Wow its been a while
I can't believe its been a month since I've written in this thing...
Time has gone by so fast, I've been so busy with stuff I haven't had time to update this. Well let's get caught up shall we before we go into deeper thoughts...
Well, this semester is very close to being over. My project is going along swimmingly. It is due in a week, yet we still have very far to go. There are a few people in my group that are still pissing me off and not pulling their weight, in fact I'm talking to one right now and he's REALLY pissing me off. Anyhow, maybe I'll talk about him later. This project is keeping me very busy, I don't have time to meet with the asian clubs or hang out with friends during the week. Sorry if you feel I've been so distant, I promise that once this is over, I'll be back to normal.
Other than that class, the other classes are going well. Though, I haven't been paying much attention in my other classes because of this project. I have stopped caring about my Java class or my Cognitive Science class. Yes, I know its a bad thing to say, but I really can't focus on them right now. I just do as much as I can, even if its not complete, and that is that. As a result, my grades aren't as good as they should be, but like my parents told me, just do what you need to pass. As for my econometrics class, that is by far my most interesting class, and I really enjoy learning about economic modeling and stuff of that nature. What about my computer networks class? That class is a joke. I don't pay attention or learn anything in that class. The professor cancels it at least once a week, sometimes twice a week. I don't even know if I will be going to any more of those classes for the rest of the semester...
Anyhow, I really cannot believe that this semester is a week and a half away from being over (two and a half including finals...but they don't count.) I bitched so much the past two months about how I'm not going to make it and how I should drop Computer Science, but I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. I have one week until this project is over, and that's it. I'll have one more semester
to go before I graduate...scary.
In other news, I got the rejection letter from Vanguard. Oh well, I had a feeling I wasn't going to get that job, so the search continues. I was suppose to have a 2nd interview over the phone with Waddell and Reed last week, but they never called. They claimed they called me, but I never got the phone call, even though I skipped a class and waited nearly an hour for that call. Well, they are suppose to call me on Wednesday, so we'll see how it goes. I've also had other job interviews, but those companies have been very shady, and they interview process wasn't very good. The gave me very little information about the company, and asked me to call them back if I was interested. Needless to say, I haven't been interested in any of them. The search continues...
Thanksgiving couldn't have come at a better time. I was overworking trying to get all my work done, and I hadn't had a long break since the 2 week break in the summer, so my 4 day weekend was spent doing absolutely no work. Sure, I'll pay for it this week, but it was nice to take my mind off of school for an extended period of time. What did I do the four days, you ask? Well, my Thanksgiving started at my aunt's house, where I had a Thanksgiving "dinner" at 2pm. I was stuffed by 3:30, when I got a call from the Zee's inviting me over for dinner at their house. Of course, I accepted and they had a HUGE hotpot dinner. A definate contrast to the Thanksgiving dinner. That night I did not sleep and decided to camp out for the Wii. I'll spare you the details, but I did manage to get one and have been playing it constantly for the entire weekend. Friday, Sammy came over and we played with the Wii for the afternoon. Saturday, I had my "first date" with Emiwwwy, which was a lot of fun due to her low tolerance and an expensive glass of wine. Sunday was spent with my family again, honoring my great grandparents with mass food and all my uncles drinking and smoking and peer pressuring my dad to do the same.
Now, you are asking yourself, "Why is Alan telling me all this? I don't want to know about his daily life!" Well, I tell you this because as I was hanging out with all my friends this past weekend, I came to a revelation. I should have seen this coming earlier, but it is only starting to hit me now. I am about to transfer to another phase in my life, I'm about to graduate college and go to the real world and work. I won't have that comfort of being surrounded by the usual friends anymore. It was the same way in high school. The people you are used to seeing on a daily basis, your friends that you hung out with every weekend (or more often), and all of a sudden, we go our seperate ways. We each have our own agendas, and they may or may not include the people we are so comfortable with. So what happens next? I'll graduate, the people I'm so used to seeing in college will also graduate and we'll go our own ways. We may or may not stay in touch, but even if we do, will it be the same? I mean, besides the people I see here at UD, who else do I hang out with from Charter who didn't go to UD? Tiffany and Sammy, that's it. Which UD graduates do I hang out with? Emily, Sandy, and Dan? That's like...2% of the people I know. And I only hang out with them every 3-4 months. It sucks knowing that after I graduate in 6 months, I won't be talking to 95% of the people I talk to now.
Well, I guess I'll end it on that.
