I stared at the schedule on my screen. Like the many others around me, my head lifted to check the campus map. Half of the crowd disperse. The other half spit profanity. Ten minutes passed, and more people came and went. I tilted my head to make some sense out of the map. It's the first day of college, and I'm lost like a duck trying to find water in the desert. An odd comparison, but that's what I feel like. I keep shuffling, but I'm getting nowhere. I blame it on Brenda, who wanted to stretch our summer vacation to the last minute. Because of that, the four of us didn't leave for college until the day before it started. I arrived at my campus dorm room last night. Imagine your roommate, who thought you dropped out, showed up at 3 am. I missed everything, from orientation to unpack

