Everyone begins college super excited for their first day on campus. Nerves and excitement combined cause the feelings everyone gets during the first day of classes. The nerves cause thoughts of “What happens if I miss class?” “What happens if I’m dropped from my class?” “What if it rains and I get stranded?” “What if I look bad?” Well almost all of these happened to me my first day of college.
The night before my first day I set my alarm clock; I had an 8 A.M. class and I set the time for 7:20. What I hadn’t realized was that I set it for 7:20 P.M.! I happened to naturally wake up at 8:35 and I put on clothes and made it a 10-minute walk by 8:45. The distress I felt can be wholly summed up in the lack of time I spent doing anything other than running to class. I waited outside the classroom for class to end and to my dismay my teacher had ironically dropped me from the class at the exact same time I arrived outside to wait. She informed me that I would have to go to the main office to get added back.
Immediately after this fiasco I had to go to my Spanish class and I was wasting no time making it there. After Spanish I ran back to COBA as fast as I possibly could and waited for around an hour to get a meeting with my advisor in order to hopefully be added back to my business class. SUCCESS! I was added back, yet the misfortune was not over.
As I walked out of COBA’s main office, I looked outside to a waterfall. It had began to downpour. Luckily, I thought, I remembered my umbrella. Unluckily, my umbrella was bout for the purpose of being cute and not actual functionality. I ended up soaked as soon as I walked outside. I wish I could tell you this is where my story ends but it is not.
I got very very lost. For anyone that knows Southern’s campus, you know it’s a good mile to mile and a half walk to the RAC from COBA. Well I ended up there, lost in the rain, with nobody outside. So after trekking through a mile of rain and puddles I finally saw a person walking and asked how to get back to my dorm (Southern Pines). They pointed me in the correct direction I now realize, but at that time I was horribly confused. I ended up in the art/ceramics studio and I found one single human in the whole building. My luck changed though! The sculpture professor had the key to the golf cart and drove me home. After the day I had, I was so happy to be home.
So if you’re starting college and you’re concerned, here is my first day of college, I really do not think it could be worse than that! And good luck!!
