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So I'm back in college, knee surgery went well and now I'm starting to get a lot of my movement back so I'm pretty fuckin stoked. This year is going to be a lot different, I'm not drinking as much and I have just been focused on what I need to get done for my classes. The toughest part of school now is keeping up with all the shit they put online for your schoolwork. Schools and colleges are trying to save money by getting rid of all the books and forcing everyone to do all their coursework on the computer. It's confusing to say the least, because the software developers fucking suck at organizing online courses in a somewhat logical and coherent way. Costs the students money for computers and the colleges less for all the paper they don't have to use as well. Way to shift the cost of education back onto the broke ass college students like myself.

It is also interesting to be around kids that are just getting out of high school and you can just look at them and tell they have no idea what the fuck is going on. I know I felt that way back then. I had no goddamn idea where I would up and never really thought about it too much. I can definitely tell that MTV has outdone itself in turning itself into a conduit for teenage brains to absorb an infinite array of bullshit. Their young minds have no idea that they are simply setting themselves up for a huge disappointment that they will probably never live lives anything like what they see on MTV. You're not going to be a rockstar or a model, you're going to community college motherfucker, welcome to the real world.

I'm pretty excited about a lot of things, something I haven't really been able to say for a while. Worked sucked and I'm glad that I'm going to be working towards something that will in the end, make me much happier. Lately I have also gotten back into the gym. It is definitely a nice change from sitting on my ass watching shitty daytime television.

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