9/30/24 - first day of school

i had my first day of classes today!!!! obviously today was more of an intro day but in college they get started with content early... we just jumped into spanish lol. not a bad thing but it just always catches me off guard. i'm in 203 so this term is my last required for my BA. i want to keep with it because i really like the people i'm in class with and i know i'll be mad at current me if i don't continue BUT... ugh its so hard. i'd also be a lot more MaRkEtAbLe if i got a cert or smth. spanish minor... that's a choice to be made after finals though. maybe i should write a blog or two in spanish??? don't make fun of my bad grammar please LOL

i bought (my mom bought, i don't have the money for it bc i'm a broke college student lol) a kindle!! i love reading but books are so heavy and take up so much space plus i'm a very slow reader. i noticed i read a lot faster on the kindle lol. did you know you can check out e books like physical ones from the library?? you can! i just need to find my library card. i'm reading The Hobbit right now. i always wanted to read LOTR and i guess The Hobbit is the best entry point as it sets up characters and stuff. i KNOW if i had the physical book it would take me forever to get through but i'm getting through quite quickly. i'm going to read on the bus and before class i think. exciting!

speaking of exciting... i'm going camping this weekend!! i'm putting a lot of work in to get homework and stuff done before then so it doesn't hang over me while i'm supposed to be celebrating my friend's birthday. next weekend my girl friends are having a sleepover!! i don't have a ton of close friends, and even less of them are girls so i'm super excited lol. it just worked itself out like that and i'm not embarassed about it or anything, but girls just get other girls on a way guys just can't, you know? they also don't have a lot of friends outside their boyfriends (self admitted i'm not making fun LOL) so we're all very jazzed :)

anywho... i hope that my social life doesn't totally disappear this term. my irl friend knows i kind of drop off the face of the earth when i'm in school lol. academics comes first but ugh i wish the school system wasn't like this!! i guess i have to be the teacher that doesn't give homework. oh my god i could write an essay about how bad homework is and how it doens't do what you want it to, especially now when students just get chatgpt to do it for them. quantity > quality of work is not how any other field is asked to work, why do we make CHILDREN do that???? idk its very dumb

OK i wrote too much and i'm tired now. at least my class tomorrow isn't until 4 lol.. vp debate tomorrow night... eugh