Am I wasting time?

Some days I feel like college is a waste of my time. Sometimes I feel like I could just get a job and start making money and be fine in life, then spending all my money on school and books and all. Why not just go to my community college, work mad hours at a job, and just save up like shit? Who says that wouldn’t work? I mean there are plenty of people who go to worse school and end up making bank in life. And why can’t I see where I’m going to end up in life? I literally sit around all the time and wonder what I am going to be doing with my life. Will I work on cars like I love? Will I be in an office job? Will I be happy with a big family or will I be struggling to make payments and hating life? I dream big of all these nice things and having the money to help others, but I don’t see how I am going to get there. Sure, I’ll be an engineer. But what exactly does that mean? I still don’t know and I’m almost done with my first year of college. I also don’t know who I am in life. I don’t know who I want to be seen as and what I truly love. I mean I know, but its not like I could make a job out of what I love. I love music but don’t have the money to be a DJ. I love classic muscle cars but I also don’t have to money to buy and fix up classics. If I could be a guy who rebuilt classic muscle cars who DJed on the side, I would love my life. I don’t think there would be a day that I would not be happy; especially if I had a loving wife, nice house, and good kids. I say good kids because I know kids will never be perfect, just god enough to deal with. I want my kids to listen to me when I say something, but who also think for themselves and know what they want in life and go for it. Anyway, that’s enough ranting and thinking ahead in life. And I think this is the last blog we have, so I will talk to you all later! :)

Why do kids drink in college?

Do most college kids drink because we don’t know what else to do to hang out? So many people these days seem to not enjoy the simply things in life. What did we used to do with all our friends? Why can’t we still do those things now-a-days? As a kid, I used to ride my bike all the time, play video games, watch TV, watch movies, play tag, play hide and seek, play capture the flag, and even just mess around in the cul-de-sac I lived in. I would love to play all these games and do all these activities still today if people wouldn’t look at you like your childish and immature. I wish I could play tag outside, play a game of capture the flag on the drillfield, or even play tag on a certain park of campus. I think I would enjoy that more than drinking almost every weekend and it would probably be healthier for me too. I think as we get older, we set this image in our minds that those were all childish things and can’t do them now because we r grown up. People think drinking is a grown up thing, but just because you drink doesn’t mean you’re an adult. Just means u drink. Doesn’t me shit otherwise. I think mature people would really see that we could do both and still be mature. I mean, when were you the happiest in your life? I was happiest when I was a kid, running around outside playing tag and capture the flag with all my friends. And I miss that a lot of days. I miss the joy that came from something so simple. How come more people don’t notice this and make a change? People in college think drinking is a good way to relax because no one really promotes tag or capture the flag instead of drinking. They all suggest to do them both while drinking. As if alcohol will make all things in life more fun. Everyone thinks college is this great place where everyone sees and where people do crazy things like drink, have sex, and do drugs all the time and that life is easy. I think it should be a place where we find our inner child, find what job we want to have, and what we want to learn. Why cant it be like that? I wish it could….

The Big Event

im just going to warn you and say this is a rant and may be long cuz its about 700 words.

