So good! So good! So good! So good!

For some reason, I have been talking a lot about Ohio lately.  I love Ohio.  I love Cincinnati, where I grew up.  I hope, deep down, that some day I will end up back there – if not right away.

When I first came to Holy Cross, being from Ohio made me a novelty.  Everyone I met was from New England – I was an outsider, and I had a little bit of culture shock and a lot to learn.  When I first started this blog, I did so to share my perspective as an “outsider”.  But now, four years later, things have changed.  I don’t talk about my Ohio-ness so often anymore.  I don’t feel like a tourist or an outsider.  Holy Cross is my home – along with Worcester, along with Massachusetts, along with New England.

This past weekend we had Senior Ball.  It’s essentially prom for college students – we get all dressed up, we go to the DCU Center in town, we eat a fancy dinner, and we dance all night.  It was awesome.  About three-quarters of the way through the night, I had this moment of clarity.  The DJ started playing “Sweet Caroline” and every single person in the room screamed the “bum bum bums” and fist-pumped along with the “so goods”.  I realized, quite suddenly, that this whole ritual (that is so very Boston) was foreign to me and to a lot of my classmates four years ago.  But now, now it is second nature.  It’s a part of who we are.  And there we were all together, singing and dancing and feeling at home as one senior class – at one Holy Cross.  I may be from Ohio, but from now on I will always have a little Massachusetts in me, as will every one of my classmates.  Good times never seemed so good (so good, so good, so good!).

Things I dig about Holy Cross #8,000,005:  It feels like home.

Happy Senior Ball!

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