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  1. gymnist1026
    Midterms week...Yay!!!
     
    So i only have two exams during midterms week, which is really awesome, especially because they are my two easiest classes (Psychology and Astronomy)...
     
    As a random factoid...
     
    Every day, the earth begins to revolve slower, causing the days to get longer, because the moon is getting farther away and absorbing Earth's angular momentum. Eventually the moon will tidal lock the earth into orbit, causing the moon to stay in the exact same place above earth. Sadly, this will never happen because before it does, the sun will explode.
     
    Yay for random astronomy awesomeness....
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    So i moved in to my dorm room on saturday (it is monday today) and i am so bored. Classes havent started yet and it has been raining the entire time i have been here. I went over to Disobliges room yesterday as well...It is a freakin hotel room. It has airconditioning and free HBO. It is also alot nicer then my hell hole...no AC, hot and humid cause of the rain, and it is only supposed to get hotter.
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    I graduated. Now i am done with my formal schooling. Next Year starts college and all the fun times there. I am starting school as a Chemical Engineering major. Should be fun.
     
    In my summer boredom, i have started to play Fable for the pc again. I am also working 40+ hours a week. Why am i so bored?
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    Went to prom on Friday. It was at the Field Museum. I had fun dancing with all the girls in my group. After we slept at a friends house but i had to leave early to go to practice (on less then one hour of sleep...i had some fun that day doing flips...). We also went to the Indiana Dunes which was cool. I like the beach.
  5. gymnist1026
    5:40 AM Wake-up/Breakfast/Dress
    6:10 AM Catch Bus For School
    7:10 AM School Starts
    PE
    AP Senior English
    AP Macroeconomics
    AP Physics
    Lunch
    AP Biology
    Calculus III
    3:00 PM School Ends
    --15 Minute Drive to Another High School--
    3:15 PM Gymnastics Practice Starts
    6:00 PM Gymnastics Practice Ends
    6:30 PM Get Home
    6:45 PM Dinner Time
    7:00 PM Homework (or Pretending to do Work)
    11:00 PM Go to Sleep
     
     
    My life sucks right about now...i wish i could have some free time during the day...i like sleep...yum...
  6. gymnist1026
    Its a new year and nothing special has happened. It is second semester of my senior year and its not as exciting as i though that it was going to be. I am pretty much doing nothing in school. On the plus side, i start Calculus 3 this week so it should be fun. My dad is riding my case on scholarships too...he dosent want to pitch in for my college (he is still pissed because i scored better then him on the ACT).
  7. gymnist1026
    So today i took my first collage final (Math- Linear Algebra 210). It went better then I thought it would have. Now i have to write a reflective essay for english for friday, then physics on monday, then biology on the next friday. Yay easy schedule!!!
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    Well...I havent seen my dad is over two weeks now...he has been ignoring me...before this, he started to challenge me to fights saying "You wanna go wight now? Ill whop your ass right here" and such...it was really weird...
     
    This Saturday is my one year anniversary with my girl friend. Going out to dinner on the one night i have off...
     
    I also am completely exhausted...I need about eleventy gazillion hours of sleep and thats not happening...
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    So my parents are being irrational...They told me that I wasnt smart enough to make it into college...even though I have three acceptance letters to prestigious universities sitting on my desk...I also havent seen my girlfriend outside of school for well over a month now...bad times...bad times...
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    As of 26 hours and 42 minutes my time, the summer will officially be over and the fall will have begun...
     
    Good bye good summer and your warm nights...
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    I dont do anything anymore besides watch movies. I have watched Harold and Kumar go to white castle around 6 times now...and i am also watching the Battle Royale movies alot...I need a hobby...
  12. gymnist1026
    If anyone ever gets bored...Try This...it is really entertaining...
     
    Have a Break. Have a Gymnist.
    Kills All Known Gymnist - Dead.
     
    ...and my personal favorite...Do The Gymnist.
     
    I cant even make this stuff up folks...It is really addicting though
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    So summer is coming to and end, and after working for the last 3 months at 50 hours a week, i am ready to move back into school. I am ready to be done with summer...
     
    2 more weeks...
  14. gymnist1026
    Spring Break was a wash...i planned on doing school work, but i ended up catching up on sleep...slept an average of 12-13 hours a day...was fantastic...
     
    5 more weeks till finals...then summers...
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    Semester 2 just began this week. My classes seem tough (3 lab courses plus a normal course load) and I am not looking foreward to when all the classes really get going in terms of homework/quizes/lab reports...This is going to be a really hard semester for me. I am beginning to doubt my Chemical Engineering major...every time someone asks me what major I am working towards, they grimace at the response and apologize...surely that cannot be a good sign for my remaining 7 semesters...
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    Its almost that time of year again; time to be at home, eating massive quantities of arguable the best food you will eat all year, and watching (or even playing) football. Having been away at school for the past three months, coming home is going to feel weird.
     
    As my former english teacher once said, "When you come home for Thanksgiving your freshmen year of college, it will be the first time that you will be a guest in your parent's homes." Somehow this seems true. Although I still claim my parent's house as home, it is no longer where I live; I have officially moved out, physically and emotionally (even if it is not permanent yet, the process has already started and I feel oddly detached from everything that happens there).
     
    Some of my friends do not believe me that we have moved out and on with our lives. They believe that returning to their old lives at their parent's homes will be natural and unnoticeable. I try to convince them that they are guests, that college housing is their new, albeit temporary, home.
     
