anecdote

This past weekend I took my first road trip to MSU since high school for my friend's birthday. When I visited State in the fall of 2005, it was for a giant journalism workshop that is held there every year.

The context of my visit this time was to spend a night hanging out with Pete, a friend I met my freshman year at Aquinas. He just began taking classes this fall at MSU and lives in a house somewhere in East Lansing. I say somewhere because, in relation to the main campus, or anything else for that matter.

In general, though my visit short-- less than 24 hours-- I was completely over-whelemed by the size of the town. MSU isn't just a college, it is a town. I only experienced one gas station, a house on Virginia(Vagina), Pete's house that was 7 minutes away driving according to mapquest, one frat house that had possibly THE most disgusting bathroom I have ever seen, one Denny's where they were not allowed to sell any lettuce because of a recent e.coli outbreak, and one gas station before coming home.

A school with 45000 students or however many they have there is bound to be different, true. I encountered many different people and none of them seemed all that exciting. Maybe if I went there and fished around I would find a few that I actually liked as people and more than just those friends you party with on weekend. Speaking of partying, it seems every weekend at MSU is like our annual Stomp, which is fast approaching. I don't know how anyone could function drinking that much weekend after weekend. Once a year is fine with me.

That's all.