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Aug 03, 2005 01:47

Fake.

Life seems so fake to me; I snuggle in the warmth of old friendships, perhaps exhausting other people's tollerance for me, fully knowing that in a matter of weeks my social reality will fall like an ill-designed house of cards. I miss the foundation. I miss knowing the people around me. I miss the days where we all rode the same bus, to the ( Read more... )

sonny_sabhlok, pooja, ryan

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maybe i'm looking too much into it, but... ocbruin24 August 3 2005, 09:43:35 UTC

Maybe one day you'll look back on college and realize how well you had it there in terms of meeting people. When we start "the real world", it may be harder to be surrounded by new people who are your age and still willing to be social. Take advantage of this time while you have it, and maybe then you might see that college can be more fun than high school in many ways.

Re: maybe i'm looking too much into it, but... powersof2wo August 3 2005, 10:15:27 UTC

Yeah, I agree, but commuting to a UC is not the solution you should be looking for. College is wonderful in terms of finding intereresting pepole, but without dorm life my exposure is severely limited.

Maybe it's just the culture at UCI, but no one really talks to anyone else unless they already know them, or they absolutly have to. I've talked it over with several other commuters and they agree that it's hard to stay 'connected' to the school and make new friends when you live off campus. Luckily for them, they seem to have a relatively large group of friends that stayed home with them.

Re: maybe i'm looking too much into it, but... ocbruin24 October 25 2005, 03:09:27 UTC

The college culture is a strange place to be, on the best of сircumstances. It's nothing like being thrown out into a sea of people to realize how peculiar and valuable tangible connections and acquaintances are. If nothing else, it highlights how these connections are made. Where the value comes from.

Which is why you're exactly right. "Keeping in touch" is just that, maintaining the tenuous thread between people until you can meet up and reconnect later.

I'm sorry that we've haven't made more efforts to keep that thread, or reconnect, but neither of us have died yet. See you in January, when I get back from Russia.

-Ryan, ye friend of olde