For some reason, everytime I open my computer now (2-3 times a day) I'll look to see the amount of views my blog has but I never write anything. Well break has been good to me, unlike the majority of everyone else. Sorry that I love not having school.
But that's not really it, and you know it. Its been good to see the guys and everyone else again. I'm not used to the cold because I haven't been this cold since last winter break. To prove it, I'm wearing two jackets right meow and I'm in my heated house. And my car has been acting up the last couple of days and it makes me feel like I'm back at school when I have to ask to bum rides off people.
I got my job back at that baby store across town again. My boss said she could have me trained as a cashier and that it would let me work up to 40 hours a week. I think if this works out, I won't have/need to stay in Texas over the summer. At this point, I'm perfectly fine with that. A lot of people have been complaining about living with their parents lately, and I'm not saying that mine are saints, but being around my friends so much seems to cancel everything out.
On Friday, our entire group returned home and we celebrated our first Blackout Friday. It was definitely a dude fest, but we planned it that way because we deserve to act like fools after finally being reunited. I took a lot of memorable pictures that I don't remember, but my adaptor cord is in Texas so I guess I'll just take a poopload of pictures over break and upload the best/appropriate ones when I get back to school.
A quick week has already gone by, but luckily I have four more left, and there's plenty more to look forward too: Christmas (mainly just getting free stuff part), New Years, Winter Jousting, Evanfest 2011 (at Grand Valley State), my birthday. Its going to be a fun time and I'm already feeling sorry for the future me who has to go back and take an 18 hour semester. Fun shit.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
I will see you there or I will see you another time!
The semester is over. I am a good combination of really excited, happy, ecstatic, and a little sad. The only reason that I'm sad is because I won't be in Austin for the next 5 weeks, but lucky for me, I'll get to be home with my best friends! We already have a lot of stuff planned, and it should be better than last Christmas break, and that's really saying something.
This has easily been the best semester so far in Austin. I've partied the hardest than I ever have, and I'm going to get a 4.0 even though I've had the toughest classes that I've ever had. And all of that happened without me having a car. Luckily, the part about the car changes in January.
I've also learned a lot of stuff outside of school here, but I think I covered that in the last post.
I've also met a lot more people that go to this school. Obviously I've met some freshman, but I think its also cool to meet more people that are in your grade or older. Frisbee, for example. There were a lot of seniors this year, and one, Alex, is graduating and moving back to Oregon. It was kind of weird saying goodbye...all that you can really force out of yourself is a "Good luck." But fortunately, that's life and it happens to everyone.
Thankfully, January is a whole new semester and there are going to be a ton of new people to meet, especially in my classes. However, I think its cool having the same core group in all of your classes.
I've also already started looking ahead to junior year. I've talked to a few kids here, and we're all looking to get a house for that school year. I honestly don't want to have a place where we throw a party every other weekend, but if we can throw one or two a semester, and its the kind of party that people can look back on because it exemplified their four years of college, that will be good enough for me.
Because I think that's what we're all put here for: to leave our mark on something. My only goal for these three and a half years here is to be able to come back here when I'm 35, see a building or something like that, smile, and think "That was me....I did that." I really don't know what the sight I'm looking at will be, but I'm sure I'll figure it all out one day.
But now, its time to celebrate the fact that I have no worries for the next 5 weeks (except for coming up with beer money somehow) and then to recover in time to be up by 8am tomorrow morning. I think I said this when I left home so I'll say it again: catch you on the flip side!
This has easily been the best semester so far in Austin. I've partied the hardest than I ever have, and I'm going to get a 4.0 even though I've had the toughest classes that I've ever had. And all of that happened without me having a car. Luckily, the part about the car changes in January.
I've also learned a lot of stuff outside of school here, but I think I covered that in the last post.
I've also met a lot more people that go to this school. Obviously I've met some freshman, but I think its also cool to meet more people that are in your grade or older. Frisbee, for example. There were a lot of seniors this year, and one, Alex, is graduating and moving back to Oregon. It was kind of weird saying goodbye...all that you can really force out of yourself is a "Good luck." But fortunately, that's life and it happens to everyone.
Thankfully, January is a whole new semester and there are going to be a ton of new people to meet, especially in my classes. However, I think its cool having the same core group in all of your classes.
I've also already started looking ahead to junior year. I've talked to a few kids here, and we're all looking to get a house for that school year. I honestly don't want to have a place where we throw a party every other weekend, but if we can throw one or two a semester, and its the kind of party that people can look back on because it exemplified their four years of college, that will be good enough for me.
