I really wish I was friendlier or had more social intuition. Recently I have been very uncertain about whether I should say hi to classmates when I see them in the hall, computer lab, etc. At the start of the semester, I basically would say hi to anyone I had previously had a one minute conversation with. But now time has passed and I haven’t talked to them in two months and we once again are strangers. There are two classmates who live in the same area as me, but I have never talked too. Often we see each other in the neighborhood and we mutually pretend we don’t know each other. Today however I broke this boundary when I found a mitten that I had lost several hours earlier. In my happiness and my desire to not appear to be an individual who randomly picks wet dirty things off the ground, I told my neighborhood classmate, “Oh! I found my lost mitten.” “That’s good” she responded as she scurried past. And we continued to not know each other.