Sorry for the lack of posts recently. My life has just been unbelievably busy lately. This past week, I was accpeted to study abroad in Italy this fall! I am so excited about studying and traveling in Europe. It will be like nothing I have ever experienced. I dont even know what to expect... probably nothing less than the greatest semester of my college career.

This weekend, I went to IU for the first. It is the big Little 5 bike race. Of course, no one goes for the race, only for the parties. According to the students, Little 5 is basically like an on-campus spring break for them. My time at IU was an eye opener for me. Being at IU was like being at some college created within a television show. What I mean is there were 40,000 kids running around and no seemed to no anybody. I asked a couple students how long does it usually take them to walk to class... they said about 20 minutes. I couldn't believe it. They told me some of their classes had like 400 kids in them... I just couldn't believe it. Then, there were all these rules about having visitors in the dorms. It was crazy. Wabash is nothing like that. It was just so hard to believe.

Then there was Greek row. I don't know if you have ever seen Greek on ABC family, but it was just like that TV show. Each house had their own personalities. There was the jock frat, the party frat, the "hot" boys frat, the Jewish frat, the "hot" girl sorority, the slutty sorority, the fat sorority.... you name it, they have it. Driving down there Greek row was kinda overwhelming... I just tried to imagine me living in one of those labeled fraternities. I imagined the rivalries with other houses... I'm sure they exist. Or, throwing parties with sororities... just living across the street from a sorority house crossed my mind.

IU is definitely different from Wabash, but I'm glad I am here. It seems like you can get swallowed up at IU so easily. You can pass by your 4 years there and never really know the people around you. I feel like at Wabash... you can almost learn everybody's name on campus. This weekend, I learned I would rather have the Wabash experience than the IU experience any day.