Monthly Archives: September 2010

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Hey all, I’m Spencer Wen, but I hope you know that if you’re reading my blog. Part of me is still a little shocked that I’m in college: I’m not a kid anymore. Doing household chores in my dorm, taking on the full responsibility of schoolwork, and living by myself is all new, exciting, and fun, but it’s also a little unsettling at the same time.

Among my expectations of being a college student is a college life. I know that you shouldn’t expect to be living the life as depicted on TV, but I do hope that it’s new and different from a high school social life. I love the fact that people are a lot more open and outgoing in college – sometimes too much as a matter of fact, but it’s still better than people who refuse to associate outside of their own small clique. I also expect to put in a more effort towards school – going to college has awakened an anxiety about my future career plans, and as a result, I hope to take school more seriously in college than I did in high school.

My hopes for my first semester of college include a 4.0 GPA (I’m not lying, even though this blog post is a little late?), but by far, my most important goal is being able to maintain a busy college life. There’s classes and schoolwork taking up a major portion of my life, but I also need to find and keep a job to pay for my own expenses, as I really don’t want to ask my parents for spending money. I want to learn to cook – not only to save money, but also to stay healthy and give myself the proper nutrition I need for sports and martial arts. Which leads to something else I expect will take up a large amount of my time: basketball, taekwondo, and weight training. And after considering all academic, professional, and personal obligations, there’s still a social life that demands its fair share of my time as well. All in all, I believe that time management will be one of my most challenging undertakings this semesters, but it also has the potential to be my most rewarding undertaking as well.

As a high school freshman and sophomore, I was rather awkward socially, although people did make their attempts to reach out to me. I guess part of it was coming out of a bad middle school experience, and I was hesitant to allow people to get close to me as a result. But living in your own little shell, your own little world, gets rather boring after you’ve explored every corner of it, and I decided to become more outgoing sometime during the end of my junior year. Unfortunately, high school social life is largely determined by cliques, and although I was never really shunned by anyone, I was never really accepted either. So I learned to live my social life outside of my high school. I made new friends when I took up taekwondo, when I joined a teen basketball league, and when I went to summer camps. Although I know I’m not perfect, I also believe that I’ve come a long way socially, and I think that things are a lot better now than they were two years ago, especially considering that there’s only room for improvement.