Well, I guess I am a junior now? Three more
semesters of college to go! I look back on my year and can’t even believe how
much this year flew right on by me. I always feel like my life stays in the
exact same place but in reality my life is just flying at a million miles a
second. It is crazy!
It is safe to say that my sophomore year of college
was a lot different than my freshman year of college. It was different
for many reasons, some good and some not so good. But, hey, who doesn’t like to
mix it up?
I honestly had the
most ideal freshman year that anyone could have ever asked for. I did not have a
single care in the fricken world (most of the time). I spent more time with my friends
than I ever spent looking in a book and I arguably walked 20,000 miles all around
the town of Brookings from party to party. I had an amazing freshman year full
of amazing memories.
My sophomore year was
a little bit more on the “tame” scale of life? . The “you tamed down a lot”
comment was thrown at me several times this year and I am completely cool with
that. Yes, I was a lot more boring this year; I will admit it (S/O to all my
freshman party friends out there). This year I spent a lot more time at the
library and I actually cared about my grades. I went to career fairs, I went to
talk to my professors, I actually read some chapters in my textbooks (not all
but some), and I skipped out on a few weekends of drinking. I grew up a bit, I
guess.
I learned A TON of
stuff my sophomore year of college that didn’t even require me to open up a
book. How amazing, right?
Hands down one of the
most important things I learned this year was that grades do not measure intelligence. There are sometimes where I could study my ass off for five months for an exam and I probably
still wouldn’t of gotten an A on certain exams (aka Econ 330) and then there
were other times when I didn’t study at all and I got a 98%. I don’t know if my
professors were trying to play a trick on me or what? I personally did NOT find
it very humorous.
I also learned to go to class because in all reality, what the
hell else was I going to be doing at 11:00 on a Tuesday? With that being said, a night out is not going to kill me or my grades. My grades will
pull through. All college kids owe it to themselves to go out whenever they
desire to.
Fun fact of the day, making time for your friends really does matter
whether it is for the weekend or for two hours.
Relationships are going to change. I knew
that I was bound to grow apart from people eventually. There are people from my freshman year that I
used to talk to a lot and now I don’t even talk to them anymore. It’s not that
I don’t like them; it’s just that we have grown in different directions and our
lives are going different ways.
Speaking of which, I learned that not everyone is going to like me and
more importantly, I learned to not give a shit. Last time I checked, the
person with 300 friends did not live a happier life than people with 3. I am
not going to get along with everyone and the sooner I figured that out, the
happier I have been. Quality over quantity,
people!
I also learned to get the hell out of the grey (grey/gray, ugh, who knows) area. Nothing is
worse than not knowing where you stand with someone whether that is a boy,
friends, what have you. I learned to just fricken ask because lord knows I am
NOT shy and I would rather just know.
Also, what’s the rush? I feel like I used to be in
such a rush to like… live? But now I am just enjoying the ride. Everything will
come when it comes!
This year was a super
big growing year for me. I don’t know, I just tried to stop molding myself into
who people wanted me to be and I just kind of started to be who I wanted to be.
I will admit it; I have always kind of been a little concerned about what
people think of me because honestly, who the hell isn’t? This year I kind of just decided that I was
going to be Clarissa and I was going to just do what I wanted to do. I stopped caring about what other people thought of
me so much and started to care about what I thought of me. Now, I am not
saying that I think I am some fabulous human being who never thinks about what
people think of me because I do think about what people think about me. I have
my days when I am like WHY DOESN’T THAT PERSON LIKE ME?! I guess I just started
to become more confident in not only myself but also in where my life was
going. Everyone needs to keep in mind that
confidence does not make you conceded and that is something SO important that I
learned this year. When did being happy with who you are become such a
big issue in the world? I am dying to know. If anyone finds out please feel
free to PM me.
All in all, it was a
pretty swell year. I met the most amazing people and I made even better
memories. Life keeps getting better and better.
Xoxo,
Clarissa
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