Showing posts with label college. Show all posts
Showing posts with label college. Show all posts

7.27.2011

FUCK!!

Once again I'm a complete and utter failure...
The one exam I had to taker, the only one, and I go and fail??
I know I know, it's college, it's different, it's harder, failing exams is normal.. But it's not ok when you have only ONE exam to take, and when it's your strongest subject.. And it certainly doesn't feel good when you thought there was hardly a chance o fail.. I mean, when I was studying I was extremely confident, and after taking the exam I was even more confident, other than that one question I didn't answer I thought I had done great, I actually thought I may have done a lot batter than barely saving.. turns out I barely saved.. It was very very close, but it wasn't enough... So there's the disapointment of realising I'm even worse than the bad I was just realizing I was, the disapointment of thinking I was doing good in at least ONE subject, the having tyo face the fact, that the feeling that used to mean I was very good at something, now it only means that I'm not extremely bad, and last and most certainly least, the disapointment of realizing that the one good thing that I had gotten out of failing the other two subjects, (which was an entire month of vacations) doesn't exist anymore, since my vacations have now been interrupted by my failure, and now I have to take the fucking exam again next week (I'm also very angry at the university for the fact that it took them 2 weeks to give us the fucking grades, and they tell us only a week before the next exam, isn't that just great??.. I guess re-starting my driving lessons is going to have to wait... I don't really care about that.. )

7.07.2011

I've Got Nothing

What do you do, when you find out that you're not exactly how you thought you were??  How would you feel, if you realized that "all your life" you''d been thinking that you were a bit better than you actually are?? If you realized that what you considered one of your best qualities, really wasn't one?? If you realized  that one of the things you always thought yourself best at, you're actually just regular at.. or worse..

I always thought myself a smart one, a remarkably smart guy.. I'm not saying I though I was a genius or anything like it, but I always thougth that I was just a tiny bit smarter than the avarage smart..

I'm not saying that all of the sudden I'm stupid or anything like that, but  I realized that in that department I thougth too much of myself...

It sucks it sucks it sucks.. I've let myself down.. It feels like letting somone else down only worse, because you experience both sides of the shittiness, the being dissapointed by somone, and the feeling like a disapointment 'cause somone else had bigger expectations that they should have..

Long story short, I didn't do as well as I expected in college, and I know all you older-than.me people will just start saying, "but that's normal", "it's a big step from high school to college", save it, I've had my fair share of those so there's nothing to be gained by saying it.. You know, I can recognize that at first I didn't study as much as hard as I should've, but once I realized that, and that I was heading for grades that wouldn't give me the right to take the exam (which means that I have to re-take the class) I started studying harder, trying to make up for my bad first half semester, I recognize, that I started kinda late, but the time I dedicated, and with the brains I thought I had it should have been enough not for a great grade, not even a good grade, but a grade high enough to let me take the exam (that would've been 4 over 12)..

Ok.. off with the anecdotal, the point is I feel like a failure, I'm just worse than I thought in what I thought myself best, and in one of the things that matter to me the most to me... I know it's no tragedy, and I'm dealing with it (I've know about this for about a week now, and I've had this post in the inkwell since then).. It wasn't bad enough to make me cry, but I got me a tiny bit close..

I'm a failure to myself.. And you know what?? I'm actually kind of ashamed about this, I know I shouldn't be, but, I can't help it.. I find myself wondering what my smarter classmates/friends think of me, and when my brother's friend (who's also studying engineering) sent me a facebook message to offer me some of her material (she's part of the X-men -my group of friends, not the mutants :P-, so she's a pseudo-friend of mine), I found myslef again wondering the same thing (she's quite smart and does very good in college).. I also wonder if my brother still thinks I'm smarter than him.. I myself was never convinced of that, but he seemed pretty sure.. maybe he finally realized he's wrong

Also, for the first time ever I find myself comparing myself to my older brother.. he was never great with studies, he IS smart, (and from what I can tell from this, smarter than me), but he's also lazy.. I used to get better gardes than him, just because (even though I didn't study that much myself) I studied more than him, and I absolutelly didn't care, I didn't think myself better for that or anything.. But now, studying more than he does (obvioulsy still not enough..) I do not only get worse grades, but I fall behind.. He hasn't fallen behind at all... I know I shouldn't compare myself to him, and I shouldn't care if he's better (I wouldn't if I hadn't fallen behind) but I can't help it.. and it makes me feel worse..

