Today is the first day of classes for my alma mater, Central Michigan University. I had a great four years there, and I have no regrets. I miss the wonderful people I met and I won't forget the great experiences I had there.
But I want to post a little nostalgia about the firsts for my that happened while I was there.
At Central I had my first apartment, that is now a parking lot instead. Here, Adam gave me my claddaugh ring, as a promise ring. I had my second apartment on campus too, and this apartment is where my wonderful boyfriend of 3 1/2 years proposed to me.
This building is also now a parking lot. If you drive down Washington, through the center of campus, past the EHS building, the parking lot between EHS and Washington is where the two buildings I first lived in on my own used to stand.
While at Central I met two of my best friends, Courtney and Nicole.
Both of whom were bridesmaids in our wedding. Melissa (one of my BFFs from my childhood) joined us when she came to CMU for grad school and Nicole introduced us to Lee.
We used to have weekly breakfast gatherings where I would cook breakfast and we'd all hangout and eat and have a great time with friends. This was a change from our weekly dinners we had the previous semester.
One of the biggest firsts while I was in Mount Pleasant:
We moved in together the summer after we got engaged/summer before we got married.
And this summer we had to say good bye to it, two years after we moved in.
But today, I hope that even though the faculty is on strike, that every student's college experience at Central is as amazing as mine was and they have a lot of phenomenal firsts. And I want to thank the Faculty for my experience. Though I didn't graduate with an ATEP degree, I learned loads from the ATEP faculty. And the Theatre, Interpretation and Dance faculty made my experience with the theatre program one of the best times in my life. I learned so much in class, working shows (whether I was crewing or in them), and about myself. I loved every minute of my theatre major. The friends I made, the people I met, thank you for my great experience at Central.
Fire Up Chips!
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Thanks to Katie, Tim, Nicole, Lee and Titus Photography for some of the photos in this post, the rest are taken by me.
Andrew, chillin' in the ATEP lab
The cast and crew of Dead Man's Cell Phone
Some of the class of Irish Theatre History 2011 in Ireland, the night we did Caley Dancing
But I want to post a little nostalgia about the firsts for my that happened while I was there.
At Central I had my first apartment, that is now a parking lot instead. Here, Adam gave me my claddaugh ring, as a promise ring. I had my second apartment on campus too, and this apartment is where my wonderful boyfriend of 3 1/2 years proposed to me.
This building is also now a parking lot. If you drive down Washington, through the center of campus, past the EHS building, the parking lot between EHS and Washington is where the two buildings I first lived in on my own used to stand.
While at Central I met two of my best friends, Courtney and Nicole.
Both of whom were bridesmaids in our wedding. Melissa (one of my BFFs from my childhood) joined us when she came to CMU for grad school and Nicole introduced us to Lee.
Melissa (MOH1) and I on Adam's and my wedding day
L-R: Nicole, Courtney (holding Bauer), Me (please excuse my crazy eyes, I was trying not to blink) and Lee. Our last Christmas with all of us in Michigan.
One of the biggest firsts while I was in Mount Pleasant:
Adam and I moved in together.
We moved in together the summer after we got engaged/summer before we got married.
And this summer we had to say good bye to it, two years after we moved in.
Our tiny kitchen
It was remodeled about two months before we moved.
Looooong hallway that looked so nice when I decorated for Christmas. I had a lot of fun with different things in this hallway.
The office
The office continued
We had so much closet space in this place.
First bathroom
connected by the shower/tub to
the bathroom that connected to our bedroom
See? Seriously tons of closet space!
The room seems so much smaller without our stuff in it.
It was out this window that there was a great field where we played frisbee a lot.
Then we head back down the hall to our living room/dining room.
This apartment complex wasn't the best, but it was our first, together. We came home to this apartment after our wedding, it was the first address we had on our drivers licenses that wasn't our parents' addresses. We came home from our honeymoon to this apartment, and from our first wedding anniversary celebration.
So much happened here, it was hard to leave. It felt like home.
Sorry for the quality, light was bad and I was trying not to cry until after the picture.
But today, I hope that even though the faculty is on strike, that every student's college experience at Central is as amazing as mine was and they have a lot of phenomenal firsts. And I want to thank the Faculty for my experience. Though I didn't graduate with an ATEP degree, I learned loads from the ATEP faculty. And the Theatre, Interpretation and Dance faculty made my experience with the theatre program one of the best times in my life. I learned so much in class, working shows (whether I was crewing or in them), and about myself. I loved every minute of my theatre major. The friends I made, the people I met, thank you for my great experience at Central.
Fire Up Chips!
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Thanks to Katie, Tim, Nicole, Lee and Titus Photography for some of the photos in this post, the rest are taken by me.
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