It's weird. He apparently died about three weeks ago.
I wasn't that close to him- he was my lab partner sophomore year, and we
hung out a few times, but when I spent a year away from UD and saw him again
last semester, it wasn't some tight bond, you know?
Still, this is the first time I've directly known a contemporary who has
died, and it's weird. I mean, the dude was only 21. My friend Alex was much
closer to him, and I'll definitely keep a look out for her and try talking to
her
3,700 Freshman Move to UD
Freshmen are so goddamned adorable- so impossibly young, so bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Last night I partied with some friends, and we enjoyed the spectacle of the hordes of freshmen looking for parties. We even helped one freshman who got just a little too drunk- the whole thing was kinda surreal- because it felt like just yesterday I WAS that guy, and now...it's four years later and I'm now the "cool upperclassmen", as the Freshman put it. It's weird
Okay. So I'm looking out over my senior year, and I came to a realization.
If I want any chance of getting into grad school, I've GOT to get my grades up.
My grades have been slowly going in the right direction- from an absolutely abbysmal 2.134 GPA for fall 2007(depression sucks), my accumulative GPA is now standing at a 2.42 after spring 2009 and summer 2009, thanks to a 2.867 and a 2.6something for those semesters. Still mediocre, but at least going in the right di
From Myspace to Rape Charges
Man. I know Nick. Nick is the boyfriend of my friend, who's a pretty sweet girl and absolutely doesn't deserve this. It's absolutely creepy to think that just after the weekend I hung out with him and his girlfriend, he got arrested for having sex with a 12-year old girl. I mean, I played beer pong with him two weeks ago! *shudders*
It's crazy. Something about the guy always creeped me out, although I could never quite articulate it, and n
I spent the 4th of July at my sister's house in the boondocks. She had a
lot of friends over, as well as the in-laws-to-be, and we sat around and had
lots of food, set off fireworks, and got to know the people that I'll be calling
family soon enough.
Seven years ago, my sister Chrissy was in this horrible relationship with a
loser cokehead named John. She was engaged to be married to him, and luckily,
that fizzled out and she met a much better guy named Mike. They're getting
married in
My weekend was nice.
Thursday night, I decided to hit up Skid Row to shoot the breeze
with some of my buddies. One let me take a shot of Absolut vodka, which
was nice. I walked over to my best buddy Steve's dorm, where he is an
RA. Along with his residents, we sat around and talked about life and
took shots of cheapo Smirnoff vodka. He gave me a Negro beer to chase,
which made me think of Adam's advertisments for Negro Modelo in
Cross-Currents and Brushfire. I had about four shots of v
God, today I had an incredibly fun experience. I was at Bennyfest, which is this small outdoor house concert on Benny Street. As bands were playing, people could go towards the back where a slip n slide was set up. It got extremely muddy around the slip n slide, but none of us cared! We just keep sliding down, getting muddy, having fun. Mud wrestling occured as well...there's nothing more fun than mud wrestling with a college guy!
We became the mud people for a few hours. It was fun.
Is upon me, and man...it sucks. However, I'm going to do my best to make sure it sucks as little as possible. Of course, the great thing is- most of my classes will be done, and I only have two final exams during finals week. I just have a couple of papers to turn in, and one exam, by the last day of class, which is the 20th. So between the 20th, I get a nice break to just catch my breath, rest for a few days, and then study like mad for my western civ and geology exam.
I just want
I thought in honor of the anniversary of Columbine, I'd post this. I wrote it when I was 13.
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Tuesay, April 20, 1999
There has been another school shooting. Again! The 1998-1999 school year has gone by without a fatal shooting! Until now!
This time the high school was Columbine High School The unfortunate town with a lowered population this time is Littletown, Colorado. The fatality is as much as 25 people.
A school gang that had racist and anti-athlete views has at least
So on Monday, I get back to school. I'm facing down the last eight weeks of spring semester, and thus finally finish the junior year that I didn't finish before because I left school last year in the middle of junior year.
Of course, if we're being techical, I'm not finishing junior year, because at the end of this semester, I should have about seventy-eight credits. To count as a senior, I need ninety credits. To reach graduation, I need 124 credits. This means I need forty-six cred
