...I can't wait for the normal journals to get back up... I like them a lot better than threads, hense why I'm not really keeping up and writing a journal right now. But after starving you guys of my life for a while, and my wanting to have my journal back, I decided that I'd finally post an entry here...
Overall things seem to be going fine. Summer's now officially over.
It's a shame. I had one of the best summers of my life! It was soo much fun! But alas, freedom like that doesn't last when you're a student. I had my first day of classes today. Thus far it continues to look like I'll have the easiest semester ever! It'll be good for me! Plus it allows me to divote more time this semester into the fencing club so that things hold together really well, don't fall apart, or anything, when I don't have much time next semester. I have one class with a friend of mine, plus today we found out we have another person from our church group in the class as well! Yay! That geology class will be easy and fun! Then the lab is going to be easier and even more fun! The only problem is that due to my buddy's packed schedule, he could only have one lab time, which conficts with the only time that my only senior level class is offered. Oh well, I'm meeting new people and I'll continue to make more friends, which is something I very much enjoy doing.
My American Sign Language class will be more challenging than I thought it would be. The instructor is 100% deaf, and we will not have any interpreters, except we had a few today. Not being able to ask the instructor verbally to repeat something they signed or ask any other questions will make things much more difficult. But I suppose in a way it means that I will be forced to learn the material better, and that is something I look forward to. This is material I want to learn, so that I can speak to my mom years in the future when she becomes completely deaf with her old age. Right now she's been struck by a heretitary disease that skips generations, but it hit her 20+ years earlier than it should have. While she's still holding strong to what hearing she has left, and is still hearing and amazing the doctors by doing so, there's no telling how long it will last. I hope it lasts for many, many years to come, but that doesn't mean I'm going to skip out on a chance to learn how to communicate with her later on. As far as the class goes, they made it mandatory to set up a study group and meet with them on a weekly basis to help us out, which I thought was really cool. I'm in a group with another guy and three beautiful girls.
None of us knew each other before today, so we're all in the same boat of meeting new people and whatnot. It'll be fun... there's always going to be fun... for if you can't find something to enjoy in it, then there's no purpose in doing it! And if there's always a purpose of somesort, then there should always be something fun to enjoy about everything!
Tomorrow I have my Beginning Jazz Dance.
That one credit hour class will be soo much fun! I love dancing, but never learned how to dance to anything other than some to techno, and a very small amount to hip-hop. I'm very much looking forward to this class! Then I also have my only senior level class tomorrow: The History of Space Exploration. I've always loved space so much that my major is Aerospace Engineering, so having a class on the history of what I want to do with my life is just awesome! I know a guy who took it and he said it was the easiest thing ever, but then before that class if you asked him anything about NASA, he'd be able to answer it. So for me it will be a bit more challenging than it was for him, but I don't expect it to be that bad at all. I expect the material to be so interesting for me that it'll be fun to study!
Considering I'm a senior in Aerospace Engineering and am used to taking high stress level classes with outrageously huge workloads, this semester is going to be a brease! There are some advantages to me extending my graduation by a year in order to regain your mental health: I get to have the funnest and easiest semester I've ever had, I get to meet new people outside of my major and not have the same people in every single class (but that did have quite a few advantages to it), I get to enjoy life a bit before going back into the hard core engineering classes, I now have time to pick up a geological sciences minor that I had thought about picking up during last year after it had been "too late" to start one, I get to spread out what I have less as to not overload myself with too many credits any semester for the rest of my undergraduate degree, and I get to regain my mental health from my depression while not losing my financial aid (which I would have by taking a semester comepletely off)!
God works in mysterious ways. While bringing me to the lowest depths and closing some doors, he provided me with a different path to follow which had more open doors and more fun than I would have otherwise had. It has been a learning experience which has affected me greatly, and it's not over yet. I am not the person I was when I started college. I am not the person I was a year ago. I am not the person I was six months ago. I am not even the person I was three months ago. Going through the depression, especially one so severe, and then getting help both medically and spiritually (I think the later has helped the most) has helped me to grow and change my heart for the better.
Funny how in the past when people told me to never change, they probably never thought about me changing to be even better... I doubt most of those people even thought it was possible...
...I can't wait until the normal journals are back...