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Senior Year

Speechless. I am rendered in awe of what starts tomorrow – my senior year. Usually, I wouldn’t bat an eyelash at another year in school, but these are extraordinary circumstances. I’ve spent 12 years in school. Twelve years. That is exactly 75% of my life. In nine months, all of it will come to the end with a stroll across a stage. It’s hard to think about. I sit here now, excited for what is to come, but when those nine months pass, my demeanor will be wholly different: a mix of freedom, anxiousness, excitement, with a very large splash of sadness and emptyness. I will miss everything I’m involved in: drama, student council, student ambassadors, and the other thousands of clubs I’m a part of. I will miss the structure and guidance as I’m pushed into the “real world.”

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This entry was written by admin, posted on September 7, 2009 at 7:27 pm, filed under Featured, Life. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Podcasts – A Love Story

This subject is fairly close to my heart, as it’s been a struggle for me in a multitude of ways. I was introduced to podcasts back in 2005, when I received my shiny new iPod nano (first gen.) I could only fit about one podcast on to it, as space was fairly limited, but I enjoyed that podcast. Fast forward a couple years, I was managing to listen to 32 different podcasts, including most, if not all of the TWiT network, all of the Revision3 network, and more. Now, this was interesting for a couple of reasons. At around an hour per podcast, I was listening to 32 hours of podcasts. Needless to say, I had hearbuds in my ears every chance I had to finish all of them. Also, I did not have internet access at my house, so I had to wait until I went to my dad’s house to download all of them. If I missed a week, I would still be compelled to listen to all of them. It became a job.

More after the jump.
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This entry was written by admin, posted on September 6, 2009 at 6:50 am, filed under Apple, Featured. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Grand Valley State University

As you may or may not know, I went on a tour of Grand Valley State University (GVSU) yesterday. This is how I feel:

Positives:

  • “Normal” student body.
  • Beautiful campus.
  • Food options are awesome.
  • Tons of activities to do.
  • “Busy” campus
  • Did I say the campus was beautiful?
  • Classes taught by professors not graduate students.
  • Ability to work on research projects as an undergrad.
  • Close to downtown Grand Rapids, and Lake Michigan.
  • Competitive pricing for tuition
  • Scholarship opportunities
  • Very “social” and friendly
  • Tons of sports/intramurals
  • “All inclusive” – no extra fees to use things.
  • #1 in Class 2 college sports

The “negatives” after the jump.

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This entry was written by admin, posted on September 4, 2009 at 7:39 am, filed under Uncategorized. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Keeping Busy

I have just under one week until I start school, and this is what needs to be accomplished:

  • Yearbook training meeting – today.
  • Grand Valley State University tour – tomorrow.
  • Finish Lord of The Flies
  • Get my sleep patterns back in check.
  • Get parking pass/possibly new locker.

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This entry was written by admin, posted on September 2, 2009 at 5:36 am, filed under Uncategorized. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Vlog – 9/1

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This entry was written by admin, posted on September 1, 2009 at 6:47 pm, filed under Uncategorized. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Excuses

Wow, what happened? I was so excited to start a new blog, make content, and have fun. I am so sorry: to you and to myself. I have not posted one thing since April. I am on a mission to do a couple of blog posts per week, maybe some videos, and pick up my camera more often. I hid behind the sad fact that I have no readers, and told myself “why post, then?”

I have plans.

Coming, is the long overdue Windows7 review, and some other posts that I think you will like.

Thanks for reading.

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Getting started..

As you see, I reinstalled my blog on this subdomain. That means I have to re-edit all the files that customize the blog, and these will be rolled out as soon as possible. I am doing everything I can to get everything back to normal.

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This entry was written by admin, posted on April 19, 2009 at 11:57 am, filed under Featured. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Sad news.

While moving over to this subdomain, I lost some posts.
I can’t recover them, but I’ll start over from here.

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Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

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Windows 7

For the past few weeks I knew that I needed to reformat my drive and reinstall XP – explorer.exe had a memory leak, I had 8 minute boot up times, and more. I definitely needed to reformat.

Then, the Microsoft keynote came along and Steve Ballmer said the Windows 7 beta was coming, and I knew that I was going to use that instead of my XP install. I learned that only 2.5 million keys were going to be released, starting at around 12:00 PM EST. I was immediately disappointed, knowing I will be in school when it all comes out. I came home and found out the Microsoft website has been down all day, and that they keys were not sent out.

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This entry was written by admin, posted on January 11, 2009 at 2:09 am, filed under Uncategorized. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

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