When I started my blog, I wanted to have a place to write about my college experience at the University of Minnesota for friends and family because I'm awful at mailing letters. It's a lot more about stuff I like than collegiate life, but I think everything I share here is framed around my experience in the Twin Cities.
My decision to come to the "U" was last minute. After I picked my classes and started talking with my roommate online, I started to realize I wouldn't be able to afford school in Boston at Emerson College. At first, I was really hesitant to give up the dream of escaping Watertown, Wis. for the east coast. I lamented that I was "burying myself further and further into the Midwest."
But I got over it the first time I saw the Minneapolis skyline on a late summer night. I have more Golden Gopher pride than ever anticipated and I don't do sporting events. I'm making my college experience what I want it to be, even though it wasn't as I had planned.
The title comes from one of my favorite songs by University of Minnesota alumnus Bob Dylan. It's fitting for me, despite the references to amphetamines, because college life is a suspended state of childhood. I feel like a woman, but I've got so much to learn and enough time before I have to start a real, adult life.
