Dear Prospective Students,  The end of the year is fast approaching!  How did it happen?  And where did my junior year go?  Oh, how time flies by when you’re having fun.Let’s evaluate how much my life has changed in just one short year here at Fairfield.  When I started writing this, I was a commuter who was involved in a few things here and there, writing about theatre and the like.  Now, I live in Claver Hall, a dorm in the Village area, I have made many new friends by being part of the Hunger Cleanup board and going on the Kairos retreat, and I have discovered that writing is truly where my heart lies. Each year – each month, each week, each day – I continue to grow here at Fairfield.  (And no, Admissions is NOT making me write this!)  It is simply how I feel.  I feel I am finally starting to become me, not bits of everyone else around me all rolled into one.  Sometimes there is so much conformity, but I think I am reaching beyond that and finally speaking out and voicing my opinion – something I have never really done before.After taking “Examining the 60s,” a class that is run every three years and is team-taught by Dr. David McFadden of the history department and Dr. Marti LoMonaco of the theatre department, I think a bit of the 60s spirit has become ingrained in me.  As far as classes go for the semester, that one surely topped my list of favorites.  After studying the parallels between 1968 and 2008, the similarities between the Vietnam War and the Iraq War, hippies and the sixties counterculture, and feminism, I still have to the urge to learn more and will probably spend a portion of my summer looking even more into the history of the sixties. And while I’m still not sure what the summer will hold – whether it be an internship, a job, or something I cannot even predict – I know I am going to be taking a lot of time to evaluate all the changes that have taken place over the last year (especially over the last semester) and figure out exactly where my life is headed and what direction I want it to go in. So, until next semester! love, anna.