This week has not been a good week for me. It has been too stressful and school has not been the cause. Well that's not completely true. I do have a 500 word essay due tomorrow by 5 that I can't concentrate on. It would be a lot easier to write this if I didn't have other problems going on. I don't even feel like typing any of what happened. I just want all of this week to be a dream. This whole semester has felt like a dream. I just want to finally wake up. It has turned into a nightmare. So this is what I will write about what happened this week: that guy that's been confusing me made things worse, so I've decided to move on. It wasn't a decision I wanted to make, but I am making it. That's all I feel like saying. It doesn't really matter what I write about it, it's not going to change what's already happened.

Lazy Weekends

Most weekends I like having something planned to do, but sometimes I prefer what I call a lazy weekend. Theses are the weekends I have nothing planned and intended to have nothing planned. I can just chill. I decided that this weekend would be one of those lazy weekends for me. So far all I've done today is watch some episodes of Skins on Netflix and whatever is on TV. I even woke up late, which I haven't done on a weekend in a while. I would have gone home instead of stay on campus, except I didn't know I wanted this to be a lazy weekend for me. I didn't preplan it. Being back at home I could of been ultimately lazy because there would be no way my friends here on campus could of talked me into doing anything since I would be out of town. Also I probably would have slept in even later than I did today, which would have made my mom mad but me happy. I don't know what else I will do today, I just like having the luxury of not really having to do anything.

So besides the fact that I'm totally confused by a boy, college is actually going well. I'm doing good in every class, except for Biology, but who likes Biology. I'm going to do my best in that class that I can. I did do better than expected on my Psychology exam. I made an A, which amazed me, but I'll take it. I'm also making an A in my second Food Science class. So this semester has been going a lot better than last. The only problem, besides being utterly confused, is that my roommate is not very considerate. She allows our neighbor to stay in our room and watch movies, while I'm trying to go to sleep. I have to work in the mornings, and the TV is distracting. It's not like I go to bed really early, and they also wait forever to watch these movies. 2 AM to be exact. My roommate knows I try to go to bed at least by 1. I told them about this last semester when they did the same thing. It made our neighbor actually not come into the room for a while. I'll have to talk to her soon about this if things don't change. I've been avoiding my room most days. I usually hang out with my friend that stays on the floor above me. She doesn't have a roommate, lucky her. Sometimes I end up falling asleep in there, or staying till I think my neighbor has left. Sometimes she's still in there. With the location of the TV, it's kind of awkward to try to sleep, since they are kind of looking at me at the same time. I also don't like trying to sleep with people still awake talking. So as you might have figured, I haven't been sleeping that well. I had to resort to naps, which I don't usually take. Besides this little problem and the other, everything else has been fine. I'm enjoying actually being here, and I'm glad I didn't take the semester off like I was thinking about during the middle of last semester. I would have missed out on too much that I've done so far this semester, and that would have been just sad. I'm also looking forward to next year. I'm going to be glad to have someone else to room with. So that's my rant about what's been going on lately. I hope I didn't sound like I was complaining too much in this post and the last one.

Alisha

Life Can be Confusing

So college is hard, we all know that. At least I hope all of us know that. I wish it was easy, but it's not. I'm not just talking about classes, I'm talking about everything else as well. What do you do when you like this guy, and you're pretty sure that he likes you, but he hasn't asked you out. I need to rephrase that: more like I've asked him to do things, but he hasn't asked me. I feel like I've been the one taking the lead on this thing, and I feel I shouldn't be the one. He confuses me too much, and I can't concentrate on anything else but what's going on with him. It's awful! I can barely eat around this guy, but it's not because I don't want him to see me eat. It's because my stomach feels weird whenever he's around, and it's hard to want to eat something. I just want to go up to him one day and ask him what's going on with us. I just want to know. I think I will feel a lot better if I could just do that. I think I might be able to concentrate on other things, but I won't know that for sure till I ask him, or he just tells me one day. So this problem isn't just in college, but I'm in college, so I'm making it a college problem. And he also goes to the same school as me. I see this guy randomly except for days we've planned to eat breakfast together. If I run into him while on my way to class, I feel like skipping that class and just going to hang out with him. He told me one day, after I had ran into him on his way to class(I didn't have a class that day, since it was cancelled), that he would of have rather skipped that class just for me. I did make him late, but he didn't care. He says things like this to me all the time, and it's hard to respond when I feel like I'd just sound like an idiot. He's sweet and nice, and is always saying he'll do something or go somewhere just for me. But he hasn't told me he likes me or asked me out. This is why it's confusing. I'm pretty sure he likes me(or at least I hope he does), and I'm pretty sure he knows I like him. I think he figured that out a while ago. I just want to know what's going on.

