Hey there

Hey ya'll. I'm glad to see that everyone is doing alright, besides college being hard, laundry being expensive, being homesick,etc. But let's look at the bright side, Thanksgiving isn't that far away, right? I don't know what it is, but I get this warm feeling and my throat gets all tight when I read the posts, allergies or what not, I really do miss y'all. I am currently at my house, so I can't say I've been staying away from home, but I will try to adhere to Lauren's wise advice. Classes for me have been not very to mildly challenging. I guess it's because I've taken the equivalent of these classes in high school. Ha, so we don't all make the right decisions all the time, who's counting? (Not taking the AP exams, Felix, cutting my hair, Felix, Politics 1113, Felix) Speaking of the Devil, I'm not going to say figuratively or literally, yes, I still am "with" Felix, but you know, not "dating". I don't even know what to call it anymore. I agree with Paul though, we're in "13th grade" now, he is so high school. Haha. Oh, Andy, I was going to call you when ALIAS was on, but I got sidetracked. :( Sorry, hope you didn't cry too hard over the loss of your bf. Ok, back to school, I too am going to have my fair share of tests. The week of Oct.10 I have 5 tests, including a two day midterm. I know, ew. Anyone keeping up with Laguna Beach? Laguna Beach anyone? I am now addicted thanks to my roomate. I don't know, the cattiness and backstabbing, enthralling isn't it? Well, I guess I had to make this long enough since I haven't posted anything to date. Oh, thanks Lauren for indirectly helping me find out how to post on this thing, I, like KJ, was lost. Well, everyone have a safe weekend, do your homework, study...oh the mom syndrome is kicking in. Anyway, love you guys!

Jonor???

You didn't turn gay on us yet did you? I hope not. You promised me. Classes must be pretty hard bc you havn't been on in a while. How is the play going? Did you get in that singing group you wanted to get in? If you don't respond to this in the next three days we will know that you have had a Harvard weiner in your butt the whole time. Though it may feel good...you should be the Butch not the Bitch. "Don't take it, Push it". Thats my motto.

:)

Today is destined to be an awesome day. Well for one the cold front is very pleasing and tonight is the season premiere of ALIAS! Hells yeah! ....but my boyfriend is getting killed off the show. :( & one more thing... my professor is sick so he cancelled class today and since that's my only one on Thursday, there's no class today.
Hope all is well with all and don’t turn into strangers,
~Andy
P.S. Today is also the day I am finally attempting to stop being a hardcore procrastinator. So I’m trying to be a more responsible student, pretty difficult, but I’m sure you guys will help me out. Oh, and also I’m going home this Friday anyone else? …Hum I doubt it. Oh, well I’m sure I’ll see you guys another time.

Hmm..pungent, yet intriguing

This may be a stupid question (in the English language this phrase almost always followed by a definitely asinine inquiry), but I NEED to know who "Random Hero" is. I just do. I think it's K-Fat, but nevertheless I beseech thee: Show yourself, you scoundrel! your bffl, Ltrain

