Double Update, Part 2: Nostalgia
I cannot believe I'm graduating in June (granted, I was supposed to in March...but that is a rant...and I shall not let my department's epic failing ruin this). I look back on my four years of college and realise how much I've changed. I can thank a lot of that to band-uh, though I think they desensitized me to things and just let get even weirder, but they showed me what it's like to have a life outside of school. I can always thank MSJ for getting me to Davis, but once I left that extremely toxic and competitive atmosphere I managed to relax. Yes, sophomore year I went overboard, and disagree with how relaxed and carefree I became, but I snapped back, mostly.
Anyway....A few regrets first of all: I regret not doing as well as I should have in some classes, I ended up being a B- student when I really shouldn't have. But I just don't care, I want to be a zookeeper/wildlife somethingerother/birdies so the fact that I have a college degree in Animal Science is impressive enough. Zoo's don't really care and I just could not bring myself to be interested in barn animals. I could care less about a cow, and that's all they give us to work with. The companion animals division has nothing to work with, it's all livestock. Livestock, are kind of interesting (the nutrition/digestive tract aspect) but I got sick of them being a model.
Another large regret is letting those from high school go and falling out of touch. I miss you guys and want to know where you're all going. I know most of you guys are going to do something awesome in your lives.I won't list people out for fear of missing someone, and this is me assuming people are reading a dead lj, haha. Though, I do log in to lj once every week or so and catch up on anything anyone has written, in a feeble attempt to stay somewhat connected. Maybe I'll get off my lazy butt and spam everyone's e-mails to see what they're up to and such.....gah, I'm so terrible and awkward at communicating....actually just interacting with people in general...that's why I shall work with animals.
My last few quarters here in Davis have been good (aside from illness). My last Picnic Day was fairly epic. We played the main theme from the recent Star Trek movie and my favourite song: SEPARATE WAYS!!! by the oh so epic band Journey. During the battle I had the chance to catch up with a friend of mine in SD. School wise I am only taking four units, my lab requirement. The two classes aren't too difficult so I don't have to do much outside of class....though I do have a massive report due at the end...
In terms of living conditions, I think I lucked out after my sophomore year. I live with probably my best friend up here in Davis. And lucky me my boyfriend lives less than a 5 min. walk from my apartment. :D Davis has definitely left me with plenty of experience and adventures (good and bad). Though I intended my first real pets, Psyche and Nyx chew my mortar board but sadly they cannot, I'll just put a little peanut butter and have Holly and Ivy chew it instead (RIP little girs, I love you, best 1st pets ever) I owe so much to those little ones, and I miss them greatly, but life goes on, and I have new charges, though they'll never be forgotten.
As for after graduation, I am staying in Davis. I'm trying to get a job at a pet store in Woodland and I applied for a seasonal position at Six Flags as a bird keeper. So, if I get both I'll be working 7 days a week for minimum wage -__- Just going to think of the needed AZA experience that Six Flags will give me and that Pet Extreme will exist after Labor Day. Also, after six flags I can go back to volunteering at Sac Zoo. So I can actually get closer to my goal of working in a zoo. My main goal is to go into the education sector with the animal behaviour training and go to schools/events/stage and be like "look how awesome this burrowing owl is! yay environment!" except better worded than that =p
Alright, that's enough rambling, to those of you who read all of this, get yourself a cookie.