The other night we went to the Eastern State Penitentiary to go through the haunted house, and it was SO FUN. I can’t believe it’s already October. I’m so excited for fall here- I’ve been told that we’re going trick-or-treating, Christmas caroling, and that I’m going to get really sick of cold weather. But right now that’s really hard for me to believe. I love stepping out of Walton with a hot cup of spicy tea and being embraced by that crisp, fall air that chills my nose and cheeks and makes me pull my forearms in for warmth. It’s been raining a lot lately, so the walk to and from the library each night after hours of homework is a little wet, but almost always pleasant. Mmmm. . . precipitation!
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There really are other things to being here besides classes and homework, but I just really love class! I love my honors college classes and I love listening to my professors and friends talk about what we’re studying. To summarize, I just really love listening to smart people talk. So I feel like I'm in the right place.
I’ll admit it, I’m getting a taste of that overwhelmed feeling. I’m excited though, genuinely excited about becoming a better writer and thinker. I’ve been pulling some late nights full of studying and allowing for brief distractions and it’s catching up to me. Lately some of my cohort members and I have been studying together, discussing our work and our papers and the complex subjects that we can’t seem to stop pondering. It’s really helpful to work together and talk out your confusions, at least for me. Writing these papers is incredibly painstaking, and I’m finding it easier to enjoy when I’m talking to other people about it. I haven’t been able to go to sleep at a decent hour because I so desperately want to keep working on my paper, to keep revising it in hopes that it might actually make sense. I’ve been drinking a LOT of coffee. . . and trying to enforce what my roommate Cassie and I call “No Fun Weekends.” These are weekends on which we are supposed to do only homework and not have any fun. We even discourage casual smiling; laughing is absolutely out of the question. We are still working on perfecting it. | AuthorI'm Kelsea Smith- I'm a freshman from Arkansas here at Eastern trying to make it in the Templeton Honors College! I have no idea what I'm doing as far as a major goes. . . possibly a minor in Anthropology.  ArchivesCategories |
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