Greek Life

Greek Life seems to be a huge thing here at the University of South Carolina.The first week was full of frat parties that were filled with people and warm beer. It was a pretty fun week and I got to meet a lot of people. After the first week comes rushing. I did not participate in any of this so this is solely second hand information. Once you rush and you hopefully get picked to join the one you want, than a person gets the incredible honor to pledge for the fraternity. Now that process does not seem any fun. They pretty much make a person's life hell for a whole semester. I had a friend that was constantly tired, constantly having to be somewhere, or constantly having to buy something for his pledging. He was always complaining about it and would never actually tell me what really goes on. It didn't seem too fun though.

Semester Recap

After one semester in college here at the University of South Carolina, I can officially say college is awesome. I did a great job of balancing school work and fun. Since I did that, school was a breeze and pretty much stress free. I was not stressed about deadlines and could enjoy my free time. This semester just flew by. I remember a semester in high school seeming like it would never end and now a semester goes by too fast! However, that does not mean I only had fun and did not learn anything. College provided me with plenty of lessons in the classroom, but also provided them outside of it too. Living on my own sure taught me a whole lot! In conclusion, this semester was a success in my books. I just have to keep on taking advantage of opportunities and enjoy these next three and a half years until I actually have to go out and face the real world.

Laundry

At the moment I am down here in the basement getting laundry done. What really bothers me is the fact that I have to pay to do my laundry. I just paid over ten thousand dollars to come to school for this semester and I can't even get my laundry done for free. I have to pay a dollar twenty five for the washer and another dollar twenty five for the dryer. I pay a lot of money to come here and it seems like I still have to pay for everything. If I have to pay for everything than what does all this money go to that I have to pay? It seems pretty high of a price tag to not get some laundry free. Now I may just be ignorant, but I think this should be all inclusive for the price my parents are paying. I feel bad having to ask them for some extra change for my clothes. I guess I should get a job, but might as well get support from my parents as long as I can. Pretty soon I'll be paying for all my stuff and ten thousand dollars a semester for my child to go to school and a dollar twenty five for his laundry.

ACE Coaching

So, I just made an ACe Coaching appointment, since I couldn't make a writing center one. I am glad that Dallin was lenient in our procrastination on the writing center requirement. However, I am not going to lie the ACE Coaching is kind of going to be a hassle to go to. Thursday's is my day to sleep in, since I don't have class until 2:50 and I had to make my appointment at 9 in the morning. It would not be too bad if I actually needed to go. I have no exams to study for and have a good grasp on time management. I made my appointment to talk about how to improve my time management skills, because that seemed easier to fake than have some person tutor me for an exam that I do not need to take. But, I am not going to complain too much. I am sure this will help me out someway in the future and may even actually make me more willing to use the ACE Coaching when I actually need it since I will be more familiar to it. Now I hope this blog is long enough, but I am going to finish this sentence to be sure of it.

College Vs. High School

There is no argument that college varies greatly from high school. Not just the workload, but the life style. College is more than just school. In high school, all most all of your focus was on school. There was a definite line between your school life and your off time. However, in college that line is skewed. Your school life drifts into your personal life and you have to learn how to balance the two. You can not just go to school for 8 hours and forget it until the next day. You have to constantly plan ahead and plan your schedule so you don't fall behind. The structure is in your hands, not in the hands of your parents and the school system. The freedom is great and makes time fly by, since school doesn't seem like school. It simply is just part of your everyday life and I, personally, have not gotten bored of the routine since it varies greatly. I have more time to add different things into my day and change the routine around. I have the power and I enjoy the new responsibilities and glad I am away from the norm of a high school life.

Fall Break

My last blog post for this semester is going to pertain to my fall break that I just concluded. I went home on Wednesday and the first thing my mom did for me was cook my favorite dinner, which was the best thing. The food here is good but it can't compare to ones favorite dinner. Wednesday was not very exciting due to the fact that none of my friends were back yet. On Thursday I went out to eat with one of my friends to watch the UNC game at a local restaurant. That was pretty fun. Friday was the best because all of my friends were back and we all hung out at one of their houses. Now what we did should not be written down due to a legality that would not make me be able to publically announce until I was twenty one, but it was fun. Saturday we went to the Davidson game to watch one of our friends cheer. Davidson football can not compare to football here, but it was still a good time. During the night we went to some haunted corn maze which was also a good time. On Sunday I came back to USC. It was nice going home and seeing my friends, however being at college is loads more fun. Going home just isn't the same anymore. But my mother will always be happy to see me.

This Class

For the past hour I have been sitting in the most boring class that I have ever sat through. Mrs. Xanthros's HRTM 110 class is nothing more than a monotone women reading slides that I could finish reading in twenty minutes. Of course this class is on a Thursday night from 6 to 845, during a time when I want to be doing anything than sitting in a classroom. It wouldn't be so bad if she would teach us something that we would need or simply could not get from reading the textbook she made us buy. I could have not taken this class and just read the book and I would have saved a lot of time and boredom. This class is so monotonous that I am actually enjoying writing this blog, because it gives me a break from having to listen to her talk about reservation technique and whatever else is on the slide. Oh, now she is handing us a paper to read. This will be interesting. It is about a gamification technique that you pair with a loyalty program. Very interesting stuff. This lady went to Germany last week and made us suffer with a substitute teacher! The bad part was he was way better than this professor. I feel like if she can have a substitute professor come in for her I can have a substitute student come in for me. Now that would be a business I should start. I could hire people that would get paid to go to class for students when they don't want to and take notes for them. I doubt the university would allow that though. Interesting update in the class, she has now started writing on the board. A record number of 7 people are asleep and two have already left. Tough crowd in here tonight. I have to break the news to her that I will be on a plane during her next exam. Hopefully she will be a compassionate individual and be okay with that, but I really doubt it. She is one of those you are solely responsible for your actions and whatever else she could come up with. I might be making a visit to the conduct center if she will not let me make up the exam or take it early. I wonder if Mrs. X is any fun outside of this class. I'm going to put my money on her being a buzz kill. Oh, and if by the chance she reads this I hope that it is after I'm out of this class. That would be tough to explain! On the up side the chairs in this class are extremely comfortable. They have nice form and lean back quite well. There is still an hour and a half left in this class..................I don't know if I'm going to make it. If I don't make it let her read this so maybe she will engage in a more enjoyable teaching strategy and I can save some students lives. I'm not sure if that was supposed to be lives or lifes. I'm guess I got it right because it just put a red underline under lifes. It did it again! It is definitely lives. Also, since you are the best teacher at USC you would over look that I am writing this on Thursday and not Wednesday. Well, I am going to try to save myself from boredom by playing some Papijump.