Andrew's Blog: Freshman Edition

It is SOOOOOO AMAZING to be back at the 'bright! How I've MISSED my home away from home :o( It's just AWESOME as all of my Albright crew slowly trickles in from break to see all of their bright and smiling faces again!

Right now all of the POPs are deep in training and eagerly awaiting the arrival of all of our newest Albright brothers and sisters tomorrow!!!! It's a grand time had by all as we practice our old chants and add in some new ones. I have a new roomie this year who'll be in tomorrow, which is VERY exciting. He's actually a friend from home, and a theatre buddy, so it'll be really cool to have that bit of home so close, PLUS, one of my other friends from home who's decided to call Albright THEIR new home-away-from-home! (Did that confuse the heck out of anybody else??? ;o)

I bought my books yesterday, so now I'm itching to crack them open and see what the year has in store! The new major's English and journalism, which is just REALLY exciting! I'm pretty certain now that there's teaching in my future, probably at my old alma mater, but you never know! Well, it's time to go have dinner w/ the President. Good ol' Lex O. McMillian III was going to have us all over to his place, but due to impending weather conditions, I'm setting out to the Mezzanine for our picnic feast! P-O-P-S!!!!!! *clap,clap, clapclapclap!*MUCH LOVE! ;o)

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So, life's been CRAZY!!!!!! I HAVE SOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH TO UPDATE YOU ALL ON THAT I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START!!!

Continue reading "WOW!" »

Posted by Andrew at 8:28 PM | Permalink

There are a whole SLEW of chances to do things in college that you've never even FATHOMED doing before. Here's a whole list of examples:

Continue reading "Opportunity Knocks" »

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Yeah, so my title doesn't REALLY have anything to do with what I'm writing about, but it sounded fun... ANYWAY, how's everyone doing? I'm well, thanks! I just wanted to let everyone know what's up on the Albright front. I have my first test of the semester tomorrow morning in Spanish, so this won't be a long entry. I'm not too nervous, because my new prof, Dr. Ozment, is a pretty chill lady. I mean, she's VERY fair and understandalbe, and she's really there for us. I'm excited to start our service projects for the class this week, b/c it's Service Learning Spanish, so I'll be stationed down at the Spanish Center working with the elderly. It's great with Alpha Phi Omega, because we need 20 community service hours with APhiO, and we're doing 30 at the Spanish Center. It should be fun.
I'm actually pretty pooped, b/c I had a LOOOOOOONG weekend, so I'll catch you up on some other stuff later... OH!!!! I do however have something exciting to tell you!!!! I can't get into webmail now, b/c it's down and whatnot, but I read this thing and it just made me put some things into perspective. To make a long story short (and I'll share the e-mail with you when webmail stops being a pain in the tush), I've decided to rush a fraternity next year, and I've even decided which one!!!!!! I'm going to put my music on hold, since that's not where my life is going, and expand my other horizons, including getting to REALLY know some people. I know almost EVERYONE in passing, but I want some REAL relationships, you know? It's all about the big rocks! (you'll see... curse you webmail!!!!) NIGHT!

Posted by Andrew at 11:20 PM | Permalink

Yeah, so... since this is my ALBRIGHT blog, I figured I should give you an update on ALBRIGHT! Everyone's getting back into the swing of things after break, and admissions is packed every day with prospective students checking out her beautiful campus. Clubs are gathering information for allocations, due FRIDAY!!!! AAAAHHH!!!! For those of you who don't have a Student Government Association(SGA) at your high schools [yeah, I didn't either...], allocations are when all the groups on campus BEG the SGA for funding for different events and activities, so that the groups personal funds can be put towards emergencies and whatnot. For treasurers and presidents all over campus, it's a PAIN! Unfortunately for me, I'm both. C'est la vie!
So, anyway, basketball season's in full swing, so I'm back in the pep band groove... that's okay, I guess, but I've decided that next semester I might just take a break from it all, except for maybe Mane Men, and just chillax. I don't really know what I'd do with my time, but who knows! Maybe I could start writing my memoir...or read that list of classics I've been meaning to get to...or date. Yeaaaaah... that'd be the life... Of course, if you really know me, you'll know that's NEVER GONNA HAPPEN! I'm not a "down-time" kind of guy. The stress keeps you limber...

Continue reading "Albright... BLOG!" »

Posted by Andrew at 8:41 PM | Permalink

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOO, VIEWERS!!!!! Andrew is back and better than ever, because he is all rested up and rarin' to go for SECOND SEMESTER!!!! I've just been taking it pretty easy over interim, because I didn't take a course, so now I'm ready to hit the books and bring my GPA up to where it should be. My first semester courses took quite a toll, to be honest. I just wasn't prepared for a life in the science field, and my scores showed it, so now I think I've found where my heart really is... LAW! YAAAAAAAY!!! Now I'm Pre-law, Psychology, and ENGLISH! I'm really excited, and I think that I'll be showing a HUGE mental, emotional, and GPA-tional turnaround this semester...

Continue reading "Update" »

Posted by Andrew at 10:20 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Well, guys and dolls, cats and kittens, I'm BAAAACK!!! I know it's been quite a while since I've last blogged and a LOT has happened since then. I've been CRAZY busy, but I hope I can update you a little on what's been happening...

Continue reading "TIME FLIES!!!" »

Posted by Andrew at 10:28 PM | Permalink

You know, I spend a LOT of time on here talking about just... feelings... and stuff, so... well... actually... WHY CHANGE IT NOW!!! Your college experience is all about how you handle the things that are thrown at you, so if I can prepare you for even a fraction of that, then you 'll just be that much more prepared... or something to that effect...

Continue reading "Some actual stuff about Albright" »

Posted by Andrew at 11:20 PM | Permalink

I can't believe that I'm almost HALFWAY through my first semester of COLLEGE!!!!!! It's just flying by, and I feel like it's leaving me in the dust, because when we come back from Fall Break, we're going to be right on the heels of the Midterms, and I just feel like there's SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much left to be done!!!! So there were these voluntary mental health screenings today in the Gable Health Center (+ if you went you were entered in a drawing for a $50 gas gift card, and who doesn't love free gas?), so I went... and it turns out that I don't really exist and life as I know it is fake, so why am I blogging?

Continue reading "Dawn of Fall Break" »

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The old adage goes: "Excuses are like butts, everyone has one."

Continue reading "Excuses" »

Posted by Andrew at 10:15 PM | Permalink

Hey, gang!
I was actually thinking the other day, "Self, you know, there might not be anyone actually reading these blogs ANYWAY, except for the other bloggers." I hope that's not the case, but if it is, then "HI, BLOGGERS!" Anyway, so I had two tests today and a first draft of a paper due...

Continue reading "Not going as planned..." »

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I'm not really sure what I'm going to blog about, so just bear with me...

Continue reading "I have absolutely no idea, but here it is anyway!!" »

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I'm kind of ticked right now, because I just had this pretty awesome intro all lined up about all of my activities, my first couple weeks, and all that jazz, but I was typing so fast I hit the key combination to move the browser back a page and it cleared out aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall that I wrote... for the past HOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Welcome to college life.

Continue reading "A brief introduction... sort of." »

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