A New Lifestyle

Hey everyone,
How do I explain the first weeks of my college life, especially at Bethany? Well to sum it all up, its been a little bit of everything. It has been frustrating, exciting, busy, relaxing, and just altogether great. I say busy and relaxing because it just is. I always have stuff to do, but I just feel as if I can relax here. The environment here is as if I never left home, it just changed place and size. Everyone here is so inviting and nice, and that isn't necessarily what I am used to. I came from a very populated region of Texas, the Fort Worth area to be exact, and it just isn't very inviting until you have lived there for a while. But the fact that this place became home, and I accepted it as such, on the first day of orientation is just amazing to me. I just love it here.

But now that I have started writing I guess I can introduce myself. My name is Scott James , I am a Music Education (instrumental) major, and I am on the men's soccer team. As I have already said I come from Burleson, Texas ( about 15 minutes south of Ft. Worth) and my graduating class at Burleson High School was about 100 people short of the entire school body here at Bethany. Now I thought that having such a small amount of students would be hard for me, because I am the kind of person that loves to be around people all the time, and I always have to be the center of attention. But I have learned that I like this much more than at a big school. One thing I love about it is that when you meet people here, you actually meet them. In the big schools you "meet" someone, you don't ever really get to know them. But here people actually care about you and what you are in to and so on and so forth. And just having that feeling that people actually care is enough to get me hooked here at Bethany.

One thing I am very greatful for, still dealing with the size of the student body, is the class size. My biggest class has less than 20 people in it (not including band), and so there is a lot of one on one time with the teachers. And the teachers, also, care about how you do, so when you don't understand something in a class, they will take time out of their schedule just to help you get there.

The one thing I have had a problem with the small size though is names. Coming from a big town, I am used to meeting someone once and never seeing them again. So whenever they get to their name, I just kind of blank out. Now I know that this is extremely not good of me, but it was just how it was. But now when I meet someone, I have to actually try and remember names, because I know that in not to long of a time I am going to be talking to them again. So this isn't really a problem, because I have decided that I love knowing who someone is, but it is just a bad hadit that I am getting rid of.

For now, I love life at Bethany College. And keep up that Bethany Pride.

Go Swedes!!