When I told my father about feeling less smart than I used to think I was, he said "Well, that's ok.. some people don't have that much talent (in this case talent is brains), but they have willpower.. Think of your sister (my older sister) she's not EXTREMELY talented, she just works very hard" It's true, my sister has a LOT of willpower, she always tryed hard and succeeded that way, she was always the one who did best in school (from home, and from her class), and it was not only that she was smart (she IS smart) but it was that she complemented her natural talent whith hard work.. (She also has a LOT of talent, specially in what she's studying, but still, I think willpower is her best quality).. My brother has a LOT of talent (again, meaning brains) and extremely little willpower..  But what do I have? My father's right some people have talent, some people willpower, some people don't have either one.. I'm the last kind.. sure I have more willpower than my brother (it's still don't have much) and maybe I'm smarter than my sister (I'm not sure anymore, a week ago I would've said that I definiteky was), but I don't have enough of them to even make a good combination.. And it's not like there's something I'm better at than thinking.. So.. What DO I have??


Je n'ai rien..

6.16.2011

Wasted Day

Ok so I got home 4:20, pretty early compered to what the rest of my days are, so I had the plan to spend pretty much the hole afternoon (exept that special hour every thursday I like to call Glee ^^)doing math exercises for the "test" I have tomorrow, So I got home, and after that few minutes when you're still "getting home", I was suppoused to get to studying, but between Facebook, and I can't even recall what else, I finally set down to study at 6,  so you wanna know what I did from 6 to 10 (time when Glee comes on) nothing, rearranged somethings in my room (-coff- star wars figurines -coff-), had dinner aaand nothing.. Yeap, I even ordered my room rather than studying.. And I wonder why I might have to retake 3 classes, I don't, I know exactly why...

I hate this, I always do this kinda stuff! It's just another of those things of myself I simply cannot fight with..

So what's to be done now??, well, I guess I'll just get up earlier than usual, (the usual is 9 o'clock so there's not really that much more earlier, guess I'll be starting sometime between 7 or 8, giving me 5-6 hours beofre I have to leave to class) Do whatever I can, and read the solucions to the resto of the problem on the university's site, and pray that that will do (sometimes the tests have the same exercises they give us to practice, or some very similar).. so.. good night, I have to go and sleep now  lie in bed fo about half an hor-a whole hour,trying to sleep while I think of how on earth I'm gonna get enough grade to make it to the exams... So that I can wake up early tomorrow..

(yeap, another study-realted post)



Je suis dans le four(horno)

6.15.2011

Socialy Akward

Simplemente odio eso de mi..

Hoy en clase un compañero (Pablo) me pregunto (evidentemente tratando de hacer conversación, porque vino de la nada, y creo que ya todos saben que si tu objetivo es hablar de footlball no venís conmigo) "A vos que te gusta mas, Nacional o Peñarol?"..

Para ser justos me agarro desprevenido, porque hasta el momento veníamos los dos callados escuchando al profesor, pero lo único que pude responderle fue un simple "Peñarol", y cuando me dijo "si?", dije "se", nos miramos por un rato y después cada uno de nuevo a lo suyo..

O sea, se me ocurrió mismo en el momento, responderle un "digamos que Peñarol, la verdad no soy muy fanático" (o algo parecido), no porque no crea que no lo sabe ya, solo para ver si la conversación se prolongaba, pero no me salio.. y apenas muy tarde como para tirarlo se me ocurrió un "Y vos ya tenes un favorito de acá?" o algo de la índole (porque es un Ecuatoriano que se mudo a Uruguay este año desde Venezuela)..

Pero ta, nada, solo "Peñarol"

(hoy tenia ganas de mantenerlo cortito y simple :P)


"Peñarol" Seulement..