So this weekend we had the big event and since I am a part of the Galileo program I was a part of the Galileo/Hypathia big event team. This consisted of over 200 people and we went into Christiansburg to mulch the disk gold course there. I expected to be walking through a slightly hilly area through the woods with mulch in wheelbarrows. This was not even close to what we actually did. The email they sent us was so broad they didn’t really tell exactly what we were doing, except mulching a disk golf course. I think they did this because they knew people would not want to go if they knew that we would be walking through the woods on steep cliffs for like 2 miles into the woods. It was the biggest bullshit ever. They had 5 gallon buckets which they filled with mulch and people carried to the sites that needed to be mulched. The buckets were light so I grabbed 4. One other guy grabbed 4, other people grabbed 2, but there were some other guys who were bitches who only took one like all the girls did. Seeing the guys who carried only one bucket it pissed me off. They are lazy and so inconsiderate of others for not even trying. We all came out to volunteer for to do this, and they are going to act like a bitch? Wow, makes them pretty cool I think. Everyone must have looked at them like they were hot shit. No, they looked t you like u were a weak bitch. And on top of that there were some people who were shoveling the mulch into the buckets who were talking shit about how there were more buckets to take and how we needed to keep going, but anytime you told them to run one and you would give their shovel back, they said no and bitched out. They didn’t make any runs through the woods and had no idea how much work it actually was. But not only were the people shoveling lazy, but there were a ton of people just sitting down on the grass. Jessie and I noticed one girl was sleeping on the grass tanning the entire time we were there. Are you kidding me? R u really that selfish that u can’t push your body a little to help others? I carried 4 buckets every time I went down, which was multiple times, and you couldn’t even sacrifice a little. This was a good majority, probably about a third of the people there, who were sitting on the ground. And when they would bring snacks, people who didn’t do shit would rush them and eat a ton. Really? I don’t understand how people can be the way they are in life. I grew up working with my dad building fences and building houses because he is a construction worker. I learned that some days will absolutely suck, but as long as you focus on enjoying the company of others while you work, then the work won’t seem as bad. I’ll admit once we started I wanted to stop immediately, but as soon as I saw so many people not even trying, I didn’t want to be one of them. I never sat down once and I always carried 4 buckets at a time. I wanted people to know I was trying and that I cared for others, even when I wasn’t going to be getting anything out of the situation. And btw this may be the worst written paper, but I wasn’t really focused on the grammar or how it sounded. I just needed to rant so I don’t rant towards some people close to me for being tools during the whole fucking event. I don’t know how all these damn engineers plan to get through life without actually getting off your ass and working.

Relationships suck sometimes

Why do couples fight so much? Why do we all find a need to or a way to be mad with the one we love? A lot of times It could be a trust issue, it could be a jealousy issue, or it could even be that one of you doesn’t feel you talk enough. I don’t get why these things cause fights in relationships. I know me and my girlfriend and I have these exact fights and actually had 2 of the 3 fights I mentioned last night. I talked to her about what I am going to be putting in my apartment next year and she freaked out. I told her about the pong table I am going to make over the summer and how legit it was and so her response was, “sounds pretty official, this means you’re going to be drinking all the time huh?” if u can’t tell, she doesn’t like that I drink and especially doesn’t like that I do it while she isn’t around. I honestly don’t want to change for her though. I am having fun being who I am. And the way I look at it was she did the same shit to me last year when were dating. She would go out clubbing all the time without me and not even try to invite me. So I got mad and told her I didn’t like it. You know how she responded to me? Well she simply said, “I am sorry. This is what my friends and I do and we are going to do it.” So that’s how I feel about this. She can either embrace it, or she can let it drive something between us. That’s what I had to do. Sorry, this blog kind of just turned into a rant. Anyway, I don’t understand why couples have to fight about such dumb things? Why not just support who the person is and if they do something that could hurt them, then you step in but otherwise let them be them. You chose them to be with for them. Why would you try to change them?

JoeStock and Easter

So this weekend was supposed to one of the biggest parties I was going to go to since I have been here at tech, but alas its Easter weekend and my family is coming her for the weekend. So anyway, this party is a 7 day long party for a guys 21st birthday. It started Thursday night and goes until Sunday night. There will be tons of games, tons of beer, tons of people, and an Easter egg hunt. But this Easter egg hunt will be a very special one, because the eggs won’t have candy in them, but instead they will be filled with airplane bottles of liquor. This is a tradition of the house they live in. on anyone’s 21st birthday they have a seven day party full of drinking and partying. This year it just happens to land around Easter, which is why they have the Easter egg hunt. There will be games like anchorman, pong, kings, etc.
…Subject change…
So every year, as a tradition since my sister started going to Virginia tech, my family comes to Blacksburg to pick us up and we rent a house in the mountains for the weekend. Usually we all just chill around the house or outside with a fire and relax. We do it to get away from everything in our lives which are hectic. Its seems like I never get a second to breathe or relax until that weekend where i actually take the time to relax…but then on Monday its like I screwed myself over because there is more work to be done that I didn’t do over the weekend. It is dumb, and I honestly can’t wait till the summer. But the summer won’t be any better because I am doing summer classes here for the 1st 5 weeks of summer. But what I am excited for this summer is when me and my girlfriend can go to my house in New York and chill there for a week. I am supposed to repaint the house while I am there, but I am also going to have some fun. Probably see a friend who lives in New York, go boating, watch some movies, ride bikes, etc. I just can’t wait to have the relaxing week before my hard as shit classes start for the summer.

