My Problem with Focus

With so many classes, exams, finals, and other commitments to negotiate my way through I am finding that my biggest problem with focus. For the few people that were reading this blog, that may have become apparent when I basically stopped writing according to my goal of once a day.  I also failed to maintain a focus in the few posts I made. Here's to a renaissance on this blog.

As I said earlier there are many, many things that require my undivided attention as well as even more things that would seek to throw me off. I am taking a break from my calculus homework to attend to this blog, surprise: its another distraction.

What's going on this week? Purdue's Grand Prix is happening. This means half of the campus has decided not to focus at all. Events are going on every night (every... single... night) and so not much work is getting done. That said, all of the freshmen engineers have an exam tomorrow. I can't engage even if I had an in to any of the socials going on this evening or the next.  However, I may be able to attend events this weekend, so that is exciting.  Something about foam pouring down from the ceilings.

I managed to climb my first V3 a couple of weeks ago. I was really proud, but I haven't managed to complete any others yet, though I am making good progress on my second one. Stephen didn't get the one I got though so that is a plus.  My hands are sore due to a splinter I received playing hide-and-go-seek in the engineering mall so I have avoided the wall. I also am cowardly and haven't cut the damn thing out of my hand yet.  Ugh, it twinges every now and then. If future me doesn't have a hand because of this, sorry (in advance).

Stephen and I have been playing a lot of Magic: The Gathering. When I say a lot, I mean its been almost every day. We duel with the prebuilt decks he owns, we duel with our standard decks, and I occasionally duel with my jank deck that I built from the crappy cards I own. While we are the only two who play frequently on our floor, Yu-Gi-Oh has been the game of choice among the other residents, thanks in part to my room-mates ridiculous collection of cards and decks.

Dota continues to play with my hopes and dreams. Every time I get ahead (I was recently positive by five or so games) I start to play badly or (in my most recent game) have terrible luck. We were winning until our Slardar decided that he didn't want to play anymore and starting feeding. Hard. He was doing ok too, just under-leveled.  And all of a sudden he says "Fuck this, we need a surrender option. I am feeding." The game went to hell shortly after.

So that's my update for now. Not entirely focused but I think it was better written and more in depth than other posts I have completed.  I think I'll aim to update this blog once or twice a week, that way I can write more without feeling like I am droning on and on and on and on...

Fin.

Lecture halls and cheap donuts

Thanks to inflation, spending 60 cents on a donut is cheap. Especially when it's 50 cents cheaper than all other places on campus.

This was the result of a brilliant discovery that I was informed of. There is a student lounge with a coffee shop. It's brilliant.

Now I await my family arriving in from Chicago and this last lecture to be complete and life will be good.

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Family visit!

My family is coming to visit this weekend, which makes me extremely excited. Because I am so far away I don't get to see them often anymore and having a chance to show off my school to my sister, who has yet to see it, makes me really giddy. I also am looking forward to introducing my
mother to all of my college friends.

But first I have survive the exams I have scheduled for this evening and tomorrow evening. They are not going to be a cakewalk. Here's to surviving the week. Here's to family. Here's to college.


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Slackin'

Homework is time consuming and tedious.

I've discovered full metal alchemist. I like it a lot, Major Armstrong makes cry from laughing.

I am almost done milestone 6 for ENGR132. Cool beans.

My team for ENTR200 basically failed our presentation today.

I have no time to doto, though I want to badly.

Hope future me is happy. Bye.