Shifting Gears

How many of you can say that you have pieces of journals lying around, filled with thoughts, emotions and best intentions? Everyone wants to keep a journal or diary - or blog. I can think of at least three cute notebooks that have the first twenty pages or so filled with detailed descriptions of my trials and tribulations as a high school student, a university freshman, and so on and so forth. All of them spiraled pretty badly into oblivion once things got busy. So this blog is a goal for me: can I actually keep it going for the rest of the school year?

I have thoughts, everyone has thoughts. I'm usually pretty vocal about my thoughts, sometimes too much so and my professors have to stop me from arguing about some obscure fact with another member of the class. So let's just see how far I can take this.

I'm sure my notebooks are cursing me from their dust-covered final resting places around my room. I have always preferred the traditional pen and paper to typing, perhaps since typing usually means work and essays and I get enough of those in my life without trying to record my opinions on the newest season of Battlestar: Galactica. Nevertheless, since I am an honours student and I am always in front of a computer screen, having an electronic journal might just make things easier.

As a history student, I am compelled to have a thesis for anything I write, online journals included. As the title suggests, the last semester of my university career has seen me shift into an academic gear not experienced since my uncle finished law school with a family of six girls waiting for him at home - and he was a doctor at the same time. Okay, it's not quite the same thing, but it sure is a level of intensity I have never experienced before.

Fourth year history major.
English minor.
Research assistant.
Model NATO team.
Frosh leader.
Musician.


Oh, and I have friends and family in there somewhere, too.

Therefore, this blog has the very general purpose of explaining a very busy life of a fourth year university student, on and off the playing field.

I'm only a little bit terrified.