364 Days

January 12, 2011 at 7:33 pm (Relationships, School)

It’s impossible to believe that a whole year has passed by since I last recorded my thoughts. Looking back I cannot even begin to know where to start. Even now after reading my last blog I try to remember the days following its post. In general I remember my second semester of college being a good one and that Summer being one of many new discoveries. All of which include people, places, and things.

I was not able to attend school for the Fall semester, so there is not much to say about that except that I am all the more excited this time around for Spring, than I was when I last wrote on here. In the time that I have been out of school I have come to realize that the “real” world is not in the least desirable and that instead of living my days out making ends meet at a minimum wage job, I rather pursue to the fullest extent the best education I can and “make” something of myself.

As far as my personal life goes, there are times I do wish to restart the 2010 year. But then I imagine all the people I would not have met now who are so important to me today. One thing I would like to work on this year is to being more open to people, and more specifically relationships. In the past I have told myself that a serious relationship is not something I desire, but many of my actions of this past year have proven my words to be lie. It is my hope that I am able to come to terms to whatever phobias I may have about relationships, and develop a healthy one with an amazing individual.

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In the Beginning..

January 13, 2010 at 4:09 am (School)
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The Spring semester has started and it seems to be off to a good start. One difference I have noticed is that my classes are a lot more full now, especially since I am not enrolled in “freshmen” only courses. I also have more lecture style classes, which seem to be okay for the most part but I will have to give it more time before I can really tell if it will be a challenge for me.

Where I messed up last semester was that even within the first week I could tell some of my classes were not going to work out, but instead of dropping them or withdrawing before the midpoint I “stuck it out”. And by doing that I “failed“.. terribly! So when I went to my 9:30 class this morning and realized that for the simple fact that this is the only class I have for the day and the teacher was exactly THIRTY minutes late, I had to drop it.

Instead I have moved that class to 9:00 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and have Tuesdays and Thursdays completely off. Not a bad trade off. I just hope that when I go to class tomorrow I didn’t do what they call “out of the pan and into the fire..”.

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First Year of College Part Two

January 6, 2010 at 3:24 am (School)
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Well next week begins my second semester of college and as with most people looking into the new year I hope it turns out better than the last. Sadly my slacking ways caught up with me in the end and my GPA suffered badly, but after weeded out those in my life who might have contributed to such poor grades and finding a new sense of direction I really feel as though this semester will have a better ending.

With this new semester I hope to bring my GPA to a 3.0 that way I will still be able to retain my HOPE scholarship. At first I was really disappointed in myself for letting this happen to my grades because there is no excuse for me not to have passed every single class. I had one English class, two Histories, a Philosophy course, and one Sociology. All in all not a lot of work for one semester.

Looking back on it what really messed me up was after the midpoint I got a little to confident in my grades and just stopped going to some of my classes. That REALLY messed me up because two of the classes did not have posted dates for their finals and by not going to class I missed the dates. In one of those classes I found out after the fact that just by missing the final alone you automatically fail the class, so whereas I could’ve took the final, failed, and get by with a C, now I just have an F for completely missing it.

Not so this semester. I now realize that although there is freedom in college in that you can do what you want, go when you want, and not be hassled by the teachers themselves it also means that you have to take responsibility for getting things done on time and being informed. My problem is that I assumed that even though I showed no initiative on my own to take the class seriously I still expected the professors to email me and keep in touch.. not so.

And by all means that is not their job to do so. If I want to be successful in college I need to finally do what I should have done years ago and start taking my studies seriously. I am used to just barely getting by, by why should I accept that when I KNOW I can achieve a whole lot better. So here’s to looking at Dean’s List at least by the end of my sophomore year!

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Back to School

July 24, 2009 at 6:11 am (Uncategorized)

School begins just around the corner and I am not even registered yet! You would think that after starting school preparations late in the summer many times around I would have learned at some point to stop. But alas I have not and I will just barely be making it by with July 30th being the last day to register, before the first day of school.

They do have a combination registration day the day before and of school, but I figure that I have put it off long enough. The thing is that I did not want have to wait this long, but I either did not have the money for orientation or I did not have the time. With all my co-workers leaving or getting fired this summer’s schedule has been interesting; and sometimes inconvenient.

The one thing that makes this summer better than others though is that I am excited to back to school. Other than senior year I cannot think of a time where I wanted summer to end. I will admit to being bored some summers and wanting school to come, but when the last week of summer came I was wishing I could start summer all over.

And now that I really think back on it, I cannot really remember if I was all that excited for senior year either, considering that I had to register (late at that).

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Shopping Spree

July 7, 2009 at 4:55 pm (Shopping, Tech)
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With school starting in less than a month there are many purchases I have to make and I cannot wait! Now I am very much a frugal shopper and bargain hunter, but now that I am starting college I am going to break my rules just this one time and go on a little shopping spree. I does not help that both Target and Walmart are having some great sales on “essential items” for school. I have decided that I am going to keep my Acer Aspire as my personal home computer, and in addition buy an Aspire One Netbook just for school. I was looking at some computers online last night and they are just to adorable to pass up on. Another item I am shopping for is a new phone. The one I currently own has reached its limit with my patience. I am not one to be particular with my phone, as long as it can make a call and send texts I’m okay. But the phone I have constantly drops calls, misses texts, and is just generally unpleasant. So this time around I am sparing no expense and getting the exact phone I want. The features that I want the most is for it to be a dual slider, have an mp3 player, and also a camera. And so far the winner is the Helio Ocean.

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