Dec 20, 2007 16:39
I've been out of school for a few days now. It is the strangest thing. I'd forgotten what it felt like to not be stressed about a hundred different things at once. I was very worried about my grades by the end of the semester. Everything turned out fairly decently though. I didn't do as well as I have in the past, but considering the courses and how unprepared for the rigors of tech, I'm pretty pleased.
It is really silly but for me, the best thing about going to school there is being able to say that I'm going to be a rocket scientist, because I am. Although I'm really hoping that we can come up with something better than rockets at some point.
This holiday season is going to be wonderful. I am a bit worried about my fish at home though. I haven't been home in several days to feed them, but fish can usually go a couple days without any trouble.
Next semester is going to be crazy. I have to stack all of my engineering courses together, a by-product of transferring in with so many credits. On the upside though, I'm only three semesters from graduating. Thhis is very exciting and very scary. I'm actually going to have to get a real job and use all of this math I'm supposedly learning. Why did I not just get an english degree? I can see myself in some stuffy library with some brandy and an old typewriter working on the next definitive american novel. Or maybe I could have been a crazy awesome essayist discussing culture and politics, possibly even the modern conception of identity, like that nut Chuck Klosterman.
On a completely different note, I'm pretty sure the reason that no one liked that show Seaquest is because of the stupid dolphins. Dolphins are cool in general, but it's just unfair to ask them to support that much plot structure.
Happy Holidays everyone. ~Jason