Couch Wisdom with Dingo

college does funny things to a person.....


i was looking around my room today as i have spent my morning in my new baby duck yellow fleece pants that i made in costuming lab and i realized how much i have changed. i went from being a pretty innocent kid that, at times, could be the loudest and most annoying one in the room to a cynical bastard that thinks he knows everything and has a superiority issue to work out-but im still loud. i came to college in the fall of '99 with blonde highlights and a dream of teaching theatre. i will be leaving college in the spring of '04 with a a few addictions under my belt and in my past, wisdom beyond my years, friends that have flash flooded into my life-changed my world-and left just as quickly, and absolutely no idea what i will be doing or where i will be going.

i look around at the people that i have spent many nights talking, consoling, drinking with, and break a law here and there and i realize that i have lived the college life. i have done everything that everyone has ever told me that you are supposed to do in college. i have traveled to the largest city in the united states and spent way too much money and having way too much fun. i have lived with many different kinds of people. i have made friends with even more kinds of people. i have started smoking and started smoking. i have quit smoking and quit smoking. i have started smoking again. i have experienced any number of substances with life changing affects. my body has changed-alittle pudgy here, alittle aged under the eyes there. as da vinci said,"i thought i was learning to live, and i was actually learning to die."

as this semester ends and i look forward to the semester to come, i smile. i have done so much and learned so much that i dont think i would change anything that i have done. i am eagerly anticipating my departure from this university and from this town which i have spent all my life in. but for now, just this once, i am glad to be in college and glad that i still have alittle time left. hopefully i can make this last semester the dogs bollucks............and if not, there is always the real world.

posted by dingo @ 3:40:00 PM