09:54 pm - What the crap? Initially I planned to write something else as the subject of this entry, but I'm kind of thrown aback by the new layout for posting new entries on lj.
Well, I've got my 10 page paper assignment, I've emailed 3 of my four Japanese friends who emailed me last week, and I'm planning on heading out to mod 67 soon for a ride to a gathering at the Rt. 9 Diner. Which, while neither delicious or cheap, might make this day significantly more enjoyable.Edit: Forget that, too tired from last night.
I have yet to figure out what I'm doing tomorrow, besides hopefully sleeping a little late for the first time in like a week. I know I'll probably be spending a decent amount of time at Amherst getting that last really stupid kanji quiz out of the way. So much hate for Chap. 25 kanji, why can't I remember you? :(
After that, the rest of Thursday is pretty open, so I don't know what I'll be doing. I should start working on forementioned 10 page paper soon at some point though so I can pass it in sometime next week. I've only got one more week to write it and take my Japanese final but after that, I'm done. Huzzah!
Also, I really like Youtube for highlighting how silly schools I don't go to can be:
12:00 am - Happy Birthday to me! Well, it's that time of year again. At about 11:55PM, 21 years ago today, the world suffered the magnanimous event of my birth in Emerson Hospital, Concord, MA.
This'll definately be an interesting birthday and I'm really looking forward to it. Honestly, the best present I could get would be to see the whole lot of you again soon!
So until we meet again, I hope you're doing well. I would say that the past year has probably been one of the more interesting of my life so far, and I can only hope that things keep going that way.
12:49AM EDIT: Okay, fire alarm being pulled? Weirdest beginning of a birthday ever.
So I'm a hypocrite, it doesn't make my point any less valid in this instance. There may be an atmosphere on campus that first-years=bad and I may not be doing a whole lot to alleviate it. It doesn't change the fact that issues like this can tear the community apart and at least I'm realizing that I'm doing something wrong which is more than I can say for the people who pulled the fire alarms or broke in. I think I'd be more worried about my behavior if the order of the last two posts had been reversed.
I don't hate the freshman class. Far from it. It takes a whole lot more to make me hate any one person even. I've just felt incredibly, incredibly frustrated. College is supposed to be fun for everyone, that's why we pick colleges, to go to the one which we believe will offer us the best experience, be it social or academic or a combination of both. And while I understand that a lot of these kids are just trying to have a good time, it seems that their quest for entertainment is effecting a decent amount of people who frankly want nothing to do with it.
I'm not going to apologize for ranting. This is my personal journal not a public forum, and I seriously doubt too many people other then those I know tend to read it. (Except abacuslover, I have no idea who you are :D) If this is more of a public forum than I apparantly realize, maybe I'm reaching the point where this journal needs to be friends only. I apologize to anybody I've offended, even though I stand by my words last night as it was an asshole thing to do. Quite frankly it's probably not the last thing that a first year will do that I won't rant about in my journal out of frustration and anger.
But if you know me well enough, there's a distinct line between how I act online and in real life. I don't foam at the mouth and chase after first years with baseball bats like a rabid monkey. The reason most of my journal entries are angst or anger related is because it's stuff I don't feel real life is appropriate domain for and this is my outlet for it.
As such at least to prevent misunderstandings as to my character, at least for a little while, all of my future entries, no matter what the content will be friends only. I was hoping such a measure was unnecessary and it may be, but it may be appropriate. Current Mood: tired Current Music: Open your Heart - .hack//sign OST 2
12:12 pm - Come with me in the twilight of a summer night for a while... I know it's only September, and I know there's a long year of growth ahead of us. On the same note, I'm worried.
I'm worried because as a response to certain members of their class being jackasses, the First-years at Hampshire seem to be growing distant from the rest of the community. Sort of an "Us against Everyone else" mentality.
It bothers me, because last year when I came to college, I was overjoyed to find out how different it was from high school in some ways. It was easy to hang out with people older or younger then you, age didn't matter, nor for that matter, social group really. Only attitude did.
Not that I think we're going to form cliques or halls based on what year people are, but I do see some distancing. People thinking that older kids are judging them and their class and taking offense.
I worry about Hampshire too, because I feel this is just another example of how the college is breaking apart at the seams to the point where one day it'll just fall apart and there will be nothing that makes it stand out anymore...
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