First Day

First day is unsurprisingly nervewracking- it's where you find out where your dice have fallen. Your RA, your hall, your classmates- the curtain is lifted and you react with glee or horror.

Thusfar, I'm more on the horror side. Squirrel hall is not ideal, but the overwhelming level of new people combined with precious few of the old guard makes me feel alien, a relic. CTY was the people, and they're gone now.

But that sounds rather defeatist. It's still CTY, after all. It's just a new generation. Part of my jaded attitude, of course, comes from the fact that my frame of reference is 09.1, where basically everyone who had ever mattered to me was with me, and there supergroup composed purportedly of PCTYDers but actually of everyone I loved. (Of course, PCTYD is much catchier, though, so we went with that.) So it's possible I'm just sad that there's not a bunch of people I have a preexisting bond with. We'll see.

-Dex