It was in total passing and actually caught me by surprise, as words of wisdom often do. I was talking with a Freshmen at Pippin, probably a week ago (can never much tell time anymore : P). I had never met him before, but in an effort to be friendly and welcome him to this new found wonderland of UCI, I struck up a conversation with him. Asking how his classes are, how he likes the dorms, you know the normal stuff. Of course, he asks me how I like my dorm and I'm forced into telling him that I'm a 4th year. This of course produces shock, not only from him, but from the three people sitting around us that were ease-dropping on our convo.
I think what I love about Freshmen the most is their sense of awe in the moment of discovery, everything is new, holding almost a mystical quality. Meeting a 4th year for the first time, was like a Unicorn had jumped into the room and started break dancing sending out rainbows of awesome. So they pounced, like Lions out for knowledge, they started asking me all sorts of questions about UCI and my time here as student. I couldn't have been any happier to answer all their questions (I'm a sucker for answering questions with common knowledge, but passing it off as utter wisdom), and when they had no more questions about how the school worked, how their major would turn out, or how and why an Anteater was our mascot, they asked me to share how my experience of college went. Well that's probably a topic of another blog post, and by probably I mean definitely a topic of another blog post.
