Human Interaction Can't be Replaced

For the past two summers, I've said that I’ll get a job or intern somewhere I can be around people. Both summers, I have ended up staying on campus to work and living in my own room. I don’t have a problem being on my own; I can cook and otherwise take care of myself. It’s just that Trinity is very quiet during the summer vacation because there are some students working, interning or taking classes, but otherwise there’s not much going on. Each time, I did try to explore Hartford a little more and had some fun times, but I mostly spent too much time on my own. The TV became my best friend until I reminded myself that I was wasting my summer away watching My Boys and Brothers and Sisters. I then turned to reading since it was something I had enjoyed in high school and loved the fact that the Boise Library and Hartford Library allowed me to download ebooks for free. While I read a lot of fiction, I also started reading memoirs like In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom and Paris in Love. I never read 11 novels a week like I used to do in my younger days, but I found comfort in books once again. They became a way for me to have fun but do something productive that didn't just involve watching TV.  These two summers have taught me a very important yet simple lesson: when I live on my own, I need to somehow meet up with people of similar interests because the TV or the internet cannot replace human interaction.