College Chronicles, Pt. 1

Sophomore was an amazing year of college.  It was my first year here at Ohio State.  Everything was new and fresh.  It was my first time being out on my own.  I met a lot of new people and tried a lot of new things that year.  There is something about my second year of college that always makes me look back and smile.

One part of sophomore year that made it so special was the friendship I had with Matt.  I knew him before then, but not very well.  I told him to mark the same dorm I chose on his housing sheet.  And, I guess that was the start of it all.  Over the course of the year, we became really good friends.  I can't even imagine how my year would have been if he hadn't been there.  I know I spent more time with him than anyone else that year.  I can vividly remember staying up in the study room changing our MySpace backgrounds at 4 in the morning.  Hahah, or the multiple trips to Burritos Noches at midnight.  Once we stayed up until about 6am watching the first season of Entourage on DVD.  His roommates were crazy, and I'm pretty sure he spent about as much time in my room as his own (at least my room was always good for an argument with my liberal and uninformed roommate).  We had so much fun together that year, even when we weren't doing anything at all.  I got to know him really well, and I told him more about myself than I let most people in on.  I have a feeling that time spent with Matt is probably what brings back most of the happy feelings from sophomore year.

I made new friends that year.  Caitlin, a girl who lived on my floor, is one of my best friends now.  I'm glad we started talking, because at first I thought she was too cool to talk to, and later found out she felt the same about me.  Turns out, we're about equally sweet, haha.  Kelsey and I got to know each other better, and we're roommates now.  I had a great roommate named Linden, who was about the exact opposite of my other roommate that year.  I'll never forget the crazy night we were running around the hallways like banshees.  How we were not creating enough noise to get in huge trouble, I will never know.  I'm pretty sure almost every soul from the 11th floor was out and about that night (and even a few from floor 9).  

There was the night with the gangster hats and the night we walked for what seemed like forever in the rain to get to a party (sorry about your hat, Matt).  Halloween was so fun, I loved Kelsey and my homemade indian costumes.  We wore them to the first frat party I ever went to, and the last one I actually enjoyed.  And then there was that one night...well, I don't know if I'd count it as a quality memory, but memorable nonetheless.

Ohio State beat Michigan that year, in what I'm sure will be the most exciting game I'll ever go to.  I've never seen so many policemen in my life.  Police cars, bikes and horses lined the streets--just waiting for a couch to be burned or a fight to ensue.  It was insane.  Then, there was, of course the most depressing game of my life, too.  We don't need to talk about that one though.

I think I really miss my sophomore year, because it was the beginning of my college life.  I had so much before me at that point.  Now that I'm about to graduate, I appreciate that time more than ever.  It's time I can't get back, but I wish I could live it all over again.