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Aug 19, 2009
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a movie for your thoughts
My most well known memory at the moment would be my
first day in college. Though I could write a generic
memoir with short paragraphs of my first fears of being on
such a vast campus for the first time and getting away from
home, it would just take away from the surprise ending of
all of my classmates' experiences. Especially since every
other assignment is asking for our first impressions as
virgin college students, I would officially own a title as
"movie ruiner". So instead of explaining, what I call an
extremely painful and boring experience, I'll humor my
readers with something a bit more exciting. USF, obviously
not being my first choice, felt like a small city, and I
King Kong. Shot down, tied up, and forced to come to such a
tiny and busy area, I was homesick and missed my large
jungle. Every class was a de ja vu of material I had done
in the past, and knowing all the answers didn't help in
making my image sharper but somewhat of a freakshow, as if
I were only there for the entertainment of the small and
different creatures [students] around me; my teacher of
course taking on a role as my stage presenter [O'brien,King
Kong].
While my classmates scurried to their classes, eager
to start their new expeditions, treating every piece of
paper given to them like a lost artifact, I would
dreadfully roll out of my cave and angrily stomp to my
destination. The ground thundering with my wrath forwarned
the students of the giant on campus. The village people
[the faculty & advisors] tediously threw small polyester
rope around my massive ego and strong abilities, but it was
of no use. Within second I revived myself, clepping out of
every course possible and crushing all the little people
under me [Swift,Gulliver's Travels].
Racing with my peers to reach the finish line before
they did, the hare had yet to come out of me. This was
competition and I was still the turtle. While they strided
leaps I felt myself slowing down just before the end.
However this was anything but just. My perception of who
was in front was skewed. The hare [students] wasn't my
competition, but rather my motivation to speed up. The race
has just begun.
Still having the persona of the big, bad wolf, I have
huffed, and I've puffed, and I've blown every house down
until I found the piggy [courses] I was looking for. My
conceited, yet great determination has only led me to a
greater out come. "WE TAKE NO SURRENDERS!" I will never
concider living happily ever after with the three piggys
and may in fact go to terrorise their families up at UF
within a year, but I am confident I will succeed because "I
came, I saw, I conquered."
And although I have yet to find my niche between these
bulidings that I cannot climb upon and roar out to MY
jungle, declaring my presence, I can definitely have my
presence known just by being a leader in a smaller
frame..."THIS IS SPARTA"
first day in college. Though I could write a generic
memoir with short paragraphs of my first fears of being on
such a vast campus for the first time and getting away from
home, it would just take away from the surprise ending of
all of my classmates' experiences. Especially since every
other assignment is asking for our first impressions as
virgin college students, I would officially own a title as
"movie ruiner". So instead of explaining, what I call an
extremely painful and boring experience, I'll humor my
readers with something a bit more exciting. USF, obviously
not being my first choice, felt like a small city, and I
King Kong. Shot down, tied up, and forced to come to such a
tiny and busy area, I was homesick and missed my large
jungle. Every class was a de ja vu of material I had done
in the past, and knowing all the answers didn't help in
making my image sharper but somewhat of a freakshow, as if
I were only there for the entertainment of the small and
different creatures [students] around me; my teacher of
course taking on a role as my stage presenter [O'brien,King
Kong].
While my classmates scurried to their classes, eager
to start their new expeditions, treating every piece of
paper given to them like a lost artifact, I would
dreadfully roll out of my cave and angrily stomp to my
destination. The ground thundering with my wrath forwarned
the students of the giant on campus. The village people
[the faculty & advisors] tediously threw small polyester
rope around my massive ego and strong abilities, but it was
of no use. Within second I revived myself, clepping out of
every course possible and crushing all the little people
under me [Swift,Gulliver's Travels].
Racing with my peers to reach the finish line before
they did, the hare had yet to come out of me. This was
competition and I was still the turtle. While they strided
leaps I felt myself slowing down just before the end.
However this was anything but just. My perception of who
was in front was skewed. The hare [students] wasn't my
competition, but rather my motivation to speed up. The race
has just begun.
Still having the persona of the big, bad wolf, I have
huffed, and I've puffed, and I've blown every house down
until I found the piggy [courses] I was looking for. My
conceited, yet great determination has only led me to a
greater out come. "WE TAKE NO SURRENDERS!" I will never
concider living happily ever after with the three piggys
and may in fact go to terrorise their families up at UF
within a year, but I am confident I will succeed because "I
came, I saw, I conquered."
And although I have yet to find my niche between these
bulidings that I cannot climb upon and roar out to MY
jungle, declaring my presence, I can definitely have my
presence known just by being a leader in a smaller
frame..."THIS IS SPARTA"
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