Monday, Monday, Monday

So I just did my daily workout at the local gym- one mile time-trial, ab, and leg workouts. I’m walking back to the entrance of the gym from the weight room, sporting on of my UVA shirts, and this 13/14 year old kid says “Hey you like Virginia?!”I say, “yeah! I’ll be going there this fall” and he replies “NO WAY! That’s my dream school!” So we got to talking and it turns out he’ll be a freshman in high school this fall (at my high school’s rival school back home) and he has his heart set on playing baseball at UVA (seriously a great baseball team). He caught me on my way out again and was asking me what my major was and whatnot. I told him Kinesiology/Exercise Physiology/Pre-PT and he says, “No way! That’s what I want to do!” And not to be judgmental, but the other boys that he was hanging around at the gym didn’t seem like they were necessarily the best crowd to hang around. I was surprised at how mature this kid was for his age and how clearly he had already set his goals. It was kind of cool to feel like this kid looks up to me and what I am doing with my life after one conversation. I was telling him how UVA is a great school and really, really hard to get into, but if he does well with baseball and his grades and whatnot, he could definitely get accepted and even get some kind of baseball scholarship. So now, I am being a TOTAL creeper and trying to find this kid on facebook or something and let him know if he ever needs an academic/college admissions advice to let me know (He was around a couple of his friends when I was talking to him, so I didn’t want to be like “HEY I’M SIX YEARS OLDER THAN YOU..ADD ME ON FACEBOOK!!” or “CAN I HAVE YA NUMBAA?”)

It does seem a little creeperish, but I guess I want to tell kids like him everything that I wish someone would’ve told me when I was a freshman in high school and when I first set my eyes on UVA. I’m so so happy that I’ll finally be transferring to UVA this fall as a junior after three times of applying there, but Lord knows that it would have been ideal to be there for my full four years of college. Here’s to hoping I run into him again and can give him a couple pep talks! Haha… I am so motherly sometimes. 

I suppose it’s the little things like this that make you wonder if you truly are making a difference in other’s lives.