Week of Sept. 7th Journal Entry

First off, let me state that this writing has not been planned in any way, shape, or form whatsoever. What appears in the sequence below, appears in the order that I thought of it, and it's no more complicated than that...:

Ok, so he's really into this blogging thing. I've tried keeping journals in earlier parts of my life, only to fail for various reasons and fear. Fear is a great motivator by the way. Fear is what keeps a lot of people in line, and lets them know what to do and how to do it.

College institutes a seemingly calculated level of fear into the minds and hearts of new students. High school was easy, the workload seemed like a lot, but it was bearable. Now, in college, freshman think they know whats up, but are cautious anyways, only to have the massive work load silently, expectantly, thrown upon them. I myself have some catching up to do. I am fearful that my education is being hindered by my workload and my job. I also attended a SOAR session and toured the downtown campus. This was of little help to me because all of my classes are at the Parham campus, and there was no tour there that I was aware of, but I'm getting along fine. Although during the first day, I had some fear that I'd walk into the wrong room, in the wrong building, and be completely confused. But that didn't happen, thankfully.

My job is a dead end. And I'm moving to another job quite soon at Whole Foods I hope. More money, different department. Thank god.

Balancing school, life, and work is complicated. I see how it should be done, and I'm beginning to get the gist of it, but there are a ton of kinks that need to be worked out. Half the workload of college is organizing it all, and figuring out when and how to do it.

This isn't exactly "short" but later posts will be shorter, I just have a lot on my mind at the moment (atm from now on)

Note to self: I still need to write about: how I'm doing with reading and college assignments, how my schedule has changed, how I'm doing setting short-term goals and achieving them, and the problems I've/are encountered/encountering, etc.

This is simply too long, and I wouldn't want to displease the professor...
- K