5.19.2011

Nostalgic

AVISO: Si no quieren leer un post exesivamente largo y mal armado, déjenme pararlos ya mismo, porque saben que no tienen obligación alguna a leer esto, y lo ultimo que quiero es sentir que están leyendo esto por que se sienten obligados, así que les aviso este post es demasiado largo, y no esta muy bien escrito, así que si no quieren leer, bueno, : D.

La verdad, odio tener que escribir sobre esto ahora que la mayoria de estos sentimientos se fueron (y la verdad es mejor escribir de algo cuando te esta pasando, ayuda mucho a desquitarse..), pero se que van a volver, y como se dio cuando surgieron, no voy a tener tiempo para escribir, porque lo que desencadena esos sentimientos, son situaciones que consumen su tiempo.. Antes de que piensen nada, ni se gasten son estupideces y no es nada grave, pero por algun motivo me siguen llevando a sentirme asi, y si bien, como dije esos sentimientos se van, ni bien salgo de esas situaciones, hay un poquito de tristesa residual que queda..

La verdad, nunca me hubiera imaginado que podría afligirme tanto por unos simples parciales, sip el tema es tan estúpido como un par de parciales, o capaz que no, capaz que es mas complejo que eso, y los parciales son solo lo que lo lleva a superficie.. O sea, ya desde como la segunda semana de clases siento un poquito de nostalgia con todo lo que tiene que ver con el liceo y mis compañeros, pero eso es normal.. no?.. El tema es que no se quedo en un pequeño extrañamiento, me acuerdo estaba hablando con mi madre hace un tiempo, y me empezó a contar que se había cruzado con "Tate", (un ex-compañero mio, del cual nunca fui muy amigo) que resulta ser uno de los que esta estudiando Ingeniería (ergo misma carrera que yo) en la Universidad de la república (ergo distinta universidad que yo), y me empezó a contar como el, Franco, Silvi, Yemo y Facu (ex-compañeros, de los cuales SI fui amigo),  habían formado un grupo de estudio con 3 chicas que conocieron en la Universidad, por algún  estúpido motivo le empece a discutir, que eso me parecía un poco un bolazo, porque ellos nunca fueron tan amigos tampoco en el el colegio, y como que era un poco una forma de no tener que conocer gente nueva, y ella me discutía, que si yo estuviera en la universidad solo con un ex-compañero del cual no era tan amigo si no haría lo mismo, le dije que no, pero en verdad depende de quien sea, yo que se, YO con Tate, no lo haría, porque para mi seria casi lo mismo que juntarme con alguien nuevo ( o sea, tendría un montón de silencios incómodos), pero teniendo la relación que Franco y los demás tienen con Tate, (que como dije, tampoco eran amigos, pero tenían mas relación que yo) probablemente si.. Ya se, ¿y a quien carajo le importa esto?, el punto es que a pesar de estar de acuerdo, le discutí a mi madre sobre esto, hasta que al final me di cuenta de que la verdad era muy simple, estaba celoso, (no que lo haya admitido, con lo necio que soy solo seguí discutiendo, ya se, mal yo), ellos estaban ahí, con su grupo formado, con gente conocida, mientras que yo estaba SOLO, rodeado de extraños tratando de ser capaz de vencer a mi timidez y tirar mas de dos palabras en una conversación.. O sea, sigo convencido de que elegí bien la universidad, pero me embola estar solo, y se que a la larga no va a ser así, porque ya voy a ser amigo de alguno de la gente de mi universidad, pero ahora lo es, y me molesta..

