Don't Call it a Sign Off

To those about to rock:

Today is Thursday - exams began today.  In about two and a half hours, it will be Friday.  There will be a weekend, and it will be Monday, just like every week of every month of every year for infinity.  Whether or not time runs like this everywhere else doesn't matter - we're here today and gone tomorrow, no matter what parallel universe we're living in.  So right now, I'm sitting in the library "studying" for an anthropology class, when really I'm blogging and listening to Brahms thanks to Pandora.  It's rather dramatic.

This will be my last post as a freshman.  I don't know what great knowledge I should share with future freshmen.  I guess one thing I could say is that I haven't drastically changed.  I'm not a dramatically different person, however, if I was a lump of clay before I came to Appalachian, you could say that now I have become a more defined piece of artwork.  So when you enter this life and are intimidated by upperclassmen, don't fret - because they don't change, they just shape-shift, and soon enough you will too.

Be who you are - make friends like you've always made friends - don't jump into some off the wall group just so you can identify yourself as "that person" that hangs out with "that group."  You don't need an identity, because you already have one and you've always had one - and that is your family and friends and experiences.

Don't be close-minded.  Think before you speak, before you jump, and before you sign up for that 8 AM class.  And have fun, because you can only do this once.