It toke me just one day, the first one, in the university, to realize that things here were a lot different than school.
The first thing I learned was that learning is not so important. I mean, it’s important, and really important, but it’s not everything. The first thing I learned, was that being the best in the class wasn`t really the idea of being here.
Now, in the academic side, I think that Anthropology and Social History were the signatures that made me got up early. Both were really interesting. Obviously, Psychology was a nice one too.
About my free time, I didn’t have much. But I think that that made me appreciate more the time I had for my friends and for myself. With my friends, we just hang out. I’m not, and I think my friends neither, a disco-person. So when we’re together, we just hag out. And in the time I had for myself, I just wanted to listen some music, read the books I bought and never had time for, smoke some cigarettes, and maybe juggle for a while.
The challenges I had to face in the first semester are not of a really different nature than the challenges of now, of this semester. Sure, this semester is going to be a little tougher than the first one, in the academic side, but I think that the real challenges are the ones that have a relation with your own thoughts, with your ideas, with the things you believe. I think that the real challenges are related with the compromise you have with your own ideas.
After all, the good things and the not so good things, I really appreciate the people I’ve met at this time.
