sleepyman

I've been here a week in U. Wisconsin in Parkside, not Madison or anywhere that might be fun. Sorry if the following is incoherent, it was written at different times while rushed.



The first two days were nice, I easily made more friends than I expected, and not just with my roomates (In my school there are two dorms buildings, one is the standard hallway full of two-person bedrooms, and the other is like apartments that 7 people share, I'm in an apartment). For those two days it felt really open and like every freshman wanted to know everyone else but after that, when classes started, this feels like a community college. Few people care much, they either want to stick to their own lives or just hang out with the mini posse they already have, not many more outgoing people anymore. This is also quite a local school, so many people just came with a bunch of their high school buddies. I'm from chicago so I started from scratch. But anyway a few of the friends I made the first two days are now regular buddies with me, the rest I lost because we never got to room numbers or phone numbers, and don't have any common classes. And even with the friends and acquaintances I've already made, there is absolutely nothing to do out here in the middle of the forest so the only way to get to know people I meet better is to just hang out and watch tv or eat. And now that there's this kind of laid back, introvert attitude its just awkward to come over or invite people to hang out. And hanging out gets very lame very fast, even with tv or videogames the fun always slows down sometime. Even the parties are lame, only a handful of people playing beer pong really. We're in the middle of a forest, so its not really worth the gas money or effort to go out to "downtown" Kenosha or anywhere else just for food or entertainment.

The classes feel a lot like high school, and everyone I've talked to agrees. It's only been two weeks so far, and already I am considering transferring for next year (again, many people I talk to agree). Geh and there's more I'm forgetting to mention. Maybe it will get better after a month or two, and no I haven't joined any clubs yet (plan to, we'll see how that goes). But for now I just feel like ranting, if someone had some advice on how to reach out to a "socially closed community" or creative ideas to have fun(games, pranks, bets?) with few people and next to nothing that would be great...