Hey everyone!

I'm back from college. Actually, I've been back for a couple weeks, but I was busy sleeping and doing other things I don't do at school. I was planning on writing earlier, but I went to Iowa City this weekend to help my sister pack up her stuff so she can go do medical research in Honduras this summer. I have a summer job working at Sears in the jewelry department... I start Thursday, so we'll see how that works out. I'm still a little shocked that after weeks of job/internship searching, I barely walked into the interview room before I was hired. I guess they were just low on employees or something.

Ok, I promised one of my friends ages ago that I would post a brief summary of my freshman year when I got home. So, here it is:

I didn't have a roommate this year. She canceled her housing reservation 30 minutes before I moved in. I was pretty bummed out, but I believe that it was all for the best. Drama happened this year (discussed in more detail later) that made a single room a desirable get-away. I don't really remember much of first quad... I had an 8:00 MWF and an 8:30 TR and I was in band and orchestra. Pretty much after I left my room in the morning I wouldn't come back until around 8 PM. I was too tired and busy to be homesick. I think it actually helped that I couldn't log in here during the first month. Not that you guys aren't great, but I was forced to make friends elsewhere. I met this guy in my health class and I had a major crush on him. All year. He liked me too. He didn't do anything about it. He ignored me. He blew hot and cold. I'm still mad. I made a drawing of him and burnt it. He no longer exists as far as I'm concerned. I'm pretty sure he's living in the same dorm as me next year. Gah, stupid boy. Anyway, boy drama aside, life was pretty good. Then someone dropped an atomic friendship-destroying bomb. Suffice it to say that I spent most of B quad trying to fix things and/or just avoid them as much as possible (this was difficult as several of them lived on my floor). Eventually, I was forced to switch friend groups between first semester and second semester. Second semester was uneventful up until the last several weeks of school. Basically, one of my best friends turned on my and another one of my best friends (no, she didn't even know the first friend) stopped talking to me. The worst part is that I still have no clue what I did.

There, that is a brief overview of my year. Despite the impression this journal may have given you, I really did enjoy my first year at Wheaton. Not everyone was a toad and other things did happen besides the drama. I guess the only big things just happened to involve much drama. Don't worry, I loved college.

Anyway, I'm back!!!!

~ Kathryn