backtrack

black coffee and cranium night
saturday, september 10, 2011

Sam holding my chunk of celery.

friday, september 9, 2011
smorgasmort (on campus event-similar to club day but night time with sport-like activities)

We spent the night taking endless photobooth pictures and bowling in disco lights and loud music. I also got a chance to talk to the tennis and Circle K clubs. Before Smorgasmort, my new friend John and I went on a really fun campus scavenger hunt with our new Circle K friends, and I told myself that another piece of life was just about to get started from there.

megan

juan

patrick's blue eyes

thomas

stephanie

circle k photobooth

first time bowling

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roomies

thursday, september 8, 2011
thursday night adventure time (at the park...)







Since I technically thought Thursday was my Friday, my weekend kind of started earlier! It's insane how in just three days, I've met even more people and bonded with such compatible personalities. I spent the weekend trying to really dig deep into who I am as a person and why I act the way I act in my autobiography for my College of Liberal Arts avid class. I've also been spending quite a bit of time trying to understand Orwell's paper on how to stop worrying about how to make a paper flawless on the first few tries, and start trying to collaborate, research, draft, reread, and revise more often, hand in hand with trying to start blogging weekly on the class's blogsite on my personal criticisms and praises on the readings we do at home and in class.

I mean here I am, experiencing the college life, participating in all of these activities, going out on late night talks, hanging out on the spur of the moment, sharing personal stories and internal thoughts during dining hall times-all for the first time. To remind myself that these moments are incredibly surreal, I'm just going to leave it at that real talk in college actually consists of quite a few genuine people who actually make the effort to a certain shared friendship. After all, we're all trying to seek for approval, belonging, and some kind of acceptance in some kind of way, whether we realize and look for that now, or leave it to happen on its own later. Long Beach State just keeps getting better, and I am loving it more and more each day. I hope I continue to experience more memorable moments that can allow me to embrace the value of this new intriguing reality.