Lacrosse playing engineer

So when I left your guys last time I had told you my life story. To be honest, I’m not too sure why I wrote all that stuff, it’s not like I need you guys to know everything about me and feel sorry for me. I really don’t want that. I’m not the best at making a good impression on people. I asked one of my teachers to write a recommendation letter for me once and I decided that I wanted to read it and she had said that she thought I was really stuck up when she first met me. I was so mad that a teacher would put that in a recommendation letter! But really, that’s not me. I don’t try to be stuck up, I want to be peoples’ friends, but I’m really shy when it comes to meeting new people. Once I meet people and I feel comfortable around them that’s when I start being myself and I get out of my shell.

So I think I’ll continue my story with the day I found out I was going to Virginia Tech to be an engineer. So since I lived in Blacksburg before I went to Tech our school had a special day where only people from Montgomery County could apply to Tech for early decision; they called it on-site early decision. I was so sure that I wanted to go to Tech that I didn’t apply to any other schools. I didn’t know what I was going to do if I didn’t get in. So on decision day, they brought in a bunch of people from Tech that went through all of our schools applicants and picked only the finest of students. We would find out if we got in by the end of the day. But my boyfriend, that many of you know about already was doing co-op so he got to leave school early. So we both went to the guidance department to see if he could get his letter before he left to go to work. Since I was there with him, our guidance counselor got both of our letters and he told us that we both got into engineering at Tech. It was one of the happiest moments of my life. Not only did we find out that we got into one of the top engineering schools, but we found out before everyone else! So for the rest of the day I had to pretend I didn’t know that I got in because it would be unfair and people would complain if they found out that we got to know early. So all during lunch I was “freaking out” but I really wasn’t. I was so happy in the back of my mind.
Now that everyone knows everything about me I don’t know what else to talk about. I’m not very interested in sports, only Tech football. I did go to the Marshall game and we beat their asses, excuse my French. Maybe people are interested in why I didn’t want to move away to a different school. Well here’s the thing: I haven’t lived here my whole life so it’s not like I’m staying in the same place. Also, living in Blacksburg as a high school student is way different than living in Blacksburg as a college student. I just want to say that Virginia Tech is its own town; it is just surrounded by another town. And I love Blacksburg. It is the greatest place on Earth just because everything downtown is so close and there is so much variety.

So something that wasn’t mentioned in my profile that I think needed to be said was that I used to play lacrosse. I had been playing since 6^th grade until my senior year in high school. We didn’t have a high school team but I played on a club team when I moved down to Blacksburg. Lacrosse was a northern thing, and it didn’t come down to the south until maybe four or five years ago. So while I was on that team I would say that I became one of the key players of the team just because I had the most experience. During my junior year, I have a record of seven goals during one game. And during my senior year my record jumped to nine. Though we never won any games I had a blast playing on that team. Everyone was there to have a good time, and that’s what I like most about sports is meeting new people that share the same interests. I hope to go back this year to go coach for them, but I’m not sure how much time I will have. I would love to help them out; one of my teammates that will be on the team next year said that I come back then they may actually win some games. I laughed because it’s true; our coaches from the past have never been that good. Last year we had a mom as a coach because no one else wanted to do it. It was one of the worst seasons for the team. Also, she hated me for some reason, so I never became captain; not even co-captain. That made me so furious. Everyone agreed to have me as captain, but the coach decided to over-rule and made someone that didn’t want to play be captain. I just didn’t understand what I did wrong. Now, I was the goof-off of the team just because I was trying to make everyone happy and make them want to come to practice. This may have had an impact on the coaches thought of me, but what I was doing wasn’t bad. I wasn’t wasting time or distracting. I was just simply trying to have a good time.

Well its bed time, and I have almost gone over my minimum of 1000 words so I better stop before I go over.

Until next time,

Melissa