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"After about two and a half weeks, I&amp;#039;m settled back at Rice after my brief hiatus in the Northeast. I can&amp;#039;t stress how WEIRD it was to go home after so long!  At home, I had the opportunity to see some of my old high school friends, hang out with my family, meet up with my friend Katie at NYU, and even visit the Seventeen editors at Hearst Corporation in New York City, where I met up with four of the other Freshman Fifteen girls: Sarita, Aliyyah and Esther! It was really exciting to actually meet everyone in person, since all of our correspondences have been over the phone and the Internet. I saw how different my life at home is compared to my life at school; it&amp;#039;s a lot more quiet at home. I live in Long Hall at Will Rice, which is known as one of the most social party halls on campus - it has had that tradition since the 1950s, actually. In New Jersey, I live in suburbia, not in a city. I DO tend to forget that I&amp;#039;m nestled right in the heart of Houston at Rice because the campus is so green! There was one night at home where I was sitting in a car, chatting for three hours with my high school friends Jen (at William and Mary), Chelsea (at Cornell) and Tim (he&amp;#039;s a senior at my high school). I felt this incredible sense of d\u00E9j\u00E0 vu, because that&amp;#039;s what we would ALWAYS do back when we were in high school. Yet, there we were, talking about our separate lives. It made me excited to know that my friends were all happy with their colleges (or, in Tim&amp;#039;s case, with being a big-shot senior in high school). But, it also made me sad to know that we were moving forward with our lives with new friends and separate goals.  When I got back to my house that night, I felt a lot of strange emotions. I felt like I had never left, when in actuality I had, and I had to reconcile my old memories with all these new memories from an amazing place so far from home. My friend Anna tells me that I get too dramatic sometimes - it&amp;#039;s so true! Sometimes, your friends get you more than you understand yourself. So I&amp;#039;ve decided to try not to overthink all of my feelings and just go with the flow. It&amp;#039;s better to be happy with all these exciting changes, than to feel nostalgic and weirded out by the thought of my life shifting directions. In reality, it&amp;#039;s all for the better.  On that note, I have to report that my relationship status has changed. Yes, that&amp;#039;s right, I&amp;#039;m no longer single, which will definitely take some getting used to. My high school boyfriend, Jimmy, and I have decided to try taking our relationship to the long-distance level. Seeing him during my break basically decided it for me, and after a lot of talks, I left this video on his Facebook wall, to which he responded &amp;quot;Of course I&amp;#039;ll be your boyfriend... again ;) Before I left for Houston in the summer, I didn&amp;#039;t want to try a long-distance relationship because I wanted to give myself the opportunity to meet more people and adjust at Rice. We shared a tearful goodbye, but I was fairly certain that he and I could stay friends, and that my feelings would slowly melt away. Furthermore, I was also pretty sure that I&amp;#039;d want to try playing the field. Three months later, I still feel the same way about him. Despite many opportunities to hook up with other guys, I decided not to take any of them - I figured that must mean something. The truth is that Jimmy and I had a great relationship, and I know that nothing here can replace that right now - our memories together are unparalleled. I don&amp;#039;t think I&amp;#039;ve ever been ready to throw that away in any sense. So, despite the fact that long-distance relationships aren&amp;#039;t the best situation, I finally felt willing to try one with Jimmy. Besides, now that we&amp;#039;ve both adjusted into college, this relationship can give us the unique opportunity to work on a new dynamic to our communication and affection as well as develop ourselves as people. It&amp;#039;s going to take a lot of effort, but I&amp;#039;m not gonna lie, I&amp;#039;m excited, and hopefully, this will all work out well! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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