Creative Inquiry

I bet you are wondering what that is. Well for starters it is something that only Clemson has. It's where you join this team and do research. Of course in Food Science, the Creative Inquiry teams are all about food. I thought in the beginning that only Food Science has this, but other majors here do too. In Food Science sometimes the teams focus on more than coming up with new recipes. Actually, I don't think really any of the teams do that. Some of them research the effects certain foods have on teenagers and children. Some research how to overcome obesity. There's even one about the extinction of gingerbread. My academic advisor is doing that one, and I so wanted to join, but by the time I could register for classes it was filled. Anyways, the Creative Inquiry team I'm on, we study the aromas of herbs and spices. That's the general overview. There's more to it. I just thought I would post about this since I met my mentor for the first time today. He showed me and another person on the team the lab, and he told us how it's the number one lab in the US. He also told us how we have things that other Food Science departments at other colleges don't have. I was happy to learn this that they try to be the best here even in the smaller departments. He also told us about what he expected and that he doesn't fail anyone and doesn't expect freshmen to do all the same things as his graduate students. I was happy to find out that I couldn't fail it. Overall I really enjoyed meeting my mentor, and cannot wait to get started. It made me like my choice of major that much more. I'll probably be posting more about this as the semester progresses.

Off To a Great Start

So far second semester has been going well except for the snow. I love snow, but when it overstays its welcome that's when I start hating it. For starters, it caused me to have a really hard time getting to campus on the day I wanted to get there. It also delayed classes and me starting back at my job. I didn't mind classes being cancelled for a day, but I did mind not being able to go to work. It confused me with the times I should go in. Other than that I am liking my second semester of college. I've spent most of it hanging out with my friends and avoiding staying in my room. This is not because of my roommate in case you were thinking that. No this is cause if I stayed in my room all I would have to do is study or watch movies on my laptop to avoid studying. I did get all my work done. I just took my time getting to it, which is a bad habit that I will try to work on this semester. Some other goals of mine this semester are to meet more people and find an extracurricular activity. I also want to keep my blogs going, but that may prove harder than I first thought, since first semester I tried the same thing. Well this is all I'm going to post for now. I will post more later maybe even again this week. Hopefully something exciting happens.


Alisha

New Beginning

So I haven't posted on here in forever. So I thought since it's the beginning of my second semester of college and a new year, I should make my New Year's revolution to post more consistently. It will be for this blog and the other. I hope I stick with it.

Anyways, what you missed of last semester:

Passed every class, but not with the grades I would of liked to have.

Getting along with the roommate.

Met a lot of cool people, and made a couple of really good friends. 

Went to a party that didn't go like expected.

Got sat on by a drunk Australian on the CAT(Clemson Area Transit) Bus. He thought he knew me.

Spent a lot of time walking downtown and renting random movies. 

Loved my job for the most part except for when I was the only student employee there. 

Couldn't wait to come back.

So that's the jist of what happened last semester. There was a lot more but that would take many posts, which is what I should of done. This semester I will hopefully post at least once a week. I am really looking forward to my new schedule. I have English and psychology. My classes also don't start till 12, no morning classes except for a 9 o'clock Biology lab.

So that ends this one, keep looking back for more. 

Alisha