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| ENG 212 - Blog # 10: College: What has been, and What is to become... |
| 04.11.04 (8:37 pm) [edit] |
Last week, while I was attempting to plan my schedule for the upcoming fall semester, something dawned on me: after the conclusion of this semester, my college career will be half over. In some ways I am ecstatic about the prospect of only having two more years of school left. However, in other ways, it’s a really scary inevitability.
In some ways, it feels like I just started at Villa Julie; in other ways, it feels like I’ve spent an eternity here. While I am certain that I will not miss the constant barrage of tests, projects, papers, homework, and case studies, there are other aspects of college life that I will undoubtedly be reluctant to leave behind once the time comes.
To me, college is really a transitional period in that college students fit somewhere in between full-fledged adults who find themselves smack in the middle of the ‘real world,’ and adolescents who are sheltered from that ‘real world’ by the institutional walls of academia. In light of this, I realize that I may only have a few years left to spend with some of my closest friends before we all head in separate directions to pursue the paths that we have chosen.
Having only two remaining years of undergraduate education raises many additional questions in my mind: What exactly do I want to do with my business degree? Do I want to pursue my MBA immediately after I finish my undergraduate degree? Do I even want to go to graduate school at all? Am I really going to remember and be able to apply all of the things that I have learned at Villa Julie?
While I know that my graduation is a safe distance away now, I can’t help but wonder if my last two years at Villa Julie will go by as quickly as my first two years did.
[b]WORD COUNT: 313[/b]
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| ENG 212 - Blog # 9: The End of ‘Friends,’ The End of an Era |
| 04.04.04 (2:27 pm) [edit] |
“So no one told you life was gonna be this way…” This ‘Friends’ theme song has filled my house every Thursday night for longer than I can even remember. Now, as the end of the show is rapidly approaching, I can’t help but feel like nothing will ever be able to take its place. I’ve come to the conclusion that, at least for me, it isn’t just the show that I will miss – I will also miss what the show has come to represent for me.
All throughout my high school years, my best friends and I were absolutely addicted to this show. We would all watch it every week, and our conversations the following day would always be dominated by what had happened on ‘Friends’ the night before.
While I have lost touch with several of those old friends of mine, the show has recently fostered a new type of relationship for me. As crazy as this may sound, my father has recently become addicted to ‘Friends’ too. Unfortunately, I often do not get to see him as much as I would like to because he travels for at least three days out of almost every week. However, his business trips usually last from Monday to Thursday, which means that he is almost always home by 8 p.m. on Thursday nights. Therefore, that half an hour span during which ‘Friends’ is aired has become a time when the two of us can sit together, just talking and laughing.
It also seems as though I always have my early, long, boring classes on Thursdays, and knowing that ‘Friends’ will be on that night always seems to make that day just a little bit better.
So, now that the show is nearing the end of its run, I am left wondering what, if anything will be able to take its place.
[b]WORD COUNT: 310[/b]
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