Reflection 1

In my first few days in Fickes Residence Hall I felt a little out of place, because the only people I had ever saw were some of the girls that I knew from the World Ready Women's bus trip, and I still did not honestly know them. Thus, when I acknowledged that situation they were not very open to me, because they already had each other as their comfort zone, and did not allow anyone else to come between their comfort.

Then, the next day, my room mate moved in and I felt better about interacting with other people because I was able to have someone by my side that also wanted to get to know the people in the building. We are one the few room mates that are like best friends, and not enemies like the others. It is ironic to me because we both had no idea who our room mate would be, being that her original room mate was a friend that backed out at the last minute and I registered late, not being able to fill out a survey for a good match.

As the weeks passed and everyone became settled in their classes and such, I began to notice the cliques and those who were not here for education. It seemed to me that the upper classmen were much nicer than the sophmores. I am thinking this had to do with the fact that they felt they had already went through the same things we did a year earlier and that we would learn "the ropes" on our own. I was very thankful for my R.A. Lila Robinson, because she showed my our floor where we should go for everything. She also, taught us that time management is a necessity once you start college, because everyone's schedule is so different and it is hard to find time to get things done when you have many things "on your plate."