All my life, I've been introverted. For the last year, I've been what I consider "highly social." Being a social introvert is exhausting, and sometimes I just need to take a weekend to lock myself up in my room and recuperate. In the past, I would never have been able to spend literally every waking minute with a person and not get worn out. But, that's just what I did.

At 11 a.m., I got a text saying my friend was at my door. It was my first time sleeping in for about a month, and I got 12 hours of much needed sleep. I flew out of bed and opened the door. She did not go home until sometime after 12:30 in the morning. That got me thinking about the many things that have changed for me since 'becoming social.'

Never have I ever managed to triple book myself.

Part of being social means that you should probably keep track of your scheduled events. In school, that becomes difficult. I have four calendars - three more than I used to. Academic, work, sorority, and social. I don't know how I managed to convince myself that I was free one Friday afternoon, but somehow I managed to say I'd go to a friend's get together, a local pottery store, and an outing into town with my German club.

I was never the person that people recognized in the hallway.

Introvert by day, wallflower... also by day. I like people watching. I would learn the names of everyone in my class (something I still do, aside from my 100+ student lectures) but that did not mean for a second that people knew my name. (Rachael, Lindsey, and even USA (seriously??) are all things I have been called.) But now? I often find myself being dragged out of my zoning out session to calls of "Hi Lisa!"

I have more than one friend.

Part of being an introvert was firmly believing in 'quality over quantity' even if that meant having just one great friend and not trying to replace them after they moved. Now, I can list a bunch of people that I consider great friends. The amount of group chats I'm in has increased exponentially. Sometimes it's a little overwhelming.