Apocalyptic College

Students in October

Student zombies crawl about the campus. The first round of tests have just been administered. The end of October/November is midterms then the final in December. Today, the Starbucks line in the library was out the door. I went to the library at 10:30 this morning and a saw 3 people asleep with their books and laptops sprawled out on a long table. I am assuming they were there all night. Maybe, I am wrong. Maybe everyone just likes Starbucks and some people like to take morning power naps in a public place.

I feel like a zombie too sometimes. So unaffected by the issues and problems other students might be stressing their brains over. I stare at a screen, a book, or a lecture and focused only on my issues, problems, and priorities. How does it feel to be a student zombie? It’s like living in a world that has a population of only you. In a world like that you constantly feel like you’re failing, even if you’re not.

If I stop and look at things in perspective, I don’t feel better because we are all stressed and struggling. But I do feel less ‘zombified’. My friends help me out a lot. We all can talk to each other, help each other out, and in a lot of ways relieve the stress.

Cure student zombification with friends

Don’t Talk, Listen & Relax

It’s been a month now and I find it interesting how often I feel like I am the only one here.  There are +30,000 people around me at any given time and yet my interest in others no longer exist. In high school I knew people. I talked to friends on a day to day basis about everything. Now, I talk less and listen more. Listen to lectures, listen to educational videos, listen in club meetings, listen in study sessions. It sucks not to talk to anybody (and by ‘talk’ I mean really have a sit down conversation).

Besides this more or less depressing realization I have also seen a difference in learning level. I have come to understand more about a variety of subjects in a month than a semester of high school. I have been granted a whole new outlook on the world that makes so much more sense than the mess it was before. Yeah my social life has gone down the toilet, I have stress that makes me physically sick, and the amount of work they expect is either do or die for your GPA. It is almost hard to believe some students can go to out every night of every week and still have the grades to be enrolled here.

Finding out what relaxes you, what calms you down when your stressed, is something that is good know before you enter college.

Blog for sanity

Preach! Book I Got From College Orientation

At college orientation they handed us a book to read for summer. This book was about a post grad hired by an internet social networking company and showed how computer networking could get out of hand.

For example One becomes so passionate about online interaction they don’t sleep.

After making this blog and a twitter account I tweaked both sites for hours all night and finally ended my internet activity at 3am when I knew I had a ball game the next morning.

In a way the book had a lot of truth about how invasive companies can be and how much information a stranger can learn about you just by obtaining information uploaded by none other than the individual themselves.

Facts about you can be private if you don’t type and post it.

But ALWAYS remember this…

– It’s better to have more friends than ‘followers’.