I love Fall
Fall has been good to me so far...it's beautiful weather...I'm not super busy...and I got the fellowship from Hopkins! I'm still deciding what I'm doing after graduation (still have a couple more options as far as grad programs go), but it's good to know I have at least one awesome opportunity at hand. Still, it's a little scary leaving college and joining the real world.
I feel sad when I think about college being over. I had four years of amazing memories, shenanigans, parties, experiences, bad boyfriends, finally a good one, and amazing friends. I get sad about it, but what makes me the most sad is that it truly is over. What I mean by that is that even if I stayed at "MSU" it wouldn't be the same MSU as I walked into. So many people have graduated, moved on, we're growing up, getting smarter (or at least more practical) and joining the real world. Even if I stuck around, I could never get back what I had when I was here. I guess that falls somewhere into that whole "Time, Space, Continuem" philosophy that I'm not smart enough to figure out yet. Even if I did, I'd still probably feel the same way.
Having said that life is treating me extremely well right now, and I can only hope that the things that make me truly happy last. I love being able to spend time with friends at school as well as friends back home. I really like my English classes. I love taking little Morgan and Charlie out with Tony and having people think they're are kids and we don't correct them b/c it's funny. I'm excited to (most likely) move to Baltimore in January, but I'm also really enjoying my slow paced (about as slow as my life gets) life I'm leading right now.
One thing that bugs me right now, on a completely different note, is that when I tell people that I'm probably going to move to Baltimore in January, they act like I'm moving to some remote island with no form of communicative tools (phones, computers) or transportation in and out. Call me naive, but I really think I'm going to be able to keep in touch with everyone back home (and in Chicago--so many friends moved/are moving there) pretty well. I get 13 vacation days/year, in addition to Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Day, plus a few long weekends like Labor Day, MLK day, and Memorial Day. Having said all of this, I'll only be there during the school year, and come home in the summers. Call me crazy, but I don't think doing this for two years is going to be as hard on my relationships with A. family B. friends and C. Tony...as some people act.
Other friends are very supportive and share my view, and I very much appreciate this :)
I'm about 85% sure that I'm going to do the Hopkins/BPS program starting in January. There's still a couple other programs I'm waiting to hear back from (which start in June) but I'm pretty set on Baltimore now. This season of "The Wire" is off the hook, maybe this is subliminally affecting my decision process.
Which, I hate by the way. Making decisions that is.
Call me if you want to drink. I don't have much time left!
I feel sad when I think about college being over. I had four years of amazing memories, shenanigans, parties, experiences, bad boyfriends, finally a good one, and amazing friends. I get sad about it, but what makes me the most sad is that it truly is over. What I mean by that is that even if I stayed at "MSU" it wouldn't be the same MSU as I walked into. So many people have graduated, moved on, we're growing up, getting smarter (or at least more practical) and joining the real world. Even if I stuck around, I could never get back what I had when I was here. I guess that falls somewhere into that whole "Time, Space, Continuem" philosophy that I'm not smart enough to figure out yet. Even if I did, I'd still probably feel the same way.
Having said that life is treating me extremely well right now, and I can only hope that the things that make me truly happy last. I love being able to spend time with friends at school as well as friends back home. I really like my English classes. I love taking little Morgan and Charlie out with Tony and having people think they're are kids and we don't correct them b/c it's funny. I'm excited to (most likely) move to Baltimore in January, but I'm also really enjoying my slow paced (about as slow as my life gets) life I'm leading right now.
One thing that bugs me right now, on a completely different note, is that when I tell people that I'm probably going to move to Baltimore in January, they act like I'm moving to some remote island with no form of communicative tools (phones, computers) or transportation in and out. Call me naive, but I really think I'm going to be able to keep in touch with everyone back home (and in Chicago--so many friends moved/are moving there) pretty well. I get 13 vacation days/year, in addition to Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Day, plus a few long weekends like Labor Day, MLK day, and Memorial Day. Having said all of this, I'll only be there during the school year, and come home in the summers. Call me crazy, but I don't think doing this for two years is going to be as hard on my relationships with A. family B. friends and C. Tony...as some people act.
Other friends are very supportive and share my view, and I very much appreciate this :)
I'm about 85% sure that I'm going to do the Hopkins/BPS program starting in January. There's still a couple other programs I'm waiting to hear back from (which start in June) but I'm pretty set on Baltimore now. This season of "The Wire" is off the hook, maybe this is subliminally affecting my decision process.
Which, I hate by the way. Making decisions that is.
Call me if you want to drink. I don't have much time left!