Luna

My parents don't do a lot of fun stuff anymore, but I missed having dinner with them at the table and I missed

Sitting on the couch with the cats and the dog and just watching TV with them and living like 30 seconds from my best friend.

I tried to stay as busy as I could to try to keep my mind occupied.

The thing that I figured out that worked the best was actually not talking to my parents as much because if I talked to them I wanted to literally jump through the phone.

Eventually I started to branch out a little bit more and when I started to take my classes on a regular basis and eased into the semester I made a lot of really nice friends.

I built my own little niche which made me feel a lot less isolated.

I think the easiest way that I made a lot of friends was going to the RA hosted events.

I don't do that anymore now that I have like an established friend group.

The very first one that I ever went to, it was an activity.

It was like a build a bear thing that they were doing.

And they had brought a bunch of little empty bears.

and a bunch of stuffing.

We all went to like the common area and we were stuffing these bears.

I met my present day roommate that night actually.

It was like, I want to say like the 10th or 11th day of school.

She was sitting on the couch by herself and I approached her and I was like, hey, can I sit next to you?

We immediately hit it off and we spent the rest of the night laughing.

The roommate that I got randomly paired with, we were on completely opposite schedules.

I was getting up at the crack of dawn every day, and she had a lot of evening classes, and so we would wake each other up.

We were in each other's space a lot, and I was always gone on the weekends and going home.