January Reunions

After everyone gets back from break and settles in their new routines, you as a student are inundated with dinner/lunch/coffee invites (and you dole some out yourself!) to get back in touch with your buds from last semester.  Usually, you find yourself at an eating establishment on GWorld.  It's nice because the people you typically have these reunions with aren't your core group of friends--the ones you see every day, and in fact you only see them 2-3 times a semester.  But you always wish, and even avow to each other, that this semester, you'll finally see more of each other.  Sometimes it happens, but unfortunately, it usually doesn't.

Here's how it goes: you have a lunch date in the beginning of the semester, affirm to hang out soon--if you do, it's probably sooner rather than later, like within the next two weeks.  If you don't, you don't see them until almost finals, when you realize, "Oh crap, how's so-and-so doing?"  And you finally hang out again. This time it doesn't matter if the restaurant is on GWorld, because you've both already exhausted your funds!  Then repeat the reunionization in the beginning of next semester.

It's sad how this happens almost without fail every semester, and you always tell yourself you'll break out of the rut, but usually don't.  But at the same time, the catch-up dates are fun in their own right!  And not seeing each other nearly as much as you should is just more to bond on!

Email me as always!  ShireenS@gwmail.gwu.edu
~~~Shireen