Can you believe that it's the first day of Autumn? I know that I can't. This is my birth season and the season to which I feel the closest, but it has gotten here WAY too fast. Summer's over. It ended a while ago for me, what with the start of school and all, but it's still strange to know that the calendar days of sun and beach weather are gone until next year. ... Well, global warming will ensure that we get some more dog days, but you know what I mean.
My semester has been BUSY thus far. You may have noticed a severe lack of posts here and that's because I'm scrambling to graduate early and am taking sooo much on as a result of this aspiration. But I haven't failed anything yet! This is quite an accomplishment, if I do say so, myself. And you know what? The Spectrum's A&E section has looked consistently good with the exceptions of a few minor flaws for the past two weeks. It seems that my life hasn't fallen apart just yet, haha.
Speaking of the Spectrum Newspaper here at Sacred Heart, I would just like to urge all of you who are considering going here to JOIN GROUPS AND GET INVOLVED! I don't care if you join the College Republicans and the Biology Club (two groups that are the exact opposite of the kinds of clubs I join, haha), just get out there and do something with your time in college besides sitting in class. I know people who are seniors who look back and wonder why they don't have more ties to people here and why they don't feel like their college years have amounted to much. There are not a lot of these people, but they're out there. And the reason for their emptiness is because they never got involved. They went to class and hung out in their rooms and they didn't meet anyone who didn't live on their floor, freshman year. I'm just saying, but joining clubs and getting involved, you're meeting people with the same interests as you. This will get you some lasting friendships and awesome memories.
In fact, I hang out with the people who are in my English major, or who work on the Pioneer Magazine and Spectrum Newspaper all the time. I've always felt really close to these people and that feeling has solidified as the years have progressed. It went from sitting next to each other and cracking jokes to spending our Friday nights together and chatting on the phone on Sundays while we edit our respective sections for the paper. I really love these kids because they share the same interests as me. It's much easier to be different from them in other respects, because we all share a passion, nerdy as it may be, haha.
Anyway, I've got to go to bed so that I can be ready to greet the day and my Film and Arabic classes. Take care, all, until next time.
Peace,
Alex
Here are some English majors, hangin' out.
Whoa, this picture turned out big!
A couple of my Media Studies friends/editors for the Pioneer and Spectrum. :)
