En règle is TOO French

It's really my occasional social awkwardness that keeps me from using the Word of the Day in my classes and when I talk to people other than Ashley.  That, and I have a tendency to forget the WoD as soon as I log off my email.  I was especially happy to see dictionary.com's surprise for me today:

en règle

\ ahn RE-gluh \  , adjective;

1. In order; according to the rules; correct.

 

I used this word while talking to Ashley today actually.  It was in a Facebook message, talking about this blog and how we've noticed more views popping up here and there.  My message went as follows: "it's cause we have dynamic, not so en règle ideas ;)"

 

To be honest, I think I have the same problem as 90% of college students: I want to be special, and I like to think I'm special,  but the truth of it is, what do I have to show for it?  Among my former high school classmates, I like to think I'm special because I'm one of the few who came all the way to the east coast for college.  At home, I like to think I'm special because I'm not living in Rancho Cucamonga like everyone else.  But outside of that, what exactly is my niche in the world?

 

Am I part nerd?  Part blonde?  Part writer?  Part Newhouse student?  Part yellow-light runner?  Part movie quoter?  I'm all of those, and I'm starting to think that finding your niche in life is more than just finding a category to fit into.  Finding your niche, I like to think, means finding the things in life that make you happy and unhappy, successful and unsuccessful, better and worse.  The key is to figure out which ones to follow, and which ones to avoid.  So yeah, I'm that girl who tries Dunkin' Donuts six months after moving to New York.  But I'm also that 19-year-old girl who's trying to get out of the dorms, into the classroom, and onto a life that's en règle just for me.