2008 Woodie Awards
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Long Distance Relationships
Morgan Nederhood
Issue date: 9/28/06 Section: Features
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During my second weekend as a college freshman, I ventured downstairs at 2 a.m. in order to do my laundry. While waiting in the lounge for my laundry to finish, I asked a couple of guys why they were in the basement lounge at such a ridiculous hour. One of them sighed and explained that his roommate had brought a girl back to his dorm. I laughed at his situation and asked where the roommate's girlfriend went to college. The sexiled roommate told me that she was a freshman at a college in the south-west. Obviously the couple had some sort of dependency issue if the girlfriend found it necessary to fly over two-thousand miles during the second weekend of college (especially for only one weekend.) After voicing my thoughts, the roommate rolled his eyes and his friend told me, "Oh, she's still at college - that's not his girlfriend in there."
College is traditionally regarded as a time of change, where you can abandon one life in favor of a fresh start. However, this collegiate ideal is the stick in the spokes of many relationships as people head off to college in the effort of starting over. Obviously, the issue is most obvious in freshman as many stereotypical high school relationships are put to the test: throw in you hat or give long-distance relationships a try?
For the most part, freshman year is a circus of hook-ups and the constant "oogling of goodies" (pardon my bizarre slang) as a wealth of single men and women flood the campus. With the exception of my morning classes, I try to look somewhat presentable for class because I never who I might want to impress. Yet, what about those few who have already impressed someone?
When I asked my friend, Katie, about her relationship with her boyfriend who attends a community college in Schenectady, New York, she explained the benefits of her situation. In regards to the typical hunt for a prospective boyfriend or girlfriend, Katie has already found a match in her boyfriend of almost three years. While she admitted that it was difficult to not see him everyday as she did in the past, Katie also said "I don't have to go chasing boys like girls here seem to, and I know I have someone to go home to."
College is traditionally regarded as a time of change, where you can abandon one life in favor of a fresh start. However, this collegiate ideal is the stick in the spokes of many relationships as people head off to college in the effort of starting over. Obviously, the issue is most obvious in freshman as many stereotypical high school relationships are put to the test: throw in you hat or give long-distance relationships a try?
For the most part, freshman year is a circus of hook-ups and the constant "oogling of goodies" (pardon my bizarre slang) as a wealth of single men and women flood the campus. With the exception of my morning classes, I try to look somewhat presentable for class because I never who I might want to impress. Yet, what about those few who have already impressed someone?
When I asked my friend, Katie, about her relationship with her boyfriend who attends a community college in Schenectady, New York, she explained the benefits of her situation. In regards to the typical hunt for a prospective boyfriend or girlfriend, Katie has already found a match in her boyfriend of almost three years. While she admitted that it was difficult to not see him everyday as she did in the past, Katie also said "I don't have to go chasing boys like girls here seem to, and I know I have someone to go home to."
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