There is no smaller world than Cal Poly

So there is phenomenon at Cal Poly that everyone catches on to, usually a couple months after becoming a student here. This phenomenon is the fact that Cal Poly is the smallest world ever and as you get older, it keeps getting smaller. Every day I meet someone and then I find out I have a connection to them some way or another. Just today, I went with my roommate to her club banquet as a guest and I knew a bunch of people in her club. The president is in Poly Reps with me, one of the members is good friends with my roommate and also works for ASI, another one is dating my roommate’s boyfriend’s roommate, and another works for ASI and is my roommate’s old WOW co. I mean that is just one example, this happens to me all the fricken time, and it is just weird. You know that saying about the six degrees of separation we all have in common, well at Cal Poly that number is about two instead of six. I don’t even know why either. I think it may be because we are a really active campus and people just happen to meet each other through several different groups, but I even have small world coincidences with people that aren’t very involved. Our campus isn’t that small either, we have over 18,000 undergraduate students, and I don’t know nearly that many people, but I still feel like I know a lot of people and have connections to many more. I just think it’s weird that we do go to a fairly large school and still the people you may meet randomly on the weekends will end up being in your club or being one of your friend’s best friends. It’s just how it always works out. I have a good story about a small world too that happened to me this year. I was in one of business classes, and the president of my club happened to be in my class. My friend Caeli knew him so she invited him to be in our group. I found out later that this guy was my neighbor who I share a backyard with, because he noticed on my resume one day in class that I lived on the same street as him. It was funny too because it was winter quarter and we had never met even though we lived next to each other all year. It didn’t stop there because he also used to be in a fraternity with a bunch of the guys that I work with, and he was like best friends with the guys that lived next to me last year. I thought it was really strange that we had never met before that class, but then again I wasn’t surprised that this was happening to me because it happens all the time. It is honestly what I love about SLO and Cal Poly because you get to know a lot more people and then from then you get to know even more people. I am going into my senior year and the world has never felt smaller, but I know I will be meeting a lot more people in the coming year. There will always be those connections and I have a feeling that I will never find a smaller world outside of Cal Poly, and most students would agree with that. I’m pretty sure my roommates and I talk about this all the time, we probably have a discussion about it every couple days. It is something unique about our campus and that is really cool because it makes our school seem smaller and I don’t feel like a measly, singular person within a school of 18,000 or more.