Samantha Blankenship:  

Life Graduated Purdue University, BSCEM 1998. School I don't think I would ever want to do highschool over again. I loved ROTC and all the drill meets we attended through the years. I wouldn't have gone to prom with a date - I would have gone by myself or just stayed home. If I had to do it all over again, I would not have cared so much about other peoples opinions and I would have spent more time being myself. College Most of my pals were guys. I remember failing first semester calculus with Jeremy. We met on the first day of class and became good friends, didn't really pay much attention to class. The following year we pulled out our notebooks from calculus and no wonder we failed- we were too busy writing each other jokes during class. And I'll never forget how hard it was to say good bye to Ryan when he left to join Kim in Africa, and how much I couldn't wait to see them both when they came back to the US a happily married couple. And my ex-fiancee - my only regret about college. I loved him dearly, but should have called it quits after the first year. Roommates were interesting, albeit slobs. I remember the first time I thought for sure that I was a real college student - on a friday night working on a physics lab report eating ice cream and drinking beer.... And I'll never forget structural steel design. I thought for sure I was bombing that class so the night of midterms I downed ...Expand for more