Thursday, January 21, 2010

College Life

This is probably going to be completely random with just thoughts and wishes throughout the story but here it goes...

Last semester at Cowley finally...probably should have graduated a year ago but thanks to procrasitantion and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life I blew my freshman year with pretty much nothing to show. On the bright side of things I met quite a number of friends which is probably the only reason I made it through college this far. As for financial things student loans are pretty much the only way I have paid for college because I cannot seem to save enough money because of all the deals out in the world on meaningless material things. Today is going to be the last day of wasteless spending though. I have bought all the computers and electronics I can and will be off newegg and tigerdirect for a long time since that always seems to be in the back of my mind. Other than that I messed up a bit on my computer and will have to take some parts home to fix it because I do not have the right tools right now >.<

As for the most interesting part of college I never knew I would write for the Cowley Press. Thanks to a friend of mine I think it could be about one of the worst and best things that could happen to me. For one starting out writing sports is something I never would have thought since I never did sports other than cross country which I can truthfully say I sucked at. Guess I was never really made to do sports. Only thing that I did do during high school was band and I was pretty much set on going through college playing my saxophone. I am thankful for my parents buying me a new saxophone for christmas and also what they have done for my college career. I just wish I could repay them more but for now just graduating Cowley is a big start.

Back to newspaper anyway. Working from sports to writing about interesting articles that I wanted to such as special articles about funerals to coach of the year. I seem to have a knack for writing thanks in part to my teacher Meg. If it was not for her I am sure I would not enjoy the class I do. Also the friends I did have in paper are gone but making new friends is also fun as well. Staff this year have been an handful though to say the least. With people dropping the class left and right and relationships also being made and broken it is just one crazy world. Only thing keeping me sane is probably late night chats with friends. (yes I am sure you know who you are) Other than that procrastinating and also not following though with my responsibilities is not working out how I wanted either. With work and clubs conflicting right now it is not that fun...plus having a ton of homework and coming to the office on weekends leaves very little free time which I seem to spend trying to catch up with cleaning, laundry and netflix. I am pretty much going to be lucky just to make it through the semester with my GPA intact and keeping my mind sane. Guess that is what college can do to you.
Another thing keeping me sane is last.fm I am sure I would not make it through my job or classes without my music. I think if I didn't have my music I would pretty much be a empty soul walking through this thing called life...

Anyway I think seeing the other side is the first step to breaking this cycle. I am also going to use my poster and put up any of my electronics unless I really need them for class. Also going to step it up in the gym and also work on my eating habits. I am sure some people would kill for my body type right now (I hear it all the time at work since I seem to work with just women) and they all just sa I wish I had his body type. Guess I should be counting my lucky stars or just thank God for what he has given me. I just wish monday night Bible Study had more people because just watching a movie and eating dinner with the leader is kind of awkward but it is quite entertaining to see what each other thinks about certain parts of our walks of life.

I think this should be it for the night.

1 comment:

  1. I apologize for giggling at the bit where you talked about people killing for your body type. xD I can't help it, though, cos you're always going to be just Richard to me, not Super Stellar Sex God Bod Richard. xD :P

    I'M A LATE NIGHT PERSON WOO GOOO MEEEE.

    And I feel the same way about newspaper. Trust me. But... it's gonna help you in the long run. Showing that you were in an Editor in Chief position REALLY proves to people that you kind of rock, y'know? :D So, keep it up. Prioritizing is hard and I never learned how to properly do it, so you've just got to keep truckin'.

    Also, what is your last.fm name? pretty sure I'm ashrie. Yup. =D

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