—the transition between college and home again is tough!
I’m realizing exactly what I take for
granted while I’m at school. We don’t have
the same independence at home, even over small things like what time dinner is
eaten. At SHU, I can walk down to the
dining hall and eat dinner at 4:30 if I wanted to, or wait until 7:45, but at
home, dinner is when Mom says so. And
having to share a computer with three other people is completely different from
having my own laptop. SHU students get
to keep their school issued laptop computers over the summer, as long as they’re
registered for the fall semester, but I really miss the wireless internet that
we use all over campus!!! It only takes a few seconds to sign into the network,
and the internet is available to students and staff all over campus. It’s really easy for me to check my email
while I’m at practice in the Pitt Center, or to show my friends
a picture on Facebook in the Mahogany Room. But at home, we don’t have a wireless network,
so I have to wait my turn on the family PC. I’m pretty spoiled, huh? lol.
Another thing I miss is seeing my
friends everyday! I loved living with my
roommate and nine other girls in Christian Witness Commons, and it’s so strange
going to sleep without somebody else in the room. After my first night at home, my roommate and
I complained to each other on AIM how hard it was to fall asleep in an empty
room. Plus, some of my best friends at
school are several hundred miles away, instead of just a few rooms down—I can’t
walk down the hall to get their advice or ask them what movie they want to see
this weekend!
But I guess that’s what I’m trying to
say with the quote—every time you get too comfortable in one place, someone
shakes things up for you to make sure you’re not sleeping through life!!! It makes me appreciate what I have at school
as well as at home—and it makes me that much more excited to put summer break
into full swing! I can’t wait for
late-night bonfires with my high school friends, busy nights working in Port
Jefferson, and starting my internship at News12 (I’ll tell you more about that
later). For now though, it’s probably
best to get to sleep for an early start tomorrow…