Si, ya me estoy amigando mas con la gente, pero igual, todavía son extraños, de los cuales hay un par que me caen cada vez peor (y eso es dentro del grupo con el que "me junto")  y estoy seguro de que el sentimiento es mutuo, digo, "Martín", cuando se entero de que "Virginia" (una chica de uno o dos años mas arriba que recursa materias con nos) de que Virginia iba a ir a la Montevideo  Cómics, empezó a decirle en joda/serio que no fuera, poco después se entero que yo también iba, y que además iba disfrazado, en cuanto a todo no parecería que le haya chocado tanto al final ahora que lo pienso, pero en una conversacion que surgio  también a partir de que Virginia iba a la MC, "Andres", dijo que para el eran de enfermos esas convenciones, creo que fue ese mismo día, que se entero de que no solo yo también iba a ellas, sino que además me disfrazaba para eso, digo, queda bastante claro que opinión debe tener el tipo de mi.. (Digo, es un poco mutuo, el tipo es un pseudo-fanático religioso, y a mi eso no me va (no ofense, hablando en serio, esta todo bien, es algo que yo con mi mente excesivamente racional no puedo asimilar, nada mas)).. Bue, me estoy yendo muy a lo especifico, volviendo a lo genérico, el punto es que con solo un par de meses, ya me estoy sintiendo como afuera del grupo, digo ya me sentía dejado de lado en mi viejo grupo de amigos, y ahora estos se juntan a estudiar y no me avisan, y arman grupos para trabajos entre ellos, la verdad es que si no fuero por "Ivana" y Virginia, me sentiría totalmente excluido, (sep, siempre son las mujeres las buenas..)

Bueno, el tema con los parciales es que me llevan a un punto de estress (que no es tan alto, la verdad no me estresan tanto), en el que todo esto se vuelve mas exagerado, la verdad he llegado a pensar que no quería estar donde estaba (en cuanto a la facultad), que probablemente no fuera esto lo que quería hacer, digo, es algo de lo que pueda estar 100% seguro hasta que  no tenga materias mas directamente relacionadas con lo que voy a hacer, digo es todavía el 1er año, y tengo claro que todavía no puedo tener nada claro, además, ni bien me saco de encima un parcial esos pensamientos se van (en gran parte), y vuelven cuando llega el próximo, o sea, es solo el susto de cuando voy a un parcial no sabiendo un soto (caso de los parciales de matemática o física), o cuando me entregan la nota de un parcial en el que pensé me había ido bien, y me saco lo que seria un 3-4, (que seria el caso de Geometría), son solo situaciones que me ponen mal y me llevan a dudar de todo, aprendí a no darles mucha bola a los pensamientos que me vienen en esas situaciones.. Me acuerdo que la primera vez que tuve estos pensamientos (estudiando para el parcial de Física) o sea que todavía no sabia que eran pasajeros así que me los estaba tomando muy en serio (los pensamientos), mi madre me pregunto si estaba contento con lo que estaba haciendo, porque no me notaba muy entusiasmado ni nada, mothers huh?, siempre tan perceptivas, evidentemente lo único que le dije es que todavía no podía saber todavía, porque las materias que tenían eran recién materias para ir adentrándome en lo que seria la ingeniería, y que lo que estaba haciendo no necesariamente marca lo que es ser u ingeniero, pero en verdad estaba pensando "NO. Odio lo que estoy haciendo, me quiero ir a la mierda, me tendría que haber metido en arquitectura" digo, a arquitectura la sigo considerando como una posibilidad a futuro, pero como dije estaba en una situación de mini-estress, así que la verdad lo que pensé en ese momento..

