I say that to my friends all the time, the ones in other states who are having a hard time in college. The ones who dropped out of school or just never went in the first place and are bored or anxious with the feeling that they are running out of time. To the ones who are still in high-school, overwhelmed with college apps, with being on the varsity gymnastics team, and fighting the all-consuming “senioritis�.

But I haven’t told that to myself enough. There have been times where I have wanted to wrap THE Ohio State University and everything that comes with it in tinfoil, crinkle it up, and hurl it into the ocean. There have been times where I have wanted to just lay in bed all day with the drapes closed and listen to the rain and Ryan Adams’s “Call Me On Your Way Back Home�. There have been times when I have felt so Sylvia Plath-esque, even going so far as to tell my friend back home that “I really just feel like I’m Saran-wrapped and the whole life of this university is spinning by without me; and I can stretch it out plenty, but I can’t figure out how to breakthrough.� And sometimes I’ve been just plain homesick.

After realizing how lame that all was, though, I decided that something must change. I couldn’t keep wasting my parent’s money by sleeping all day, moping around, missing home, and pretending that it wasn’t my choice to be here. It was my choice. So it was time to stop complaining, because according to Bloc Party, “Self-pity won’t save you.�

I figured the key to feeling more at home and comfortable here was getting involved. I finally made it to some of the club meetings I had been getting emails about since the student involvement fair at the beginning of the quarter, namely Zoology Club and Students for Recycling. I went to church at the Newman Center for the first time. I’ve been going to the RPAC 3 and 4 times a week. I went to several Major Exploration Fairs. I went to a percussion concert at Weigel Hall. I went to the free showing of Superbad put on by the OUAB. Even keeping this blog forces me to keep more in touch with the university.

I suppose what I am getting at here is that the key to my overall happiness/ satisfaction with my time here is learning how to take full advantage of all the resources Ohio State has to offer; forcing myself to “break through�. I’m really just starting to let the full collegiate experience hit me, and I’m pretty sure the best truly is yet to come.

GO BUCKS!