I've joined the crippled crowd at Uni upon tearing my ACL, just in time for the weather to get nice and for school to get out.

Because of my injury I won't be able to play volleyball in college this fall. I can't run, jump, or even walk up stairs for the next five or six months, and the summer after my senior year will be spent recovering from surgery.

At first I was in denial, then depressed, then angry. But the most different experience I've had from being injured is seeing how people at school have treated me. There always seems to be a handful of students in the Uni community who have a cast, boot, or some reason to be exempt from fitness. In general Uni students are viciously skeptical of students who are injured.

The first day I showed up to school on crutches and in a knee brace I got made fun of for hurting myself playing basketball during soccer season. I got called "gimp" and "cripple" and was made fun of because I couldn't walk fast enough … and I was like, Thanks guys, I guess I do deserve that in return for getting a reconstructive surgery on my knee and not being able to play sports for the next five months.

Instead of helping me with a door or my bags, I got made fun of, until one day I snapped, yelling and cursing at some classmates. Is that really what it takes?

Having always been an athlete I've never been part of the discourse students have about fitness class, and I don't know the hardships of the fitness workouts. But do students in fitness have enough respect for the time athletes put in after school?

But something else I've always questioned is the reasons students join a sport. Larger sports teams usually have more students participating just to get out of fitness.

Being a three-sport athlete I've never felt that connected to the great fitness program Uni has, and I think that's something that needs to change.

But being injured makes me feel really frustrated on top of feeling really lazy. I know I got a lot of crap for not having to run the 5K two weeks ago, but trust me I'd have rather run a 10K than have my injury.