I have just had two full days at campus and what a two days they were!

For starters, the campus is buzzing literally and figuratively. Lots of kids on bikes and skateboards zooming around, many talking on their cells or listening to ipods, and me in the middle of it all just taking it all in!

I was very intimidated when I first got to campus. All those days I spent going early and preparing flew out the window because when I got there on Wednesday, it was overwhelming just trying to find a handicapped parking space!

I went to my once quiet library only to discover every computer taken and loud noises coming from the corner!! No, it wasn't what you're thinking. No freshmen in the stacks making out. There is actually a coffee shop, more like a large kiosk, in the library!!

Well, my nerves finally got the best of me and I just had to sit down. I read the local paper and regrouped. I felt better just inhaling the coffee fumes. I listened to all the jumbled conversations. I heard one obvious freshman calling her mom to tell her she had just gotten her id and was ecstatic and her nerves were finally starting to calm down. I wanted to get up and hug her!

Then it was time to start my first class. There I saw a guy that I had met back in the summer at orientation. He motioned me to sit beside him. What a relief! A friendly face! He also was in my second class and walked with me to the next one. It made the walk seem half as long plus he knew exactly where to go. I had already lost my bearings again!

We discussed writing, the poetry of John Donne and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' on our walk. I thought "how lucky am I"!!