Oh Spring Break, how much I needed you. After a month and a half of copious amounts of schoolwork (it seemed that each time my homework situation was going to peak, more stuff got piled on top), spring break finally arrived. I decided to spend my break with my favorite people on campus: The CU Triathlon Team. We headed down to Lake Havasu City, AZ for a race and then Tucson, AZ for training camp, where I spent every waking moment of the day with my teammates.
It never really hit me how important my teammates are to me until yesterday, when I got back from Arizona. I had been home in my dorm for about 12 hours before I started to feel homesick… about not being with my teammates 24/7. I sat at my desk attempting to do homework, but instead pouted about not being with my teammates and friends.
Coming into college I heard a lot of the “join as many clubs as you can freshman year so you can meet lots of new people” mumbo jumbo from family friends. I listened to the advice but kind of shook it off. Yesterday I finally realized how helpful this advice was; especially as an out of state student attending CU. While I did not join a bazillion clubs/groups, I joined ones important to me: The Tri Club, the hiking club, and the President’s Leadership Class. This gave me just the right amount of groups to meet people but not be overwhelmed, because meeting people in class is not as easy as it was in high school.
These groups contain 98% of my close friends. When I am stressed or when I am just looking for someone to eat with, I look at these groups for companions. So now let me regurgitate the advice given to me: Join as many groups as you can in college that interest you! It makes your college experience a thousand times better. I know without the Tri Team, I would not still be at CU. Why do you think I was so excited when I saw a the Facebook event for a Tri Team get-together not 36 hours after getting back from our Spring Break extravaganza?
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