the chill of september air has gotten everyone around me in a good mood!
the first week of school has passed and it’s been very eventful. today i thought back to what my first week of school last year was like. i took five classes, spread out enough that if need be (and need always tended to be), i could slip into a nap. once classes ended i hung out with my roommate, made a snack or two, and often spent the night on the computer or watching mind-numbing reality tv reruns. this year i still have five classes but my day begins earlier, as I’ve shaken my habit of sleeping until noon and instead begun to favor bright and sunny mornings. starting in a week or two, my monday and wednesday afternoons will be spent monitoring psychology experiments for the lab i assist in, with a weekly meeting every friday as well. tuesday and thursday afternoons, as well as early sunday mornings and late sunday nights, are spent at work. a goal of my year is to learn to better manage my finances. wednesday afternoons i attend meetings for a group at school called the wellness advocates - i’m a peer health educator and our group is trying to spread encouragement for mental and physical well-being. every other thursday night i take the train to meetings for my internship at a Chicago poetry magazine. I’ve enjoyed listening to the editors discuss with such passion writing, traveling, and the arts. I hope to be as culturally well-rounded as them one day. and friday and saturday are mostly spent relaxing and catching up on homework, and so far i’ve greatly appreciated these lazy days.
this tumblr has, for me, been a nice tool for assisting in the discovery of my own personal wants and goals for myself. the focus has been on a desire for increased creativity, but a more general hope that i can learn how to live to my fullest potential. i am well aware that i’m not there yet, but the drastic change in personal involvement in activities that interest me has been something i’m proud of. I hope that I can maintain my busy schedule, because I do like that i feel as if i’m furthering myself as a person!
(via agoodthinghappened)