Time has gone by so fast, I've been so busy with stuff I haven't had time to update this. Well let's get caught up shall we before we go into deeper thoughts...
Well, this semester is very close to being over. My project is going along swimmingly. It is due in a week, yet we still have very far to go. There are a few people in my group that are still pissing me off and not pulling their weight, in fact I'm talking to one right now and he's REALLY pissing me off. Anyhow, maybe I'll talk about him later. This project is keeping me very busy, I don't have time to meet with the asian clubs or hang out with friends during the week. Sorry if you feel I've been so distant, I promise that once this is over, I'll be back to normal.
Other than that class, the other classes are going well. Though, I haven't been paying much attention in my other classes because of this project. I have stopped caring about my Java class or my Cognitive Science class. Yes, I know its a bad thing to say, but I really can't focus on them right now. I just do as much as I can, even if its not complete, and that is that. As a result, my grades aren't as good as they should be, but like my parents told me, just do what you need to pass. As for my econometrics class, that is by far my most interesting class, and I really enjoy learning about economic modeling and stuff of that nature. What about my computer networks class? That class is a joke. I don't pay attention or learn anything in that class. The professor cancels it at least once a week, sometimes twice a week. I don't even know if I will be going to any more of those classes for the rest of the semester...
Anyhow, I really cannot believe that this semester is a week and a half away from being over (two and a half including finals...but they don't count.) I bitched so much the past two months about how I'm not going to make it and how I should drop Computer Science, but I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. I have one week until this project is over, and that's it. I'll have one more semester
to go before I graduate...scary.
In other news, I got the rejection letter from Vanguard. Oh well, I had a feeling I wasn't going to get that job, so the search continues. I was suppose to have a 2nd interview over the phone with Waddell and Reed last week, but they never called. They claimed they called me, but I never got the phone call, even though I skipped a class and waited nearly an hour for that call. Well, they are suppose to call me on Wednesday, so we'll see how it goes. I've also had other job interviews, but those companies have been very shady, and they interview process wasn't very good. The gave me very little information about the company, and asked me to call them back if I was interested. Needless to say, I haven't been interested in any of them. The search continues...
Thanksgiving couldn't have come at a better time. I was overworking trying to get all my work done, and I hadn't had a long break since the 2 week break in the summer, so my 4 day weekend was spent doing absolutely no work. Sure, I'll pay for it this week, but it was nice to take my mind off of school for an extended period of time. What did I do the four days, you ask? Well, my Thanksgiving started at my aunt's house, where I had a Thanksgiving "dinner" at 2pm. I was stuffed by 3:30, when I got a call from the Zee's inviting me over for dinner at their house. Of course, I accepted and they had a HUGE hotpot dinner. A definate contrast to the Thanksgiving dinner. That night I did not sleep and decided to camp out for the Wii. I'll spare you the details, but I did manage to get one and have been playing it constantly for the entire weekend. Friday, Sammy came over and we played with the Wii for the afternoon. Saturday, I had my "first date" with Emiwwwy, which was a lot of fun due to her low tolerance and an expensive glass of wine. Sunday was spent with my family again, honoring my great grandparents with mass food and all my uncles drinking and smoking and peer pressuring my dad to do the same.
Now, you are asking yourself, "Why is Alan telling me all this? I don't want to know about his daily life!" Well, I tell you this because as I was hanging out with all my friends this past weekend, I came to a revelation. I should have seen this coming earlier, but it is only starting to hit me now. I am about to transfer to another phase in my life, I'm about to graduate college and go to the real world and work. I won't have that comfort of being surrounded by the usual friends anymore. It was the same way in high school. The people you are used to seeing on a daily basis, your friends that you hung out with every weekend (or more often), and all of a sudden, we go our seperate ways. We each have our own agendas, and they may or may not include the people we are so comfortable with. So what happens next? I'll graduate, the people I'm so used to seeing in college will also graduate and we'll go our own ways. We may or may not stay in touch, but even if we do, will it be the same? I mean, besides the people I see here at UD, who else do I hang out with from Charter who didn't go to UD? Tiffany and Sammy, that's it. Which UD graduates do I hang out with? Emily, Sandy, and Dan? That's like...2% of the people I know. And I only hang out with them every 3-4 months. It sucks knowing that after I graduate in 6 months, I won't be talking to 95% of the people I talk to now.
Well, I guess I'll end it on that.
posted by A. Nguyen at 1:35 AM
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