I started this blog on October 31st, 2010 with the intention of chronicling my college experiences. A month into my freshmen year I new barely anything about what this thing called college meant. Now, it is May 30, 2011 and it has been 7 months since I first began my journey. My freshman year is coming to a close and on June 8th the last of my belongings will be shoved down a mail shoot and sent back to California with me following a week later. I have grown a lot over the last 7 months. I have matured in ways I didn't know were possible. I have made amazing friends and had hilarious/exciting/scaring/confusing revelations with them at my side.
This blog, however, would be useless without the 1500 views that I have amassed over the last 7 months. If my calculations are correct (which they very well may not be) then that means on average 7 people have viewed my blog each day. I couldn't have dreamed that 7 people would even care enough to read it once. To have such an audience for my blog is a dream. Keep reading, my blog seems to get better with time!! So here's to you, whether you've read it once or are regular readers, thanks a bundle! Tell your friends, tell your enemies, tell your mothers (if they won't be offended by the title like my mother is)... Spread the word. LETS START A REVOLUTION. Just kidding. Well, sort of.
As I have said, I am blown away by the reaction people have had to my blog. To give thanks to them, I'm going to share some choice excepts of what they said to me about it. All anonymous, of course.
"Hope college is treating you well. As facebook does, it reconnects me with people who I haven't talked to in a while! So I stumbled upon your page and saw that you have a blog. So I began to read. I just wanted to say, I LOVE your post on short hair. Having short hair is pretty awesome and I like your comments on stereotypes about lesbians." (Then she goes on an quotes me! How trippy is that!)
"WOW!!!!! I just read some of your blog posts. "college is well, one of those things" is ready to be published, and should be right this second. Keep up your awesome blog. I see a book out of this. I would soooooooo buy this book for any highschool graduate. Don't mean to freak you out but I'm a reader, especially of this kind. You hit such an honest amazing place. It is few people that can really do that. Anyway, just wanted to share my thoughts about you with you!!
I'll be looking forward to all your brave, personal, and very witty posts!!"
"Wow, i have never bothered reading your stuff before, or been turned off by the title if it seemed too intense or depressing, etc. But this is excellent. I expected something caustic, but what I found was funny, clever, and well written. Good stuff" (thank you?...)
"Well...I'm Happy and your deep vein thrombosis almost made me laugh hard enough to cause DVT. Missed your blog but the wait was worth it :)"
"I came home last night and read your post. It was awesome. You are such a great writer, really."
So here's my deal, readers out there. I'll keep postin' and you keep readin'!!
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