Getting used to a new tempo, in so many ways

I'll be the first to admit it. If I was not me, I would've already yelled at myself for not updating in almost a week. Bad Ryan. Shame on me.

But perhaps this is indicative of the changes that's been going on in my life as of late. First off, I've found that living a college life, for me, means being broke and tired all the time. Seriously. Today, I slept till 2pm (even after being woken up by my roomate's alarm clock? [Jason is gone for the Labor Day weekend], the emergency siren test, and crazy guys running through the halls, screaming) and I'm not even sure if that was enough. Classes, people, workouts, laundry, studying, homework, walking all over campus, meeting people, going to events and callouts, hell, even meals are tiring. I was once told that large groups of people are tiring for introverts...perhaps this is the problem. At any rate, I'm trying to keep afloat and my priorities straight. Honestly. I'm also trying to make sure that I don't always sit in my cozy dorm, playing on the computer, listening to music. I'm forcing myself to go out and do things...human interaction. It's a bit different from high school, I'm afraid. I live and work and play and eat with the same people I go to school with.

*note to self*
"Already had Calculus, Chemistry, and part of Physics" does not mean I don't have to study and work my ass off for those homework, quiz, and exam grades.

Really, though, "college" hasn't hit me yet. I'm waiting for the hammer to fall. This feels like an overly elaborate summer camp/vacation, and that if all else fails, I can always go back "home" where everything is "right." That's not the case on either end. I need to get used to this place being home, and recognize that Cincinnati is not a static unchanging place to return to (perfect example: apparently the roof caved in back home...er, back, uh, there).

So what's new with me? Another week of classes, and another week of slightly adjusting my routine to best suit everything. Figuring out what I can and cannot procrastinate. Workouts almost every day, with whoever will go with me. I pretty much figured out my first week here that I'm not a partier. Frat parties, to me, pretty much embody the dumbest form of entertainment in the universe. Lots of homework and studying. Working on learning the Purdue campus like the back of my hand.

Feelings and emotions, at this point, are so complicated, that I can't tell one from the other. I don't know what is caused by Purdue, and what I managed to take with me from home (NOT HOME). Women are crazy. Let's just say I've had my fair share of ups and downs. Especially downs.

Pretty much am ignoring Purdue Crew...I'll workout on my own time at my own pace, thank-you-very-much Mr. "Coach who loves to make people to row until they puke." Went to the callout for the "Ship of Fools" Purdue Improv Club and am considering joining. Next week are the callouts for SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space........yeah, I want to be president already), and Purdue Pilots Inc., a flying club here.

Tomorrow will be the first football game I've ever been to....a Big 10 first of the season game Purdue vs. Syracuse. This is like me going to my first school dance ever to my Junior Prom. *shrug*

That's about all I have for you, so I'll leave you with this engineering joke one of my professors told us:

Two engineers were in a park, debating something about viscosity within dynamic fluid systems, when a third engineer rides up on a brand-new bike.
The first engineer says "Hey, that's a really neat bike! Where'd you get it?"
The third engineer says "You'll never believe what happened to me. I was busy calculating some elementary particle physics when this gorgeous woman rides up on a bike, stops, takes off all her clothes, and says to me 'You can have whatever you want.'"
They all pause for a moment, nodding, pondering the situation.
Then the second engineer says "Good choice. The clothes probably wouldn't have fit you anyway."