FW: Nothing

I’ve never been a big sports FAN. I’ve always loved to play sports, but not watch them. College has changed me, I think. When I arrived at BYU my freshman year I started watching BYU football pretty frequently. The main reason I did this was so that I could fit in with the rest of the guys. I came to school not knowing anyone, and my folks just sort of dumped me off in the dorms and told me to have a good time. So I started watching football and I’ve had an all sports pass every year.

I’ve also never followed basketball at any level. High school, college and professional were all equally shunned. This year however, some of my friends started doing this fantasy basket thing where you pick you’re players and are in a “league” with your friends. And now I’ve become a basketball fan. I seem to follow it so that I can see how my team is doing. It takes some time. The sad thing is that I don’t even have to do anything. I just watch it. And watch it. And hope something happens.

I can conclude from these experiences that college students have less social hobbies. People are social, but they don’t have as many social things to DO (this is seen in the classic example. You ask someone what they like to do. They tell you they like to talk, hangout, and make friends. None of these things involve any activity per se). In high school my friends were sort of defined by the activities I did and by geography. I wan’t much interested in dating in highschool, so my friends and I climbed, listened to punk rock, pulled pranks, and other things high school kids do. Now that I’m not as interested in stuff like that I have to find other things to fill my time. I think I do more personal hobby type of things than most college kids, but I’ve still succumbed to the trend of sport watching. If I weren’t Mormon, I would probably be entertaining myself with alcohol and women. But since people seem to do less socially than in years past, and for a lot of guys sports seems to be a big part of that, I conform. Go BYU football.