Lee Hall

So lately this new girl named Namrata has been coming over and hanging out with all of us in the wing of lee hall that I live on. She seems pretty chill and for some reason her and I have actually gotten into a little bit of a fight. Not a bad fight, but more of a playful fight. She makes fun of me by calling me dumb, fat, etc. I tend to make fun of her for being Asian, a bad driver, and for using improper English. This all began when I was standing behind a friend of mine and I was rubbing their head. She looked across the room at me and made a hitting motion for me to hit him in the head…but let’s just say it didn’t quite look like she wanted me to hit him in the head. Looked more like she wanted me to rub or stroke something…if you catch my drift. ;) So anyway, I ended up calling her out in front of the whole room of people and she was really embarrassed that everyone saw and was now commenting on the fact that she did that. The next night we went out to a party and Namrata took some photos and posted them on facebook. When she tagged me in the photos she also commented on the photos and called me gay. Said I looked gay and acted gay to get back at me for the other night. So basically now we go back and forth making fun of each other and poking fun of each other. She posted another photo of me on facebook and said I was tagged as that specific dog because it was the ugliest. So I put up a ton of photos of fat chicks and tagged her in all 9 of them. She has yet to realize the photos and the photos have been up for a few days now. I think I will back off for a few days, but once she thinks I am done getting her back, I will strike again. I love joking around with people and having these little fights with others. Keeps life interesting.

Tipping at restaurants

Do you ever wonder what you should tip while at a restaurant? I always wonder what kind of a tip I should leave. Should I leave a larger tip because that’s 15-20% of the bill or should I tip depending on how good of a waiter/waitress they are? I believe you should tip based on multiple things. A combination of how much you ordered and had the waiter/waitress deliver to the table, how many times they came back to check on you, how crowded the restaurants is while you are there, and finally how the waiter/waitress treats your table. I once had a terrible waitress at Friendly’s who would walk around the restaurant to avoid our table and to avoid us asking her for more drinks. She filled the drinks once and never came back. She had an attitude when she did serve us and would slam cups down and just was completely rude to us. I mean I could understand if it was a stressful hour or if it was extremely busy, but there was no one there and we didn’t even order that much. So anyway the total ended up being about $19.88 and we decided to leave the $0.12 tip for her to keep for all her work and attitude. But I don’t want you to think I am a stingy person, because I am not that at all. I understand being a waiter/waitress is a difficult job and you never get much thanks for all your work, so if your nice and treat the people at my table with respect and we leave happy, I will be more than happy to leave you a large tip. One time my girlfriend and I went to Applebee’s after one of her ballet performances because I wanted to spend a little more time with her that night and all we got were some drinks and a small dessert to share. We ended up getting this woman in her 20’s who was the most amazing waitress ever. She made us laugh and have a good time. The night was kind of slow so when she brought us our food and drinks, she sat with us and talked to us about life and jobs and everything. On top of being a great person to talk to, she obviously noticed when our drinks were empty and would refill them immediately and come back and sit down and talk again. She did give a little time to talk alone, but I didn’t mind and neither did my girlfriend because we love being around people and talking to people all the time. So anyway, the total ended up being about $15 and I just put $30 down on the table when she brought us the check because I felt she deserved it. She made the night a blast and defiantly made me want to come back to Applebee’s again just so she could be our waitress. I feel if people were just chill about it and friendly and just polite, the people at the table will understand If it is busy or whatever the reason may be. But once you get an attitude with me, I lose the want to help you out with a large tip. I think you should tip for more of a reason then the total of the check or the number of times they come to the table. I think if you enjoyed your time at the restaurant, then the waiter or waitress did their job and deserve to be shown that with the tip.