I've been sick for days... I am SOOO ready to be healthy again. I hate getting up and feeling like I was hit by a semi truck. I hate not being able to talk and feeling like my throat is raw. I just want to be better.
Today was the second day of the Career Fair. I don't know why I was SO nervous. It seemed to be quite a waste of time because every recruiter I spoke with told me that I had to apply on their website to be considered. A few of them seemed cool and we had good conversations, however I know they just put my resume in the stack with everyone else and they won't remember me. But I guess that's all I can do. So stayed at the Career Fair for a while, and then came back home and filled out numerous online applications. So cross your fingers, I NEED A JOB!
I can't wait for this weekend. I am going home to see my family and have my birthday. This year my birthday isn't too exciting. Maybe I'll just celebrate the first anniversry of my 21st birthday! that sounds good. I am just happy to go see the dogs, my parents, the rest of my family and just have some away time from my apartment and Ann Arbor in general. Yay!
I really don't have much homework lately. It feels nice. A lot of my homework is lab work that gets done during class time. I have a few things to do outside of class, but other than that, I have a bit of down time. I don't know if I like that or if I hate that. I can get everything done by Friday night, which is super. But during the week I have a lot of down time too. I should get back in the habit of going to the Dude for a few hours because I did so much better the semester that I just went to the dude and read my text books and took indepht notes. I only have one class that has a book though. Maybe I'll just start to work a head... Doubt it.
I suppose I don't have much else to write about. I'm so nervous about getting a job. A place I applied to called Niowave already contacted me to fill out a questionare. Hope i get a job with them. They do cleanroom equipment development and Superconductor Research. It looks like a pretty interesting company. Also its located in Lansing Michigan. So close to home!! :)
Well I am going to get going. I have a few things to get done tonight and then I'm going to get to sleep early. Tomorrow is going to be a long day. gEECS Recruitment dinner!
Talk to you later
-JRA
So I am beyond nervous for the career fair. I don't even know why either. Its like do or die time. I feel like if I don't get a job in the next 2 months, I'll never get a job. While I understand this is NOT true, it doesn't make me any less nervous about the whole getting hired process. I just want someone to see me and say here's a job. I know this is NEVER EVER EVER going to happen, but I wish it would. Honestly I don't even know what company I want to work for, or really even what kind of Electrical Engineering work I want to do coming out of college. I suppose I don't really care. Even if it is not something that I want to do for the rest of my life, its a first job. I've been told that I might not necessarily LOVE my first job, but I really want to somewhat enjoy it. I just want this all to be over. I just want to KNOW what I'm going to be doing come May. I wish I could just know that one piece of future information.
These past few days I've been reading some of my middle school journals that surfaced in my move. WOW. I was so funny back then. It honestly cracks me up. Not only were my writing skills lacking, I was boy crazy and thought that any boy that would give me the time of day was the boy I was going to spend the rest of my life with. Granted that Tony and I DID meet in 7th grade, you'll be surprised to know that he wasn't one of the many boys that I thought I was going to marry! Its so funny to think back about those times. It honestly is like watching a very corny TV show. Sort of sad that my life reminds me of some knock off teenage drama show, but then again I think a lot of people would feel the same way if they were as strange as I was as a teenageer to keep a journal of EVERY SINGLE day of my life since the last day of 6th grade. I'm really happy I did it. However I really wish i would have kept up with it in High school. I feel like my high school thoughts were a little more mature and well I feel like I grew up a TON from around 11th grade(mayish) until the day I graduated. I really wish I could read that transition. Its so fun to read. I'll have to put an exert in here one of these days.
School is taking off like a jet. Honestly it feels so slow and I don't really have any homework or reading to do, but I knew in like a week its going to start to PILE on. I hate that feeling, knowing that things are going to get exponentially harder in a very very very short time. Yet there's not a thing I can do to prepare. I just have to let it all happen when it happens. :( most of my classes are so awkward. like my EECS 452 class(Senior Digital Signal Processing Lab) is just so weird. We go to lecture which is held 3 times a week to listen to the professor read directly from her slides about the specifications of the hardware we are using in lab. Its like no one in that class has ever heard of a data sheet or an operation manual. And I don't think they know how to read. Its sad and I hate going, but its my Senior Design, I have to prove myself (to myself).
Other than that, weekends have been super fun. Its awesome that Tony and I both have season tickets this year. So much fun! Tomorrow the game is against Eastern Michigan so we should have a good game. And its supposed to be pretty nice outside so that will help. Last week it was super hot and it made me sick feeling. Plus i was so tired from standing up the entire time. So now that its not going to be as hot, maybe I won't feel so tired. The sun really wears me out.
I am going to go do the dishes and organize the apartment. Its a mess right now.
Today was the first day of class. First day of my Senior Year. Seems like I just had the first day of my senior year in high school. Time is really flying by. It scares me. What scares me even more is becoming a real person after college. I'm so scared of failure. :( I still feel way too young to graduate from college.
I didn't have class today though! :) I have a lab on Tuesday's from 8:30 to 11:30, but since there typically isn't labs the first week of classes, I had nothing. Pretty sweet gig. Tomorrow however I have quite a few classes, and then Thursday and Friday I have one each. I'm contemplating taking another class so that I'm not taking 12 credits and having too much down time. However I know that the school work is going to pick up quickly and I will be happy that I only took 12 credits. So i don't know.
Plans for today: None. I need to put in some work on the website, but that's about it. I have some TV to watch tonight and then Ill probably play fallout3 for a little bit. I'm sorta addicted to the game. Its hard and I hate it, yet i keep playing. LAME. I was sooo excited when Tony told me that he'd leave the X box for the week to play! YIPPIE.
So in movie news, Youth in Revolt is coming out on Oct 30th. I abs cannot wait. Honestly! I'm a little nervous because it is my favorite book of all time, and for years I've had this image of what the book would be like if it were a movie. I'm scared they might not live up to my expectations. Currently I am rereading it because I know there's parts I've forgotten about. Still as hilarious as it was the first time I read it in 8th grade. Although now I understand some of the crud jokes more.
Another book that I've enjoyed is coming to movie. I was super surprised with the fast book to movie turn around of this one. I bought I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell a few weeks after it came out. It honestly wasn't that long ago, and now the movie is coming out Sept 25th. Fast.
Considering Youth in Revolt is like decades old and they are just NOW making a movie, it seems like the other book went straight to movie. Like when you see the million American Pie sequels coming straight to DVD. I always wonder when that fad will die.
Well I suppose I will go listen to Green Day and reminisce about 10th grade or something. And I need to work on the website.
Later
JRA
I love that little dog. Sophie is growing up so much and she is so gosh-dang cute. Sometimes when I look at her, I can't even believe that she's a real animal because she's so cute. I miss her already.
I'm back in Ann Arbor after a week of being home and relaxing. School is getting ready to start back up. I'm not really ready. I just want this summer to last for the rest of forever because it was so easy and there was very very little responsibility. :) Love it. But all good things do come to an end and I have to go back to my stressful life of becoming an Electrical Engineer! (WTF was I thinking?)
On a more exciting note, Michigan Football Season starts tomorrow. Way excited about that!! I'm glad I got season tickets again. And even more excited because Tony has them too and we're in row 2!!! Yes! Its gonna be a great season!
I love Tony so much. He and I are 21 together right now. I love when we are the same age together. Its a fun 3 weeks and then I get older than him again. We had our first drinks together at a restaurant. I've waited to have a drink with him at a restaurant for almost a year! Yeah I'm a sweet girlfriend. haha It was fun.
Well I'm gonna get sleep.
-JRA
