To be a college dancer...

To be a college dancer means finding your center of balance and focusing the energy within your body at 9:30 in the morning.

To be a college dancer means you will not really miss home for another four to six weeks because you just feel like you're at another summer intensive.

To be a college dancers means that you all like pizza, but not one will touch it until someone else does.

To be a college dancer means that you all watch a football game and get excited when you actually understand what's going on for a few seconds.

To be a college dancer means no one recognizes you with your hair down because it's been in a ballet bun every day.

To be a college dancer means that you know how to get from your dorms to the dance studio and that's about it.

To be a college dancer means that you are simultaneously ecstatic and terrified about the fact that your dance classes are now your school classes.