Yeah, I'm making a post. Is it because I feel bad because my readers haven't been able to hear my life-changing thoughts and perspectives? No. I'm using it as a warm-up exercise for another blog post I have to make (yeah that's right I'm cheating on my blog with another blog. It's for an assignment, deal with it.)
It's been an incredible semester so far- and only 3 days until it concludes! After my excursions in Thailand I kicked the door of Stockton in and punched my environmental science courses in the jaw with intensive studying and the most extreme passion imaginable. (How do you measure passion you ask? Try spending 40+ hours studying ant taxonomy for a 1 credit lab assignment.) The semester was an uphill battle of logging internship hours, volunteer work, 4 classes + labs, a thesis, acting as President for my student club, AND maintaining a social life. I'm in the last stretch of a sleep-deprived semester and I'm counting down the minutes. I don't think I could have gotten through it without Rena, Diane, Jessica, April, and some other random people that I'm too tired to list at the moment.
Well, it's all paid off! When I first began this blog I named it "The Paragon of Average" because even though I had the support of an amazing person who was constantly telling me how much value I had, I simply didn't believe it. Between friends, work loads, and other responsibilities I no longer feel like the average guy I was just a few short months ago. I feel pretty damn good about myself. Why you ask?! I'm graduating with a degree in criminal justice and a double minor in sociology and environmental science, I've been hired to teach in Thailand through the Princeton in Asia program, and I've made more close friends in the past year then I have in my life. I've worked my ass off and it's finally made me realize that even the most average people have the potential to be successful, sometimes they just need to reach for it. Or, in my case, have someone else thoroughly plant their foot deep inside my rectum. (It worked.)
Future blog posts will come, and they won't be so...rambley. In fact, they'll actually have some interesting stories being that the rest of my life starts in the next few weeks....
