My First Year of College
It is May 6th today. In 13 days I will have officially completed my freshman year at SUNY New Paltz. I feel the need to dispatch a little reflection on the past ten months of my life, as they have been strange and, I think, important. Making alginate molds in Sculpture I'm writing from Peregrine Dining Hall. A moment ago, out the window to my left, a red-tailed hawk glided past with what I think was a mouse hanging from its talons. Outside it is very green and very blue, and I can see my dorm building but not my bedroom window because it's hidden behind a tree. College life is about obsessing over the simple facts of your environment. I feel like I complain a lot in casual conversations, whether it is about the food here, my workload, or my tendency to complain about those things. My focal point is the campus, and even when I stray a mile so out on a walk my mind recenters on a class or where I might go to get some work done. I don'...