La verdad es que todavía no me siento 100% cómodo en donde estoy y con quienes estoy, y una gran prueba de eso, es como he aprendido a mentir sin mentir en estos pocos meses, yo que se, en el colegio si mis amigos me preguntaban si había hecho algo que no había hecho, simplemente decía NO, porque ta me sentía cómodo, y había confianza, acá me siento como el único pelotudo que no hace un sorete, (exageración, pero aveces es lo que siento), yo que se,  supuestamente tenemos que hacer como 1 practico por semana, por c/u de las tres materias troncales, aunque mi hno y sus compañeros me dicen que no es necesario tanto, y yo estoy de acuerdo,(aunque aveces hago menos de lo que querría, sin mencionar que mis compañeros (o por lo menos con los que he hablado), se toman bastante apecho eso de hacer todos los practico (aunque un poco se les va yendo, igual, yo debería hacer mas)), yo que se, con eso de mentir sin mentir me refiero a que cuando me preguntaban cosas como "y como andas con los prácticos?", me daba cosa mentir tan descaradamente (aunque he llegada a situaciones que mentir sin mentir no bastaba, así que había que solamente mentir, lo que no me mata, pero mientras pueda prefiero evitarlo), asi que decía cosas como "yyy mas o menos, en lo unció que llegue al 3º es en G.A.L", lo que en verdad significaba "hice como 4 ejercicios de cada uno de esos repartidos, en Física, hice como 3 del 1º y 2 del 2º, y en matemática no hice ABSOLUTAMENTE NADA", pero seguía siendo cierto que llegue al 3º de GAL,  yo que se también he aprendido cuando me preguntan "hiciste algo del repartido x de la materia y" o "hiciste tal ejercicio del repartido x", a decir "la verdad hice poco del repartido x", en vez de decir "hice solo1 ejercicio del repartido x, o ninguno".. Ta, ya se que mentir no es anda tan grave, pero solo que hacerlo tanto y tan descaradamente, aunque sea por idioteces, no me gusta, sobre todo porque se que debería estar haciendo un poco mas de lo que hago, y pretendo hacerlo, pretendo aprovechar ahora que termine con la primer tanda de parciales para arrancar a hacer las cosas un poquito mejor.. Bueno, a mi asesor académico pretendo seguir "mintiéndole" de acá a que termine la carrera, o a que no me importe un soto lo que diga o piense, porque es un tipo demasiado obsesionado con el estudio, y diferimos mucho en nuestra opinión de cuanto estudio es suficiente, sin mencionar que no me cae del todo bien, así que no creo que nunca tenga mucha confianza con el..

La verdad es que todas estas cosas me van poniendo nostálgico demás, he dedicado mas tiempo del normal a pensar en amigos de la infancia que no veo hace años y cosas así, yo que se, veo los comentarios que pone Silvi  avisándole a Franco y demás de cosas de la facultad y me dan ganas de ser uno de los que reciba el mensaje, o sea de poder estar en la clase con ella (si es principalmente con ella la cosa, porque con Tate ya dije no soy amigo, y con Yemo y Facu, soy pero no tanto, y con Franco soy, pero están raras las cosas con el hoy en día, por varios motivos diferentes, y además, eramos muy amigos en la infancia con ella, y hace unos años recuperamos la relación, pero en los últimos años la volvimos a perder un poquito, y hace años que no estoy en una clase con ella, y amaría tener una buena chance de re-retomar la relación (ahí lo tienen, excesivamente nostálgico)), yo que se, he llegado a hacer un post sobre una amiga a la que no veo desde que tengo 11 años!! (Dai) y vivo imaginándome que me cruzo con ella, hasta tuve un sueño sobre eso..

Ahora, estaré nostálgico, pero la verdad es que tengo que seguir adelante, y eso lo se, es como dice Robin en How I Met Your Mother, "I know the future is scary, but you can't go back to the past just 'cause it's familiar", (digo, fue dicho en otro contexto, además yo directamente NO PUEDO volver al pasado, pero igual la "enseñanza sirve"y es cierto, no quiero volver porque me encantaba lo que tenia antes, obvio en varios aspectos si me gustaba mucho, pero tampoco es que haya tenido LA vida hasta ahora, vivía caliente con mis amigos por dejarme de lado,  estaba podrido de tener una "vida amorosa" (me suena re cursi, pero no se como mas decirle), inexistente, tampoco es necesariamente miedo lo que siento, pero algo parecido. Ya se que nada de eso tiene que ver con los estudios, pero tampoco es que estoy mal con los estudios, la verdad, estoy casi que igual que como venia en los 2 últimos años, así que el tema no es ese, el tema es que estoy nostálgico, y podrido de el habiente en el que estoy, (no la universidad, amo mi universidad, pero tener que estar forzándome a conversar y socializar con esta gente, que si bien de apoco se va volviendo mas fácil y natural, igual es molesto).. (Serie de mierda HIMYM, digo me gusta, pero me mata como hace para que me sienta tan relacionado siempre, y siempre me caen en el momento justo con unas de esas "enseñanzas" que te dejan, justo cuando estoy en una situación en la que encaja ¬¬).. Después, entro al facebook y leo en el muro de Tone, "Another chapter in the book, can't go back but you can look" quien diría que Miley Cyrus, sip MILEY CYRUS  podría tener una canción con una letra que efectivamente me deje pensando, (tambien es otro contexto, pero se puede aplicar.. aunque si te pones a pensarlo en esta situación, mirar solo haría las cosas peor... 

