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If I'm remembering how I felt not-so-long-ago correctly, you must feel the following:
- Excited about life on your own
- Nervous about life on your own
- Excited about meeting up with new friends
- Nervous about making new friends
- Excited about taking classes
- Not excited about taking classes
All of those, all together, swirling around in your Green-and-Gold thinktanks until you're ready to explode.
Let's face it: college is going to be the best time of your life.
I decided the best way to prepare you for your first days on campus (whether you've already moved in or will do so very soon) is to write you a letter using lyrics from the songs that I would like you to listen to.
I hope you enjoy - this is one of many "Lyrical Letters" that I will be writing you, should you choose to listen to the tracks and enjoy them wholeheartedly. :)
(Click here to start your playlist, or click the song titles below.)
Ready? Let's go.
- Excited about life on your own
- Nervous about life on your own
- Excited about meeting up with new friends
- Nervous about making new friends
- Excited about taking classes
- Not excited about taking classes
All of those, all together, swirling around in your Green-and-Gold thinktanks until you're ready to explode.
Let's face it: college is going to be the best time of your life.
I decided the best way to prepare you for your first days on campus (whether you've already moved in or will do so very soon) is to write you a letter using lyrics from the songs that I would like you to listen to.
I hope you enjoy - this is one of many "Lyrical Letters" that I will be writing you, should you choose to listen to the tracks and enjoy them wholeheartedly. :)
(Click here to start your playlist, or click the song titles below.)
Ready? Let's go.
"We were born ready, ready to be free
Chasin' every thrill we could see
With our eyes steady, waking to the dream
Aching to be thrown in the ring"
Chasin' every thrill we could see
With our eyes steady, waking to the dream
Aching to be thrown in the ring"
1. KREWELLA - "ENJOY THE RIDE"
You are ready for this. Despite the nerves, you chose to be here because you are ready to be challenged. To experience the thrill of something different and new. And to be free.
Welcome to the greatest time of your life, because you get to discover who you are. Keep your eyes steady, and awake to the dream. It's your time to shine.
Welcome to the greatest time of your life, because you get to discover who you are. Keep your eyes steady, and awake to the dream. It's your time to shine.
"I owned every second
That this world could give
I saw so many places
The things that I did
Yeah, with every broken bone
I swear I lived"
That this world could give
I saw so many places
The things that I did
Yeah, with every broken bone
I swear I lived"
2. ONEREPUBLIC - "I LIVED"
You will only get one chance to live life in college. Don't waste it. Don't be the graduating senior who looks back and wonders what life could have been like if he had reached out.
It means owning every second. Don't let moments go to waste. Take pride in becoming comfortable outside of your comfort zone. Relish in the pain of a broken bone or two. Because then you'll know that you truly lived.
It means owning every second. Don't let moments go to waste. Take pride in becoming comfortable outside of your comfort zone. Relish in the pain of a broken bone or two. Because then you'll know that you truly lived.
"Settle down, it'll all be clear
Don't pay no mind to the demons
They fill you with fear
The trouble—it might drag you down
If you get lost, you can always be found
Just know you're not alone
'Cause I'm gonna make this place your home"
Don't pay no mind to the demons
They fill you with fear
The trouble—it might drag you down
If you get lost, you can always be found
Just know you're not alone
'Cause I'm gonna make this place your home"
3. PHILLIP PHILLIPS - "HOME"
Fear stands between you and the life-changing experiences that will form you into the man or woman capable of changing the world.
Nervousness is totally fine, and extremely normal. Fear is not. Fear tells you that you won't make friends. That you can't keep up your GPA. That you won't be successful because you don't have a plan for your life.
Settle down - pay no mind to the demons who will lie to you. Instead, focus on the incredible gift you have that is a college education. And better than that - one at Baylor University, a place that (I swear) will always fight to make itself your home.
And what if you still feel fear, after Move-In while you look into an uncertain future? Then there's at least one person you can talk to. I promise.
512-705-7989.
'Cause I'm gonna make this place your home.
Nervousness is totally fine, and extremely normal. Fear is not. Fear tells you that you won't make friends. That you can't keep up your GPA. That you won't be successful because you don't have a plan for your life.
Settle down - pay no mind to the demons who will lie to you. Instead, focus on the incredible gift you have that is a college education. And better than that - one at Baylor University, a place that (I swear) will always fight to make itself your home.
And what if you still feel fear, after Move-In while you look into an uncertain future? Then there's at least one person you can talk to. I promise.
512-705-7989.
'Cause I'm gonna make this place your home.
Nathan Elequin is a 2016 graduate from the Baylor Business Fellows, Interdisciplinary Core (BIC), and Honors Program. During his four years at Baylor, he sought to encourage and inspire students to take the leap of faith, discovering new friends and adventures during their life-changing experience at Baylor University. Now he is studying Instructional Design and Development at Syracuse University (MS '18) with the hopes of developing software for classroom learning.
I hope this brings you encouragement and prepares you for some of the best years of your life. Whether you are a student at Baylor or anywhere else, I would encourage you to share this poem with them to give them some fire as they begin their journeys.
I am excited for all of you. Sic 'em.
I hope this brings you encouragement and prepares you for some of the best years of your life. Whether you are a student at Baylor or anywhere else, I would encourage you to share this poem with them to give them some fire as they begin their journeys.
I am excited for all of you. Sic 'em.
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