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Getting Ready for College

Well I leave for college on Saturday.  Most of my friends have already left for their respective schools, and as I am preparing for college my family is becoming increasingly anxious about my leaving.  I don’t feel anxious or sad or sentimental about it right now, we will see what I feel like after I have been gone for a while.  

My mom took me out to eat the other night and seemed to be feeling pretty sentimental.  My Steve hasn’t yet noticed that he will have to do a lot more work once I leave, but soon enough he will. I was appalled when in July the college sent me homework to have done by the time I get to college.  I suppose I will have to get used to doing homework, which I never did while in high school.  Alex, my brother has been pretty busy with football lately, so he hasn’t had time to notice my impending departure. When he does, I am sure he will be distraught and regretful, that he didn’t do more for me while I was at home.

My grandmothers have been giving me advice about college for years.  One of them thinks that I should not go to college at all, because of all the partying.

Adam Furr -- Erik Davis

EHS 2004

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Erik Davis

Her advice would be to just go make something useful of myself by going to business school. 

Now that I am most certainly going to college, the most important thing to remember according to my Grandmother is to always wear shower-shoes while I am there.  She doesn’t want me to get athletes foot.  I believe I am immune to athlete’s foot because I am one of the least athletic persons I know.  My grandmother worries about me because I will be meeting so many new people. You see she doesn't trust people; not people she doesn't know.  In college words that is being a xenophobe.

Smithshire Skyline

My grandmother doesn't judge people from a basis of race, culture, income, or in today's world must we say gender orientation. Being from Smithshire (pop. 100) my grandmother knows most of the locals very well, and knows you can’t trust all of them.  So with her extended contacts, family, and friends that may leave 1000 people she would trust, most of these senior citizens.  If I were rooming at the senior citizen high rise instead of the dorm, everything would be better.  Even then, I should still wear shower-shoes.

I’m really looking forward to college.  I’ve been warned, “to have a good time, but not too good.”  

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(At least I was shocked when I Googled and found this page)

My own Steve has had advice, but his college years during the hippie war protest days seem less than useful. “Stay upwind of the tear gas, don’t walk between a group of Vietnam Vets against the war yelling at a group of Vietnam Vets for the war, don’t let some idiot on the dorm floor skin a mink in his room.”  I don’t know where that came from, but he assures me, it is not a good idea. College costs so much, I hope it will be worth it.  If I could write a book of all the advice I’m getting, maybe it would sell. A couple of best selling books may cut my student loans in half. I have to pack up all my things that I want to take by Saturday AM (Mom says by tonight) so I guess I should get started on that…

ED

Santa Fe Railroad Threstle

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(I remember when Erik's greatest adventure was to ride with his Grandpa to watch the creek run through the big railroad bridge, but I'm not sentimental.-- Steve)