Because I think that's what we're all put here for: to leave our mark on something. My only goal for these three and a half years here is to be able to come back here when I'm 35, see a building or something like that, smile, and think "That was me....I did that." I really don't know what the sight I'm looking at will be, but I'm sure I'll figure it all out one day.
But now, its time to celebrate the fact that I have no worries for the next 5 weeks (except for coming up with beer money somehow) and then to recover in time to be up by 8am tomorrow morning. I think I said this when I left home so I'll say it again: catch you on the flip side!
Thursday, December 2, 2010
I am seeing in me now the things you swore you saw yourself.
Things are really looking up.
Earlier today, I just completed my last class of the semester. All I have is two more regular exams left and one final, and then its time to head home.
I've been thinking about it, and I'm pretty sure I can say that this has been the best semester yet. All I've really been doing is going out at night or doing well in school. That's a pretty wet combo.
I've learned a lot too. About myself, and about people in general. Whenever I think about things that I've done before, I thought about how much I've grown since that particular time. While just sitting here and thinking, I made a list about the changes and realizations that have happened in the past few months.
I'll never like hard liquor. Ever. Hahaha.
When I was younger, my dad told me about my grandfather's ability to treat someone one way and completely think the opposite about them. (Un?)Fortunately, I'm pretty sure that I've inherited this same trait. Over and over again, I feel like I've been treating people as if I was their best friend, and honestly thinking that they were full of shit. A lot of people might say that its important to be honest and upfront with poeple, but at the same time, I enjoy staying on good terms with everyone I know. I didn't ever want it to be a priority for everyone I know to like me or to have as many friends as possible, but I believe that all of us were brought up that way.
Also, I went to my American Experience instructor's office to talk about my socializtion paper, which has something to do with the way you were raised and how you adapted to that.....I'm not really sure, I haven't even started and the paper's due tomorrow. But anyway, the discussion was really interesting because we talked mainly about my mom. My mom always raised me to be one of those validictorians that stand up at the top of the graduation class, get a full ride to a division 1 school, get a great job, and live a better life than what I was living at the time. I slacked off a lot in high school, but not enough to keep my grades completely down. I was still National Honor Society president, got a pretty good scholarship to a small school, etc. But I haven't really had a realization to have a better life than I have until I got to college. Nowadays, school is the top priority, and when I'm not doing that, I go out at nights and try to meet as many people as possible, and just have a great time.
Its all as if I'm living my life the way it was meant to be.
That's all I really got for now....but I feel like some things are going to happen between now and the time I go home next Friday. At this point, I'm about as clueless as you might be, but things have been having a tendency to work in my favor lately, so I'll just rely on that.
Earlier today, I just completed my last class of the semester. All I have is two more regular exams left and one final, and then its time to head home.
I've been thinking about it, and I'm pretty sure I can say that this has been the best semester yet. All I've really been doing is going out at night or doing well in school. That's a pretty wet combo.
I've learned a lot too. About myself, and about people in general. Whenever I think about things that I've done before, I thought about how much I've grown since that particular time. While just sitting here and thinking, I made a list about the changes and realizations that have happened in the past few months.
I'll never like hard liquor. Ever. Hahaha.
When I was younger, my dad told me about my grandfather's ability to treat someone one way and completely think the opposite about them. (Un?)Fortunately, I'm pretty sure that I've inherited this same trait. Over and over again, I feel like I've been treating people as if I was their best friend, and honestly thinking that they were full of shit. A lot of people might say that its important to be honest and upfront with poeple, but at the same time, I enjoy staying on good terms with everyone I know. I didn't ever want it to be a priority for everyone I know to like me or to have as many friends as possible, but I believe that all of us were brought up that way.
Also, I went to my American Experience instructor's office to talk about my socializtion paper, which has something to do with the way you were raised and how you adapted to that.....I'm not really sure, I haven't even started and the paper's due tomorrow. But anyway, the discussion was really interesting because we talked mainly about my mom. My mom always raised me to be one of those validictorians that stand up at the top of the graduation class, get a full ride to a division 1 school, get a great job, and live a better life than what I was living at the time. I slacked off a lot in high school, but not enough to keep my grades completely down. I was still National Honor Society president, got a pretty good scholarship to a small school, etc. But I haven't really had a realization to have a better life than I have until I got to college. Nowadays, school is the top priority, and when I'm not doing that, I go out at nights and try to meet as many people as possible, and just have a great time.
Its all as if I'm living my life the way it was meant to be.
That's all I really got for now....but I feel like some things are going to happen between now and the time I go home next Friday. At this point, I'm about as clueless as you might be, but things have been having a tendency to work in my favor lately, so I'll just rely on that.
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