Ok, real talk, real talk right here (inside joke). I had orientation for NC State this past week. Most people think orientation is boring and useless, but I found it fantastic! Sure, the meetings were kind of lame, but the people I met were amazing! I went there expecting to have trouble making new friends because I did not know anybody there, but was soon happy that I didn't know anybody there to begin with because it forced me to talk to new people. I realized quickly that all the kids there were just like me: nervous and excited at the same time. The first thing NCSU did was divide us into small groups of about 15-20 kids called OC groups. OC stands for Orientation Counselor. My OC group was led by a rising sophomore named Alex. She was really excited and it was easy to see she loved her job. We played one of the lame games that are used to learn peoples' names first. It turns out that it was unbelievably easy for me to remember everybody's name in my group because most of them had the same name as people that I already knew. As I went through a few meetings I soon found myself with about three hours of free time. I used this time to make some friends. I was going to go to the bookstore to pick up my summer reading book and I invited some people to go with me. Jarrett, Arthur and Kelly took me up on the offer.
Jarrett was a tall and witty guy from some small town in NC that I've never heard of before. I liked talking to him because he always had something funny to say. Arthur was a short kid with a deep voice who actually lived five minutes from the campus. He went to private school and was very smart. Kelly was a pretty girl from Albemarle, NC and was obsessed with talking about Hooters. She was kind of clumsy which was always cute and funny. The four of us were our clique for the day. We went all over that campus! It was so much walking, but it was all really cool.
After the orientation presentations they let us loose for the night. The school had lounges open and a theatre showing a movie, but the students had a party going with a 20 ft. water slide and louddddd music. The music could be heard across campus and I loved it! At almost mid night I turned in for the night.
My roommate for the night had set an alarm clock for 7:00, which I'm not used to anybody who knows me will tell you. That thing went off and sounded like a fire alarm. I sat straight up in my bed eyes wide open with adrenaline pumping through me while he just crawls over and hits it off. It scared me almost to death. After this incident I took a shower and went down for breakfast and check out. I walked around with my original clique for a bit then went off on my own with my dad for a financial aid meeting.
So, when I first graduated high school I was no where near ready to leave for college or anything of the sort. Somewhere between Lee Hall and the Talley Student Center I realized that I'm so ready! I can do this life changing experience and I can do it with flying colors!
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