Today was our first day of classes at Gutenberg… and suddenly life does not fit into all the neat little boxes which I have so carefully set aside for it. Not because all of a sudden I feel a paradigm shift coming on, but because now I am juggling transportation and classes and homework and socializing and all my responsibilities outside of school and work and sleep and nutrition and good-lord-how-do-you-people-survive.
Dad spent the better part of this evening trying to talk me off the ledge of self-pity and overwhelmedness upon which I found myself today. He says that all students, and especially Gutenberg students, have to go through this transition period… and that it’s an even bigger deal for the students who have moved here away from home for the first time. And I know that he’s right.
But the thing is, I’ve never been a big fan of the whole “throw you in the water and you will learn how to swim” deal. I always preferred to cling to the clammy edge of the pool until all the blood drained out of my arms or until I felt completely 100% sure that I wouldn’t screw up. Guess which usually came first.
I guess that’s my way of saying that I KNOW that balancing life takes practice and I KNOW that I just have to learn to deal, but you’re going to have to drag me kicking and screaming into actually LEARNING those lessons, goshdarnit.
Good thing that’s why I signed up in the first place.
September 26th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
Welcome to college life.
hehe
September 26th, 2006 at 8:26 pm
Pity. Pity pity pity. There. I’ve given you your so-desperately-desperately-needed pity. This will be the puurrrrfect time for you to kick the habit (procrastinating). Stay on top of it and you’ll do great. Enjoy it ern!
September 27th, 2006 at 2:49 am
Did these bad bad seniors spray mustard and ketchup on you, like I once saw in »Dazed and Confused«?
September 27th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
Lol, Erin. You are all kinds of cute. You will find that insanely busy is surprisingly manageable and that you REALLY don’t need as much sleep as you think you do.
I encourage you to learn to do homework in some of the places I have:
-The DMV
-In parking lots at night by street lamps
-In foreign countries
-Upside down
-For more than three or four hours straight
-In trains, planes, and automobiles
And when given the option of staying up late and getting up early, seriously consider getting up early, it is surprisingly pretty out there.
September 28th, 2006 at 1:17 am
You’re welcome to lunch at my place, give me a call and walk over.
October 2nd, 2006 at 7:20 am
congratulations on being accepting to 20Below!
October 3rd, 2006 at 9:57 am
Erin!
Don’t worry… college isn’t forever.
Darn! It would have been cool to meet. Definately next time. I really want to come up a bunch every year. We will be up there for thanksgiving again. Maybe then. Have an awesome week. I love your website. Beautifully done. I should get you to help me make my blog cooler.