Happy New Year, y’all. I hope that you had fun bringing in 2006 and are ready for a productive year. I ended up just hanging out at my mom’s house watching the ball drop on Dick Clark’s show and talking to my GF on the phone. I know that sounds boring but it was much better than the alternative of driving 90+ minutes into DC and paying $100+ to get into a club to bring in the new year with hundreds of strangers. I guess one’s priorities for celebrations can change a lot over the years.
At long last, I’ve reached the start of Winter quarter with today being the first day of classes. My plan was to arrive last Wednesday night, get my course readers on Thursday, and spend all weekend studying them to get ahead, but things didn’t go as planned. Once I got back here, I realized that I was more tired than I thought and just chilled for most of the weekend. I did get a good amount of cramming done between yesterday and this morning, but I’ve still got to grind some more tonight to get fully prepared for my classes tomorrow.
I’m trying to make sure I get off on the right foot this quarter because I’ve found myself falling behind quickly in each of my four quarters here. One of my big problems has been that I got too involved with activities and helping others with things and, as a consequence, I found that I didn’t make enough time to do all of my work in advance or even to relax. My goal is to change that this quarter and, now that my term as a Senator has ended and some of my other activities have died down, I should be able to do it well. From now on, I just need to do a good job of efficiently using my free time to address my studies along with socializing with my peoples around here and getting back in the gym ( I NEED to get my swole right again after letting myself slack off during interviews last quarter). It should be a pretty interesting quarter of making these things happen, but I hope that I can accomplish everything as planned.
Posted by marquis930 at January 10, 2006 10:27 PM