Welcome back to the game. I have been in college for about two weeks now, and it has been a blast so far. Did I make any friends? Sorta Did I find any new hobbies? Hell yeah, even a new job! I feel like I can really do whatever I want, get to listen to music loudly, waste my time procrastinating, and even leave random junk everywhere. It's the best, I can finally become the full slacker I'm destined to become. Doesn't mean I've given up on life, I've just finally been able to tackle my problems and follow my dreams the way I want. Nobody's going to tell me how to waste my time properly, at least I can ignore those that think so. I've improved drawing a bit, I get to watch anime and stuff I couldn't cause my siblings gave me looks, it's great.
But most importantly is that I actually enjoy my classes, some or tolerable like UCO and Biology, which is mostly busy work so eh. Psychology is a pretty interesting since I know most of the information, just have to actually apply and retain the information this time. Modern History is online so it's also just busy work. But what is my favorite class so far is Japanese. Since I've attempted in Junior year with Duolingo, it turned out to have lots of weird ways to put sentences and conjugation together, out right being wrong in certain situations. So, a formal course in the subject would really help, and yes I'm learning the language mostly for the cultural significance. Most of the stuff I own, use, play on, or listen to is in Japanese, it already feels just right when learning it. Hard or easy, it's something I know I'm willing to stick with. There are people that think I should've take Mandarin, mostly family, but it just doesn't feel like my fate to do so. That's where my major comes in, I was originally going to do Psychology cause a friend was also doing it, but using my Japanese classes, I'd thought it would be better if I were to go into translation and localization: video games, movies, novels probably would be put into English for western markets. I thought it really felt me, not like doing computers or psychology like I told everybody, I just wouldn't feel fulfilled doing those like I want to translate. It's like giving people in the world something I would've wanted, just to be surrounded by my favorite anything for a living. So, this is what I'll be formally declaring as my major by Sophomore year, hopefully I'll turn out but in college I plan to help out local scan-lation groups and maybe even bigger projects, hopefully to come on this blog! But I am scared of how people will try to interact with me, studying such a specific field, along with my specified interests, I really do feel like an outcast. Usually other people would talk about something that just didn't click with me and I feel left out, never getting around to what may be a new favorite. I'll admit that I've felt this way my whole life, but doing what I like on the internet and with close friends makes it all the more exciting, different is good and I'm all for it. Phew, always wanted to say that out loud somewhere. Also about that job, I was actually reached out to become a Behavior Technician, which means I assist and educated the mentally handicapped. I was a little skeptical at first thinking I can phone it in and just make sure they don't hurt themselves. But as the meetings and orientation went on, we gradually learned about how a person's emotions are careful and require a mutual yet professional understanding, how value in society can really determine how a person views themself, and how we are teaching them how to be self-sufficent enough to not totally depend on others. This is when it clicked, these people really need help and this job doesn't really get much respect for it, this is when I went through with this job. Honestly how would you, the reader of this tiny blog, react if you had to socially interact with someone like that? I honestly want to bridge the gap and make it easier for everybody around these types of people, at least starting with one on one. Will I think this a couple month from now? Hopefully I won't lose my way, but it makes me feel a lot more useful than some cashier or gardener. I'm really excited for what the future holds in store for me, especially now that I have found what is essentially my calling. If I ever feel lonely, I'll just make a blog post about something cool in my life, video games, anime, manga, et cetera. I could just play srb2kart instead, hella addictive kart game. But we'll see.
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JamesHe aspires to be a game designer, let's just hope he gets there. He also happens to goes to DSA. Categories
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