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I can’t believe we’re already at the end of our first semester. I still remember the first day of class where i got to see so many new faces, how big the school was, how expensive the books were and how much i would have to study to get a good grade. Its been a good semester i would say, i met a lot of interesting people, especially in LC26, i learned a lot of new things in my classes, and found out that when in doubt, either bullshit your way out of it or pretend to understand whatever the teacher’s saying (cough sociology cough). I can’t say i’ll miss you guys since after all we’ll still be going to the same school and i’m sure i’ll still see you guys around and we’ll look back on all the wonderful things that have happened, like jack getting yelled at by professor charles, all those times we corrected mccaffrey, and how we’re all fly like a G6. And don’t forget to hit me up on facebook

I think i did pretty good on my monologue since i inlcuded all of the things we had written over those 4 or 5 weeks and i meant it from the heart. I tried to make it funny just so that it didn’t seem so serious but i failed since no one laughed or probably even understood me, but hey, i got one vote so at least someone thought i was good.

Clifford: It’s strange how the simplest of questions can be the most difficult to answer. Those small meaningless questions that we never quite focus on or ask ourselves in life since it will never appear on a test, unless you are studying philosophy, or because they seem so easy that a caveman could do them. And more often than not it’s those seemingly easy questions that reveal the most about us and can help us build connections with other people. Small questions like, what are you most afraid of? Suddenly you remember those times when you were young and afraid to go into the dark hallway to get to the bathroom, those nightmares you had after playing resident evil 3 nemesis for the first time and that still scare you now, or that time you almost drowned as a kid from wandering into the deep end of the pool, and suddenly, after sharing your fears and hearing everyone else’s, you realize that you guys have a lot of the same fears. Other questions like, what’s important to you? Make you realize that you all value the same everyday things like boyfriend/girlfriends, friends, family, video games and even strange things like a collection of unicorn paraphernalia. Then you start asking yourself about everything else you might have in common with the ‘strangers” around you. Did they also have a problem staying awake and focused in McCaffrey’s class instead of staring at his sweat stains while he kept forgetting what he was doing? Did they also find these college books really expensive and boring? Did they also believe that high school did not prepare us for college like our old teacher promised us and were now asking for those four years back? Did they also like law class because of those funny examples that the professor gave us? And did they also like those two hour breaks that gave us plenty of time to enjoy things especially girls that college had to offer? Finally you start thinking about all the other little details and embarrassing moments and if they also went through them, like middle school bullying and teasing or the occasional awkward discussion about whose you know what was bigger. So slowly but surely you start realizing that all these people around you are in the same situation as you with the same fears, values and worries about college and that you could really enjoy these next few months of college with them and hopefully the next four years.

I’m a freshman so i’m still trying to find my way around, i used to be kind of a big fish in my old high school and the fact that i don’t really know anyone over here does kinda bother me. I’m really a pretty funny, loud random guy most of the time but i’m afraid that if i act that way in college around strangers that people will think i’m weird creepy or immature. I admit some of my jokes are rated m for mature but i’m not a pervert, lol, and the fact that i like to tease people can come off as being judgmental but its just for laughs. I’m a huge flirt so just because i hit on a certain girl or multiple girls doesn’t always mean much since i find flirting to be fun and a good way of keeping things from getting awkward or quiet. I can also come off as a know it all since i like answering questions in class especially math since that’s my favorite and in some ways best subject. I also enjoy anime, writing romantic poems, action movies, being wined and dined and long walks on the beach, lol

What really bothers me is the fact that some of these books and things for class (i’m talking about you ti-89) are hard to find and/or are crazy expensive so you can’t get all of them if your on a limited budget. Things like math especially webworks are difficult since the teacher doesn’t put up a problem and have you all try to solve it for yourselves then he shows how to do it, so you don’t really know how to solve it yourself and you don’t know all the formulas sometimes. And some teacher assign multiple books to read and i’m worried i’ll end up studying the wrong book come exam time, like i’ll end up studying this book when the exam is really on this other one or whats happened to some people i know where the chapters you’ve been assigned are not the ones the exam is on.

What’s really been different between high school and college is that you’re more responsible and teachers expect you to learn and do a lot of stuff on your own. I think by the end of my first year i’ll be pretty used to everything and hopefully i’ll be more responsible and more disciplined because i’m sure that everyone will agree with me that high school did not really prepare us for that.