Connections

So I’m reading this intimidating book about grad school, and it’s talking about the importance of making connections with your professors in order to get recommendations (something I definitely haven’t been doing) and I was struck by the real missed connections in my college life. There are so many people in my classes, and there are a good handful of them who I know are interesting. There are a bunch more that I know look interesting. And how many have I talked to, how many have I gotten to know? A handful – I’ve barely scratched the surface. The problem with college is there isn’t a shared history to fall back on; it’s a lot harder to initiate relationships. And you’ve a lot less time to do it in. Probably I’m not the only one to feel this way, but the difficulty with being in a mutually unsocial situation is that nothing changes until someone makes the first move. Quite honestly, it probably won’t be me.

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Life is opportunity, mostly missed.