License Plates

And we're back... back from our holiday break and ready for recruiting season to begin!

Well internship recruiting for the first years that is! More on that later... first something that I noticed over the holidays.

Driving back and forth from Bloomington, I covered a lot of ground through many states and that's when I noticed it: I was a stranger. I'm from New Jersey, and my car still has Jersey plates. Now, going to school in Indiana, you'd think that I'd be quite aware that I was a stranger every day that I drive to and from school. But that's the funny thing, I'm not. I am one of MANY cars on the road with NJ plates... and although you'd think even with some of my NJ pals out there, we'd still be overwhelmed with Indiana drivers - we're definitely not! In addition to the NJ and IN cars in Bloomington there are Ohio, Illinois, New York, Maryland, California, Oregon, Texas, North Carolina and Kentucky cars! (There are more out there, I just listed the ones I've seen within the last few days).

In Bloomington, with all of these license plates proudly proclaiming the home states of many of the students, faculty and guests that travel here - it's very hard to feel like a stranger. It's quite funny actually, with all of this home state diversity, I feel just as at home here as I do in New Jersey. It's only when I leave Bloomington and drive through Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York that I realize that I am the only car with New Jersey plates around me - and that's when I'm aware I'm not in New Jersey anymore.