Well, then, what have I done? What have I really accomplished, my first
year here?
I've abandoned my friends.
I've run away from my Architecture, my passion and my life's dream. I can
only look at the architects with envy, now.
I've lost my will to run. Exercise? I walk to class, I jog around
occasionally. Some athlete I am.
So, I guess I've lost my motivation. I don't want to do anything,
anymore. I don't even feel like PGP-signing my email anymore; forget
writing a letter, with an actual pen, paper, no backspace key.
I look back at what I was: Busy, active, self-confident, and satisfied
with being single. I remember a typical scene, from the first month I
was here: I'd gone to Kimmel food court for a studio break, with some
friends, and a girl from a higher year. Over ice cream, she told us that
only ten percent of architecture graduates get jobs as designers. I
grinned all the way back to Slocum, because I knew I was better than
ninety percent of my class.
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