Man.. today I am in such a slump.
This music is helping, but still. I am sooo... sick of the world. Everything is irritating me. I get like this a lot, and its not a good thing. Sometimes I just hate people.
I'm far away from my boyfriend. I might not see him for a long time. That really, really sucks.
My classes are actually pretty good. Not exactly what I had planned, but more or less okay.
I ended up taking Asian Religions (Hindusim, Buddhism, and Confucianism to be exact), Principles of Computer Science I (learning Java, woo), Calculus (partially my parents bidding, but also should help with computer science maybe?), Design as a Social Process (we get to make a toy! Plus design posters, and other new media stuff), Russian (just conversational 1 credit, but it helps), Practical Software Development (Exco, aka experimental college, taught by students who happen to be my friends! It's super cool, I think I will learn how to use a graphics programming language), Practicum in Journalism (write 5 articles for the Oberlin Review, the college newspaper) .
Outside of this I also have my job, which I love. I hope it will one day get me into a journalism field, but who knows... at any rate I can't abandon it, either.
I don't know if that sounds totally crazy, its 16 credits, which is the max and whatnot, plus work but I mean.. it doesn't seem that bad now that I'm two weeks in. Calc is pretty straightforward, Computer Science, well it's like the intro class I took except slightly harder and in a different programming language, Asian Religions is just a lot of reading (ahem, 89 pages to read for the next class). Art is time consuming, which is always the case.
Our first assignment in art was to make a drawing of lines that represents a song. We were supposed to listen to the song and kind of.. draw out the beats and things with lines. I really struggled with it but it was kind of fun nonetheless. What I don't like about assignments like these is that sometimes people spend 10 seconds on it, and the teacher either can't tell or doesn't say anything, and the fact that the student didn't try at all is totally overlooked. This rather upsets me, because I spent probably 4 hours on that assignment.. *sigh*
It's been great to see my friends again, though. I like having intellectual conversations, just the fact alone that I am not holed up in an apartment where I know nobody in an hour vicinity of me, is quite nice. I like my single, though at first I was worried because I thought I would become a hermit. However, I am still inviting some of my friends over. My roommates from last year are expanding, making new friends, and that's okay too. I see a lot of people around campus that I know, it's just who I invite to my room is a little different.
I keep feeling like I should invite more since I have a TV in my room (yeah, yeah, I'm spoiled as hell, I know- but at least I didn't have a U-Haul truck come to my dorm room!) but I don't really want a party in my room either.. just some kind of middle ground. Hopefully I will figure it out somehow. I think being in a single helps me get my priorities straight and not rely on others to remind me of deadlines and things that I need to learn to look up myself. Though mostly it's just because I like to study in my room and not have to go to the library. Everyone has their own study preference, right?
It's nearly midnight and I'm not in bed. What is this nonsense. I have to get up at 8:30 AM.. I have made a bad choice. Of course I've been staying up till midnight all weekend so this is kind of expected I guess. Luckily on Tuesday's I only have class at 1, and no work either! It's fantastically planned schedule-wise.
I'm not incredibly happy with this entry, but because it's late this will have to be all, folks.
