There is something really interesting about University of Maryland, and maybe ever really big school. There are lots of different people here. Rich, poor, middle class, preppy, goth, gay, straight, or somewhere in between, black, white, Chinese, Korean, Nicaraguan, Eritrean (holla), and many many more. Yet the more diverse and populated the school is, the more people tend to group themselves. I am definitely not saying that people don’t have diverse friends, or that gay guys don’t have straight friends. That isn’t true. Rather, it seems like there are invisible lines set up everywhere we turn. The way everyone notices the black girl and white guy holding hands, but tries to act like they don’t see. The contempt is still there. I saw a guy in a skirt the other day walking around. That guy had some serious balls. I could never assert myself like that in this school. Yeah, there are lots of really different people here, but they never cross those understood, acceptable boundaries. The boundaries that separates being who you are and imposing it on other students. That guy got so many turn-your-head all-the-way-around stares and horrible laughs I thought he would just crawl under a tree and try to disappear. Forget openly gay couples. I could not imagine two guys holding hands on the way to class, or kissing outside. That would be going over a boundary. Yeah, racism and homophobia exist everywhere in society, and many large universities try to address this issues through forums and clubs. Maybe these boundaries will be broken down with time. Maybe I am just too politically correct, or don’t know what I am talking about. But as an institution of higher learning, when I hear people say the n word behind closed doors, or say that’s so gay, I am disappointed.
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Never mind the Judy Bloom reference. This is my first ever blog! I do not have any experience with blogging or reading blogs. Never really thought that I could get into the mysterious sphere of “blogging”. For years the word was elusive. What motivated me to take the risk, push past my super self-conscious barrier? I had to. I have always loved writing. I knew that writing would be a lifelong passion of mine when in the third grade I wrote a story about an alien that befriended a girl after it ate her pencil. Pencil Zapper Wapper Napper Doo. I was very creative. Anyways, my current life ambition is to be a doctor. I am studying my ass of at Univ. of MD, College Park as a neurology and physiology major, English Minor. My ambition is to me a doctor, but my other ambition is to write as often and in anyway I can. Write anything, even crap. One day, after I’m a doctor (if I can get straight As for the rest of college), I want to write a book. Until then, I find my salvation in this blog. I am really excited…
