The Plan for Tuesday

By: Paige Kleinfelder '14

Even though college is all about getting an education, learning to be on your own, and determining the course for your future, it is also about the relationships you make. There are a few things to keep in mind for friendships on campus:

First, making plans is a good thing. It ensures that homework can be done, that no one is left out, and that, most importantly, everyone isn’t scattered around campus frantically calling each other at the last minute.

At 7:50 Tuesday night, as almost everyone else found seats in Speidel gymnasium to see Ralphie May and TJ Miller at the Big Event, I was walking across campus to the cottages to watch Glee.
The original plan had changed from watching it in Towers to watching it at Cottages.

This brings up the second step of making plans and keeping friendships. When the plans change, which they inevitably will, make sure everyone knows. So, if Glee starts at 8pm, and the location changes ten minutes beforehand, text everyone who is not there yet.

Third, there isn’t much that can’t be solved by breaking into song. Now I don’t mean the kind where people in the cafeteria suddenly stand up and go into a complex dance routine with song. But a Katy Perry cover from Glee is sometimes is exactly what you need to sing skipping back across campus to smooth over the anger exuding from your friend when you forget to follow step two.

My night may not have had the laughs spawned by comedians, but there were still laughs, a few tears brought on by the episode, and a night that goes down as being one of my favorite college lessons so far.