I graduate from college in two months. What the hell? Where did the time go. I promise you it feels like last year I was a freshman and had my parents and sister drop me off to my dorm in Alumni. It was weird bypassing all the traffic to the freshman dorms (aka Northwest) and heading to a deserted side of campus, where all of eight freshmen moved into my building. I was scared shitless to start college, coming in with preconceived notions that were completely wrong about what it was going to be like. I was looking forward to the four years ahead of me that in a way presented a bubble from the "real world", which seemed like such a long time such that it would never come to an end. Four short years later I'm facing a full time job upon graduation and talking about 401K's and holy crap how did this change occur.
But enough about that for now. I've still got two months of college left, so why not enjoy them and reminisce when I've got nothing better to do. Surprisingly, I've been managing my time well lately. I've got sort of a nerd/wannabee meathead thing going on. I wake up for lifting at the gym, then head over to the engineering building where I spend most of my day. The two just don't seem to add up. But hey, who wants to fit stereotypes anyway, and who says nerds can't get huge.
As usual the weekdays at UConn are dry and uneventful. Apartment life proves to be more lonely than dorm life, since you basically lose tons of social time because of not having a meal plan. You'd think (at least in a guys apartment) it would be a bunch of guys eating wings, drinking some beers watching some sports game. Nope, that rarely, if ever, happens. People fend for themselves and eat on their own time. I'm used to it out, but I guess I realize I'm more of someone that needs to be around others than I thought.
Fridays are (and probably everyone elses) my favorite day up at college. The routines of the school-work week are put to rest and the whole campus dynamic changes. The homebodies/antisocial people go home, your acquaintances disappear, and a few good friends you made plans with stick around for a good time. You hit up the gym in the morning Saturday after a night out you enjoyed, spend the afternoon napping or watching a movie with the roomies. Round two comes Saturday night, which is somehow not as enjoyable as Friday. Then of course Sunday comes around and you join the endless supply of facebook status about how miserable the day is because of studying/work needing to be done. Almost 4 years here and not much has changed about that routine(except for my gym attendance, that has varied...)
Spring break is somehow 3 days away. Am I doing anything? sort of. If you count visiting your friends from home up at their college then sure I'm doing something. Am I upset that I'm not going to Florida or on some cruise, not really. Why? I'm going to Europe for 17 days after graduation. I'll be visiting places I've already seen (Greece/Italy) while exploring new territory(England/France). I'll see some badass castles, at least I hope. It's going to be nice letting loose for 17 days with no homework, no senior design, no job. Just a good time overseas seeing things I'd probably never see otherwise. Any then I come back to start putting in 40 hours a week until the day I retire.
That's where I'll end this for now. I think what I ultimately want for this is to let me express my opinions, but it seems I've posted a record of my thoughts instead. How this will develop, I don't know...but I'm going to roll with it.
So I'll leave you off now. Mood? I'd say content. Things for the most part are smooth lately. So I'll post a song in honor of Wiz Khalifa, because hell yes I'm seeing him at UConn later this month.
Peace out until the next post people.
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