huh. how about a livejournal revival?
hokay. my first day of college, even though i'm pretty sure my hardest year of college was my last semester of high school.
i figure the best time to start a personal record of my experiences is now. okay, the stuff i wrote above was a bold-faced lie, it was actually registration, which is just as awesome. or painful. but mostly memorable. my dad and i drove down there the day before and i brought along my laptop. i love wifi. you can get it EVERYWHERE on campus. except the union basement, jackasses. anyways, they do a nice job of trying too hard to make you feel welcome, masking their true intent of taking your money and slitting your throat sometime in the processs, but in the nicest way possible. then they have students do their schtick and you gotta be dedicated to stick around to do summer orientation for a whole summer, almost every day, to a bunch of freshmen. it got frustrating, and ours was only the first day too. anyways, i learned the hard way that the university is like a gigantic brick wall, however many times u bang your head against it, it won't move and it'll probably hurt doing so. so i've pretty much adopted my dad's cynical view, though i try not to. then i met my FIRST SET OF ENGINEERINGCLASSMATES!!! in small grroup sessions, one girl was clearly hungover, there were actually a lot of girls, i sat next to this one girl from streamwood who will be living in allen and loves garden state. the world needs more indie/emo girls who take engineering.they're so awesome. one of the orientation leaders mentioned he was on stage naked during a production of "hair" and dislikes clothes and i wanna be just like him... then i had lunch with all those people. one of the kids reminded me of pedro from napoleon dynamite, kinda his matter of fact way of saying things or mentioning that he missed his graduation which i found awesome. then i had advising sessions, my person actually encouraged me to take a bunch of hard classes and to do what i felt like doing, which was weird since they're supposed to be curmogenly and want to hold you back as i was taught. but he said i had enough AP credit to graduate in five semesters, which is cool. i'm not going anywhere tho. it then took me two and a half hours longer than it should have to do electronic registration. problems: they didn't recognize that i lived in allen, nor did i get any of the sections of cs173 that i wanted, so that messed my schedule up further and it just bugged the hell out of me because i had planned everything weeks in advance. so i need to be flexible or bend the insttitution to fit me, which ever is less expensive in the short run. i'm convinced i can rule the world, but that won't be for a while. for now i'm taking the hardest calc. class they offer and also a class on human sexuality. which i get to take at allen. i got a bunch of free stuff, including a meningitis shot plus a hoodie and a smoothie and a rare moment of my father admitting that i was the hardest working out of all of us children, which is probably true because it shows in both the good ways and the bad. but in the end, i only have 15 hours and one class on fridays. i heart college even through its kinks. all i gotta do now is figure who i'm liiving with and i'm set. also money, i kinda need to finance my own expenses. but if that's the least of my problems, i've really got it set.
i figure the best time to start a personal record of my experiences is now. okay, the stuff i wrote above was a bold-faced lie, it was actually registration, which is just as awesome. or painful. but mostly memorable. my dad and i drove down there the day before and i brought along my laptop. i love wifi. you can get it EVERYWHERE on campus. except the union basement, jackasses. anyways, they do a nice job of trying too hard to make you feel welcome, masking their true intent of taking your money and slitting your throat sometime in the processs, but in the nicest way possible. then they have students do their schtick and you gotta be dedicated to stick around to do summer orientation for a whole summer, almost every day, to a bunch of freshmen. it got frustrating, and ours was only the first day too. anyways, i learned the hard way that the university is like a gigantic brick wall, however many times u bang your head against it, it won't move and it'll probably hurt doing so. so i've pretty much adopted my dad's cynical view, though i try not to. then i met my FIRST SET OF ENGINEERINGCLASSMATES!!! in small grroup sessions, one girl was clearly hungover, there were actually a lot of girls, i sat next to this one girl from streamwood who will be living in allen and loves garden state. the world needs more indie/emo girls who take engineering.they're so awesome. one of the orientation leaders mentioned he was on stage naked during a production of "hair" and dislikes clothes and i wanna be just like him... then i had lunch with all those people. one of the kids reminded me of pedro from napoleon dynamite, kinda his matter of fact way of saying things or mentioning that he missed his graduation which i found awesome. then i had advising sessions, my person actually encouraged me to take a bunch of hard classes and to do what i felt like doing, which was weird since they're supposed to be curmogenly and want to hold you back as i was taught. but he said i had enough AP credit to graduate in five semesters, which is cool. i'm not going anywhere tho. it then took me two and a half hours longer than it should have to do electronic registration. problems: they didn't recognize that i lived in allen, nor did i get any of the sections of cs173 that i wanted, so that messed my schedule up further and it just bugged the hell out of me because i had planned everything weeks in advance. so i need to be flexible or bend the insttitution to fit me, which ever is less expensive in the short run. i'm convinced i can rule the world, but that won't be for a while. for now i'm taking the hardest calc. class they offer and also a class on human sexuality. which i get to take at allen. i got a bunch of free stuff, including a meningitis shot plus a hoodie and a smoothie and a rare moment of my father admitting that i was the hardest working out of all of us children, which is probably true because it shows in both the good ways and the bad. but in the end, i only have 15 hours and one class on fridays. i heart college even through its kinks. all i gotta do now is figure who i'm liiving with and i'm set. also money, i kinda need to finance my own expenses. but if that's the least of my problems, i've really got it set.