College: The Beginning

I began as a freshman in fall 2009 at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

My roommate’s name was Jaime. She was from Colorado, we had never met until move-in day. As soon as our parents left the room we closed the door and broke the ice. LESBIAN SEX! Kidding. Our first questions to each other were whether the other partied or not, it turned out we both smoked weed and loved to party and drink. It was a perfect match. She had brought her glow posters, and I brought my black lights. Her older brother dealt medical. On the first day, I already had a friend and a dealer, perfect. 

First night at college. Jaime went with her brother to Target, they were gone for a long time and there was a welcome carnival that I wasn’t going to miss. I called my best friend Jordan for support. He told me to go and just walk up and meet people. Easier said then done, but I went. While weaving in and out of the crowds I ran into people I met at orientation. Jaime met up with our group as we were heading to a dorm to sit and chill. On our way we ran into upper classmen shouting “All freshmen follow us to a party!” Our response? Ah hell yeah. We walked for many blocks, picking up people as we went, and were soon wondering where the fuck is this guy taking us? We ended up at the upperclassman’s house party. Problem: byob and no keg. We were not impressed. Jaime called her bro to pick us up and take us to a real party. We rolled up to a big house, the party was your standard low key house party, smoking, drinking, dj. The dj was sick his name was Jimmy and he spun old school turntables and at the end of the night he asked for my number. We left around 3. An impressive first night to start off what was going to be a completely insane year. 

The next day my mom and I were driving on campus when the car infront of us stopped. Out jumped the upperclassman that had herded us to his party. He ran over to a pine tree in front of the health suite, pulled a bike out from under its branches, did a celebratory fist pump , and then loaded the bike into the car. Funniest part was that he had a bright blue cast on his arm, which he definitely didn’t have the night before. I guess we both had a pretty great first night.