keys to the ivy league

excerpt from my re-application for a scholarship:

"I have to say that my freshman year of college was a spectacular experience. As a whole, I left my comfort zone, my nest, for the first time. I learned to literally live on my own, since I had a single the entire year. I had real responsibilities for the first time in my life, and I embraced them. It felt as though I left the airport in August as a kid, and moved in to my dorm as an adult. I thrived in my new environment. Everything was novel and interesting and beautiful. I not only fell in love with my new college life, but I fell in love with the Cambridge and Boston area as well. Everything about the location fit my personality and my desires perfectly, even the freezing cold weather and the snow, both of which I loved. I don’t think I’ve ever felt more like I belonged somewhere. However, that feeling didn’t come instantly. Sure, I felt like the area had been the right decision, but the entire first month of classes, I battled with my mind on whether or not I had made the right decision. Should I have chosen MIT instead? At first it didn’t feel as if my personality fit in with those of the people surrounding me. I would tell my friends back home how awkward it felt. Yet, it didn’t take long for me to find my “family”. By about November, I had found a group of nine amazing individuals that I would spend time with every day and night. They hail from all over the globe, Ethiopia, Jordan, Boston, Palestine, Long Island, Alabama. They all have different views, different interests. Yet despite our differences, we all came together and “clicked”. By now, we’re practically inseparable. There’s never a dull moment among us, and we always seem to be having one stimulating debate or another. I’d have to say that it was these friends who made the year completely amazing. We lived together, ate together, worked together, studied together, had fun together, sharing all of our experiences, helping each other out, pushing each other to succeed. I don’t think I would have ever felt like I belonged at Harvard had it not been for them. I feel as though the bonds we developed over the year are closer than any friendship I had made over the course of my schooling in Florida. They were by far the most important part of my school year."

clichey sentiments aside, truer words have never been spoken.


i like my body when it is with your
body.  It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body.  i like what it does,
i like its hows.  i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss,  i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh… And eyes big love-crumbs,

and possibly i like the thrill

of under me you so quite new 
-e e cummings 
 
I would kiss your lips
to take in your breath and speak
What is inside you
-Chris D Lavigne