Wes’s Life

I have received my grades for my second semes­ter of col­lege and I did just fine which is extremely reliev­ing. The whole semes­ter I was wor­ried about some of my classes and how well I would do in them. My semes­ter GPA was 3.28 and with my first semes­ter GPA I have a cumu­la­tive GPA of 3.34.

Fin­ish­ing the second semes­ter means that I am one fourth of the way through my col­lege career. Only three more years to go, and with how fast this one went, there is noth­ing to worry about time-​wise. I have to study more than I did this semes­ter. World of War­craft def­i­nitely curved my enthu­si­asm for study­ing.

I hope your summer is as relax­ing as I wish mine to be.

I recently fin­ished When Will Jesus Bring the Pork chops? by George Carlin. While there are some great parts which deal almost exclu­sively with polit­i­cal cor­rect­ness, the major­ity of the book seemed below my sub­stan­dard col­lege humor. It almost seemed as if Carlin started to get tired of writ­ing so he just slapped some­thing down on paper and his editor didn’t care. If you like Carlin and haven’t read any of his books, I highly rec­om­mend Brain Drop­pings, def­i­nitely his best book. I haven’t tried Napalm and Silly Putty, but a friend of mine told me it was a good book.

Any­ways, my next book will be A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin.

Well, I am finally home and (some­what) set­tled in. It is great to be back from col­lege and to be done with my fresh­man year of col­lege. To think I only have three more years to go, not bad when you think about it. I have been busy with reor­ga­niz­ing my room, clean­ing up and unpack­ing all of my stuff from col­lege. It was a ton of stuff for such a small room. I have been work­ing on get­ting my house’s wire­less inter­net work­ing and it doesn’t like to coop­er­ate, but I have it run­ning a dif­fer­ent firmware now and it seems to be doing just fine.

Well, I took my Cal­cu­lus exam at 7:00 pm and just got back. That exam was extremely tough and I am def­i­nitely wor­ried about the end result. I am pretty sure that I won’t fail, but my GPA is not going to just shoot up either. The first part, which was common to all Math 1206 courses, was just unnerv­ing because of the pat­tern the dots left on the paper. It was mostly B and D answers. The part that my per­sonal teacher made up was just rough. It was def­i­nitely very hard and I don’t know how I did on that.

My next exam is at 7:45 am and is in Engi­neer­ing. I hope that I know what they want, because study­ing for a class where there is little or no mate­r­ial is pretty hard. You have to hope you know what they are going to ask…

As I look back upon my Fresh­man year of col­lege, I think of lots of things. I think about how hard some of my classes were, not having to wake up at 6:30, like I did for high school, walk­ing to class instead of dri­ving, and most impor­tantly the friends I have met in col­lege. They have made my life here at Vir­ginia Tech much much easier. They make me laugh and we never have a bad time together.

Had I not met my friends, I would be sad and depressed and sit­ting in my room. They raise my spir­its when I am down. For instance, when I got a fail­ing grade on my first Vector test, they were there for me, let­ting me know that I could defin­tely pull out a pass­ing grade in that class.

While I can’t wait to have my own appart­ment and my own room, I will miss living in B3 (Bar­ringer 3rd floor). I met my best friends in col­lege in this hall. I will always have some attach­ment to B3 and the friends that I met here and my first year of col­lege. I hope that I can always keep in touch with them and hang out with them as well.