June's Winding Down

So the first month of summer is slowly winding down. It's my first summer to spend here in Manhattan, and thus far it has been a blast. It's been much slower and much more quiet here than it is during the school year, and honestly, it's been nice.

I've learned quite a bit by moving into my first house. I've learned much more, much quicker than I initially anticipated. It's quite a bit different than living in the fraternity house, and through the first month, I can say that I feel I will enjoy it.

I told myself throughout last year that I wanted one year of my college experience to be different than the previous three—for better or worse. I felt like I owed it to myself to move out of the fraternity and experience a different angle of college.

I jumped out on a limb to come up to Manhattan out of high school, and I feel like I have done that yet again. I certainly made the right choice after high school, and I'm hoping I did it again this summer.

Today, while enrolling students in Kedzie Hall, I had a conversation with a future student's mom, and told her my story about why I chose to come to Manhattan, Kansas out of high school. It's a story I have told numerous people throughout college, as it is not necessarily common to move two states away for college. I told her I just wanted to jump out on a limb and try something new—essentially I wanted to start over.

It's not that I wanted to necessarily leave Dallas. I love where I grew up. But I saw an opportunity, one that I couldn't let slip by. So I took it, and it's been the best decision that I've made in my entire life. I feel like you can't possibly learn more about yourself, than taking a chance, and even if it scares you, to go ahead and take it, and see where life takes you.

For me, and I feel like everyone, college provides one of the best opportunities for someone to take a chance, and learn about themselves.

So that was my story, and after telling her, and it seems like every time I tell it to somebody, it makes even more sense. Maybe it's because after three years here, I can tell more clearly than ever that I made the right choice.

And I think that is why I have enjoyed this enrollment job so much. I get to share my story with new students, and hope that I can help them out just a little bit.