So it is my first week back and I have noticed a huge change in me, I have noticed that I am extremely more social this year than I was even back in high school. I also have more confidence in myself to get things done and I don't notice if people are staring at me, like the "shy" state I used to be in. Last year I had a hard time doing tours because I could never make small talk with the prospective student, and that was the biggest part of the job. Now I could make small talk with about anyone I wanted. And through the STARs program in the admissions I have made a handfull of new friends. I would advice you to try and get a job as a STudent Admissions Representative (if there is one available for you), and share all of your stories.

In other news I have been able to use the knowledge I gained from high school physic,in my college physic class, which means I have a fighting chance to get close to an A in it and this makes me very happy. I also feel really bad for my girlfriend, who has a ton on her plate for this semester, and she is struggling to find the time, I hope she can do it and still have a good senior year (she's a high school senior in the grand ol' bomber country :) ).

Exciting side note: I'm borrowing "gears of war 2" (xbox 360 game) from a friend and i love playing horde on multiplayer! If you are on xbox live and you want a person to play with, drop me an invite, my gamer tag is: NightlyDragon7.
p.s. I also play Call of Duty: World at War, Mercenaries 2, Fuel of War, and Call of Duty 4; I have more games, so just invite me and I'll tell you if I have it.

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke

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This week is the first week back, which means... FREE FOOD!!!!!! oh and classes but mostly FREE FOOD!!! :).

So my classes have started, along with everyone else's, and this semester I am taking calculus 2, Physics 152 (mechanics), Engr 199 (engineering design), and Engr 221 (C and C++ Programing). My goal for this semester, which will be HARD, is to get an A in every class, but I need a B or higher in Physics and Calculus to keep my scholarship, which shouldn't be hard for the B, but I want the A...

In other news, Today on campus we have the velcro wall (I believe) and for sure Nelson's grilled food like hambergers and hotdogs (YUM YUM!) for the masses to eat! I also met up with a girl that used to go to the same high school as me, which is cool because I'm no longer the only edonight (sounds like E-don-knight) in Fort Wayne!

well I need to run, I believe my project partner is here, so it's time for a paper airplane simulator :) don't you just love nerds...?

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
-Thomas Jefferson

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It has been a long couple of days for me here in the little lossed town of Edon, so far I have moved all the stuff from the basement to the living room upstairs, cleaned the walls and floor in the basement, poured a cement pad in the basement, painted the basement walls with a sealant, moved boxes of stuff back into the basement, and I've also started filling cracks in the walls with hydrolic cement. All this is in an effort to stop the water from coming through the walls downstairs so that it isn't a sest pool of molds and bacteria. I also got a lesson in organizing my house from my mom and got a good deal of it picked up.

Now on my list of to do: I need to make a popcorn holder, make a stand to expand the rain catcher, plumb the rain barrels onto it, paint the basement floor, and I'm sure my 'rents will find something else for me to do.

And I can't wait until school starts, I'm so BORED!!!! And I just want to get this semester over.

Well I'm off to watch Bones and I'm sure I'll have to do something else that a 'rent will ask for. Good night all.

"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

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So the basement work that I was procrastinating on earlier is mostly done, I had to gutt it out so we could see the water damage and everything else that is wrong down there. Our next task is to spray the walls with a chemical "killer" to kill all the mold and then wash the walls down with water and clean up the mess. Then we have a plan of starting a root cellar to store the potatoes and onions we just got out of our garden. Then eventually we would like to make a gray water watering system, which is where we would take the water from our bath and put it into storage. The water is from that point pumped outside to the garden where it is use for watering. This would save us money because we wouldn't have to pay for the water we use when we garden. I hope to complete this job within the week before I have to go back to school.

Well I'm taking off for my nice warm bed, take care all.

"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."
- W.B. Prescott

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Well I know last time I promised I would have pictures of my alarm clock, well I tried to upload them and there was an error message that said the file was too big... so I cannot show the picture of the alarm. In other news I went to the dentist today and that went rather well, I need to get my wisdom teeth pulled, but I knew that from my last trip there.

So today's plan is to clean the basement out and I don't really want to do it right now, so we will see what happens. maybe I can get my mom to wait a day.

Yesterday was my last day at work and afterwards I left the Fort for my parents house. Now I am here buying the most time I can from entering the basement.

I'm going to go and hide :)

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

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I have decided that I am going to give my alarm clock one more day of life before I destroy it in the same manner a caveman would destroy anything. I'm sure many are wondering what I'm talking about, so I'll tell you. This morning I woke up an hour late because my alarm did not go off, which means I was late to work. At work I swore I would buy a new alarm clock, destroy my old one, and then I would post the picture of the obliterated alarm clock on here. I have yet to destroy it but that will happen tomorrow and you will see the evidence.

In other news I have a total of two days of work in the admissions office before I'm done and I'm sure the ladies in the back will miss me. I also have managed to beat Mercenaries 2, so I think I'm going to sell it or trade it with a friend for a new game.

Now for my big thought I have decided I'm going to try an experiment that will look like a "business". I think that I'm going to advertise books that are for sale around campus and also through amazon, ebay, and maybe textbook.com, to anyone who wants to use my services. I would take pictures, post the papers, and anything else that might come up. The only thing I would ask for would be some sort of money, either through a percentage of the sale or some upfront amount that would have to be worked out when I started the adventure. I believe that if I do this I will get people who would normally sell their books back to the bookstore for a small price to sell them to other people for more money.

Well I will have to update this later, until then take it easy and have fun getting ready for classes to begin again.

" Who is a hero? He who turns his enemies into friends." A teaching from the Talmud

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I am pretty sure I am glad the summer is over and I know I am happy that my summer classes are over. Just a quick side note, summer classes are extremely excellerated and are way harder than regular term classes, because the regular 16 week classes become condenced down to 6 week classes so if you miss one class it can be almost like missing a week worth of regular classes. In lamens terms that means you miss about a chapter of notes each day u miss.

So now I'm done with the boring school talk I will move onto my summer. I have had an interesting summer to say the least... I will just say that I can be considered an expert at filing and alphabetizing. I also got lucky and one of the ladies in the office offered me an opportunity to do yard work around her house and she pays me, which are the magic words lol. This summer i also got the opportunity to go on a "vacation," which was a weekend spent at Warren Dunes state park in Michigan. The trip there was roughly two hours, most of which we spent on the toll road. When we got there we decided to camp at the state park because the place we were originally going to go was full.

We spent most of our time at the beach (Lake Michigan) and in the mud creek that ran in between the dunes. That was interesting, people would go up the creek and then come back covered in clay. So half of the people on the beach were covered in gray, dried clay and there were even bald guys that had it on their head. They then of course washed it off but it was different to me for sure. On Saturday and Sunday there were big waves coming into shore, so we spent our time diving through waves and jumping over them too, it was pretty cool. The only major downside of the trip was on the last day a guy drowned from the constant battereing of waves and being pulled around by rip tides.

The only the other thing I can think of is that someone hacked my xbox 360 live account, so now I have a new one, which is NightlyDragon7, once again if you're interested in gaming just add me and if I have the game I'll play it with ya.

Welp I think im going to take off, its about time to go garden with my mom... catch ya'll later

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty"
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

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