My Life at USC

My Summer Plan

I don’t really like to make plans because often times I find that when I commit to any sort of activity, new ones seem to pop up and then I end up disappointing someone. Commitment issues? Whatever.

However, I do have some things I want to get to this summer, and because it’s the summer, I won’t be disappointed if not all of them happen.

- Tackle my extensive reading list. Top 7 books: 

• The Singularity is Near - Ray Kurzweil
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• On the Road - Jack Kerouac
• A Clockwork Orange (only because I’ve seen the movie, so it’s only fair to the author) - Anthony Burgess
• The Permissive Universe - Kirtley F. Mather
• A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

- Figure out what I want to do with my life. Not career-wise because I’m indie and don’t want to put myself in a narrow category, but path-wise. If international relations is what I really want to commit to, and how I can leave my mark in that field (because the only way our lives have meaning is if we create it. but that’s a conversation we can have in person). Or, whether I need to accept that I find brains, intelligence, and artificial intelligence fascinating (creating life, the Singularity, the future basically) and figure out a way to pursue that professionally. Will the mean taking bio classes? Probably…that’s the commitment I need to figure out.

- Buy or build a bike on the cheap

- Do the standard frisbee, hiking, and camping thing with some of my favorite people

- Get a job (hopefully I can sweet talk my way back onto the city’s payroll)

- …workout regularly…

-  Train my body to wake up at 7am, especially since I’ll have class at 8 once a week in the fall

- RAGE

What I am already doing:

- Going to Spain! :)

- Going to BFD and Kid Cudi

- RAGING

It’s going to be an interesting summer. Hopefully I’ll actually be productive and not sit around all day smoking and listening to music. Which is fun and relaxing too, but been there done that.

Regardless of what happens this summer, there are still 2 finals that stand between me and freedom -_-

And of course I’m bummed that I will be separated from the amazing friends that I’ve made here. Why can’t all of these cool people that I know just follow me around all the time? Geez

Also I just spent the last 30 mins going through pictures of this year. Sooo many good times, holy shit. Will post a slideshow sometime this week, I was loling pretty hard at some that were just too scandalous to make the cut.

Conclusion: life is fantastic

Come at me bro

At this point in the night I am questioning why I have not had a tumblr up until this point. It is 1am, I’m slightly tipsy, still have a presentation to prep for (forget about the psych exam, I’m taking it one day at a time) and now I have been dragged into an ongoing argument about music. So of course I’m just going to use this incredible rush of energy and the power of Wiz Khalifa to blog* about my thoughts on Indie music. Mostly because I have nearly exhausted the topic with my friends, who cannot reach a common ground and each push their own definition of the genre. And I’m not surprised because most people really don’t want to change their opinion on anything, especially at this point in time. We’re in college and developing the worldview that we already have. You can’t just forget the 18 years that you spent growing up in a liberal, priveleged small town that is actually a bubble, or China, or the suburbs of Philly where >2% of your school is white, or the South where everyone actually does not heil Bush or have a farm. Sure, you are open to new ideas and possibilities, but how much does that really knock you off your path? If you take into consideration the way our genes and the neurological pathways that have developed (not saying that’s controlled by our genes because that has not been proven, but just take into consideration what it is that makes you act the way you do), aren’t we just going to build on the beliefs we have and never stray too far from the last block? Sure, I could drop out of school and live in an LA warehouse, party all the time, have lots of random sex, do hella** drugs and eventually end up married with 2 kids in Hollywood, but am I actually going to do that? No. There’s nothing wrong with that lifestyle. In fact, I admire the people that actually do all of that random shit and just have fun, but it’s not me. SO, the point of all of this is that I have a certain view of the world and my place in it. As does everyone else, even if they don’t know it, because they exemplify it with their behavior. Therefore, the argument that my friend have been having about Indie is pointless because they are going into it with their own definitions of the genre and, on a larger scale, what good music should be.

At this point, I have lost my motivation to keep typing. I have not read over the above and don’t remember exactly what I wrote anyway. I’m not going to edit it because that’s too much work and I have a presentation to make, remember? Anyway, this is just a way to express the thoughts that are going through my head, but instead of there being a 0% chance of satisfaction from keeping them to myself in a journal or Word document (yay 21st century!), there is a >0% chance that someone will read this and appreciate it. Or not, whatever I’m down for an argument.

* Is this a blog or do I actually have to set up a website? Where does one do that? What is the Internet?

** NORCAL FOR LIFE