Definately time for a ramble

[aeryn]

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Anyways, actual life. College has given me a few horrific experiences, but also many nice ones. (Never mind. There is no way in hell I'm going to structure this like an essay.)

So, my trusty standby, bullet points.

• This week was finals week. I had a final each day of Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and, yes, even Saturday. That last, I assure you all, definately qualifies as horrific. Though it was nice to not have class Monday and Tuesday. I feel like I could have done better had I studied more, but such is life. I think I'll always feel like that. Thankfully, they're over. I resume class Wednesday, January 3rd. Last night my parents came to pick me up, and I had the joyous task of bringing two bikes up two flights of stairs from out in the rain. Then they took me to dinner, and it almost made up for it.
  
• I tried to sell my books back, I really did. But most of them aren't being used next quarter, so are worth little if anything. I ended up keeping all but one. Maybe I can sell them on the net?
  
• I got into a bike accident a few weeks ago. My pride was the only thing seriously injured, along with my handlebars. I replaced them, but they are loose, making it a tad hard to ride. I'll deal with it later... I didn't feel like I had time during finals week.
  
• I saw Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with some friends the night it came out. Even though we all had a midterm apiece that morning. It was more than worth it. (Lovely boys jumping out of trees!...*happy sigh*) I saw it again tonight, and I think that viewing it at midnight in costume when I should have been studying made it exciting-er.
  
• Thanksgiving break was okay, but short. I'm used to the week that I usually get, instead of this silly four-day weekend thing, that I will also apparently have for Spring Break. Give us a measly four days between quarters (which should be called trimesters, since there are three of them in a year, or even quintesters or something, if you include the two summer sessions, but you don't because the only people living in the oven that is the Davis summer are idiots or grad students who sub-lease) to nurse our injured brains before they are abused by a new set of classes, why don't you. Er... anyways, I had a dinner courtesy of Whole Foods with my immediate family and my nana and uncle. It was rather pleasant, overall, except for the midterm I should have been studying for that was on the Monday I got back. Midterms suck, by the way. I've also just let myself realize (though I'm now trying to forget) that I will have 3 sets of finals this year. Ick.
  
• I took procrastination to a new level this quarter by beginning two rather important papers the night/morning before they were due. I quasi-finished them and turned them in on time, but it was hectic. I'm really hoping I learned something from that, but I'm afraid it is simply that I work well under pressure.
  
• I am really going to enjoy this break. Because I just finished finals for classes I will (hopefully!) never take again, there is nothing that I could honestly be doing in terms of homework. Huzzah! =)
  I want to use this time to catch up on my reading, but also learn some new skills as well. Like, how to sew on a sewing machine, how to crochet, how to knit... but I think that's being overly ambitious.
  
• It may indeed be possible for me to finish in 3 years. They've finally accepted my 44 AP units, so I technically have about a year done. I don't know how far behind being in perhaps overly-advanced classes will put me, but I think I can do it. The rub is that I don't have a very good idea of what I want to do after college. I'm toying with the idea of law school, but honestly I have no clue.
  
• I was so caught up in high school with doing things that would get me into college that I never actually thought about what college would be like. It's... different. I set my own hours and am responsible for myself in a way that I was back at home to a certain extent, but now I have a little more freedom. Or rather, instead of having my freedom curbed slightly by my parents, it is now curbed slightly by the University. The most limiting thing is trying to get food. The Tercero DC opened... sort of. It's open Sunday-Thursday for dinner only, and only half of it is open. So a lot of my time goes to thinking about that food schedule, which is annoying. But it's extremely freeing to be able to miss classes if I feel they are completely useless. I felt like that often in high school, like I knew there was going to be a sub, or that we probably wouldn't be taught anything new, but I still went. Now, it is almost exhilarating, how much control I can extert. Only in one of my classes was attendence vital, because quizzes were issued every week, but that was the exception, not the rule. In the beginning of the year, I got the schedule for midterms, finals, and paper due dates. These had no deviance whatsoever. I skipped a few classes (especially my pointless Geography lectures and Linguistics discussions!) but that was rare, because I am so used to going to class when there is class. I've never played hookey before, and it was kind of fun.
  
• Now that I'm back at home, it is inordinately nice to be able to cross the hall from my room and use the bathroom, silly as it sounds. You really miss that when you have to climb a flight of stairs in the middle of the night instead. I also missed the use of a kitchen, of all things, and a well-stocked fridge... I can eat whenever I want! *exults* ....heh.
  
• I'm hesitant to admit this, but I think that Christmas is the most oppressive holiday of modern times. It is so ubiquitious. Every store from Thanksgiving until sometime in January seems to play the same 10 Christmas carols without reprieve. Drive around at night and you are assaulted by the sight of lights and trees and ugly caricatures of Santa and raindeer and snow. Previews at the movies involve Christmas. Well-meaning people wish you "Merry Christmas" on the street. TV is inundated with programs about cooking for Christmas, Christmas cartoons, and other "Holiday" (read: Christmas) specials. Public school children are exposed to Christmas at school, in the form of workshops and art projects. One would have to remain inside from late November until New Year's to have any chance of avoiding this over-commercialized excuse for a holiday, which claims that a lack of mention of Jesus makes decorated evergreens, red-clad old fat men, and hanging socks non-denominational.
  
  But, ironically (or is it perversely?) I am still extremely glad for the excuse for a two-week period of approved sloth.
  
  This was rather longer than I had intended, but overdue.
  
  Whatever it is you celebrate, I hope your break is a wonderful one.
  
  
  
  
  OMG WINTER BREAK!!! SQUEE!!!!1!!one!