College Crisis Part I: Running out of time

I apologize in advance if this post may seem like a cathartic rhetorical mess of text. It needs to be in order for me to get my head on straight.
These past few weeks have been the hardest of my college career. Not because of course content and finals (albeit, they did not help my stress [...]

Anticipation

For the first time
In such a long, long time
I know
I’ll be okay
-From “Brand New Day” by Joshua Radin
I am officially going to a new college in January. What one and the exact date is TBD, but I was accepted to an excellent college on Friday! I am so excited!
Upon opening the [...]

Connected

I’ll readily admit that I have not been keeping up with my schoolwork for the past week or so. I was concentrating on getting my applications done and put things on the back burner. Now, though, I’m playing catch-up and needing to get it all done ASAP.
This week has been slightly overwhelming, something that I [...]

College is hard and no fun

Every one says college is so much fun, that you’ll be so involved, meet tons of new people (and for the girls out there, every time some ‘nice’ person says to you, “All the boys will be all over you in college!”, just nod your head and grit your teeth…it works for me and my [...]

Success: Part I

I am almost finished applying to college-well, one at least, and I discovered that if I actually sit down, pound furiously at the keyboard like my life depended on it (which it does…kinda…at least I’d like to think so), and JUST GET IT DONE AND OVER WITH, then I can accomplish a lot.
And my stress [...]

An Endless Summer

As the end of summer quickly approaches (school officially starts tomorrow for most of the elementary schools around here), I find myself pondering why four months of my time have flown by. I ended my semester in early May with a whirlwind of final exams, 16 page papers, and, with no time to catch my breath, [...]

Notes on Music….not Music Notes

I think I have ipod amnesia. In fact, I know I do because I think I just made up that term.
ipod amnesia (n): when you don’t play your ipod for a long period of time and forget what songs are on there and what aren’t. For example, after buying a few new cd’s that I [...]