My College Experience

Yesterday, I wasn't in school but I was up in Ewing, New Jersey at my first choice college, TCNJ. I was involved with an overnight experience where I stayed with a college student for the night and experienced how college students lived. I stayed with a History major, whose a third year, in her townhouse. Her name is Maurisa Thomas, and she is an Alpha Kappa Alpha, or better known as AKA. Her room, and her friends' rooms, were filled with AKA apparel and they were very pink, with a little green involved, which I liked because green is my favorite color. Since Maurisa and her friends had midterms the next day, and there was nothing going on at campus that night, we stayed in the library. Now I know it sounds really boring, but it surprisingly wasn't. I had a lot of fun with all of her friends, who are all upperclassmen, meaning juniors and seniors in college. They were really interesting people with a lot of personality. Her really funny friends that I met were Doris, a Zeta and a senior, Hazel, a senior who is not involved with sororities, Alana, a fellow AKA and a senior, and Kenyatta, another AKA and senior, she was the funniest. Kenyatta had asked me if I wanted to be in a sorority and when I told what sorority I wanted to be in, which is Delta Sigma Theta by the way, she kindly advised me to rethink my answer. It was pretty funny because after meeting her and getting to know all about AKAs, it kind of makes me want to be one now. Not only because my school doesn't have Delta Sigma Theta sorority, but also because those girls were really cool. I had always thought that AKAs were snobby, light-skinned girls, but after getting to know the AKAs, they're actually really cool and down-to-earth girls. But I bought a hoodie and a pennet with my schools name on it, and I met a lot more people the next day, I visited a college Sex 101 class, which was scary, and I learned all about my future college. That Sex 101 class was pretty interesting, I must say. The topic that day was about contraceptives, like birth control and nuvarings, which is a type of spermicide just non-liquidy. Then the teacher showed a clip of a man getting a vasectomy, and I wanted to puke. It was so nasty! There was so much...stretching and needles and cutting, really disgusting stuff to watch when you're half asleep. I made a bunch of great friends, and although I won't see some of them next year, I'll see Maurisa and the others I've met and I hope I'll have a bunch of fun.