Howdy readers,
I have finally fixed my gallery, unfortunately no photos are up right now. After about a month of trying to fix my blog I finally got the gallery to work but it won’t load my old photos. Nevertheless it’s back and most importnatly I’m back. Except finals are coming back so I’ll write more later!
[Pedro The Lion - Fix]
Today I decided to wear my Sufjan Stevens “Come On! Feel The Illinoise!” t-shirt around campus. Back home I can count all of the Sufjan Stevens fans I know on one hand with three fingers chopped off (meaning two?). While at tech I can count all the Sufjan fans on a perfectly unaltered hand (meaning five?). With a college campus of about 23,000 there must exist other Sufjan fans because while in high school I was one of two fans among the 3,000. Today I found out my theory held true and I was stopped by 4 random people today commenting on my t-shirt. Three of them knew who Sufjan was while the fourth thought I was from Illinois and simply thought my shirt was really cool. Unfortunately I was late to class each time someone stopped me so I was unable to befriend them. Oh well, there will come another day when I will wear that shirt around campus, hopefully I will get the same reaction again.
[Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Feel The Illinoise!]
Dear Virginia Tech Football,
Thank you for making my first ever Virgina Tech football game absolutely amazing. I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect ending; down 5 points against #19 ranked Nebraska, our defense prevents them from getting a game ending first down, 1:44 left on the game clock, , starting from our 17 yard line, no timeouts left, one broken play turns into a 80 yard completion and soon after another broken play turns into the game winning touchdown.
[Weezer - Perfect Situation]
Today I was working on my 1000-1200 word English paper, upon completion I noticed that I had written 1113 words. I quickly changed my last paragraph so the paper was 1111 words. If this doesn’t make my paper more epic I don’t know what else will. MLIA.
This is my crude attempt at making a “My Life is Average” post. Recently one of my friends has revealed this website to me and ever since I have been hooked on reading it. [MLIA]
[Kaiser Chiefs - Everything is Average Nowadays]
Good News: I won a ticket to the first home football game against Marshall
Bad News: I can’t find anyone to go with.
Freshman at Virginia Tech are not eligible for football season tickets but there are enough for a good portion of freshman to attend some games. Everyweek Virginia Tech holds a lottery where a lucky student can win a ticket to the upcoming game. How it works is once a student wins a ticket they must redeem it at the ticket office. If multiple freshman win tickets and wish to sit together they must redeem their tickets at the same time. If students don’t redeem their ticket those are then redistributed. I won “round 2″ which means there are very few students who actually won this decreasing the chances of me knowing someone I can go to the game with. I’ll probably just sneak over where a bunch of my friends are sitting since it’s bleacher style , hopefully this works out.
[Radiohead - Lucky]
After two days of classes in college I have only one tip of advice for any potential college students, DO NOT SIGN UP FOR 8AM CLASSES. Honestly for the past few years I have considered my self a “morning person,” so when I got my schedule I thought having an 8am class everyday wouldn’t be bad at all, unfortunately I was greatly mistaken. So far my solution for having energy for my 8am classes is running 2-3 miles before class. Although I have created somewhat of a paradoxical situation here, for me to gain energy I have to lose a large amount of energy, but the laws of thermodynamics do not apply to the human mind. Before my first day of classes I ran 3 miles at 6am, had breakfast, took a shower and read for 40 minutes before class and although I only got 6 hours of sleep that night it may have been one of my best days ever from a mental standpoint. I had 4 classes and I was able to stay awake without any trouble what so ever and each one of my professors had my full attention. Fast forward to today when I didn’t run, I had one class today at 8am and when I’m writing this post at 11:44 am I am still very tired although I took a two hour nap when i got back from class at 9:20am. I do have an excuse for not running today though because I hurt my ankle playing Walleyball (great game by the way) last night but I wish I could have run this morning. Hopefully my ankle will feel better because I’m going to need some energy again tomorrow when I have 4 classes again. Other than my morning energy problems at school Virginia Tech is great so far, I get a 50% discount at Chick-fil-A.
[Belle & Sebastian - We Rule The School]
(College Life Journal – Day 3 – Lose of normal abilities)
This new world I have found has been very interesting so far. Unfortunately in this place called “college” it is impossible to determine what time it is. I am writing this post at 12:40am and I’m not tired at all.
[MGMT - Time to Pretend]
It still hasn’t hit met yet but I’m at Virginia Tech and I’m all moved into my dorm room. Classes don’t start till Monday (today is Wednesday) so I will be taking the next couple days trying to find my way around campus and get a couple things done. Hopefully before class I will have a set daily routine I want to get through but until then it will be a learning experience form here on out. Enjoy some very low quality pictures of my dorm room:
My side of the room
Joe’s side of the room
[Albert Hammond Jr. - In Transit]
It is currently Monday night and I’m all packed and ready to head down to school. Unfortunately I don’t leave until Wednesday, I should have planned this better. I promise to blog a lot more during school, the goal is one post per week. I will also try to include some pictures with every post but keep in mind they will be from a 2 megapixel phone camera. The next 4 years should be very interesting and I’m looking forward to see what will unfold. Finally I will try to write every post using a song that I know as the title, this promise may not be kept but lets see how for I can go with this.
[Jack Johnson - Sitting, Waiting, Wishing]
Because the Engineering program at Virginia Tech is jammed packed I had almost no say in my schedule. At a first glance it looks horrible with an 8am class everyday but honestly I might like it. Yes every day I have a class at 8 but I think it will be nice to have a consistent time waking up every morning. Also after my 8am class every morning I have 3 full hours before my next class, I’ll most likely spend this time in the library which has air conditioning, my dorm room most likely will not.
EDIT: According to ratemyteacher.com every single one of my teachers is great (well according to the reviews) I guess waking up at 8 am everyday won’t be so bad.
