Right On Track

Soupers, today I visited my counselor again with much happier results.

I am on track to officially declare myself as a Literary Journalism major with a Film and Media minor. The weight isn't completely off my shoulders, until I'm declared...actually the weight won't fully be off until I have that diploma in my hand raised to the sky while letting out an obnoxiously loud yell of victory. Perhaps adding in a victorious pelvic thrust as well, but...that might come off as inappropriate.

I have also been weighing my options about studying abroad and it's still very much up in the air. In the words of my counselor, "Well, the two hardest departments to study abroad in are Lit Journalism and Film and Media...and you're in both." However, there are still options open so we'll see what happens. I'm working on a roadmap right now to ensure I'm out in 4 years.

Tangent: That was interesting wording. "I'm out in 4 years." Don't prisoners usually say that? I'm not a prisoner here. I like it here. If I could, I would stay here and get a degree in every program possible, then when I come out I will be 40 years old, millions of dollars in debt, but I will be the most marketable person in the world. Actually, no I wouldn't do that. Who wants to hang out with a 30 year old college student. Weird-o.

It's funny, I figured by now things would be settling down. I would have a declared major, I know where I'm living next year, I should know whether I'm studying abroad or not. But the dust never settles. I'm trying to find a job. I'm applying for ASUCI (UCI student government). I'm meeting new people. And for some reason, I feel fine with it. I don't feel like I'm struggling to keep my head above the water.

Let's keep it up alright?


Wildwombat

Wash Over Me

I've been here before.
Put it on the line.
Hope you come out on top.

Didn't come out on top...again.

Remind me not to let it affect me too much.




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Via Postsecret

I stopped on this postcard for a good 3 minutes or so. I don't know what the illustration if from, though my initial thought was from the Simpsons. I also don't know what this could apply to. This weeks postsecrets had a theme about abortions so I thought that this might be from someone worrying that they might never get pregnant.

Meanwhile I'm debating if I should even go into talking about how this applies to me.
"Will there even be newspapers when you graduate?"
"I wouldn't say the industry is dying...I'd say it's dying quickly"

What if I get out of here and become nothing?
What if I graduate with no idea where to go from there?
What if they were right all along?
What if my career goals never happen?
What if my life goals never happen?
What if it [all] never happens?

If I found whoever wrote this card, I want to tell them, "I'll make sure it does."

Because I'm telling myself the same damn thing.




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Tilt Shift

Here are my first attempts at Tilt Shift Photography. My newest photography obsession. Actual tilt shift lenses start around 2400 dollars, but photoshop makes it cheaper.

I love it.


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All aboard the fail boat.




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College Apps going Viral

Not quite sure how I feel about this.
On one hand, I think this is an interesting sign for our generation/upcoming generations. That our generation can produce and consume now. We've grown beyond being just single letters and numbers to colleges, but to actual people. I also think this says something about Youtube's influence in the world now. I was impressed when they allowed people to make videos that would be featured during the presidential debates, but now it's progressed into the college application process is...an interesting move.

When I applied to colleges (holy 2 years ago) I always was bothered by the fact that they would never be able to take into account the fact that we are human. I'm not Application Number 746923, GPA: 3.9, ACT: 27, SAT: 1820, AP Scores: 4,3,5,2,2 and whatever BS I put in extracurricular activities. Seemed too one sided, made us seem one dimensional. But now college applicants can show their personalities and talents to their perspective colleges.

But there's a part of me that thinks this is a load of bullshit. Unless the schools they mentioned in the report base a lot off creativity, including a video is pointless. It would make sense if they were art schools or applying for art/music majors. In that sense it's important to showcase how well you can play an instrument or show a slideshow of your artwork. But unless you're solving 300 differential equations or performing open heart surgery or reading off the periodic table in alphabetical order while doing the first two I mentioned at the same time, a video might not be very helpful.

Then there's the part of my mind that says, why the hell wasn't I given a chance to do this when I applied to college? I would have made a kick ass video on why colleges should accept me. I would have shown off so many of my skillz

Dice Stacking Skillz


Cup Stacking Skillz


Parkour Skillz


and other various skillz I have.

Finally, I think this is going to make college applications very interesting if this becomes a common thing. I doubt they will allow full 1 min videos because that's a ton of time for the application people to be watching videos of people doing most likely pointless things.





wildwombat

May I please have this?!



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Comments

Sorry Soupers, but on 3 different occasions I've gotten spam comments in Chinese.

While it would be nice to think that my blog is reaching an international audience, I know that is not true.

As a result, I'm disabling comments, but not permanently, just until I think the spam comments have moved on to a different blog. (hopefully not yours if you have one)





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Running forces me to remember to breathe.
I think I forget to do that sometimes.




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Slow Things Down

Today I spent 1.5 hours in Aldrich Park. Reading, relaxing and sleeping (knowing full well that I'd be snoring)

I wish you could have been there with me. The sky was clear and blue. Light breeze blowing across the body. Pine trees swaying.

I wish I could explain how relaxed I felt in that moment, but it's really something to experience for yourself.

Then I realized, I want to have moments like that all over the world.
I want to lie in the grass in:

The Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney, Australia
Central Park, New York City, New York
Christchurch, New Zealand
Tokyo, Japan
Sao Paolo, Brazil
Victoria Island, Canada
London, England
Paris, France
Madrid, Spain
Teahupoo, Tahiti
And thousands of other place

and I want to lie there with you. A moment of pure relaxation. No thoughts of the future, no thoughts of the past, not even thoughts of the present moment.



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