Ludic Dreams

It has been more than a year since I have begun my college experience. Below are Twenty experiences that have changed me forever.

20. Giving a Lapdance. To a Male. Faculty Member.

19. Revealing my name to a group of people, and then have them burst into outcry; YOU’RE ALEX JARVIS???

18. Discussing Video Games with a man who is very knowledgeable, weeks before school begins.

17. Realizing the single moment that I lost a friend.

16. Showing up for class an hour earlier than everyone else.

15. A lightsaber Battle in the middle of the night, endorsed by the New Britain Police.

14. A single blip, transmitted from Xbox to Screen, that promises the world.

13. Buying Goya beans as ammo.

12. Talking about nothing and everything until it was tommorow.

11. Camping outside of a bathroom door, very close friend inside. In case.

10. Seeing a very close friend in a very bad place; helping him get out.

9. Discussing video games with a man who knows much more than I do, and attributing this discussion to another knowledgeable man.

8. Going to a funeral for a friend I never knew as well as I could have.

7. Standing in the middle of campus, certain, very certain, that I had ended my life.

6. Screaming at the top of my lungs to the man sitting four feet away.

5. Singing in the middle of class and holding the floor for a full five minutes because of it.

4. Being green in philosophy.

3. Hearing a very little man declare affinity for star wars, and shock that I, too, knew what it was.

2. Being alone, in an unfamiliar way.

1. Having your professor, in front of Himself, students, and God, stare at you just as everyone got quiet, and ask you point blank: “What’s this I hear about a Lapdance?”

Year one, ladies and gentlemen.

Year One.

-F9