10 Observations on Princeton:

1. Why are there SOOO MANY ballet dancers at Princeton!?!
2. So I bought all this nice, chic clothes for Princeton and it turns out that, contrary to Ivy League Stereotypes, no one cares about what you wear and almost everyone wears T-shirts and shorts... All this money and closet space taken up for nothing?
3. I get sick every time I'm at Princeton????? :(
4. There's like NOOOO hispanic groups here. The only performing Hispanic group I've seen is like Mexican folk dancing, which is...interesting...But we definitely need more variety. I wish I could start one if only I had the skills and technique to do it.
5. Why is it that people here are supposedly on financial aid and yet they spend money on every little thing?
6. Apparently I have a Rower's body...This team's either desperate or blind, or I have suddenly gotten very athletic or am going to get stuck in a crappy position.
7. People here are party animals at the start. Watching the world's intellectuals become stumbling barbaric buffoons on the lawns of the Eating Clubs is highly amusing... Especially since a lot of them are Freshmen who are all like "OMG I HAVE FREEDOM!" and then don't know how to control themselves.
8. My room is tiny and I really have to organize it. Good thing we have air conditioner, which seems to be quite a luxury in the college overall...
9. Speaking of organization, it has finally hit me that I am in the Ivy Leagues! All these people are like seeking out professors individually, going to EVERY open house available, and doing a whole bunch of other Ivy-ish stuff... I am a big fish in a big pond, which leads me to realize...
10. I HAVE TO step up my game, which is ok because I CAN step up my game, and I WILL step up my game.

College

Wow... in six days I became a comedian, the glue of a group, and a good dancer. This goes to show that what makes a person is not their innate talent but their confidence, their personality, and their attitude. College is looking great... However I am worried about all that there is left to do and there is always that fear of falling behind...

A Light In the Darkness

Part I:

The sun falls
The tinder's set
The apples are passed
The honey on top

Rosh Hashanah begins
A symbol of a New Year
The End of the Old
The start of the New

The fire glistens
Burning the life now gone
The roots of the old are ashes
Never to be the same again

Shadows dance in the wind
Dancing ghosts of the past
I sit with my scout troop
Eating a forgotten repast

And in the warmth I feel her
Tender as before
I close my eyes and pray
Yearning for the nights of yore

The fire burns and burns away
Smoke on my face breaks my trance
The ashes of the past crumple
But the fire burns on,
And hope shines on



Part II:

The fire in the night
Consuming all the old
Darkness enshrouds
A near-lost soul

In search of something

The fire is the light
The friends are nearby
There is hope in the shadows
And laughter in the crackles

And yet there's something

Could it be the Singulair;
A depression artificial,
As the path from whence it came?
Or could it be me;
Missing the ashes of the old,
Or fearing that which devours them?

But there is something

I come down to the shore
With those that I call friends
The sun has gone down by now
But the river holds a shine

And it holds something

I shall leave
To quit the thinking,
To find some refuge;
Join the laughter,
Join the cheers,
And in THAT, find true light...

In hopes of something...
Hoping for something...