Here's to a fresh beginning

A new semester begins, and with it comes an entirely clean slate.

The snow is finally melted, with an impending replenishing more than likely on the way.

For some, this semester is just another restart.

For freshmen like me, it’s the first time we can give off a more convincing allusion that we have the slightest clue what we’re doing, and that we actually are old enough to attend school here.

We’ve experienced everything true freshman at IU do.

We’ve been lost in Sycamore Hall, gagged after eating Gresham fruit salad and overslept a class or two — some even accidentally.

For a select few, however, it’s the beginning of the end. The last semester at the most beautiful campus in the nation with the best inhabitants.

It’s the last chance to miss the bus because the times aren’t accurate.

The last time to see the Hoosiers win in Assembly Hall from the student section.

Looking back on my first semester and planning ahead for this one, I know no matter what I do or where I end up at the end of these 16 weeks, I will be better off because I spent the time as a Hoosier.

So cheers to second semester, whatever it may mean to you, and go Hoosiers.

­— cnmcelwa@indiana.edu
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