Craziness and Chuck E. Cheese

My planner has never looked crazier! Every page is filled with classes, homework assignments, test reviews, meetings…the list is never-ending. It’s overwhelming, but I’m hoping that I can handle it. I mean, after all, it’s only a month until “Spring” Break.
For example, the Dance Marathon, as usual, has been a blast! We’ve been writing tons of fun letters to our kids, and I actually got a chance to volunteer at the hospital a few weeks ago. A few others and I made pillows with some of the kids there. It was awesome- and I can’t wait until I get a chance to do it again. And then last weekend, the rest of Team OO and I took our families to one of the most fun places ever: CHUCK E. CHEESE! After spending the last month in a state of perpetual stress (the stress that comes with orgo tests is hard on everyone…even though I’m not in the class!), it felt amazing to just take the afternoon to eat pizza, play skee-ball, and win cheap prizes.
Now, though, I’m back to my real, college life. But as much as I complain about how busy I am, I can’t imagine my life any other way. I can hardly remember before I was here. During my Great Books discussion, I was staring out the window and saw a group of high school students and tour guides wandering around the Diag. And to think just a year ago I was one of them!
As cliché as it sounds, college really does open up a whole new world. Where else can you spend one day going to Chuck E. Cheese with a bunch of kids and the next at a roundtable discussion about global warming sponsored by Focus the Nation? And outside of clubs, everything is totally different. I finally feel like I might be, maybe, growing up. By choice, I’ve watched the presidential debates, I’ve discussed Plato even when I didn’t have a paper due on it, and I’ve learned about the issues surrounding the University and our country.
Well, maybe I’m not ready to be totally grown up. I have to admit, Chuck E. Cheese is WAY too fun!