Who can resist campus in the fall? Not I.
-AS
Campus in August
- Originally posted on a 6s community, August 19, 2010 at 9:58am
Sunlight dapples the carpet of grass, lined as it is with color bursts of ornamental foliage. Energy is palpable, erupting through every pore as first-semester youth and the fire-baptized unite along lines of commonality, especially if the only thing in common is the desire to be different – different from the majority, different from their past, different than the expectations of others.
The new ones can not yet comprehend the distance between old life and new, but given time to spread their docile or rowdy wings, these will venture into yet-imagined circles of influence. Will their old lives recognize them after three-and-one-half brief months? Baptism by fire can change the exterior almost as much as the interior, though the one aflame may not realize the change right away.
So, frolic on, ye sun rays of late summer, and set ablaze the tender youth who, in the midst of so much change, need you to carry on.