A word I like, vibe

I really like the word “vibe” I think it encapsulates the inexplicable feelings you feel after interacting with someone. The word feeling is too vulnerable and makes it seem super subjective and simply based on how your feeling, this may be the same for vibe but I don't really see it that way. Vibe is less emotional and it really just is the indescribable feeling I get from something.

The word vibe comes from vibrations as if all things have these vibrations that come off of them that are indicative of the intentions, mood, and more. Vibe for me has usually meant something along the lines of after an interaction with someone I have picked up on something. If someone I know well has weird vibrations it probably means something wrong. If I meet someone new and after an interaction, I feel like they had good vibes that probably means I have the feeling we are going to get along well. More recently the word vibe has become much more prevalent in pop culture. Since it is currently pretty popular it’ll become uncool to say eventually, when this day comes I will be sad. Something else that makes me sad about the word vibe is that it isn’t very respected because everyone just sees it as a joke when I think there is actually something to it.

Vibe is also just a fun word to say. There is a V as well as an I that you really pronounce so it kind of a fun word to say, and it's short so it is really easy to say. Vibe is also good if you don’t have proof of your feelings. Vibe doesn’t require you to have a bunch of examples with physical proof to say something about it. I could have just exchanged a few words with someone and still have good vibes about them. This could definitely be used in a not so great way by jumping to conclusions or judging someone without actually knowing them.

A vibe you get from something doesn’t even have to be from a living thing, it can literally just be the vibe you get from a place. A dark cold room might give off a scary vibe. A park outside on a nice day might have more of a chill happy vibe. I like using vibe to express my feelings in a way that isn’t super serious, I could say I am getting bad vibes but it wouldn’t inherently be taken in a negative way like if I said I didn’t like the place.

So overall I just like the vibe of the word vibe.

My Favorite Place :)

The University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign is my favorite place around here, it may not be the most concise answer but it’s my favorite part. I have lived here my whole life so I can’t really even imagine what it would be like to not have a university nearby, especially in the Midwest. There are a bunch of much smaller rural towns only 20-30 minutes away from here and if we didn’t have the University of Illinois we would probably be very similar to them. Most of the more urban things we have are due to the University and its students creating a business. Also, I would not want to live in a small rural town for many reasons so having the University makes it feel like a bigger city, especially due to the size of the U of I.

I live here because my parents work at University so it’s always been a big thing for me. Since I was little I would come to my parents’ office and walk around the quad. On top of that I go to Uni high where every week I'm walking down the engineering quad and Green St. This place is really like my second home, I know my favorite places to study, where to go for food, and where to go when I just want a break.

It is also nice having sports teams.
I play soccer and I have for a long time, I love playing it and I think a lot of that is due to the women’s soccer team at the U of I. From a young age up until recent years, I went to every single soccer camp the U of I offered. Because of my being able to go to the camps I have met so many of the players and actually gotten to know the head coach. Especially when I was young, seeing these female D1 college soccer players felt like I was hanging out with celebrities. Whenever a player would visit some of my club team practices to help coach we would all go crazy asking for autographs. The closest pro women’s soccer team we have is the red stars in Chicago, so being able to closely watch and interact with some really high-level players helped me see that I could play soccer.

As I am going through the college process it has become more clear that U of I is one of my top schools, I get a discount because my parents work here and it's really good for the majors I want. I used to dread the possibility of staying here near my family for another four years, I would literally count down the months until I would be leaving. However, recently I have become a lot more at ease with staying here if I can. I have talked to close friends who go here and I have realized that the campus kind of makes me happy. It wasn't until last summer where I worked all day in North Champaign so I pretty much never came to campus, this was in stark contrast to my past summers where I would do plenty of camps on campus. When I came onto campus after not being here for a while I felt an unexpected feeling of joy. So although I have had my ups and downs this place has played an integral part of my life and overall it has been pretty good.