It is SUCH a small world…

So, yesterday at the gym, yes, I do enjoy a good elliptical date, I saw a guy wearing a pair of shorts from my good friend’s high school. Now, if you go to this particular governors school in Richmond I’m sure that you would know who this guy in the gym was. I didn’t. All I knew was that I had seen a pair of those green and yellow shorts before, and they were quite distinct to a particular high school gym class. Also, knowing the nature of the school, how small it is, how everyone knows everyone, and how 20 kids from his graduating class alone came to William and Mary, it took everything in my power not to leap off my gazelle machine, that was torturing me anyway, and ask if he knew my buddy. But, I did not do so, as I thought it would be a) creepy, and b) a waste of my time on the elliptical. (NYU has this whack policy where you are only allowed to be on the equipment for 25 minutes at a time. Someone should tell them that if you are to get a good cardio workout you need 30 to 45 minutes at LEAST, but I digress.)

As I continued my arduous workout in the cramped cardio room next to the too blonde girl on my left and the sweaty boy who breathes too hard on my right, I thought to myself, “this is such a small world we live in.” Here I am in the big city of New York and right in front of me is this dude who probably knows like 20 to 25 of the same people I do! If not more! To make my life a little smaller, in my audition technique class there are three other girls from three other schools who all happen to be in the same sorority I am in. CRAZY, I know. But it doesn’t stop there. One of the girls is in the same sorority I am in at USC, a theater major there, who happens to know one of my childhood best friends! Bizarre. THEN, ANOTHER girl who is in the same sorority I am in at Bucknell happens to know a girl who is in MY sorority at WM! They went to high school together. That, ladies and gentleman, is just a sampling from two girls.

Through the course of my time here at NYU I have made other connections and found ties to a lot of other people that I probably never would have. I have made friends with a girl who interns at teen vogue and has her own jewelry line, (REALLY CUTE STUFF GIRLS, contact me for more info), and another girl who is helping to produce a one woman show for a Jewish theater festival. Not to mention that I have had a ton of fun in the process. I am so glad that my preparation at WM, from orientation to sorority rush, has been able to give me the confidence to go up and meet people without worry. The skills I have learned from the WM theater department have only been strengthened here at NYU, and as I come into my final stretch of my six week stay in the city that never sleeps, I find myself a little sad, but also a little bit ready to go home. I’ve still got three auditions to head to, and I’ve got to usher for some more shows, (class requirement), but I’ve had a whirlwind experience meeting people and gaining the connections that I know will only help me in the future. I’m not afraid to say that I have WM to thank for teaching me the importance of those connections, and for giving me the confidence in myself and my friends to make them.

SMOOCH