Senior English major
Freshman year, I was walking home from sleeping at my friend’s New Leonardtown apartment. (Disclaimer: This was not a real walk of shame … I had slept on a couch so my friend could have some fun that night.) Anyway, we were walking back at about 7:30 a.m. on a Saturday.
We were wearing our high heels and white T-shirts with highlighter marks all over from the night before. Incidentally, we also had highlighter marks on our arms and faces, as that tends to happen when you give college students markers. It was pretty clear we weren’t composed enough to be on an early morning walk.
As we were walking through Hornbake Plaza, a middle-aged Asian man walked up to us. Now, normally, his ethnicity wouldn’t matter. But this man barely spoke a word of English, and he looked very flustered. My friend and I stared at each other, wondering if this was really happening. He then attempted to ask us where the biology and psychology building was, and we just weren’t getting it. After about 10 minutes of fumbling through a conversation, we were able to point him in the right direction — to the building directly next to us.
And that, friends, is my best story of a random encounter during my college career.
Maria Romas is a senior English major. She can be reached at mromasdbk@gmail.com.
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