It has been some time since I have updated this blog "for real," hasn't it. So much has happened since then, obviously, as my first year of college is drawing to a close. So far it's going really well, better than I expected it to go, I would even go as far as calling some of my college classes easier than my high school ones. This surprised me, as I go to an engineering school, and I thought everything math-science would be ramped up to an extreme degree in difficulty, but maybe I just built that image too highly in my mind. In case any of you are wondering, I'm a chemical engineering major, but I haven't taken any real chemical engineering classes yet, mainly just getting the required classes out of the way (general chem., calculus, physics, etc.)

I wish I knew what I was going to do next year though. I'm applying for transfer to UMass Amherst, as socially, I don't like the school I'm going to at all. It is an engineering school I know, but damn, I guess the people here are all too similar for my liking. Most of my friends in high school were different than me, and now that everyone is the same, it just isn't working. I know Amherst is a party school, and I am no partier, but I kind of want to go to a bigger school with a more diverse student body after a year here at WPI (and save quite a bit of money to boot, as it is a state school, much cheaper). Problem is, I don't think my job outlook is as good graduating from there as it is here, so this won't be an easy decision to make when the time comes in a few months. Right now I am leaning towards transferring, but I change my mind more often than my physics professor confuses me, which is nearly five times per day.

But enough about that. It is weird to think I have been away from this site for so long, nearly a year since I have seriously been involved in the community, but I think that has a chance of changing soon. My interest in this site has always come and gone, and now that it went, it is slowly coming back. I'm not sure if it will stick or not, but I'm going to try to make an honest effort to get involved in the community here again, because I do miss it a little bit. So, like it or not, you may be seeing a little more of me around here, it just may take some time for me to get back in the swing of things. My first goal is 10k posts, because I've been knocking on that door for so long now it is absurd; I've had 700 to go for like a year and a half now. :P

And I must commend the moderators and admins for the job they did on that April Fool's prank on OT. It was one of the most convincing and well-acted pranks I have ever seen, even if I do still think it was a bit cruel. Looking back the whole situation did seem kind of ridiculous, but the plot was so involved that it seemed to convoluted to be fake. Unless it really wasn't fake, and the April fool's joke is just a cover? Hmmm…

I kid.