Playing ketchup
Each Fall an army of eighteen-year-old “adults” floods USF, expecting to finally set foot in the long prophesized “real world.” They soon discover that college, and the real world, are whatever these freshmen make of them. In constructing their identities, most are required to take a basic writing course.
Creative Loafing has chosen four of those students to blog for the Daily Loaf.
These are their rants, insights, fears and hopes….
Don’t worry, I will not really talk about ketchup, even though there are a lot of great things I can say about 
ketchup. I eat ketchup with everything pretty much, but that is not what I want to say. I will explain myself with a story. I have been trying to invite one of my good friends to come over to my apartment to spent the night and have a some fun, but every single time she has some excuse, like a project, essay, she’d tired, so on and so forth. As I talked to her yesterday, she started explaining that she feels like she is playing catch up all the time, there is always something due the next morning that requires immediate attention.
Her accent really made it sound like she was saying “ketchup” and not “catch up”, so we has a good laugh, and a whole discussion on ketchup and food. But on more serious note, isn’t it the way so many people especially college students feel? … Read the rest of this entry »
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