The Rollercoaster of My First Semester

            She gathered up all 14 clubs and all of the ammo and gets ready for the long journey ahead of her called golf. Golf is a lot like my first semester in college. There has been ups and downs (mostly downs). On the first couple of holes, everything goes smoothly and if you do mess up, you still think that you can make up for it. For the first few days of college, everything seems fine. It is all smooth sailing for a while. You have have just moved out of the house and you don’t have your mom to make you do homework.

After the first holes are finished and the shock that you are on your own is complete, you start to get into the hard holes and into the middle of your round. This is when all of the tests start. This is when the sea starts to get rough and the sea starts to knock the boat off course and also the GPA, but don’t worry because there is still a lot of time to get back on course.

Around hole seven, you can almost see the half way point. You are starting to think about the end of the semester but you don’t want to get too excited because you still have a long time until the end. So you have to keep on working and to keep staying on track. Hole eight, you think that you are right on track and that you are keeping up with your work when pledge week comes around. Pledge week is kind of like the underworld, because everyone is sleep deprived and everyone is pretty much dead. Hole nine is always a turning point. It is the half way point and is all the downhill from this point. Most people would celebrate for being halfway finished but sadly they didn’t throw us a party or celebrate with us. Instead, they gave us tests to make sure that we did learned something and to give us a test just for the heck of it.

Around hole ten, everything is downhill from here and this could become something bad. You could start the avalanche of being behind on chemistry lab work and it just keeps building on each other. After these few holes you can start to see the end of the round and I can start to see the end of the semester. You start to think of Christmas break and think that you have finally figured out what going on and how everything is going until your biology professor turns everything upside down. Juno oh I mean my biology professor just doesn’t want to see you succeed. You also find out that your major that you decided that you wanted to study for the next four years is not really what you want to do.

Then on hole 14, You start to go through the week and go with the flow. You start to just go through the days and not really remember what happened and know what you are supposed to be doing. After this, they decide to let you go home for Thanksgiving and give you a break. You go home and think that everything is great and that you will not have to think about college, but it seems to be the main topic for everyone. When we come back to campus, we will all be excited to see each other and not so excited to be back for school. Holes sixteen and seventeen are a breeze and all you are doing is studying for finals.

This is when trick hole number eighteen comes into play. Eighteen is always a tricky hole and always causes trouble, but everything is better after this. On eighteen, you are faced with problems that you haven’t seen since the first week of school and things that you didn’t think you could have to remember. You can then watch your golf cart turn into a nymph and then ride off into the sunset and go home for a month and then start your journey over in another month.