Colmo: ahora mientras estoy escribiendo esta entrada me llega un "GILL, holaa te extraño!" de Fifo.. Y lo peor es que no me da para decirle lo mismo a pesar de que esta clarisimo que es así..

Yo que se, no estoy TRISTE ni DEPRIMIDO, la verdad es que no se que estoy, por ejemplo, ayer estaba mensajeandome con Sofi, y después de responderle de una forma muy compleja que me fue HORRIBLE en los parciales, me pregunto "bueno, aparte de eso como estas?", a lo que solo le pude responder "huh, buena pregunta" (también ella me agarro justo mientras estaba escribiendo el post), evidentemente me pregunto "y la respuesta?", y no le supe decir mas que, "wouldn't know, eso es lo que la hace una buena pregunta", ta obviamente me pregunto si pasaba algo yo le respondí que nada en particular, y enseguida desvié el tema hacia los cursos de francés que tenemos que empezar de una vez..

Honestamente, no sabría decirles cual es el punto de este post, capaz que solo sacarme cosas de encima, pero no se.. Ta sepan disculpar este post tan malo, y excesivamente largo, (no se si EL mas largo de todos, no creo, pero igual es largo), y totalmente desordenado y sin sentido, digo, me podría poner a revisarlo, para ordenarlo y resumirlo, pero ta, no me da para tanto, yo que se, si lo quieren leer.. bueh, si llegaron hasta acá YA lo leyeron, y si no lo quieren leer.. bueno, entonces no van a estar leyendo esto así que listo, lo leen los que les den las esferas, y a los que no les dan no, yo entiendo, honestamente a mi no me darían, así que si les dieron y llegaron hasta acá, gracias :)



Je voudrais retourner (ma je ne peut pas)

3.24.2011

A little brightness


Ok, this is a stupid useless post, I just finished a phone conversation whith my best friend Sofi, and I felt this litlle happiness "shock".. And I immediately remembered my blog, and how I usually only write the sad/bad things that happen to me.. So in a way my blog ended up being kind of a dark place (let's face it, whithout the travel posts, this blog would be extremely depressive), and I don't really like it.. I mean O know it's kinda bound to happen, given the use I give to it.. But I would however like to bright it up a bit, and, since I don't have any BIG happy things (not that the bad things I post about are that big) going on right this instant (don't get me wrong, it's not like a have a miserable life or anything like that, in fact I'm very happy, it's just I have like the happines is a general thing in regular messures, whith no big "manifests", and the sad things are more of a recurrive thing whith bigger "manifestsW than the happines.. So in the end I don't get to post any happy things..

