Ah, Welcome Week: the first week of school, and everyone is pumped to be back. Mix that with the fact that no one really has homework yet, the beautiful Santa Clara weather, and freshmen, and we end up with the most exciting and fun week of the entire year, in my opinion. The week is finally coming to a close and, as a Sophomore this year, I experienced a very different Welcome Week than I did last year. Here are the five biggest contrasts I noticed:
Freshman year: Made out with a guy at a party and assumed that we would text all the time, start dating, fall in love, etc.
Sophomore year: Avoided everyone who I have ever made out with like the plague and am absolutely positive that I am not dating anyone (wink wink).
Freshman year: Ran around introducing myself to every single person I could see, assuming that they were all freshmen as well and, more importantly, that they wanted to be my friend.
Sophomore year: Didn't acknowledge anyone who I did not recognize and referred to them as, "Ugh, freshmen", even though they very well could have been fourth-year seniors.
Freshman year: Pre-gamed in dorm rooms and got written up and/or transported by campus safety at 9:45 PM.
Sophomore year: Pre-games got shut down by actual police officers, one girl got arrested, and by the time we even made it out, everything else had been shut down by police too. WOO!
Freshman year: Rounded up huge groups of people I didn't know to go to Benson, a party, or really anywhere public.
Sophomore year: I have not hung out with that group of people since welcome week of last year, and now walk around with maybe one or two pals, but usually alone, to be honest.
Freshman year: I went completely insane and all-out with the room decoration — perfected the color scheme, had 50-plus posters and tapestries and christmas lights, beautiful bedding to match it all, etc.
Sophomore year: Set up my room with a bottom sheet, a pillowcase-less pillow, and one picture that has already fallen off the wall. But hey, at least I have a TV this year.
