My First Year at Rowan University
I not only lived here, but nearly all of my friends lived here. It was here that we would get together, whether to spend all day working on our final papers at the end of the semester, or to stay up all night talking, or to spend all afternoon at our favorite gazebo to spend time in the sun. It was here that my friends and I would meet at the Rec Center, where we worked out and took fitness classes, and it was here that we spent our weekend nights in the Chamberlain Student Center, at one of the several events tailored for us on Rowan’s campus.
Finally, as I now look back at my year at Rowan, I find that I did sit in fields of green, with friends tanning as I played my guitar and we sang in unison, I find that we did blast music on portable speakers and play soccer, frisbee, and ride skateboards, I find that our voices did resonate throughout the student center as we ate in either Prof’s Place or the Marketplace, and I find that I did stand in Magnolia courtyard midday, under the blossoming trees, waiting for my friends to come out and greet me before we began our day; just like I had always imagined following that first campus tour.
I cannot speak entirely on behalf of students of Rowan-past, but this much I know; Rowan University is my home-away-from-home, the place where my adult life began, the place where I learn, both in-class and outside of class, and the place that is going to continue to house my future, as my experience continues and my meaning of Rowan University grows.
