| this week has been pretty hectic. ive been driving back and forth to every restaurant/phone store/copy shop/tutoring place trying to see if they would hire me. i sent my resume to a tutoring place that i found on craigslist not thinking that much would come out of it, but as i was filling out an application to work at cheeburger cheeburger (yeah thats how its spelled), a lady from the tutoring place calls me asking if i could come in the next day to take a practice SAT. so i spent monday night frantically cramming all of Kaplan's "useful hints and tips for getting a 1600" into my head. thankfully i hadn't forgotten how many angles there are in a triangle or what 'erudite' means.
i must have done pretty well because the lady offered me a job. the only thing is, the hours werent going to be decent until mid june and even then, my schedule wouldnt be regular. PLUS i would have to attend unpaid training. thats bogus. good thing i didnt say yes right away or sign anything cuz that very same afternoon, my mom calls telling me about this other job that basically fell into her lap. apparently a lady at church works for the accounting department of a big printing firm and someone recently quit. she randomly asked my mom if i was interested. the pay wouldnt be as much (13 as opposed to 15) but i could work as much as i wanted or just four days a week. plus i wouldnt really have to interview cuz she knows me.
so i think im gonna be working at the second place. its in dc so i'll be going to work with my dad every morning. im just glad i wont have to make sandwiches, wash dishes, sell bread or stand for 8 hrs straight. god provides.
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| http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/
i found this today. its pretty funny, if not a little bit on the bitter side. well written though.
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| My 2nd year of college is over already...
just some thoughts about the past two years.
How is it that college moves so much faster than high school ever did? I guess the only real explanation is that college is a lot more....how shall I put this?....fulfilling? rewarding? Whether it's my newfound independence or a growth in my maturity level (probably a mixture of both), I feel as if college has given me the opportunity to truly reflect on who I am and what I stand for, as opposed to high school, where I was only preoccupied with preparing for college. Through these past couple of years (and especially this past semester), I have not only been able to work to better myself academically, but also to better myself as a person. For too long, I realize that I have been (and in many ways still am) woefully selfish. My greatest goal going into college was to come out with a degree that would get me the highest paying job possible and make me rich forever. Now, don't get me wrong, having money isn't a bad thing. Everyone wants to be secure and whatnot, but the more I look at it, the more I realize that I've been chasing that dream just so I could someday say, "I did it! Look at me with all my money and fancy things. Admire me!" It ultimately left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Am I really that shallow?
So, this past semester I've started to try to look more at the "broader" picture. I've heard great stories and testimonies about how God uses (and blesses) people who lay down their selfish desires and surrender themselves to his will. It all started at the Passion conference I attended in early March. The message was brutally clear, "Whose fame are you living for, yours or God's?" I guess something that was said within those few days really struck a chord in me because it still hasn't left me. It's caused me to reexamine a lot of things in my life, from who I live with to what I decide to major in. You could say I've turned over a new leaf. It's not an immediate change, but I'm gradually learning to be humble and to live with higher goals in mind.
College is that final barrier between the complete dependency of childhood and and the sweet independence of adulthood and I'm literally right in the middle of it. People say your college years are supposed to be the best years of your life. I guess I find that to be true in a sense. Don't get me wrong, I don't go crazy partying or whatever, but I can definitely feel myself growing for the first time in a while. And that, I think, is what makes these precious few years so "fun."
xanga says my last update was december of 2006...
its been too long.
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| maybe i'll get back on xanga...
....after my last exam on saturday.
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