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Mar. 12th, 2023 10:06 pmMy name is [redacted] (they/them) and I’m a senior graduating this May studying Ethnic Studies. I transferred from a community college, [redacted], in the [redacted].
I always convince myself that I simultaneously do nothing but also everything– people get visibly upset looking at my google calendar, but I promise that’s because I have to schedule in everything to function. My more formal but still things-I-wouldn’t-include-on-my-resume-work-experience activities that consume a lot of my time: I’m co-captain of a dance team, bassist/occasional vocalist for [my band], writer for the satire instagram, and I like to frequent the pottery studio that’s dangerously close to my entryway. On [redacted's] payroll, I’m a Transfer Advisor and ex-Pedagogical Partner. I also started the Transfer Tabs radio show, that S (and N??) now hosts.
In three words, my first year at [redacted] was pretty fucking hard. Now? It’s been turbulent, memorable, and bittersweet.
Do you feel more comfortable/confident now being in your second year at [redacted]? If not, why?
Being in my second year at [redacted], hell, my last semester at [redacted], and I’m still figuring out how to navigate this place. I think by the time I feel somewhat settled every semester, something happens to uproot that– or, it’s simply the end of it and it doesn’t matter anymore. There’s something about college that doesn’t let you rest, even if it seems like all the conditions are perfect and theoretically, you should be fine. At a certain point, you have to come to terms with the constant turbulence and try to be resilient through it– whether it’s through art, therapy, journaling, friends, going home, not going home, consuming Shake Shack against the wishes of your GI system, or curling up and crying under your Peppa Pig blanket on the futon that’s been left in your suite for the past 3 years.
What about your [redacted] experience/life now did you not expect? (Are you majoring in something different, joined clubs you’d never thought about joining, etc?)
I did not expect to thoroughly enjoy society. I joined a historically all-female (now all-non-men thanks to my existence) society, so I initially thought it would be sorority-core and insufferable. But I’m glad I stuck with it, because I’ve met some really cool people and got to do some really fun things, and it’s not sorority-core at all. Especially as a transfer, it’s allowed me to meet more people in my class and make friends with those whom I never would have crossed paths with otherwise.
What has been your most memorable [redacted] experience so far?
Making grenadine snowcones with fellow transfer and life-long roommate K in the subzero cold.
I always convince myself that I simultaneously do nothing but also everything– people get visibly upset looking at my google calendar, but I promise that’s because I have to schedule in everything to function. My more formal but still things-I-wouldn’t-include-on-my-resume-work-experience activities that consume a lot of my time: I’m co-captain of a dance team, bassist/occasional vocalist for [my band], writer for the satire instagram, and I like to frequent the pottery studio that’s dangerously close to my entryway. On [redacted's] payroll, I’m a Transfer Advisor and ex-Pedagogical Partner. I also started the Transfer Tabs radio show, that S (and N??) now hosts.
In three words, my first year at [redacted] was pretty fucking hard. Now? It’s been turbulent, memorable, and bittersweet.
Do you feel more comfortable/confident now being in your second year at [redacted]? If not, why?
Being in my second year at [redacted], hell, my last semester at [redacted], and I’m still figuring out how to navigate this place. I think by the time I feel somewhat settled every semester, something happens to uproot that– or, it’s simply the end of it and it doesn’t matter anymore. There’s something about college that doesn’t let you rest, even if it seems like all the conditions are perfect and theoretically, you should be fine. At a certain point, you have to come to terms with the constant turbulence and try to be resilient through it– whether it’s through art, therapy, journaling, friends, going home, not going home, consuming Shake Shack against the wishes of your GI system, or curling up and crying under your Peppa Pig blanket on the futon that’s been left in your suite for the past 3 years.
What about your [redacted] experience/life now did you not expect? (Are you majoring in something different, joined clubs you’d never thought about joining, etc?)
I did not expect to thoroughly enjoy society. I joined a historically all-female (now all-non-men thanks to my existence) society, so I initially thought it would be sorority-core and insufferable. But I’m glad I stuck with it, because I’ve met some really cool people and got to do some really fun things, and it’s not sorority-core at all. Especially as a transfer, it’s allowed me to meet more people in my class and make friends with those whom I never would have crossed paths with otherwise.
What has been your most memorable [redacted] experience so far?
Making grenadine snowcones with fellow transfer and life-long roommate K in the subzero cold.