So here's a little happy conversation whith my best friend:
So, earlier this afternoon, while I was in the University I got a text message from her asking me at what time do I get in tomorrow, from there, I started replying  and reading her replies during my breaks.. It turns out she wants to have lunch tomorrow before I get to class, you know, just to catch up.. After a while of her not answering my messages asking where to meet at at what time I decided to call, 'cause it was getting late, and we either settled today or we settled today, so I called her, and we had a little chat and settled everything.. (we settled to meet tomorrow at 12 at her house, and we'll see what to do there, but that's unimportant).. The thing is that after we hung up it left me whith this "small" feeling of happines.. We haven't seen each other since  I went to pick her up at the airport, which wasn't all that long ago, but it still left me this little nostalgyc feeling (in a good way) I haven't seen anyone from schol ever since I started College, and ever before that (well just two persons, one I crossed in the street for 3 seconds, and whith the other we took the bus from the University together but still) I really do miss my friends, I really do miss having them whith me all day, I actually miss high school.. (the funny thing is that talking to my brother today, I realised that even if I DO miss it, I wouldn't go back, don't know why.. maybe I just feel that that stage of my life is over and in a way I like that).. I don't know, I'm just glad we are meeting, and I'm glad I talked to her..
It's weird, but I feel like in a way the people I'm meeting  do not really measure up whith my "old" friends .. you'r probably thinking, sure you feel that way you'r just starting there.. But seriously I thought about it that way, and even though the quitances I'm making are nice and are the same "kind" of people my general group of friends is/was and the kind of people I generaly like, they're not the same.. I don't know it's like they kinda fell in a different "sub-category" of that type of people... Trust me, I know what I'm saying.. There  are actually 4 or 5 people that feel like the people I REALLY REALLY like, but the others (and I'm just talking about like 7-9 people in agroup of 40) don't really "fasinate" me.. I'm not saying I'm not ganna befriend them or anything, I still like them, but it feels like they'll never messure up..
See?? even for a happy post, it ended up whith a little bit of a "sad" part.. No, but seriously, I'm happy, and I'm making new friends at the University, and I like them, I'm just nostalgyc, and I know that my current friends are more my kind of people than SOME of the guys at the University.. But then  again in the conversation I had whith my brother today, he mentioned something about how he would go back to his 1st year of college 'cause he is such a different person than he was when he first started (and he's right).. And maybe that's it, maybe it's the how I'll change, that will make the rest of this group of people more my kind..
I don't know, maybe I'm just speaking nonesense this post has gonne way out of topyc, I just started making it up as I wrote it.. It truly is nothing like I pictured in my head.. (I kinda accidentaly combined the post I wanted to write today, whith anotherone I had planned in my head)

3.14.2011

1st Day

So today was my very 1st day of college.. My first class was at 2 o'clock.. A friend from school drove me there, well actually her mother but she was there too.. (I asked her if she wanted to take the bus together, since our universityes are only 5 blocks away, and she told me her mother had to go down there so she offered me a ride)

The moment I got out of the car I was all alone for the rest of the day.. Of course I expected it.. It was only my first day.. Although it was better than I expected..

I had introduction to administrations, that got cut short 'cause they gave us a little welcoming to the university, and then a full 2 and a half hours of physics... (don't get me wrong, I like physics, but two hours and a half in a classroom full of strangers.. well, it felt  like the clock handless weren't moving as much as they should)

Fortnuately, the girl that sat next to me I had met her last year in an event from the university (where they help you choose whether or not you want to go to that university, and what engeneering in particular you want to study) and she is quite sociable, so we exchanged a few words (I'm not gonna say that we became bff or anything, but it helped to get through the day whithout feeling COMPLETELY alienated).. Of course that in the brakes, she went straight to meet whith her friends ('cause she's fortunate enough to have some in the university) that were either sitting somewhere else in the class or  in the other class (we are about 80 students divided into 2 classes of arround 40), so in the brakes I was again all alone.. but I guess that'll pass whith time..

11.19.2010

Shyguy Vs College

Okey, 4 days ago I wrote a post talking about how I had just finished my very last year of high school, and (among other stuff) I talked about how I was going to have to leave the place that I had been in for almost all my life, and how I now I would have to face something new whith comepletly new people..
While I was answering the comments I got the answer started to get pretty long (and maybe a little bit off topic) and I decided to make a post about it..

