20 posts tagged college
Seriously, I want to go back to Paris. Ben’s such a trooper, he must miss it like crazy after having been there for a whole school year. Grrrr.
I…have nothing to blog about. My life is a whirlwind of nothingness and boredom. School’s almost out, one more month and then it’s another glorious summer in the hometown.
For now, it’s Skyrim and reading a thousand books on my Kindle because I can.
Walking to class…
Boy: “Excuse me, I’m sorry, what’s your name?”
Me: “…I’m Abbey.”
Boy: “Oh, I see you around campus everywhere.”
Me: “Really? Well hi, I’m Abbey.”
Boy: “I’m Brandon…so…do you have a boyfriend?”
Me: “…yes I do have a boyfriend.”
Boy: “Oh…that sucks.”
Boy walks away.
I realize I look very enticing in yoga pants, no make-up, and a t-shirt…call me a heartbreaker.
The worst thing about being on campus, minus the constant verbal harassment/fearing for my life/lack of things to do is having nowhere to escape. When I would get depressed or angry at my house, I would go outside and sit on the driveway. The stars were always so clear and beautiful from there, and I would sit out there with a blanket and think until I calmed down.
Here, there’s no place to go.
So I sit on my bed with both headphones in and pretend I’m looking at the stars instead of my computer screen.
40 days seems like such an insignificant amount of time leading up to quite a significant event…can’t wait :)
I haven’t indulged my gamer side in quite awhile, so that’s all I’m doing, all night long.
Mass Effect, LittleBigPlanet, you name it.
I also got back my English essay/presentation grade, A+. All of the comments from my classmates were that I was a good public speaker…really? I like to think I’m well-spoken but when I give presentations and what not I can feel myself getting all hot and my voice sounds shaky, at least in my head. Oh well, I’ll take it.
Thursdays are the days that I get to sleep in, so that is certainly welcomed after last night. I had a dream that it was the day before I left for Paris, but for some reason, my flight schedule was Dayton > Colorado > London > Paris instead of Dayton > Chicago > London > Paris. I was talking about how excited I was and my older sister was like, “Or I can just go for you?” and my mom thought that was a wonderful idea and I woke up. Fat chance.
I also probably need to schedule my classes for Spring quarter today at some point, even though I have a hold on my account due to parking tickets…grrrr. 16 more credit hours in this place and I’m free.
After much figurative nail-biting, my passport application was successfully turned in today. Beyond the blue door at the post office was a cheerful man named Scott who took the most hostile looking photo of me in existance, but hey, I have everything I need to go to France now.
You’d think this would be a good day, and it would…if I didn’t have a whole bunch of work to do. I have one big project due to a family member on Wednesday, so I’ll probably only work on that a little tonight. More immediately, I have to pull all of the sources that I’m going to use for my research paper on a topic I haven’t even chosen yet by tomorrow. A normal student would a) have this done already or b) do it immediately after typing this. Not me. I will drink this energy drink, play Mass Effect 2 until I feel I’ve had enough enjoyment to tide me over until I’m done with this drab work at around 3-4 this morning.
Caffeine <3
I’m okay with the fact that I can wake up at noon and play video games before going to class. Bringing my PS3 up to school with me has helped immensely in not being so pathetically sad (less depressing posts, too, it’s a win win!) That being said, I do have to actually go to class in an hour, I just wanted to post really quickly about why the university I’m currently attending may be the worst place on the continent.
I really could go on, but I have to get ready for Sociology. I just thought I’d share why I have no hint of pride for this place. GO RAIDERS.
I don’t know why, but for me this day has become less of an imposition on enjoyment and more of the same routine. I’m off on Mondays, so I’m not surrounded with fruit and constant blender noise for 5+ hours, but I do get to sit and enjoy a three hour Political Science class from 6:05-9:25pm…good news is my professor is actual friends with one of my best friends and seems cool, I’m just not too keen on political history. Or focusing for three hours at a time.
So this is what being busy is like.
I do love that I get to sleep in until 11 A.M. everyday, that’s a welcome change from my classes at nine in the morning last quarter. This quarter, however, I’m taking 19 credit hours and MY GOD do I do a lot of running around. It doesn’t help that half of my classes are literally a twenty minute walk away from each other, (why is my Sociology class in the Engineering center? I’ll never know) or that I had work directly after my classes were through.
I don’t have class until 2 P.M. tomorrow and I was planning on coming home, getting under my covers, and catching up on Skyrim into the morning hours but I’m so exhausted, I’m about to fall asleep as I type this. This quarter is going to be a trial, but one I welcome with open arms.
