Stuff I’m up to lately, in bullet-point form
- Going to classes, which ranges from pretty awesome to completely awful and a waste of my time (aka ME 410 – Statics)
- Writing lots of code, but never finishing everything due to boredom / exhaustion / laziness
- Working at OSC, which is a mixed bag
- Playing Nintendo DS a lot more now that I’ve got an SD adapter for it
- Watching through Arrested Development again
- Reading the Internets a lot, LifeHacker really is an awesome site, everyone should read it
In general though, I feel as if my big problem is the same as most other people who have graduated / will graduate soon, I have no one to really hang out with. My girlfriend is great and if it weren’t for her I probably would’ve went insane by now but as Kurt Vonnegut puts it, I need to “join a gang”; I’m really down to only two people who are still in Columbus that I still hang out with. We spend time with the German department kids, but they don’t do things that often and I still kind of feel like an accessory a bit (not because of them, they’re great).
Normally I’d take this upon myself to start anew and get to fixing this problem, but I’m hesitant because I’m leaving soon for a whole new city where I’ll really have to start again. I suppose that this is just a transition period that I’ll have to get through.
Not that it really resolves your situation in any way, but if it helps at all to know that you’re not the only one in that situation: count me in. I’m not actually about to graduate myself, but most of the people I hang out with have started the final run up to their graduations, and have far less free time than they used to. Add that to breaking up with the girlfriend I had last summer, who I hung out with pretty regularly for the last year, and I can relate. Even for only the months through May/June, though, it might be worth investing some time into that: 4 or 5 months is a good chunk of a year. Just my 2 cents. Good luck! (PS- you can always code… I’m still fighting with Ruby on my mac, but I’ll be checking out Estelle once I get my desktop back in shape. Looking forward to it.)
Colin
5 Feb 07 at 9:45 am