Knock Knock, it’s the Real World Calling…
I am OFFICIALLY a year and a half away from graduation. I absolutely love my life. I have a wonderful, supportive finace, a great group of friends, good grades, good relations with my family, I’m healthy… and I have a decent flow of money earning. But then again, that’s the daunting part. I keep getting these jobs, I only have 1.5 years until graduation, John and I are engaged and working on moving into a house off campus… life’s going so fast! What’s this craziness of transitioning from my college bubble to the real world???
I’ve gotten so used to my routines… classes, work, working out, student organizations, get home, spend time with John, do homework, go to sleep, and then wake up and do it all over again. I’m very used to hanging around a lot of different people, having to only deal with easy, student assistant jobs, having a bunch of safety nets.
I’ve very happy with my perfect class schedule for next semester. Four easy, fun classes and one extremely hard, but needed and WANTED class. I love my student organizations, being the chair of the Women@CC and being in the Undergraduate Council. I’m VERY happy with my new job at PLAE. I feel it will really help me grow as a professional and an individual. I’ve always loved my student assistant job at the College of Computing. It was home to me… when Giselle and Alicia took me in when I first came to this crazy place. I was lonely shy kid from Batesville, Arkansas coming to the big, busy world of Atlanta, Georgia… and now I love it here. Also, with my student assistant job being a Federal Work Study job, I can’t lose it either. I can’t afford Georgia Tech’s out-of-state tuition without that piece of financial aide at the beginning of the semester. I love my mentoring job… helping incoming freshman adjust to college life. … and I was now offered an Internship with the InVenture Prize broadcast.
I don’t want to drop anything for the Spring semester, but I don’t know if I can do it all (15 hours of classes, 4 part time jobs, two student organizations, time to eat and sleep, and you know… a life). I don’t want to not be able to focus enough on one thing either. I need to keep my grades up, but I should probably start letting some of the student organization and smaller jobs go and start focusing more on my career and job outlook. It’s like transitioning from high school to college all over again… not as drastic, but the same concept. What do you let go and what do you hold on to as you take that next step in your life. I don’t know. It looks like craziness ahead, but we’ll see 
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We Got the House!
It’s final. John and I just put in the application deposit and down payment for the house! In addition, the entire interior of the place is repainted in my favorite green and beige color scheme and the hedges are trimmed. This house is so cute… it’s what Sarah likes to call the “newly married” house, lol. Yaaaay!!! I’m so excited. We ran into a little craziness when we found out that the move in day was the day after John’s older sister’s wedding, but it’s all sorted out now. I’m so excited. We’ve even got furniture lined up, a bunch of dishes… I really hope either Michael or Ryan can live with us though. May 16 here we come!
Click HERE to see a previous post where I talked more about this place ^_^.
2009 ACC Champions!!!!
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Georgia Tech won the ACC Championship game verses Clemson 39-34! There were some moments that really made me nervous (like when Blair went to kick those field goals… notably the 48 and 49 yard-er for his career highs! … or when the refs reversed the call for Nesbitt’s run for the first down short (though they really needed indisputable evidence and I still think the ball was in)), but we won! It was a good game.
Orange Bowl vs. Iowa State here we come ^_^!!
GT vs. UGA
Btw, I love the creators of http://www.OnlyAtTech.net ^_^. In dedication to the GT/UGA game….
You KNOW You Want to Come Vote For This One…
It’s a red velvet cheesecake and I’m entering it into the Maulding Bake Off tonight! Come help me win $75 in cooking supplies! lol
Where: Maulding Club Room
Time: 6:00p
Date: TODAY!
Wanting
Have you ever wanted something so badly and so passionately that deep down you just KNEW you were going to get it? It’s that perfect job opportunity, that A on a homework or test grade, to win a certain bake off competition, an override into a class, that little yellow house with the white picket fence. I want it all and I want it like nothing I’ve ever wanted before. It’s that dash of complete certainty in a world of definite certainty that makes it feel so weird. …
For the baking competition, I had never given losing a second thought until now. I researched for the perfect recipe. I ran it by friends and family to get opinions, I borrowed cooking appliances instead of improvising. I am going to make the perfect red velvet cheesecake.
I recently had a tough mathematics homework where I was so certain that I knew exactly what I was doing. I knew I would make a 100% … and I did.
Maybe that’s what happens when you give it your all. There’s no running to get a good start. There’s none of that awkward flapping of your wings. You simply soar. … now why can’t everything in life be that way?
House Hunting
The convenience of Georgia Tech housing is definite. It’s so close to all your classes, you can run home in between classes. The security is a definite plus, especially in the middle of Atlanta. The RA’s are amazing and there’s a lot of community building events. The internet is top quality. We get over 100 TV channels. The utilities cost is fixed. There’s even already some furniture, maintenance people to help with brakes and leaks, and two fridges! But do we really need all that? That way of living gets expensive… and I mean really expensive. I would recommend living on campus to any freshman or sophomore, but as you get older, it’s just not as necessary. John and I did the math, and we can save over $2000 a semester by moving off campus (factoring in utilities, parking, internet, everything)… and we get to keep our cat ^_^.
John and I plan to move off campus starting in the summer and we found the perfect little house for rent. It’s the perfect size, the perfect color, the perfect distance from campus. I love it’s plants and flowers, the little white picket fence. I desperately want it… but can’t get it just yet since we’re locked in by contract for GT housing. …. hopefully we’ll find a way.
Only At Tech
It’s a FMyLife site made just for Georgia Tech. Yes, I spent the last 2 hours on that site instead of studying for my big Constructing Proofs test. Whoever came up with the site is genius ^_^. Gotta love Tech…. 
Just a dash of the hilarity that you would only understand if you went to Tech^_^:
- I witnessed a guy cross the street during busy traffic and upon asking him what he was thinking, he responded with, “Well, if I get hit by a Stinger, I get free tuition, and if I don’t live, my roommate gets free tuition!” Only at Tech.
- Everyone knows the Brittain Orange Challenge. You swipe oranges from Brittain and hurl them as hard as you can towards Bobby Dodd and try to make it over. You need to be running approximately 5 m/s before and the initial velocity of the orange must be approximately 30.3 m/s to succeed.Only at Tech
- We’re at a school where women are like parking spaces: all the good ones are taken, and the rest… handicapped… Only at Tech
- Three weeks prior to the launch of Windows 7, if I told any of my friends that I was using Vista they would laugh at me an respond, “You’re STILL using Vista?” Only at Tech.
- Its 1:40 in the morning and a fire alarm went off. The majority of the people outside are fully dressed and some have their laptops. Like me who’s sending this in. Only at Tech
If I Could Make my Life Into a Sitcom…
I was sitting in the student organizations room on one of the comfy couches talking to my friend Michael when he said something amazing. What would it be like if we could turn our every day life into a sitcom?
You’d be surprised how many crazy things happen in the CoC. Ajai alone is “an indian incarnation of an energy drink.” Michael’s going to become president of the United States someday to pad his resume so he can work for Microsoft or Google. We have a staff member who’s an ex-NFL player, one who’s an improv comedian, one who’s been on the Colbert report… there are so many interesting people here.
A story format could be interesting. I’ve kind of tried it before… and it could be fun (To check out that effort of a story post about my life, click here). I’d probably use code names though…. to protect everyone’s privacy. The only down side is that I don’t really have access to a production studio (I mean, so many people do, right? *please pick up on the sarcasm *), so I’ll settle for a blog… for now . I think I’m going to try it… so stay tuned!
Disclaimer: The names and places in these writings may be subject to change to protect the identity of the persons involved. However, all content is based off of real events.
