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First off, I'll give you a little introduction to me. Right now I am 21 years old and I am currently attending UCSB for my third year. I am pursuing a double major in communication and sociology. I live in Isla Vista off the UCSB campus with 5 other girls! Scary, eh? If you want to get to know about them go to my friend's page. Anyway, thats the short introduction to me, now I will start my short autobiography.
My life began here in Santa Clara Valley at Kaiser Hospital where I was born to Carole Ann Rouse and Richard Byron Rouse on January 9, 1981. Soon I was brought home to live on a small street in Cupertino called Milky Way. We gave out Milky Way bars there every Halloween, hehe. Soon I grew up and I started preschool at Montecito Preschool in Los Altos. My mother worked there too, so I was one of the only lil tikes that had my mom hanging around all the time. Boy was I lucky!
Then I started to grow more and I found my way to kindergarten and 1st grade at Regnart Elementary School in Cupertino 
Here is where the real education started to foster. I learned my first skills as a kid here and also had my first mistakes. The things I remember from Regnart were: how we always called the playground "The Big Toy," the goldfish we got in kindergarten, my teachers, and my friends whom after 1st grade I regretfully did not stay in contact with.
After Regnart and the 1st grade, my parents got a divorce and little did I know my future would hinge on this one event. I started my new life in a new city, not too far away in San Jose. Unfortunately, it was far away enough to go to a new elementary school called Dilworth. 
Here is where I started to learn a little about myself and my place in society. I found friendships to be difficult and complicated things. And in 6th grade, to my detriment, I realized that perhaps I had not been the friend I could have been, and that is when I had lost all of my friends. I learned that instead I should have been more sensitive to my friend's needs, instead of competing to be popular and all of that nonsense we all go through in elementary school. The things I remember most from my years at Dilworth were: the friends I tried to keep, the strange teachers I had, the time I puked in front of the office entrance, the time I got tanbark in my eye, and the afternoons I was forced to spend at daycare after school.
After elementary school, I was on my way to 7th grade and Miller Junior High School. 
My days here were hard and difficult because I was just beginning to know how my personality affected others and where I belonged and what I was doing. 7th grade began with a rocky start because I had to find all new friends, soon I found them and we hung out at lunch every day. But then 8th grade came along, along with more stress and worries. Once again, I lost all my friends, due to my disconcern for others. Will I ever learn!?!?!? Some of my friends had decided not to be friends with me anymore because I "worried too much." But this was true, I did and still do to this day. I worry a lot, about many pointless things. The things I remember most about Miller Junior High School were: the yellow and black PE uniforms that made us look like bumble bees, the superlaps, the malts that I ate everyday until I got sick, the friends, the weird teachers, the beginning of the stressful academic world, and the start of competition between peers.
Finally, I had made it to high school. Land of Maturity, or so I thought. I had my friends back and I was ready for my 4 years at Lynbrook High School. 
Freshman year I will always remember as one of the best years of my life. I had friends, I had fun, and I had a smile on my face which I would find to be rare in the years to come. Sophomore year was the year things started to slip. I took Chemistry Honors and classes were beginning to get more difficult and the stress started to build. Tensions between friends started to build and my group of friends in high school started to fall apart. Junior year this continued. And finally senior year I started to break away from my friends. I don't know whether this was a result of my own feelings or whether it was just inevitable. Luckily I still keep in contact with a few of my friends from high school.
Finally, I had made it! College! Living on my own. I have been and am currently a student at UCSB. 
Isn't it beautiful? I love it here. I finally have found my place it feels like. I finally have found the friends I have looked for all my life. I am currently in my 3rd year here and will be here for 1 more year after this. It was hard at first settling in because I had gotten homesick. And being the shy person I am, it was difficult for me to find true friendships, when it seemed that all around me were superficial ones. UCSB is known as a party school, and I wasn't really a party girl. So I found my place with Intervarsity Christian Fellowship (aka Gaucho Christian Fellowship). This is a great group of people with amazing kindness and understanding. I hope that the friends I have made here will be my friends for life.
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