    Somehow college changes you, and you don't even get a chance to notice until you are forced to look at where you were just a few short weeks ago. I know that I will have a hard time adjusting to life back under the parent's roof as I have grown accustomed to the freedom of college.
     
    I know that since I have started school, I have studied more these past three months then I did in the last three years of high school. I work my ass off for every grade I earn. But when I go home, my dad is going to yell at me because I am no longer a strait A student. Somehow, I don't care what he thinks all that much anymore. I know that I am working my ass off and that I am doing the best that I can. I am taking classes that for the first time, challenge me and interest me. I have also had to face the start reality that no longer can I rest on my laurels in school. There are other people who just as smart as me out there. And in the past three months, I have met many, many more who are even smarter then I am. I hate to admit this because up until now, I have always been one of the smartest people in all my classes. It is sad but true.
     
    As a testament to my work and schooling, I looked at the items I was going to pack for my trip home only to discover that I am taking back more books and notebooks then I am actual clothing items. Sadly, I am going to be spending alot of time over my vacation doing school work, trying to earn every point possible.
     
    One of the biggest surprises of my semester was my Chemistry Lab course. It is a standard course for freshmen Chemical Engineers and Chemistry majors. Every week, I have lab on Friday mornings for four hours. We complete a lab every week. That means that every week I have another lab report due. And they cause many sleepless nights. Many people I know complain of having 8 page term papers due once a semester. I have lab reports that are easily more then ten pages due every week. And to make things better, the course is only worth two credit hours. All my hours and hours of work, and the college barely rewards the effort with credit hours.
     
    Lessons learned so far in college include not taking Honors versions of courses; it is better to take the normal version and do a project for the course then take the honors course. This is because everyone in the honors section is really smart and into the subject. They also have their own curve separate from everyone else. That means that by scoring what would have been an A+ in a normal section, I would have instead scored a B or a C. That is how competitive the honors sections are. My psychology class is like that. It is really a pain in studying because for me, it is just a free elective to satisfy an Honors Requirement for the honors program I am in. I will make a decent grade and learn from my mistake.
     
    By far my hardest lecture based class is my astronomy class: "General Astronomy." When I signed up for the class, I figured that it would be a good astronomy course to take, would include some physics for describing the motions of bodies in space and all that fun stuff. Boy was I wrong. It is an astrophysics course. That is normally not a problem except for some of the material is way over my head as I am not currently enrolled in an Advanced Electromagnetics course (alot of the stuff we talk about is related to it...i understand some of it, but most of the time I just have to accept things at face value because I lack understanding of some of the concepts.) Fortunately for me, the class is difficult for everyone. I recently scored a 59% on a midterm in the class. That is a solid B in the course. That is how hard the class is for everyone. I am really glad I took the course though because it is the most interesting subject I am in currently.
     
    I really feel like I am overwhelmed sometimes. But I know that I just have to keep working at it.
     
    Although schoolwork dominates my life, I still have fun. Every saturday and sunday, the guys on my floor all gather in one of our rooms to watch the Fighting Illini Football and Da Bears. Since Illinois is definately making a Bowl Game now, me and my friends are trying to plan a road trip to Florida (where the two possible Bowl Games are held) to go to the game. The game is on New Year's Day so I'm not too sure if my parents would be up to it, but I really don't care. Going to college football games is one of the greatest experiences ever; where all the students are decked out in orange and chanting, it is awesome.
     
    I also recently went to Virginia Tech for a gymnastics meet. It was a ton of fun. It was a 9 hour drive to the school, but in that time, you really get to know the people who are squished in the car with you. We also were staying with 8 people in a room to save money on hotel bills so we really leaned alot about each other (Some of the things I found out about other people floored me completely...I would have never guessed that some of these people would do some of these things). The meet was decent. No one really did that well competing, but we had fun and made it look good. Afterwards, we all went to Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner. For those of you who dont know what it is, it is a sports bar type place that has amazing wings. We ended up watching part of the Illinois game when it came on TV. There were 27 of us there and we were chanting and yelling like we were at the game. We went nuts when the Illini scored touchdowns. The other people there were bewildered that we were so ecstatic about the game (especially since the LSU vs Alabama game was on).
     
    On the long drive home, we all stopped at a TGI Friday's to eat dinner. All 27 of us at a table at a sit down restaurant. We told the waitress that it was one kids birthday, and we went nuts singing for the guy. He got so embarrassed, but got a free cake slice in the end. Luckily our waitress was good and split the check by orders (something she organized before she even took anyone's order) so paying per person was really easy and simple. We did manage to rack up a bill of over $400 though, but for the number of people. it wasn't that bad.
     
    Well, I think I am blogged out for the day. I might put somethings up after break, but who knows.
  17. gymnist1026
    So last night me and a couple of friends i have met this week (all of whom were girls) decided to go frat hopping last night. It was awesome. I only bad one can and then two cups from a keg, so i didnt go overboard, but i had a blast. It was keystone light though, so it was pretty watered down tasting, but it was decent enough to drink. It was really funny though because there were cops out in Greek-Town (where the frats are) and they saw all the underage drinking and did nothing. Yay for lazy cops!!
  18. gymnist1026
    SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
     
    I think that says it all...
     
     
    Also...im going to Chicago Bulls game tonight...got some primo seats from my dad's office. It is going to be fun.
  19. gymnist1026
    School is almost over!!!! There is only one month of half-assed learning before graduation. And that month will consist of torture from Prom plans (really, really not looking foreward to prom planning...)
     
    Anyways, its spring break which is nice since i can sit around and do nothing and not get yelled at...
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