On Walking at Graduation

With graduation vastly approaching in my life, I still have never seen the point in actually walking at graduation. Of course this doesn't fly with my parents and they are going to make me walk, but as a 21 year old about to graduate from college, I still don't see the point.

Obviously, the parents say about graduation the same thing they say about childhood memories, "At some point in your life you will want thing to look back on, you will appreciate the pictures" or the typical "you will thank me later." I'm still waiting on any of those things to prove true. Nevertheless I will be walking at the May 2011 graduation, and I will be walking grudgingly.

Graduation for Arts and Science is at 7:30 pm on that Saturday night. It's most likely the biggest graduating school simply because they don't break up the Arts from the Science. They already predict it won't end until about 10 and quite frankly, my last weekend as a college student I'd rather spend doing something else than sitting in the Hearnes Center for 2 and a half hours to receive a piece of paper (that isn't even official but the official one will be mailed to me) and not to mention, spend an additional 30-40 bucks on cap and gown, etc. just to have the chance to walk. Don't get me started on what I could spend 30-40 dollars on that I'd enjoy a lot more than a cap and gown I'll wear once.

How I Met Your Mother (Except we didn't really meet)

When I first started watching "How I Met Your Mother" I had to find most of the episodes online so that I could catch up to the most recent episodes. In doing so this also helped me find websites that carry other television series episodes from past seasons and has truly broadened my perspective on different shows I watch. Entering college you go through such a life changing transformation in schedule and lose the opportunity to keep up on weekly television shows and watch new episodes when they first air. With online television, it enables the typical college kid, without the checkbook to have Tivo or DVR, to still watch their favorite television shows. "How I Met Your Mother" is a television series I never had the opportunity to watch as it first became popular once I became preoccupied with school work.

Humor
The humor in "How I Met Your Mother," in my opinion, attracts the typical viewer of sitcoms in today's generation. Barney's character proposes easy to pick-up catch phrases like "Legen... wait for it... Dary" that if people watch the show it's easy to quote and even promote the show to friends. Along with that, the humor in the show and storyline allow viewers to truly relate to the characters, as long as they connect to the humor and have that kind of personality,

Stay Focused

One problem I do recognize with some episodes in the show, the idea of staying focused on the ultimate idea. Several episodes seem to just be the typical sitcom with hardly any storyline or "purpose," the Seinfeld type show, when in this show specifically, the title states the purpose of every show. The purpose is to find out how Ted Mosby's met his children's mother, some episodes don't seem to go along that storyline.

On "Your CIRCUMSTANCE"

I recently had a job interview with a media industry in St. Louis and throughout the interview he went on a roll of constantly talking about my "circumstance." First of all, it's never good when my mind wraps around one thing in an interview, because then I completely space out the rest of the time. This interview proved no different.

Halfway through he mentioned the fact that I had not yet technically graduated with a degree from Mizzou and thus I had a "circumstance" preventing me from starting work when they needed. "If we hire you we will have to deal with your circumstance as that time comes closer."
Stop referring to me as a circumstance. Shouldn't you read through a resume and cover letter before conducting the interview with the person. If you had, you'd notice this circumstance you speak of lacks existence. I have already completed the credit hours for an English degree and thus there is no circumstance. I can start as soon as you need me, I will have a degree in May no matter the "circumstance" and this interview is not off to a great start, under the circumstances that you keep referring to me as a circumstance.

Now, considering how this day started off before the interview, my circumstance wasn't the worst thing. My dog puked in my backseat 3 times on the way to the interview. I showed up at the wrong building (since the websites address isn't most recently updated). And I didn't want to get out of bed after my nap from work so I was running late and had to leave my dog and girlfriend in the car while I went into the interview.

On Procrastination

I thought procrastination would be a fitting post considering the circumstance of this post (a month after my most recent blog post). Once Spring semester of school started and my job, well, continued, I found myself with little time for the online world. Nevertheless, the blog is back.

I've never truly understood procrastination, but perhaps that's just because of my personality, or should I say anxiety because whenever I have something to do, that's all I think about and I can't seem to sleep. Unfortunately, this online class with the laid back 9 month deadline, it doesn't really alert my anxiety meter if you will when I need to do work.

Outside of this class though, school work, papers most specifically, I try to complete nearly an entire week in advance. And, it's not to complete and then go back and look over a few days later to revise, but instead just because I won't be able to sleep otherwise and I want to get it out of the way.

Now, aside from my anxiety, so many people procrastinate. Procrastinate studying for tests, well, I don't even bother to ever start studying since I'm not that good at it, so I suppose I procrastinate that past the deadline. But people procrastinate papers and then write them the night before by popping an adderall and pulling an all nighter. What's the point? We have so much deadtime throughout the week, just set aside 3 hours over two different days, and get it out of the way. Although, I suppose I enjoy sleep more than most people.