ONE As much as I love the reblog button I will keep reblogging to a minimum. I will mostly post my own material.

TWO I will  write things that are personal and meaningful. Everything I post has to mean something to me.

How am I doing so far?

The media, and society itself, upholds an ideal of beauty which is unhealthy and unrealistic, not to mention photo-shopped. I refuse to buy in to it. I simply do not have to look perfect all the time, and frankly I’d rather spend my time on something more valuable than makeup, hair and colour coordination.

ternoway:

Yes, as the title implies, this post is dedicated to my dear friend Kamilah and all her awesomeness! When I read her blog post, for a break from studying psychology, I got to thinking about how I was like Miss Kamilah my last year in high school. I was involved in a LOT of things, from the plays (and everything associated with that), to Interact, to Student Council, to Student Improvement Committee. I remember that it was great when it all begin I thought it was wonderful, but I wasn’t exactly an ace at a little thing called “time management” and I’m still working on the art of that. But I must say that Miss Kamilah, I commend you for being able to be in all of those rather time consuming sciences, and not completely sink. I was in Biology, and I still passed by the skin of my teeth, but I didn’t try. Mr. Quick hated me for it, I hate me for it. So if you feel overwhelmed, it just means that you’re human, and you can’t do everything. So before you decide to take on more things, remember that you are indeed 17 and are infact entitled to have fun your grad year, and enjoy every minute of it. Leave the stress and sleepless nights for university (something Erik didn’t do in grade 11, and I highly doubt his grad year). So take my advice, if you find that something has to give, don’t let that thing be your school work. And have fun girlie! You are an awesome person, and I have learned so much from you, even though you might not know it. Also meeting you Miss Kamilah was one of the BEST things that could have happend to me and I love you for it!

So have fun, leave the stressful, sleepless, “i’m so tired, I’m only surviving on coffee” nights for university. Engineering is stressful as it is. You’ll need to conserve your all your energy so that you don’t suffer from a burn out.

Much love always,

Jenn

Aww thanks Jenny <3

I imagined this semester being so good in the midst of physics finals and scholarship applications last semester, but the last week or so I thought I had gotten over my head. After all, I have badminton three times a week, play rehearsals for footloose once-twice a week, school choir twice a week, Youth Effort United meetings once a week, GRAPE vine girls at lunch, and I still need to schedule in time for Physics Olympics preparation. In addition I’d like to join bisset choir, plan a mental health conference, do a presentation for the leadership class and I still need to catch up in calculus (although I made good progress today). Theres also always university applications of various sorts, conference calls and scholarships to apply to. And sometimes I just want to draw (maybe because I just got marvellous metallic pens of my favourite pen brand).

Basically, today made me think it’ll all work out. When I nearly knocked my mirror over I found my battery charger. There’s lots of familiar faces, and friends in all three of my new classes. I really enjoyed my classes today. It almost makes me wonder why I’d go in to science, which is just so much more work than, for example, psychology, which I also enjoy and get excited about. But I think it’s just nice to have a break from hardcore academics. My pursuit of science is deeply rooted, I believe, and perhaps less superficial than my love of psychology. Then again they both feed my love of knowledge and of understanding. Actually I just want to do everything. I’m excited for engineering next year and for my psychology and philosophy classes right now. (For those of you who don’t know I got conditional acceptance at UofA for first year engineering! woo!) Anyways, my friend gave me a lift home (and showed me his centaurhorn drawing – sweet), my ride to badminton called me back to confirm and a time is set for my teleconference. There’s soup in the fridge and I even found some time to blog. My latest application is complete and ready to send off via the interwebz.

I’m in a good mood.

One last thing, the acting class here is phenomenal. Everyone seems really good at improv, it’s a little intimidating, but it’s good to face some nerves every once in a while. Especially seeing that’s not one of my strong points.

Wish me good luck in the badminton regionals this weekend!

I’m not that fond of learning languages, but I have it set in my head that there’s something special about that one, something musical or magical or wise.