Destined for Home
Uploaded by murphdog1982 on Dec 06, 2002
My whole senior year I could not wait to go away to college. I just wanted to get away from my parents, my siblings, my job and seeing the same people everyday. I was going to have a great time. I knew I would have some great classes and could not wait to have a roommate. I kept imagining how many friends I was going to have and all the partying I was going to do. It was going to be complete freedom!
Orientation was in a huge room with about fifty wooden tables. I was sitting alone at one of those wooden tables while there were about three or four people, my age, to every other table. I had no interest in sitting with these people, I wanted to be with my parents, I realized I definitely did not fit in with these kids. That’s when I should have known I was never going to make it at Cortland.
I went home to everyone asking how it was. Horrible, I thought to myself but responded, it was really good I really liked. I was lying already. I sat home thinking about how I did not make one friend and what was wrong with me. Who spends two days with their peers and hardly talks to anyone?
Finally it was time to move in. My whole family took the six hour drive up to Cortland to say goodbye. We packed two cars with twelve year old Jaclyn, eleven year old Jenna, six year old Eddie and my parents. Oh great they were already embarrassing me! How could they not there were so many of us there. Oh well, I was going to really miss them I was glad that they came. They brought all my belongings to my new room and they were gone. I was not going to see them for three long months.
I was going to dorm in Higgins Hall and Allie was my roommate. I had the chance to meet Allie over the summer since she only lived a town over from me. We really seemed to get along when we met over the summer so I knew we would have a great time together. We set up our room for the first three hours of being there. Allie’s side was all girly bright colors with Dave Matthews Band posters and my side was just black and...