Well, 2009 has drawn to a close. Amidst a lot of chatter with friends about resolutions and reflections, I have found that it's hard for me to comprehend how my life has changed since the beginning of 2009. This year feels long in hindsight... Last January, I was still dealing with college admissions! I think I had all my applications in, but I was getting acceptance letters, filling out scholarship applications, and stressing about where I was going to choose to go to school. That seems so long ago, in many ways. 2009 felt like it was a big deal because it brought the start of college. I've been thinking lately about what that has meant for me. In some ways, college has changed my life a lot. I already feel like I'm thinking about certain subjects differently due to my classes. I feel settled into CU, a part of the whole *collegiate* system. I feel ready to tackle a second semester. Along these lines, though, I admit, January 2009 is going to look a lot like January 2010. I'm still in Boulder. I'll be heading back to classes after a nice relaxing winter break, simultaneously dreading and welcoming the change of pace and reintroduction of a schedule, just as I do every year.
On top of all these similarities and differences, there's the fact that THIS New Year's is a big deal. The end of a decade - only the second decade change I've lived through - is worth noticing. On Twitter, a site I use a lot, people have been making comments with the tag "10 years ago," explaining where they remember being in their lives at the beginning of this millennium. I don't remember very much that specifically. I would have been 8 years old, in fourth grade (if I did my math right), and attempting to understand the whole "Y2K" thing. College was a distant thing - something I knew I'd get to in my life, but never spent any time thinking about. It's funny to think about the passage of so much time. After all, the hours and days slip by easily when we're not looking, but then we hit a landmark like 2010 and notice just how far we've come from the last time we stopped and reflected. I have some new plans for this blog for my second semester that I'll be describing soon, but for now, I wish you a very Happy New Year.
Cheers :)
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