Wednesday, July 27, 2011

We R Who We R - Ke$ha

I found this article that I though I'd share with everyone. It doesn't just need to be addressed to 18 year olds. Heck, I'm 20 and I'm glad to read this article. Even if it just affirms what I've been doing in college.



Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Eighteen





Commit yourself to making a lot of mistakes
Find hard work you love doing
Invest time, energy, and money in yourself every day
Explore new ideas and opportunities often
When sharpening your career skills, focus more on less
People are not mind readers. Tell them what you’re thinking
Make swift decisions and take immediate action
Accept and embrace change
Don’t worry too much about what other people think about you
Always be honest with yourself and others
Talk to lots of people in college and early on in your career
Sit alone in silence for at least ten minutes every day
Ask a lot of questions
Exploit the resources you do have access to
Live below your means
Be respectful of others and make them feel good
Excel at what you do
Be who you were born to be

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Some Beach - Blake Shelton

Oh goodness. Life is crazy!!

I'm starting to freak out about my final for Ochem 2 that I have Thursday. I have no motivation to do my math homework because I've figured out that there is no way to complete the program this week, and I have the OChem final to worry about already.
School starts a few days after I get back from Italy so I've been dealing trying to get my scholarship reinstated for this fall, because I lost it after not having enough credit hours in the spring, which I've made up for this past summer with Calc II and Ochem II. Nonetheless, it's more stress for me.

On the bright side, Melano is graduating from his intermediate obedience class this Saturday :) We will be taking the advanced course starting in late august, or around there.

I really like my dog trainer, but she's kinda weird sometimes. I don't know what it is about my sister and I, but somehow everyone we both meet winds up telling us their life story, or at least the drama in their lives and at their work. It's like that with my boss too. I don't know what it is. Although, neither of us has super close friends outside of each other. Our dog trainer actually gave me her number because I mentioned that I'm closest with my parents and hang out with my sister the most. I don't know why that was taken in a bad way. Is it really so bad to have your family as your closest friends to?

There's a saying ' you can't pick your family, but you can pick your friends'. It's weird, in high school, I used to love this saying, I couldn't find a way to get along with my family. I had friends I trusted (mostly). It truly is crazy how much things change in such relatively short time. Now I love my family, and don't have many friends I trust. I trust my family with everything, especially my sister. She gets me so well, I guess she always has. The main difference between us now, is that as well as we have known each other, we used to try to push each others buttons instead of calm each other down. Now we work together to keep each other sane, not drive the other one crazy.

And amazingly, I attribute all of my closeness with my family to an ex that I have that broke my heart, and only having my family to lean on as I put it back together. I don't know if I would ever trade anything for the relationship that I have with my family now.

On another note, med school starts up soon. I remember writing a post about how glad I was that I was being paid to be at orientation and that I wasn't paying to be bored to death. Well, this year, it won't even be like that. They're messing with the schedule that they've used for years, which kinda messes up what my guy boss says during it all, which is kinda important. Anyway, everyone gets kinda upset and testy because of it and everything else that is going on. Between that and school and getting ready for Italy, I've kinda shut out the world. It's kinda nice.