last night some of the first year silsers (marissa, larissa, and shauna) had a sayonara to summer/aloha autumn party. somehow i happened to be the ONLY second year there (thanks to jane), until i called patrick and told him there was copious beer that needed to get drunk.

maybe this is the nature of things. the first years are taking core classes, the second years are thinking about master’s papers; the first years are getting used to being back in school again, the second years can’t wait for classes to end. but it frustrates me that as much as we (the second years) heralded the sils happy hour, there has been ridiculously little intermingling among the incoming and the outgoing students.

granted i am something of an oddity among second years. i’ve been taking sils classes since i was a junior, making me more precisely a fourth year, and i have a decent job, so i’m not out looking. i just find it surprising how stark the division between the two groups seems, and how everyone is content to let things be, on the assumption that things (relationships old and new) will somehow settle with time.