This is move-in day
for your freshman year! Woo hoo! You finally made it.
I'm happy; I'm excited, but I'm going to cry.
I'm excited. A little nervous, but definitely excited.
So I showed up to my first class literally one hour and 20 minutes early because I misjudged
the bus system
and then I missed half of another class because I read the schedule wrong,
but turns out I was lucky and it was cancelled. So, it's been kind of a roller coaster
When I came here on Tuesday I only know people by their first name and not anything else
which is kind of annoying because I like to get to know a person well before I
wanna hang out with them
have a friend, basically.
I'm not really sure what it is I want right now and I think
and within next couple years
I hopefully we'll figure it out. I thought that I was going to be able to like
glide through here with a four-point can be like the best at everything.
Um, and then I got a little
thrown off my rocker there by a couple classes. This exam, I have to kill.
How do I keep up with it? Barely.
I don't sleep much.
I definitely don't sleep much. When I didn't pass a class,
that was scary to me. That was like, "Am I
not good, or am I not competent?"
Last winter I found a group of people to do, like, this one class with and I ended up doing great in it
because I was able to work with them. They kept me
on track. When you see your friends do something you get inspired . A lot of times you
push yourself to be like, "They're doing
a lot. I wanna do more." I love having like
late-night conversations with people, finding out, like, what makes them tick,
why they are the way they are, what kind of struggles they went through. I can tell as soon
as I have that conversation with someone
I start seeing my life slightly differently.
It's just so cool to me to meet new people. I keep building off of that.
By the time I've forgotten how to set up a differential equation, how to do my thermodynamics homework,
I'll still remember this team. I'll still remember building the submarine, racing,
the time I've had with these people, my friends.
It's something that will stay with me for the rest of my life.
When I came to this university it was hard not feel like just one in thirty
five thousand people
and I really think I found my place because I'm not only
getting these people's opinions and feel like I'm hearing their voices but
feel like I've taught them something. I feel like
as a student here, kind of anything is possible.
I've been a part of so many different kinds of groups
and met so many incredible people. I don't want that to go away.
[music]
Once I took that last exam, turned it in, turned in my final papers, I just
I've been in a state of euphoria.
[announcer: "College of Engineering, Please rise."]
This has definitely been the hardest thing I've ever done I but at the same time it's the
most rewarding.
Like it's just my future from here, which is really exciting but really
overwhelming at the same time, 'cause all I've known is school for the past 18
years
or longer than that of my life. Looking five years ahead
I still want to be that creative self who wants to go out to try something new
so I think my hopes and dreams for the future are that I just, like, find an
environment whether that be in a company. or not in a company, where
I'm excited to wake up every morning and go do what I love.
It's a bit, it's a bit grand, but I just want to make other people's lives better.