O.F.

Owen Fainter

“What mainly feels different from freshman year is just the familiarity of it. We had a year online, but you know a lot more people now, you’re familiar with teachers, their policies and overall how things run. So it’s just a lot more comfortable. What ways I’ve grown are, maturity, obviously, and not thinking so black and white. I think just overall, being more aware of what’s going on around me and trying to be more open-minded. I like to think there’s like a balance towards everything. I don’t like to think that you know, a situation can be approached by only two different ways. I don’t like to think that there’s always a right and wrong. I’m always just trying to have a little more thought and not just attach myself to just one particular instance. I really enjoyed forum day this year. It was a lot of fun. A lot of cool people in the forum, and we did a lot of fun things. We played capture the flag, we told camp stories, just talking to each other around the campfire. Our forum has kind of had its own separate cliques and never really intermingled with each other. On that night, those barriers came down and I got to interact with people I never really got to previously, and it was really cool. I think I probably regret not taking advantage of the CR program a little more. This is really the only year I’ve actually started to take them. I definitely wish I did that a little sooner.”