November 2, 2014

The Five Person Principle

When it comes to people and friend making I have one basic observation. It is only possible to establish, build, and maintain five true friendships at any given time. This number can differ, give or take one or two, but for the most part five seems to be the most reasonable number. These people are the most trusted, most valued, and life changing....

October 30, 2014

Luck

I am a firm believer in luck. I believe that there are things out there that are beyond our control, and that good fortune happens upon people who did nothing to deserve it. I believe that the circumstances of which we hold no control hold a tremendous amount of control over us. I think that where we are born and and who we were raised by makes a huge...

September 11, 2014

The Choices We Make

Life is all about choices. Choices to change, choices to stay the same. Choices made over careful deliberation, and choices without thinking of the consequences. Everyday we are faced with a series of questions, followed by a series of choices. Do we want to get up in the morning? Do we want to be the kind of person that would make others proud? What...

August 25, 2014

Back to the Grind

Well, it's that time again. It's time to get back to the routine of early mornings, rushed meals, late night studying, and perpetual exhaustion. I packed my backpack for the morning like a loser. I had the binder versus notebook debate for all of classes. I'm more of a notebook fan, but I have all these loose leaf textbooks that go into binders. I...

July 26, 2014

Late Night Summer Rambles

I originally tried to write a funny post, but this semester turned my this writing space into a contemplate life, the world, and other things deeply, or as deeply as a suburban middle class teenager can, blog so I gave up. The post wasn't very funny...

May 10, 2014

Goodbye and Good Luck

"Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf, So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day Nothing gold can stay." When I was in ninth grade, we had to write a...

April 29, 2014

Detachment

There is this thing called detachment. It is talked about in preparation for a big change. They always say when kids leave for college they spend the summer fighting with their families to make it easier to leave them. And its also when you lose personal investment and emotion, when you quit caring. Detachment has multiple definitions, and two...

April 22, 2014

The Future is Out There

I've started a post with this title a few times this week and then started ranting and gave up on it being a publishable post. Since I've got nothing due tomorrow, and my roommate is asleep, I'm currently sitting in the dark not sure what to do with...

April 2, 2014

Universal Feelings

Sometimes I meet people and they seem intimidating. For whatever reason they give off a vibe of I am better than you or I'm not interested in interacting with you, or they're just plain weird. Some people are just like that, but it doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing. The people that seem to be the most intimidating, seem to be the people who...

March 11, 2014

Ordinary People

I have this habit of getting into semi philosophical conversations with my roommate. What makes us the same? What makes us different? I feel like we're all drones just waiting to all do the exact same things. I know we all have differences and obviously...

February 25, 2014

Mid-Winter Schlump

I feel like it has been a really long time since I posted a blog post and since it is my traditional night shift, I'm gonna write one. I'm not going to guarantee it will be particularly good, but here it is. The winter always has me feeling like...

February 7, 2014

What's In Your Backpack?

One of my favorite blogs, LifeHacker, does a segment about bags and their carriers. After reading this weeks post, I decided to inventory my friends backpacks. Most of them were pretty ordinary, but people still carry some strange things. Madison ...

January 31, 2014

Do You Wanna Build a Snowman?

I bring to you a recap of the first (and second) snow day(s) I've had since my junior year of high school.  It began one fateful afternoon while I was avoiding homework in the residence of Miss Madison Hexter. I received a text to which I was quite...

January 16, 2014

A Little Bit of Everything

Spring semester is upon us, and this syllabus week has felt like a long one. We're back to the daily grind of little sleep, much homework, and enough stress to be declared psychologically insane in the 1950's (yes this is apparently a thing, it keeps...