I am now into my 7^th week on campus and have yet to find a reason not to be here. Football camp was a blast. It was great to be here with the Wabash Football Family a week before everyone else arrived. We used that time to learn the plays, practice, watch film, and have some fun! We did different events like skit night, introductions, the human hand-me-down, Air Force, the campus scavenger hunt (until the storm came) and American Gladiators!

 The football team is awesome! The varsity team is currently undefeated at 3-0 and the red squad is also undefeated at 1-0 (against DePauw). I love that fact that we have a red squad because it gives everyone who doesn’t play on Saturdays a chance to get live reps against others teams. Practice at Wabash is different than most other schools. Everyone gets reps the entire practice and no one spends more than three plays standing around. We work hard every single day and have a lot of fun along the way. There is no other school I’d rather play for!

Before I came, everyone warned me about how the classes were so much more difficult than high school; they were right in a sense. The classes I’ve taken this semester have not necessarily been harder than high school, but definitely more work. I have done more reading and writing thus far in the semester than I did all of high school. The one thing that separates Wabash from high school is the availability of resources. The professors, students, football team, and the Writing Center all have helped me with assignments that I was unsure of or wanted reviewed.   WAF!

Derek Rowe ‘13