A while ago, we used to talk about DSmith's paper, or the Gilmore paper, or Walor's test--it seems like we never said "history paper," "English paper," or "trig exam," especially not the last one, which would be a common phrase in any other high school. No, our academics may have encircled our lives, but it all had personality attached to it. We all knew these people, we all knew a lot of people, and yeah, high school.
Now, I tell you I have a linear algebra exam because "math exam" sounds too high-schoolish, even though I know that's not what I ever said. To be short, we don't have many things in common anymore, but it's profound to expound on that, I think.
By "things in common" I mean the specific, tangible activities. That's impossible - we're all on separate campuses now, and busy with our own college spirits. Take that as a pun--spirits as in alcohol, but spirits as in the different overtones of the school, or the different ways in which the schools work.
It feels like it's harder to know or to remember who you are. So save yourself. Be yourself, yourself undeniably, as often as you can, out in the open, and this is a message to myself as much as it is to y'all.
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Now that I'm here in North Carolina, and you've referred to us as "y'all", I'd have to disagree with you. The people I know have more in common than you might think (frighteningly enough).
I'm pretty sure I'm still myself, just a lot more so now than before. Now that I no longer play video games, I've been able to develop my real life instead of developing carpal-tunnel syndrome and adding to the 1's and 0's on my screen. Interestingly enough, I've also been superbly more happy now than before. This statement was probably heavily influenced by the amazing date that I just went on which is (hopefully) going to be the start of something epic.
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