In about three weeks I will be driving down 11 hours to move in to DePauw University for the year. I couldn’t be more excited. I’m excited for the freedom, the new people, and to be a tiger on the DePauw swim team. I have grown bored with my everyday rituals, and besides my core group of friends, I’m ready for a new crop of people. I love making new friends, and getting to know 2400 other students sounds like a blast.

I move in a day early for this program I applied, interviewed, and got into this summer called the Management Fellows which is cool because there’s not as many people clogging up hallways on move in but being in this program is beneficial for other reasons. This program is like a business fast-track. They guarantee that we have at least one semester long internship with companies like Goldman and Sachs, Cummins, Target, etc. Additionally they help us learn all the crucial skills a business person must have to be successful, from cover letters to interviews to networking, I’ll be working on it all. We even get major business people to come in and talk to this small group in the program where we can even go out to lunch with these speakers and network with them. Hopefully, by the end of college I’ll have my own strong network, because if there’s one thing I’ve picked up on life is that networking is absolutely key to success almost above all other skills.

Even though some of my readers seem hesitant about me joining a frat there still seems to be a fairly good chance that I’ll end up in one. Keep in mind that 60% of the school is greek affiliated. We don’t rush till Winter so I’ll still be able to get that independent feel as well so I can really feel out for what is best for me. Still, my greek fate is still off in the future and I’m not worrying too much about that.

Another thing I’m of course excited about is the chance to meet new guys. The past few months I’ve had flings and such that were a lot of fun but everyone has to go back to the real world in the Fall. I’m not really sure about what I want other than that. Many people tell me to not get in relationships the first year or two of college and just to feel everything out, but some little personal discovery I’ve come to find is I’m a relationship oriented person. I’d rather spend my time with one guy, not seven. Once again I’ll use my best judgement and go with the flow and do what feels best for me.

As for being gay and back in the closet for the time being I’m not too excited to hide a little bit of me. However I think if my roommates, teammates, and friends got to know me as Andrew first then it’ll be easier to let them know that Andrew also happens to like dudes, which I believe is better than starting off as gay-Andrew.

As for the future of this blog I’m not entirely sure about what will happen. I haven’t been very faithful to this blog because I’ve been incredibly busy this summer and I don’t think that I will get any less busy at college but we will see. Anyway, I hope you all are well!

Follow my twitter, I actually post on that one!!

@Itgetswetter