A reactivation attempt - Hendrix life update #2.1
I have been putting this off for way too long and with every week Iâm putting it off my motivation to start posting again diminishes. The more happens the less I know how Iâm going to organize this post. I guess I wonât organize it very well.Â
I got here in August and life got busy right away. I dove right back into the Hendrix bubble. I reconnected with my friends, met the new internationals, made a new building my home, met my residents, and got familiar with my new responsibilities as the âResidence Director of the German Language Immersion Houseâ (such a fancy title for such an easy job).Â
The first week or two after I arrived on campus I had a bit of a hard time adjusting to this ânewâ Hendrix for me. Most of my friends have graduated either in 2016 or 2017 and I didnât know any of the new students. I compensated the excess amount of free time by hitting the gym daily but to be honest, I often thought to myself âyou could be at home right now, finding a cool new apartment, finding a cool new job, graduating, living life...but youâre here with all these college kids getting drunk and not moving forward in lifeâ. It didnât take long for that thought to disappear. I picked up a new hobby: ultimate frisbee, made amazing new friends, found new things to do, and new traditions and am back to âHell yeah, I never want to leave this place! What are responsibilities? Real life is for losers!âÂ
A quick rundown of the first month at Hendrix is: Shirttails was more fun than it should have been, I reunited with so many people that night! Robots and Foam Party were just as gross yet fun as expected, the party scene has changed but not significantly, I went on a spontaneous weekend trip to Eureka Springs, Fayetteville and Crystal Bridges with Julia from Germany and Andrea from Spain, started a tradition of going for Sushi on Saturdays with Claire from France and changed the âKings nightâ from Wednesday trivia to Thursday karaoke.Â
I also signed up for the annual date auction again with a âPillow fort and a movieâ date. The whole auction raised 1345$ for Advocates for World Health which was pretty amazing.Â
Oh, and I am in Zoology - supposedly one of the hardest classes here on campus. Every week we have a lab where we either look at different animals or dissect something. In the case of the picture below: an earthworm. We also already dissected a clam and a parasitic worm (the last was pretty scary and disgusting). Even though Iâm just taking 2 classes (Spanish and Zoology) I have plenty to do, especially with zoo.Â
My Saturday Sushi date:
Alright, thatâs a short and sloppy post, but hey, better than nothing. Now I can hopefully start posting more regularly about things that happened more close to the day Iâm posting.
Yay me!














