day two. exhausted.

I do not remember another time that I was this tired. I am being completely serious. I am not sure if this 21 hours thing is going to work out as well as I had hoped. The amount of work in each of my classes is crazy. Maybe not individually it is a lot - but when all of my classes are put together, it is a ton of work. Oh well, I brought it upon myself, so I will have to deal with it. Today I had a class called Media Writing and one of our assignments was actually to start a blog, so obviously I am way ahead of that, which is good. One thing I don't have to worry about. I am not sure what I have to do with that assignment though, I think I can just write whatever I feel like - sort of what I am doing now. I like blogging. It is my escape from homework for the day and a way for me to vent and just get my feelings out, whether positive or negative. I feel as though all of my classes are going to very interesting this semester because I have really good professors, except for one, who I think is strange, but other than that they all seem great.

Another plus is having friends in almost all of my classes. That is great. If I didn't have friends that I already, I made friends today and yesterday in my classes. Just having the courage to start a conversation with a random stranger really shows me how much more of a confident person I have grown into over the past few months, and I am really proud of myself for it. It may seem trivial - starting a conversation with a random person - and I feel like, yes, it was something I was able to do before, but I am better at it now.

I have been staring at the same page in my Communication Research book for twenty minutes now. If that is any indication as to how the semester is going to go, that is NOT a good sign. At all. I think that I am going to be spending all of my time reading/doing homework/going to class/napping (I hope I have time for naps)/working on Homecoming Board/editing for the CT/doing PL stuff/working on Big Event/and soon a sorority. Wow. WOW. This will definitely be an interesting semester. One where I am going to rely heavily on careful planning.

Education is sort of a strange concept when you think about it. We are paying to be taught by professors, but in the end all that - most of us - care about is getting a decent grade in the class. Granted a lot of classes teach great life lessons, but others do not in any way leave a significant impact on you. Take for instance Math 1015 and 1016. For me, those two classes served two purposes: 1. To get my math credit out of the way. 2. To torture me. I am serious here. Who wants to learn math from a computer? Really? I was in hell. This is where I feel like our educational system is really screwed up. But, on the other hand, when I have classes like I did today, I know our educational system is working for my and our benefit.

One of my teachers put it really well today. He explained to our class that life is what you make of it. Our education is what we make of it. Although we are here to make good grades and learn how to study, etc. - the point of school is to learn how to be successful in the future and for the rest of our lives. Understanding our place in the world and how everyone has a different place and serves a different purpose in life.

Think about your purpose in life. I think it's something that we all need to do.