I cannot believe I am already writing about my second week at The Governor’s Scholars Program. I would like to begin by just describing to you how this program actually alters the genetic make up and coding of the adolescents that participate. No, they do not do any crazy science experiments on the scholars. I have compiled a maximum of 65 hours of sleep over the last 14 nights. Day by day my body wants to get tired but it is physically impossible to halt activities for a nap, and, so, we just continue. At this point in the program, I do not even recognize the exhaustion and function at a normal level for a person that never sleeps and works all the time.
As to the validity of my last paragraph and its reach to all 350 scholars I am not sure, I just do not want to miss a single second. Tyler Murphy, the assistant campus director at GSP Morehead, said to us on day one, “You have 50,000 minutes here” and then encouraged us to make the best of them. I don’t want to sleep because I don’t want to miss one of those 50,000 minutes at GSP. I don’t want to miss being myself. I don’t want to miss intelligent conversation. I don’t want to miss the kindness. I don’t want to miss my experience.
If you can’t tell I have enjoyed the program very much. I have made friends that will last a life time and below I am going to list there assigned letter from last week and give one adjective or detail to describe them all, so you can know them better.
S- my best friend, soul mate, etc. etc.
M- musical genius and nicest guy I know, also total ladies man!
L- musical genius and best at deep conversations about intelligent things.
N- my laughing buddy.
K- the only person I knew before, best at weird noises.
J- super awesome and nice movie fan, we talk movies all the time. (he also carries heavy things for me.
My friend group has expanded since then but I do believe I will focus most of my articles on those peeps described above. With the exception of these three newbies... S2, J2, and B
Tomorrow is Family Day, and for the first time in two weeks I will be seeing all of my relatives and a few awesome friends. (As well as my hairdresser, because she is amazing and I do not trust anyone else.) I am really excited, but know that I will miss my new friends even just being away from them for one day. Yesterday and as we close in on minute 20,000 my friends and I made a pact not to mention the amount of time we have left together. I respectfully disagree because I know that the friendships and bonds we have made will last a lifetime, and also, less poetically speaking, we can drive and have cars.
