5 months later!
So I've come to the realization that I haven't updated in quite a while. In fact, I haven't updated since VALENTINE'S DAY... so I guess I should update =P Currently I am in field session, which is what Mines forces all of their students to do one summer during their college career in order to get an understanding of their major that doesn't involve the classroom. And Chemical Engineering is basically the worst of them all, with Physics about the same. It's a 6 week field session that they actually jam into 5 weeks so that anyone who screws up can redo stuff during the 6th week...almost every other major has only a 3 week field session. We have 2 labs a week to do that during the school year we would normally spend 3-4 weeks on per lab, it takes the entire day to do the experiment, and then we have to either present it in an oral or write a 40 page paper on it...8 labs- 4 orals, 4 papers. I'm in the second week right now, already going to school at 8 and coming home no earlier than 7 each day, including weekends, and this is still considered part of the easy part of field session. Yay. But its ok, since it is only 5 weeks long, I can already see the end, and I'm determined to keep optimistic about it and plow my way through it. Plus, Joe gets back in less than two weeks and I can take all of my stressfulness out on him.
Joe and I are wonderful... it's really hard to think that it's true, but what we went through in January is probably the best thing that could have happened for us...it made us realize that we weren't telling each other everything that we felt, and that it was ok to tell the other person when you're not happy. If you don't tell them, they'll never know, and that was a big problem for us. Currently though, he is in South Korea on a two month deployment for the military. We still talk a couple of times a week, and he had a blast at first, but now he's really homesick and ready to be back. Our relationship in its current state is wonderful.
I also spent the beginning part of my summer bumming around home... it was the best thing I think I could have done. Since I already did an internship, I wasn't worried, especially since I had to do field session this summer, plus we went to Washington for two weeks to go see my brother before he headed off for Japan and go on a family ocean kayaking trip! It was a blast. I then helped my parents around the house, spent time with Jesse and my sister and my cats, and spent two weeks with my grandparents. It made me wonder why I would ever want to go back to college and not just live with my parents forever, and I now see why so many kids go back to their parents and stay. Plus, the thought of being a senior and having to actually seriously look for a job and all...its kind of scary when it creeps up on you. I plan to stay in Colorado, but we'll see how interviews go, I'm going to do all of the interviews I can, mostly so that I can play companies against each other and get more money =) That sounds bad, but they actually train us to do that here, it's called Networking ha!
And now I'm going to go pretend like I'm going to work on more of my lab tonight, even though I've already lost all focus. And livejournal has added a crap load of new things that I hadn't seen before since I haven't updated in forever...
And there is your update.
Joe and I are wonderful... it's really hard to think that it's true, but what we went through in January is probably the best thing that could have happened for us...it made us realize that we weren't telling each other everything that we felt, and that it was ok to tell the other person when you're not happy. If you don't tell them, they'll never know, and that was a big problem for us. Currently though, he is in South Korea on a two month deployment for the military. We still talk a couple of times a week, and he had a blast at first, but now he's really homesick and ready to be back. Our relationship in its current state is wonderful.
I also spent the beginning part of my summer bumming around home... it was the best thing I think I could have done. Since I already did an internship, I wasn't worried, especially since I had to do field session this summer, plus we went to Washington for two weeks to go see my brother before he headed off for Japan and go on a family ocean kayaking trip! It was a blast. I then helped my parents around the house, spent time with Jesse and my sister and my cats, and spent two weeks with my grandparents. It made me wonder why I would ever want to go back to college and not just live with my parents forever, and I now see why so many kids go back to their parents and stay. Plus, the thought of being a senior and having to actually seriously look for a job and all...its kind of scary when it creeps up on you. I plan to stay in Colorado, but we'll see how interviews go, I'm going to do all of the interviews I can, mostly so that I can play companies against each other and get more money =) That sounds bad, but they actually train us to do that here, it's called Networking ha!
And now I'm going to go pretend like I'm going to work on more of my lab tonight, even though I've already lost all focus. And livejournal has added a crap load of new things that I hadn't seen before since I haven't updated in forever...
And there is your update.