New Beginnings/Academia

I'm switching to Blogger after 5 long years with Livejournal. It's quite sad, but I refuse to forget my first blog as it has been with me through a lot. With my life changing in so many ways, it's time to start fresh. Here's to our time together.

This Thanksgiving break seemed to be a long one and I'm not too sure why. It feels like the last time I was at school was weeks ago, though every weekend is just as long as this one was. School is making me really happy. I'm doing well in all my classes, and doing well on assignments I thought I bombed. Isn't that always how it goes? I have so much to look forward to concerning school. Spring classes begin February 1st and I'm already registered for all the classes that I need. I have school auditions coming up QUICK and I'm starting to prepare for those. The coming months are vital in the rest of my academic career and my anticipation is getting the best of me.

School has always been a really stressful subject for me. Being the perfectionist and the overachiever that I admittedly am, I cannot stand the thought of failure. And although sometimes my laziness and my ambition don't work too well together, education is important to me, and I want to make myself and my parents proud of the work that I do. Going to community college straight out of high school was a sort of wake up call for me that I needed to begin preparing myself for a university; I needed to do the job that San Leandro High School didn't do. Over the past three years, I think I have prepared myself for a university, all the while working insane hours and finding my true passions. I may not have gotten the dorm experience or the dining hall experience or the camaraderie of new young adults living on their own in an entirely foreign place. But I know what I want out of life. That's what I got from Ohlone College. And THAT kind of knowledge is invaluable.

So as I plug on with my applications and my auditions and my recommendations and my transcripts and test scores, all I can think of is my first day at Ohlone College. I feel like a senior in high school right now, writing a graduation speech. But who would have known on that first day back in 2007 that Ohlone College would have been such a big stepping stone for me? And that in the end, I would appreciate my time there, no matter how much I complained along the way. I look forward to what's in store.