reflections...

i totally can't believe that this school year is over. how did that happen!?! so the past couple of days i have been looking back on the year and wondering what would i do different and what i really liked about the year. in essence, although i hate to call it that, plus-delta junk!  soooo i thought i would make a list. lists are good, right? yeah, that's what i thought. so here we go!

+i loved being able to be independent - it's so nice not to be so micromanaged like in high school. you can be 45 seconds late to class and the professor doesn't even care. if you miss, you don't have to tell them why! and best of all, no busy work. if the professor doesn't have anyhting to teach they let you leave!!! college is pretty neat.
+i liked not living on campus (more on this in the negatives) - i liked not having to worry about having a bad roommate, or if they wouldn't like my music playing at all hours of the day, or the people down the hall screaming at 4 in the morning, or sharing a bathroom with complete strangers. my mom and brother are always in bed early and it's usually pretty quiet in the house. there's no residential drama and i have all my privacy.  also, you don't have to fight for close parking!!
+playing in orchestra at first was stressful, but i learned to make it a relaxing experience - at the beginning of the year i hated driving all the way back to school just for orchestra, but by the end of the year, and after some really awesome musical experiences, i learned that orchestra could really be helpful in my busy schedule!
+i feel like my college is the perfect size - Drury isn't too big. all your professors know you by name (some sooner than others) and you are sure to know at least one person in your classes, but it's also not too small. it's way bigger than high school. the campus is small to average and there are still cliques like high school, but the school is big enough that you can get to know people all over. also, just because there are cliques doesn't mean that the people are judgmental. i got to be friends with people on the swim team, in sororities, in band, in pre-med and even the drama department. and since you have to take liberal arts, you get to know people in every department.

now some things that were less than perfect

-group projects suck!!!!  -for some reason every teacher thinks that it is really important for you to learn how to work in groups with people that they choose. and guess what? it's just like high school. you have certain kids who don't want to do anything ever and you get stuck doing the entire project. i am kind of ok with that because i'm a control freak and i like to be in control of my own grade. but overall, i hate group projects. i may as well do my own project.
-driving to school everyday can be kind of a pain- some days i had to go back and forth from school and home cause at school i had no place to store my stuff. this was really bad for my car. and then on days when i didn't have class it was terrible if i had extracurricular activities. also, living at home had its down sides too. my mother was really bad about giving me an early curfew. i'm sorry, but i'm an adult now, which means no curfews for me, unless i want to come home early and be courteous.
-lastly, i miss how highschool forces you to spend every day with your friends and now you really have to work at staying in touch - i have only stayed in touch with a handful of friends from high school. granted, i have made plenty of new friends, but i regret losing touch with a lot my really good friends. hopefully over the summer we can kind of reconnect.

well, this is what i have been reflecting on about college so far. i am super excited about the next three years at Drury and i hope that there is much more fun beyond that!!

thanks for reading!!!

♪♫ brianna ♪♫