A Digital Me

Many things today can be done without ever needing to leave home. Websites for retail giants like Walmart and Costco make it very easy to order from home and have purchases ship directly. The internet has taken away the need for face to face conversation with another human being. Now people can just skype, oovoo, facebook, instant message, and email. Of course there are many more sites like the ones I just listed but those are the features and sites that I currently use.
I am careful to not let these things take over my life. The body thrives for actual, real life human contact and without it, some people can be at a large disadvantage. These can be amazing tools when businesses and personal lives are in a bind but it is not meant to disassociate you from the real world. 

New School

This isn't the first time I've been to a new school. Actually, recently, I haven't exactly been moving as much as I used to, so I guess it was a bit more new than expected. Being on my own is a great experience but I find myself thinking that it's not all it's wrapped up to be. I remember seeing movies where students would go off to college and as they enter the dorms there would be sexy girls flying down the hall and every guy in the place wanted to be the protagonists friend, and I guess inside I knew it would be nothing like that, but maybe I was hoping it would be, at least, somewhat similar.

I hear all the time to "Live college up". That college will be the "Best four years of your life". I'm sure eventually I'll enjoy college and what it has to offer me, but I can't seem to enjoy knowing how late I'll be up studying for exams and writing papers and reading 100 pages of material a night for an exam that may or may not have 2 questions on that chapter. If I had tried just a little bit harder in high school I may have gotten the grades I needed to get into the film school.

So now I'll have to push through to get straight A's and try to make myself noted by the teachers in and out of the film school. If I want to get in now is probably the only other chance I'll have. I have a hard time imagining how I will manage to schedule all of the classes and homework and a job and making time to create films that, from experience I know, takes a twelve hour day to get one scene shot. It is overwhelming but I think I can do it. ""I think I can. I think I can. I think I can."