Hello. Today, I will actually be making a post. I know for the past few months I have promised many posts and made none (of substance). I'm hoping that will change, as I am starting to organize my time better here at college, which should led to more time for me to blog.
So here we go, my first real post since March 2nd, 2008.
Remember this?
Current Mood: Proud.
Current Song: Crystal Ball (No, its not a coincidence, I was looking back at my blog for my last long post, and I noticed that this song was playing, and I realized that I had not listened to this song in awhile, so its play was long overdue)
Random Thought:
What a Monday night football game between the Eagles and Cowboys! Games like this remind me why I love football so much.
Amazing stat: Eagles and Cowboys averaged 23.6 yards per minute in the first half. (Thanks ESPN)
Okay!
So College.
Yeah.
I moved in awhile ago... August 21st. Much has happened since then, and I'm very disappointed that I did not get around to posting about my experience at college until this point. I'm sure I'm going to leave out many details about what has happened, but oh well. Oh well.
Racking my memory..
The first week, was Welcome Week. Welcome Week is basically a program that TCNJ created in order to get freshmen acclimated to the college, mostly in the social aspect. Ice-breakers galore.
Most of the week was spent with my floor ( Travers 8). We ate all our meals together, went to events together and showered together. The meals together does such quite corny.. but I actually enjoyed that aspect, it helped me meet and get to know some people on my floor. The only thing that annoyed me was getting up early for some of the breakfasts. During Welcome Week, its a given, you don't sleep, which made getting up by 8 AM challenging.
A major focus of the week was taking pride in your floor, which basically means a lot of T8 chants, and other activities that were set to promote our floor. Not really my thing. I'm not a loud person, so I felt out of my element.
Some activitites that I participated in Welcome Week were Playfair, a Rootbeer Keg, a BBQ, a few presenations on Dating Violence and Alchohal, and um.. I forget.
Playfair was decent. I got to meet a bunch of new people (I especially enjoyed meeting all the people with the same birthday as me). Don't really talk to anyone I met there now though, ah well. For one activity at Playfair, we got to learn some TCNJ chants. I loved during the TCNJ lion (I got to saw RAWR to random people). rawr. Ok.
The Rootbeer keg, was a dance. I don't dance. But I did try Rootbeer for the first time. yay.
Oh yeah! Mike, a friend from my floor who enjoys reading books about random topics such as Chimpanzees.. taught me how to play pool and poker. Yeah, I can do that now.
So Overall Welcome Week was.... O.K.
I did meet some people... got to know my floor better.. tried some new things, but it was just too much in too little time. It was one activity after another.. it got tiresome. I didn't really get a chance to sit back and say "Wow, I'm in College." Also, many of the activites (such as Playfair) were centered around being loud and such.. and as I mentioned, not me.
Okay, I realize that this post will be extremely long and on one will read it if I continue to tell you guys about my college experience with this much detail. I'm going to go for a more brief descriptiin/conceptual approach from here on.
Once classes started, I had a lot more time, therefore I had a lot more time to manage.
The first week.. I spent most of my free time trying to do social things.. as I felt that was what was most important at the time.
College is like a social game the first few weeks. You have to go out and make friends, or life will suck. For a person like me, who abhorres small talk, is not the best initiator, and enjoys time alone, the first few weeks required me to act differently than I was accustomed. You have to go out and talk.. to everyone. You have to continue to throw yourself into social situations. I can't even count how many people I asked "What's your major??", "Where are you from???" I personally love to meet new people, but its different when you HAVE to meet new people.. and meet them at such a high frequency.
I was very proud of how I was acting though.. I was really putting myself out there.. something I didn't use to make a habit of in Livingston. I could finally say, I'm not a shy person.
I went home on labor day, and had tons of work due to the time I allocated to my social life instead of work. I felt bad that I had to spend a few hours each day at home doing work, but it did not limit my activity at home too much. I still spent time with my dad, discussing politics and my adjustment to college, with my mom, discussing an assortment of topics, mainly what was going on at college, and my brother, sharing laughs like we always do (as well as sharing my thoughts on what was going on). We had a family BBQ that weekend also. Got to see more members of my family, like Kaitlyn (my little cousin). It was very hard for me to come to terms with the fact that I won't be seeing her as much as I use to.
Wow. too long. going to condense.
The last few weeks of college have had their ups and downs. I'm starting to fall into a group of friends, while still meeting new people. A few aspects of my social life I am still concerned about, but that is for another post.
I'm starting to organize my time much better. Let me tell you, writing out a goals list is INCREDIBLY helpful. Do it.
I've been playing Ultimate Frisbee, I joined the club team. To tell you the truth, probably the only thing I don't look forward to on a daily basis. I'm new. I suck. They are all experieced. It makes practice not very enjoyable. But I will continue to go, because I know from my maturation from High School that I can't always have instant gratification and enjoy everything I do. It will be worth it in the end. I mean, I already learned how to do a pretty good backhand. yay.
My classes:
General Psych: Very interesting! Love what I am learning about. Professor is funny ("If you aren't home, guess what, your parents are probably having sex"), but runs the class somewhat lethargically.
Calc: The only class I dislike. Professor is meh. Material doesn't seem too bad. I have trouble understanding the professor, but she teaching right from the book, so I should be okay.
Living in a Virtual World (Seminar) : I can't believe I wanted to switch out of this class. (I let the stereotypes of who would take a class on the internet get into my head, I am not perfect, sometimes I can be judgemental) I love this class. I love the internet. Its part of who I am. That's why I put it on my list for my seminar selections. I know that now, that is all that matters.
Also, Great Professor. Best one this semester. Lovely lady.
American Government: Interesting class. Perfect to take with the election coming up. Professor is intelligent, but monotone. Seems like a great man though. Had a nice convo with him today after class.
Okay. I'm done. Finished. It's almost 1. I have a 10 am class tomorrow. But I'm glad I did this. It's imcomplete (I mean, a whole month in college, people could write a book), but its sufficient.
I am going to continue to blog, but they will not be as long as this. Not even close.
Some things I will blog on in the near future (besides my life, of course):
-The Yankees Season
-Stumple Upon
-Politics
-The NFL
-The Internet Subculture
-Rutgers Football
-Chris
(Oh yeah, and the title of this post refers to a conversation I had tonight with a kid on my floor. yes, we were discussing hobbits.)
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