English 108: Advanced Composition
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Does anyone else think its crazy that we are on our 6th week of class? I mean this semester is almost half way over. That is insane to me. Spring break is less then a month away, and after spring break classes are just going to fly by. After this weekend we have only 2 more weekends and then its spring break. Thats like nothing. Easy we can make it till then. I'm not sure about you guys but I'm just going home for spring break, however, I'm not going to be at school learning. 
My first run of exams is practically over. I finish them this week. Before I know it my second round of exams will be here. I'm sure they will be before spring break, hopefully. It is just mind boggling. It is super crazy. I cannot believe that I am going to be done with my first year of college so soon. I honestly feel like it was just yesterday when I was leaving my house and moving into Purdue. I was scared to death. Now I miss Purdue when I'm not here more then I miss my home when I'm not there. I just can't believe second semester is going this fast. Usually this time of year is like super slow without all the breaks and what not. I don't know. What do you think?
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Agreed!!
I completely agree! It just seems like time is flying by. I cannot believe that it is week six. I cannot wait for spring break either. I am going to Honduras to study agriculture and the agronomy in their country. I have never been anywhere out of the country and am so excited to go. I’m what everyone referred to in my high school as a hick. I love agriculture and am excited to learn about how it effects the culture and economy in another country. I know my trip won’t be all fun and games since it is a study abroad experience, but I am ready to get my hands dirty. Before I know, it will be summer and hopefully I will be headed off to Texas to work on a beef farm and learn about the beef industry. This will also be a ton of work but I cannot think of a better way to spend my summer. Then it will be August and I will be moving into a house with five amazing girls and starting my sophomore year. I will get a real taste of the real world. Getting along in a house of six girls might not always be easy at times but I am sure we will have a ton of fun, and some great times. I will be a Purdue for seven years but I am positive that they will be the seven shortest years of my life. Everyone thinks that I am crazy for wanting to go to school that long but I know the time will fly by.
Totally know what you're feeling...
It's crazy for me to think that just last year at this time, I was planning for prom, on my way (literally) to go to my boyfriend's fraternity formal, and excited about graduation.
It seems so far away now. It's crazy how much things change, and how trivial high school truly was.
Today, I can only remember prom, look at my boyfriend's college diploma, and dream of college graduation. Amazing.
I agree with you on missing Purdue when you're gone. I had by far the worst winter break in my life and all I wanted to do was go home- Purdue.
Only 2 and a half months left!
I was thinking about this
I was thinking about this just a few minutes ago. Only one of my fellow high school graduates is here at Purdue with me (which is kinda crazy since there were only ten of us) and I was just talking with her. So of course my mind jumped to trying to grasp the fact that high school is over, I will never go back to that, that Christmas break which seemed so far away when I first got here is over, and soon my first semester of college will be done! I'm looking forward to next year, but at the same time it bothers me that even though I will be at the same school with basically the same friends, things will also be different. I will be living with someone different in a different dorm, and some of my friends will be farther away. Plus our schedules will all be different again. But I'm sure it will still be good.
Doesn't the irony and speed of life just blow you away? Sometimes I just chuckle and shake my head because I just can't believe the things that have happened or are happening. To think I'm at COLLEGE, away from my FAMILY, and SURVIVING! To think that, whether they are monotonous or not, the weeks fly by. Things change every day, for both good and bad, and then change again. Life is just crazy!!!
fast and slow… but mostly fast :)
I also agree with you... I can't believe that I am in my second semester of college and almost done with my first year. I never thought this time in my life would come so soon. Although everything does seem to be rapidly paced, I still struggle with time not moving fast enough. I have a boyfriend that lives in Minnesota who I get to see once a month (if I’m lucky) and every time we leave each other we count up the days until we’re together again. And sometimes when I really miss him, it seems like the minutes just inch by... but then time, once again, performs its magic trick of flying and we are together before I know it.
It is crazy though, like others have said, that when I leave Purdue, I miss it. It has grown into my home and has been the bearer of many fun times. It is an almost perfect concoction… minus my family and my guy. In a perfect world, I would have everyone and everything I love nearby… but obviously our world is far from ideal. So instead I keep counting the memories and experiencing the hours... fighting this crazy thing called time. 