FYE - Lisa Lynch

Summer...

So being back home from school is hectic, there are friends who I haven't seen in ages and I keep hearing stories about what people from my high school are doing with themselves. My mom and sister still have school, so I spend my days sleeping in watching tv and surfing the web. The laziness is amazing. As amazingly pumped as I am about heading back to campus for summer school, it occurs to me that there isn't really time to see everyone before I head back. I haven't seen most of my high school gang since January and chances are slim that I'll see them before I head back to Wofford on Sunday afternoon. Thoughts like that bum me out just a bit. Went to lunch with friends today; one Wofford and one from home. They knew each other from high school. I was so happy to see a Wofford face. Leaving that place for the summer is kind of like leaving home. I'm so used to the people and routines and places that having to quit them cold turkey was like being thrown into ice water. I'll be glad to re-enter Wofford, though there will be an abscence of people I love, there are also some awesome ones that I get to spend the summer with and living the chill life on campus will be nice without too much hustle and bustle from semester classes. Though I do wish I could magically transport my stuff back to campus...

Not So Done...

A word of advice to the freshman masses, make sure you focus on work so that you don't wind up panicking over you GPA at the end of the year. College will probably take at least twice as much work as you're used to doing, even if you had a sparkling high school GPA. I'm headed back to Wofford for most of the summer. While I really didn't want to leave, I wasn't planning on being back quite so soon either. Happily and hopefully, at the end of the summer, I'll go back with 12 more hours to add to my total and the GPA I should've made this past year.

I am happy to get back to campus and my usual routines and I'm looking forward to being able to spend all day laying out on the lawn. YAY! If anyone's around campus this summer, let me know. Though, I'm sure my fellow summer schoolers and I will have a blast together in smoking hot SC weather!

Done!

So, I am home finally.

After four exams and 2 hours of working quite hard with Colleen and Rachel to fit all of my stuff into the suburban, I am home. My living room is full of random crates and clothes and bedding and snacks. It's nuts. It definitely did not look like this much stuff when it was so nicely (if not a little messily) set up. So, I am currently doing a little sorting. A word of advice to any of the incoming freshman, you will be spoiled when people carry your stuff in for you on move-in day. Remember that they won't be there to carry it back out at the end of exam week. Make friends at school, Dewayne (who you will learn that you should know and love) came and got my fridge into the car for me. YAY!

It was a bummer watching my friends trickle off as the week went on. Syd snuck off on Wednesday night before I got to say bye to her. Bets and Allie T. left on Thursday. Dane, Laura, and Court were out on Friday. I will definitely miss my hallmates. We had a blast this year, but Wednesday nights had to be one of the greatest nights in the history of our hall. We had a blast goofing off and I got a new nickname. Oh yeah, I promised Bets to blog something the other night.

"Dear Carol H.,

Your daughter is the bomb diggity.

Love,

Slynchie"

If that gives you any idea of the madness that was going on the other night. Definitely miss my neighbors mucho.

I am excited about summer school. I figured it won't hurt to get ahead, give the GPA a little boost, y'know? I found out Thursday that there will be a ton of fun people at second session with me, so I'm really pumped about that. I've never been to summer school, but this looks like it'll definitely be a fun experience. Plus, I get to live in the apartments....YAY!!!

Anyway, thanks for reading this year. It's been fun. I will blog into the summer for as long as they let me, though I suppose after Sunday I'm not a freshman anymore. Interesting and semi scary thought. Anyway, back to organizational stuff. Laters ya'll!

A Thought That Hadn't Occured to Me...

While it's a bummer to leave my newfound besties for the summer; and while I knew that there are several people I know who will not be returning next semester. It never in a million years occurred to me that one of my newfound besties might not be returning next semester. That, my friends, is earth-shattering news no matter how I try and look at it. I'm ill equipped to deal with it, and this blogger wonders what Wofford will be for her next year without this friend who means so much. I love it here, I really do; but so much of what makes Wofford for me is the people I've met here and the close friends I've made...this one especially. So not only am I afraid of what next semester without that person here means, I'm also afraid of what'll happen. What if we don't call or don't write or don't facebook like we say we will? For the first time since September, college scares me again.