Perfect '10- Stephanie

Last semester, all of my classes were within five minutes from my dorm on Northside. The Academic Building was the longest trek I would make each week. So this semester, when buildings like Zachry and O&M showed up on my schedule, I was a little overwhelmed. I was basically late to every class the first week because I would be walking through areas I had never seen before. Up until the end of last semester, I didn’t even know where Sterling C. Evans Library was. Come on, I can study at Sweet Eugene’s. Why would I want to go to the library? It wasn’t until I had to write a paper with actual book sources that I ventured out to Evans.
So now I pass Evans almost all the time, and I find new things on campus every day when I walk to class that I had missed out on all last semester. For example, there is an amazingly cute coffee place right next to the library and a tiny, screened-in building with vending machines next to the Annex. I finally figured out where the Student Computing Center was. I had almost convinced myself that it didn’t exist until last week when I passed it trying to find my class. There’s also this really nice field — perfect for Ultimate Frisbee — right across from the O&M building. It’s crazy; I’ve been missing out on M&M’s between classes, iced lattes and Frisbee fields this whole time.
I’ve also found out a lot more about organizations at A&M this semester. My roommate and I went to MSC Open House last week to just look around, and I was overwhelmed. It made me realize that you actually have to try extremely hard to not be involved in anything at A&M. There are clubs for readers, engineers, divas, wizards, really smart kids, hicks, jocks, artists and anything you could possibly imagine. It made me want to join everything. I considered putting my name on the petroleum engineering club’s email list, but then I reminded myself that just because the guy behind the booth gave my roommate and me candy, didn’t mean that Petroleum Engineering Club was for me. After all, I am a communications major who barely made it through high school physics.
But being there was so much fun, because it showed me how diverse A&M is, and that everyone has the opportunity to get involved.