On the first night of Orientation Week, alone and lost, I called my roommate in a tearful panic.
“Jenni, where are you?” she screamed into the phone.
“I’m lost. I can’t see you. I don’t know where I am. I think I’m about to get arrested.” I cried and ran to hide behind a bush as a police car drove past me. I was living out everyone’s worst first week of college fears. Alone, slightly intoxicated and completely disoriented — I couldn’t imagine a worse way to start off the year.
“Just look at the street signs. What do they say?”
“Um … Cook and Eddy,” I managed to spit out through my tears. There was a click at the other end of the line — I’d been hung up on.