Status update, freshman year is over! It has been for 3 weeks now but it only occurs to me to change this now for some reason. My first year of college was fairly successful academically- no C's and all passes. Some highlights:
- amazing classes with kickass professors. (Givans? Nolta? Priceless.)
- attending lunch/classes at Emmanuel College weekly, leading to a series of spiritual adventures at various religious establishments.
- Three at Cafe 636 and GWAR at House of Blues.
- building snow forts with strangers, stargazing at Harvard, sword-fighting on Revere Beach, lying in the park while it rained at ridiculous times of night.
- a LOTR-a-thon, power outage in the dorm, Tapas on Newbury Street, an insane trip to NY, looking at famous works of art and discussing them for HOURS.
- countless trips to Brookline, Porter Square, Copley, the Pru, at all times of day/night, blanket forts, creating epic works of art, going to a professor's house party.
- seeing Bill Nye the Science Guy, a Zombie Walk, hanging out at Northeastern, World Pillowfight Day 2009, watching kids on shrooms.
- regular chillaxing in cafeterias for hours on end, watching movies on a near daily basis, philosophical conversations and ranting until we heard the birds sing.
- trips to libraries, museums, and art stores when it wasn't required, birthday celebrations, spending entire days just walking, getting lost, and doing nothing in particular.

And next year we start majors! Yeessss. <3

Summer is nice so far. Kinda lonely, but soon I'll have a job and this weekend so far has been packed with an amazing Gogol Bordello concert and a lovely trip to the city today. Should be producing some digital stuff soon, and more pretty chainmaille jewelery with stones incorporated. All in time, people.

Despite the bullshit, relationship issues, lack of sleep, and all other things considered "negative" about this year, I came out more content ever, happy with the way I'm living my life, less naive, sharper, and more confident. Typical first-year flourishing I expected. Good times.