Blog 12
Well, week four... I honestly can't believe it has been four weeks of isolation from the world. I guess that was a bit dramatic, but it feels like exactly what has been happening even though I've gone out a couple times to run, take walks, and go get groceries of course. I feel like the world has been put on pause with the exception of the never-ending coronavirus news.
I was about to go to bed a few nights ago and thought to myself, wow it really does feel like I am living the same day over-and-over again, in a constant loop. I try to do different things; I've baked, cooked, attempted to paint, journal, and of course attempted to make tiktoks with my sisters. However, now that I am in week four it all seems so passé and trying to fill every minute of my day until I go to sleep with small tasks is almost bothersome. At this point I have also had way too much time with my own thoughts and I am missing all the laughs, jokes, and silly things I was doing with my friends before all of this started. I have reflected on my time in Greece, my short time on campus, even my senior year in high school. Although, my thoughts were mainly focused on the friends, who I shared so many memories with.
It's pretty ironic because now I find myself most distracted with school work and it helps pass time which is something I never thought I'd be saying. I feel like this newfound excitement for school work goes well with the saying the grass is always greener on the other side. In high school and not going to lie, many times during class in college I would have wanted to be doing anything else. Being at home with the ability to take naps at anytime, watch netflix, and snack constantly probably would have been the dream back then and now that it's reality, I want the exact opposite.
We currently have about two weeks, give or take, of freshman year left and I can't really wrap my head around that information. I think this is about as unconventional as the first year in college can go and it's weird thinking back to this same month last year and how I did not know any of this was going to happen. As all of my friends that are currently seniors are making their college decisions it has made me rather reminiscent of that time in my life. At this point in time last year I was still deciding between schools and while I knew I was accepted into NU.in, I didn't think that's where I would for sure be going. Thinking about how this whole new beginning started across the globe and then I moved across the country only to go back home two months later. Every time I go through this past year in my mind it brings me back to the same state of disbelief that I had when all of this first began. Although it hasn't exactly been traditional or "normal", this whirlwind also known as my first year of college will make one heck of a story ten years from now and even then I think I will be chuckling in disbelief while shaking my head.
I was about to go to bed a few nights ago and thought to myself, wow it really does feel like I am living the same day over-and-over again, in a constant loop. I try to do different things; I've baked, cooked, attempted to paint, journal, and of course attempted to make tiktoks with my sisters. However, now that I am in week four it all seems so passé and trying to fill every minute of my day until I go to sleep with small tasks is almost bothersome. At this point I have also had way too much time with my own thoughts and I am missing all the laughs, jokes, and silly things I was doing with my friends before all of this started. I have reflected on my time in Greece, my short time on campus, even my senior year in high school. Although, my thoughts were mainly focused on the friends, who I shared so many memories with.
It's pretty ironic because now I find myself most distracted with school work and it helps pass time which is something I never thought I'd be saying. I feel like this newfound excitement for school work goes well with the saying the grass is always greener on the other side. In high school and not going to lie, many times during class in college I would have wanted to be doing anything else. Being at home with the ability to take naps at anytime, watch netflix, and snack constantly probably would have been the dream back then and now that it's reality, I want the exact opposite.
We currently have about two weeks, give or take, of freshman year left and I can't really wrap my head around that information. I think this is about as unconventional as the first year in college can go and it's weird thinking back to this same month last year and how I did not know any of this was going to happen. As all of my friends that are currently seniors are making their college decisions it has made me rather reminiscent of that time in my life. At this point in time last year I was still deciding between schools and while I knew I was accepted into NU.in, I didn't think that's where I would for sure be going. Thinking about how this whole new beginning started across the globe and then I moved across the country only to go back home two months later. Every time I go through this past year in my mind it brings me back to the same state of disbelief that I had when all of this first began. Although it hasn't exactly been traditional or "normal", this whirlwind also known as my first year of college will make one heck of a story ten years from now and even then I think I will be chuckling in disbelief while shaking my head.
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