I remember all of this. Buses pulling in and out of CC Little, quirky shops in the Nichols Arcade, deer crossing the street right in front of Bursley Hall. Even the weather\u00e2\u20ac\u201dearly September Ann Arbor weather is in a distinct category all in its own for me. I remember taking my first-ever bus down to Central Campus (a Commuter North bus) and being disoriented like no other, because both sides of CC Little looked identical. I had my first meal at Pancheros, because that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where I ended up after a series of random turns that somehow felt right. <\/p>\n
It all feels eerily familiar the second time, the same exhilarating sense of independence tinged with a slight shudder for the responsibility that accompanies it. But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s different as well\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m coming back to my home from another home. Ann Arbor is no longer a place full of unknowns, where I know I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be forced to search for answers that exist somewhere in this place. Instead, I know where to look for the answers (well, at least some of them) that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve carefully stored away in nooks and crannies. I know I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have more questions and more answers I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll need to tuck away in places around town. I know my playing ground, and I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait to start playing again. <\/p>\n
A new beginning means changes\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmoving into an apartment instead of a dorm room is one of them. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an aspect of this year that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m looking forward to the most, but one that will undoubtedly be very different. My freshman dorm experience as a member of the Michigan Learning Community called Living Arts was unique in that I had the chance to live in a hall filled with people constantly engaging with each other on many levels. I was always surrounded by many people who shared my interests, from art to theater to engineering. Living in an apartment after a year in Bursley will be a welcome change, but I will definitely miss the communal aspect of bustling dorm life. <\/p>\n
New and improved schedule: after the infamous \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFoundation Year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 at the Stamps school, I am so glad to have control over my classes that more accurately reflect my interests. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be an interesting semester, with my full load of classes ranging from Acting 101 to Linguistics to Programming and Data Structures. After my first week, I can safely say that I genuinely love all my classes and am excited to go to class every day. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to get challenging as the semester goes on (I can already see the storm coming) but even that makes me more excited for how much I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have grown at the end of the semester. <\/p>\n
So, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to the new, the old and the in-between. To a (somewhat) new beginning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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