Today, I had one of my most productive, exciting and active weekends during my tenure here as a student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Here is how it unfolded.
It all started out on Friday morning. I woke up at 7:30 in the morning and had to think quickly as my first class that day, General Chemistry, started at 8:00 in the morning. I needed to get dressed and have breakfast in the next five minutes so I could get to class early and, in the extra time, do my math homework that I forgot to the previous night. I managed to finish it right before the professor started his lecture (lucky me). I then went to my math class and it was from there where things got pretty hectic. I found myself in a bit of a time crunch after I left McBryde Hall where my previous two classes were held. I then had to move to Shanks Hall where I had an appointment with my English professor where we would discuss the rough draft of my English paper where we discussed how I should tweak it to make it better for my final copy. After than was said and done, I then had to make the long journey of to the medical clinic where I had another appointment, this time with a psychologist. We talked about my learning disabilities and how to cope with them as well as how school and college life was going for me. After that, the stressful part was over. From then on, what I did with my weekend was up to me. I chilled out for the time being and had lunch and chilled out some more. Later on in the afternoon, I went to the ATM to get some cash and then I took a bus the Wal-Mart in Christiansburg where I did my grocery shopping for the week. I got to read a very peculiar book during the trip on the bus; it was called, “Tales from the Virginia Tech Sideline”, a book filled with stories about the lives about Tech players and members of the coaching staff. After I got off, I took a cart and looked around the store for a while. I then got a bite to eat at the Subway and read more of my book for about half an hour. I then resumed my shopping and got the stuff I needed for the week. I then went back to my dorm and watched a little bit of television while I reorganized my room a little bit.
On Saturday, I woke up a little later than usual but that did not matter to me. I woke up with a blueprint of how I would spend my day. I went and took my laundry and took my dirty laundry with me as well as my detergent and some quarters and put my laundry in the washing machine in the Slusher Wing laundry room. There was a lot of it as well, I almost had to stuff it into the machine but, nonetheless, managed to get it all in. I went back into my room to watch some football on television and then I went back to the laundry room with some more quarters and a dryer sheet. I went and took my laundry out of the washing machine and put it into the dryer. I took it out about an hour later; some pieces were still damp because I had put in so much into the dryer. I then watched some more football. I was not able to watch the Virginia Tech game against Maryland as it was not being broadcast on television. Instead, I listened to it on the radio and the Hokies did not disappoint; they won by a score of 36 points to 9 points scored by Maryland. That was okay and all but the real treat came two or three hours later. As the Virginia Tech game was wrapping up, I could not help but notice on the ESPN sports ticker that Stanford’s team was winning against the University of Southern California in dominating fashion. In the end, Stanford would go on to crush USC by a score of 55 points to USC’s 21 points. I posted a comment about it on facebook to which a friend of mine who is a student at USC replied with a rather nasty word. After hours of smashmouth football and reorganizing my room, I went and did my math homework (I usually do my homework on Sundays which made me feel even more well accomplished). I then went to reorganize my room a little bit and went to bed and got a good night’s rest.
I woke up Sunday morning even later than I did on Saturday morning. I had to do a little bit of work in preparation for the wing program class in which I was enrolled in but not before looking to ESPN to see the rankings and see how far Virginia Tech would rise and how far USC had fallen. The Hokies had risen to 16th in the AP poll while USC had fallen to 22nd; that was an ultra-gratifying sight for me to see. I then went to D2 to get a bite to eat. I then went to the Tech Bookstore to start looking at Books for next semester’s classes. I then thought about going to the other side of the drillfield to look around campus and become more familiar with my surroundings but I saw the sun was starting to set and decided to head on back to Slusher and make the trip later. I had dinner and then I started work on this blog assignment. In the middle, I stopped and attended a meeting that focused on steps and instructions for leaving the residence halls for Thanksgiving Break. Shortly after that, I went back to finish my blog post. While finishing, I was interrupted by one of the classmates in my seminar class who wanted me to write a page for the introduction of the wing program paper. So I did the page and sent it to him via E-mail. So here I am finishing up this blog which I can now say is finished. I hope you enjoyed reading it.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
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i love it when you have days when you get so much done! i feel so productive!
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congrats on your productive weekend!!