Warning: Extreme Semi-Confessional Wordiness

Greetings to all! I hope that all of you have adjusted to college life as well as John has (as if there was any doubt), but if you are feeling like, "Wow this isn't what I expected", "I miss my Ingram peeps", or in my slightly-autistic case, "holycrapholycrap i am definitely overstimulated and i can't seem to concentrate on what I need to do so instead I pull all nighters all the time and i think that in order to keep my overachieveing ways I need to rethink my schedule or stop caring altogether" , I feel you, Homes!
And here is a piece of advice (even though I am hardly qualified to dispense any sort of wisdom at this point but i'm going to anyway so put that in your pipe and smoke it) for all those who may be feeling a little, ah, overwhelmed, coming from someone who has recently expereinced this---unless you want to be a masochist, do not go home. (Unless you go to school not very far away or you are planning to stay more than a weekend) I have found this out the hard way. Kristen and I carpooled home two weekends ago (she had wanted to see her Dad before he left for a month in Africa) and it was horrible. First of all, we ended up getting home way late because of the traffic in Austin (Friday is the worst, I think it is proven or common sense or something) which I really did not mind because once I got home, I was so happy. It's really crazy that I did not realize how much I was looking forward to seeing my family and Matthew ( yes I am still smitten with Mr. Willis) until I was there. And I don't know if y'all have noticed this yet, but when you do finally go home it's like your family is ten times better than the family you remember before you moved out..stuff that you do that would have incited a household meltdown is either patiently overlooked or casually dismissed, the food is better, the bed you slept on for 8 years suddenly feels like a cloud, and you are literally smothered with affection all the waking hours of the day. In short, I had a really good time, but, paradoxically, when distracted by thoughts of school and projects, it added to my anxiety at the same time. While all these endorphins and general feel-good warm fuzzies going on, I knew it wouldn't last, and I anticipated the crash. And did I ever. Where I was relatively well-adjusted before I left for that fateful weekend, it took going home to realize all of these latent feelings and to reopen the old wound and for me to feel so fricken sad. It was a real low point..I basically broke down and felt really inmotivated and sorry for myself. It was really scary and pathetic, a point that I hope I will never reach agian in my life. So in summation (I'm sorry if this post is long and semi-didactic, I just really don't want you guys to feel like I did), if you do not have time to really enjoy your time at home, don't go. I have realized that it would have been wiser for me to wait and establish more of a foundation for me here than to go home and be reminded of everyhting before I had completely adjusted. And the funny thing is, I thought that I had.
But on a lighter and more optimistic note, (since last week, which will live on in imfamy as Lauren's crappiest (relatively) 7 day interval ever) my classes are the schiz. They really do not waste time (the powers at be in the Architecture department anyway) letting you know if this is where you want to be ( I'm only taking one non-Architecture class--Psychology). I have turned in 2 projects already (I got A's on both of them--he used them as examples:) and I slayed my first exam with an A as well. But it is hard. God, give me strength, it is so hard. I won't get into the details, but in my most important classes (Honors Studio and my computing class) everything was Greek to me, and it was scary to be in that situation, where I felt like I was the only one that didn't know what they were doing and that I, Lauren Hensley, was having to play catch-up at least 80% of the time. So in conclusion, these past few weeks have been humbling, but I am being exposed to so many realms of interesting things that I knew practically nothing about before I came here. In my ENDS 170 class, for instance, we finished up in Photoshop (which I have came to absolutely love..why didn't I get into this sooner) and we are fixing to start Dreamweaver and Flash, so right now I'm in the process of learning html :) , and in studio I am currently building formwork for my plaster sculpture and my site plan for my "behavioral setting." But I have rambled on long enough and have explioted this post as an outlet for my inner turmoil long enough, so here is a thought: don't be strangers. If you guys ever need anything, ever want someone to talk to, I'm only a phone call away ( I keep really weird hours, so you probably will not wake me up). Seriously, I get curious about how you guys are doing. But anyway, I'm just puttin' it out there. You can take it, or send it right on back. :) thanks and gig 'em.

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty four?

To counter John’s previous post I for one:
1) Think school sucks and is very difficult

2) Am doing well in my classes, but have not had enough tasks for me to calculate my GPA

3) Will also collect any sort of complimentary incentives toward the benefit of my well being

4) Have a room mate who is very Filipino and is very related to me


*Well since I’m in a “list” kind of mood let’s add on shall we?


5) Am very over stressed about my exams coming up: 2 on Friday and one on Monday and another Tuesday

6) Wish I could find a “UT” friend to replace the friends I had before…well not replace, but compliment. e.g. Someone like:
Paul, Jonah, Katy Jo, Reyna, Mikaela, Lauren, Kristen, Samantha, Kevin, John, Ben, Ryan, and everyone else. Sorry if I didn’t list your name individually and the reason being we just probably weren’t that “good” a friends. I know that sounds harsh, but I know deep down you know it’s the truth.

7) I miss my comfort zone.

P.S. John you're referring to two different Beatles albums: I understand Yellow Submarine, but the Walrus was in the Magical Mystery Tour...

You guys are awesome -as always and forever,
~Andy

YIPEE!

Yay I get to see Weezer and the Foo Fighters tonight! Or might I say FOOZER? Hells yeah! Oh, and my bestest buddy ol' pal is coming down for the major kick ass show. Kāj the Rage in A*Town tonight. Crap well I’m out because I have a bio quiz in t-minus 60 minutes. Bleh.
~Andy
P.S. It’s ok to be jealous…of the other stuff besides the quiz that is.

Smoke A Fag?

Good day, my children and cohorts! I just bombed my first technical physics exam with an exceptional score of a 13 out of a possible 100. I hope you all are proud of my accomplishments because I haven't any.

P.S. I saw my Economics teacher's boob and I sat by a stinky hippie. No joke.

Come on people

I believe that there are other contributors who are not living up to their titles. Hence "contribute" is in the name... Shall we define it? Con·trib·ute (kn-trbyt) VERB: 1) To give or supply in common with others; give to a common fund or for a common purpose. 2) To submit material for publication. I think those definitions apply and since "contributor" is a noun that means it is directed toward actual people. You know the list of people over here ----->
~Andy
P.S. This is not directed toward Jonah, Josh, or me since we're the only ones who have posted... so far :)

Hum...

I don't think Ingram should get any credit for us cool kids…So maybe a different title would be a better fit. Anyway for me I'm doing decent, but classes suck. On the upside I have a hot professor for cal. The only thing is that his class is totally kicking my ass. Help anyone? Take a look at the bonus problems if you are interested in assisting. Please and thank you. Oh, I also might add that this is a pretty good idea.
~Andy
P.S. Jonah I won't be in the Lone Star State for Christmas, because of a month long commit to travel to the Philippines. :(