Well, as I said before last friday was my last day of school, and as I said it had been the only place I have ever gone to (studywise) and most of the people I know I met them there (in fact until this year I had almost no friend that was from outside my school).. So as you can realize I haven't really "practiced" meeting new people, ever.. Almost everybody I ever metI met them either befor turning 10 or if I met them after that they were the "new ones" so I was still in a comfortable place while I got to meet them... Add to that the fact that I'm very shy, and you'll realize that I'm socially akward (specially when it comes to new people)

I can only remember 3 recent situations in which I was introduced to a whole group of new people.. the 1st was when my X-men cosplay team met whith another x-men cosplay team, and I did fine, but then I knew half the people in the group so conversation came easier. The 2nd was when I went on the "Dream Trip to U.S.A" and again I did fine (maybe because we were all strangers to each other so we were on the same position), but the first time I was completely alone whith the guys and they started whith all the stupid "macho" talk things got very uncomfortable and when they realized how quiet I was they turned their atention to me, trying to get me to participate more actively in their "conversation" and once I didn't (I just don't feel comfortable whith it) I immediatly became an outsider, of course this didn't interfeer whith me getting along perfectly whith the girls.. Then there's the third and least important time, which was when I got to meet the friends of one of the girls that went on the trip whith me, and it was a bit akward (specially being the center of atenction since I was the "new one" there) but I did manage to talk to them (I didn't talk a lot, but I did talk) but then again I had 3 of the people who went on the trip there whith me to make the situation a bit more comfortable..

So I can manage to socialize with new people when I'm whith people I know, and SOMETIMES when we are all strangers to each other.. But what guarantees that this whil be one of those times, cause sure, we are all (or most of us) gona be strangers to each other, but as I said, SOMETIMES I can talk and get a bit out of my shyness, and even those times, it's hard for me to socialize whith the typical guy (I know I'm a guy, but girls are easier friends to me, well girls and some guys, what people call "weirdos", for example I had no problem whith the X-men guys).. Sure, I have no problem whith just geting along whith the girls, but I don't really want to spend my whole college life being friends only whith the girls.. And yes, my brother and his friends (whith whom I get along great, -they're part of the X-men group-) go to the same university I'm going to, so I do have a back-up plan in case things don't go as planed, but just as I don't want to only socialize with the girls, I don't want to depend on my brother and his friends.

Don't get me wrong, I know I'll probably have little problem socializing whith my future classmates, and I'll probably meet at least one "weird" guy whith whom I wont have to worrry about "macho"-talk but I can't help having those thoughts, because being shy as I am there's a big chance that I have trouble socializing... (don't go thinking that this is the only thing in my mind and that I can't stop thinking about it, in fact it's not something I give THAT much though to.. it's just a worry I have, it's not too important..)



As alway.. Merci!

11.15.2010

The End Of An "Era"

Last friday was my very last day of high school.. It was my last-last day of school, the same school I've been going for seventeen

years, ever since I was one year and a half old.. It actually was my second home, almost every friend I've ever had (untill this year) I met them there, the longest friendships started there, I have two friends that have been so for 17 years, which is almost all my life..I have lots of memories in there, and the thought of having to leave that place of having to start a whole new chapter of my life whith a bunch of new people is weird (and maybe even a bit frightening)
after 17 years, being there became familiar and comfortable.. now I have to head of to the new and unknown..We had a great last day, we just hanged out in the clasroom whith the teachers, and we had out uniform shirts signed, and then at lunch we had a bit of a "celebration", whith the typical last day pranks.. For example some of the other guys grabbed some toilet paper and.. well.. let's just say they re-decorated the yard.. It was almost perfect except for 2 things:1: the fact that only half the generation ended the classes that day, and the other half ends in a few weeks (It sounds weird, but it has to do whith how classes are divided)
2: the fact that me and my class had a test a
t the very last period of the very last day, which isn't the best..
After school we had planed a pool-party at my house (since it's extremely close to school) and of course I invited the guys who didn't finish on friday as well.. but in the end very few people

came(we were 7) and since it wasn't

THAT hot by the time we got to my house we didn't get into the pool (that's ok I'm thinking of throwing anotherone when the other half of the generation finishes) after that 3 of us went to another friend's house and just hanged out there till 1 o'clock or so..
It wasn't the last day I had expected,at school it was a little better than I imagined (too bad it wasn't everyone's last day) and at homw it was much worse, don't get me wrong, I had a lot of fun, but it was a bit lame for a last-last school day.. It would have been much better if we had all been together (at least the ones who finished classes that day)




Merci