~Ty-Co

So, I am finally on campus. The first day was little rough, but all in all it was great and I feel ready now more than ever. Where to begin...well, my dorm room is on the 6th floor (ugh!), so even with the elevator, I still had to travel back and forth up and down stairs with one of those hand pulley things (I don't know what they are called). The first trick was getting everything out of the car. And I realize now I had alot of stuff. If you can fill the backseats of a Yukon Denali, you've got alot of stuff

Ok, back to the move-in. I got everything upstairs and was halfway through figuring out what goes where when my roommate arrived. His name is Victor, he seemed pretty cool. Oh, and for the record, my dorm room is the largest all-male dorm room on the East Coast. I think there just a little over 1,000 people living in the dorm, so I've got alot of people to meet. I got everything set up, though it took alot longer than I expected it would. My mom had planned to head back home at 2pm....she didn't leave until 9. So yeah, the leave was emotional. I know my little brother (6 years old) cried in the car as they drove off. My mother may have cried, if she did I didn't see it.

After they left, I meet up with two of my old friends from a previous high school I went to in Virginia. It was cool to catch up with them, at least I know somebody at this big school. Though I'm sure I'll know a bunch of people by the end of next week. Classes doesn't start until Monday, so I guess I will be exploring the campus until then. I have a few things on my agenda to accomplish, so I won't be completely wasting time.

The only thing I feel now is alone. This is the first time in my entire life that I will be living somewhere without my mother and it feels so weird. I know I've said in the past that I couldn't wait to leave, but what teenager doesn't? The worse part about it all is that I feel like I've let her down, by not being the student (and son for that matter) that I could've been. Now the stakes are higher and the chips are against me, so I've got to work 10x harder than I have before. I want to be somebody, I only wish that this feeling hadn't hit me until the last possible moment, I could've made something of myself.

So, this freshman year at Virginia Tech, I've got God, my Mom, and my brain on my side. Sometimes, I think that's all I need.

Goodnight.