Human contact is incredibly underrated these days. Don't worry, I am not about to go 50 shades of mountain on you guys. What I mean is that a face to face conversation or tangibly seeing somebody you care about is rare. We all know the generalizations of our generation. We spend too much time on twitter and facebook. We text too much and don't know how to write anything by hand. We are brainwashed etc. However, our group is different. I think one of the things that is so special about the 45 of us is that we value seeing each other. We value the conversations in which we can smile with our faces instead of our keyboards. We value those awkward silences most people dread. We value whale sharks and tomato robbers. We cherish the time we spend together more than most other people do and yet, so many of us are denied these encounters.
We have these clumps of people in New York and Boston. New York has like 17 TMS kids and Boston has 7 during the school year. The northeastern kids are so lucky that they get to see each other frequently. On the other end of the spectrum are the Santa Barbaras, Seattle's, Farmington's and Minnesota's of our semester who don't go to school together or get to hang out on weekends. Many of us are forced into the paradigm of overusing technology because we like each other a little too much and cannot drive hundreds even thousands of miles.
Now I know we are all stressing about college right now but I am actually really excited. I am excited to see where all of us end up and who we will be with! It's not likely that a majority of our semester or any semester will end up at the same school but we are bound to pair up to some lesser extent. I am excited to see where we move around the country. If we end up on a different coast or somewhere in the middle.
College is going to unlock such great new relationships for all of us. In these next four years, we are going to rely on each other in ways we have never before. We are going to assume different roles and find our niches in life together. We are going to be each others rock (igneous, glacial, whatever you want). They say it is good to know a couple of people going into college because you will already have friends. I am excited for us because if we know one or two TMS kids going into college, we will already have family.
We are in for a great adventure. So yeah, SAT's, ACT's, The Common Application, supplements, interviews, and deadlines suck. But I see the light at the end of this pain in the ass process. And that burning flame of glory and significance and metaphors and profound stuff at the end of this tunnel is knowing that I may have an opportunity to possibly spend eight more semesters with one or two of you.
Love,
Char
