First off, thanks to everyone who came out to my graduation (or called or sent texts).
It was kind of overwhelming to have so many people surround me and take pictures.
In light of the fact that I'm basically out of time here, I thought I'd copy/paste the first xanga entry I ever wrote using this account.
It was basically a log of my years in college, and there's a lot of stuff in there that I look back...and want to kick myself in the face for saying.
Hopefully I've grown a bit over the past 5 1/2 years, and blogging will testify (or object) to it.
I'll admit, I was a bit more emo/sensitive back then as you can probably tell from the entry below.
As a sidenote, I forgot how optimistic and happy I was as a freshman.
Anyways, here we go:
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October 3, 2003 Xanga. I decided to make one again. I originally wanted to do like my own web-log kind of thingy on my website, but seeing as how Xanga has everything already done for you, it was kind of hard to resist. Plus the fact that a lot of people are like "u made a webpage? cool. now go make a xanga so people can leave you comments". Personally, I thought that having a link to a guestbook on my site was enough, but I guess not. I guess another reason for doing this, is for the people back home. Every time I talk to someone back in Dallas, I feel like I'm missing out on something; like I'm gonna come back and feel left out because I don't know what happened while I was gone. The stories. The jokes. New people. So even though I may not know what's going on your lives, I just want you all to be able to have a glimpse of mine; drawing me and all of you closer together even though we're cities apart. So...wow. It's been over a month since I've been here. I guess a lot could have happened back home. A lot has happened here too. Found a great church here that I want to be a part of. Check out their webpage (www.actsaustin.org). The picture of me in the profile? It's from their directory. Cool stuff. Joined their IM soccer team too (haha, I'm goalie, fun stuff). It's weird how things work out, you know? During the summer, I envisioned college (for me) as being a place where I would just go to class, then go straight to a library, study, eat, and sleep. But it's been so...different from what I expected. It's been so great here. All these people are complaining and saying stuff like "I need to go home!" and "I hate it here!". I don't know, but I like it here. With the exception of this week (during which I had 3 tests), I have had so much free time. I can hang out and just do whatever with friends (not many new; mainly high school ppl). The walking sucked (at first), but now...it's great too!!! I love not having to rely on a car. Almost anything you need is within walking distance. Need food? Go to Kinsolving (all-girls dormitory and dining hall; 8 minute walk from my dorm). Need entertainment? Go to the Union and watch a movie for free (about an 8 min. walk) or the South Mall area and play frisbee (about 8 min. walk also). (Everything seems to be like 8 minutes, weird...). Need sleep? Go to your dorm or just find an empty grassy spot and lie down (hmm...depends on where you start). Need to buy something? Eckerds (about 10 min.), Barnes and Noble (about 10 min.), or just buy it online (depends on your connection; with mine? haha, like 1 minute total if you know what you're looking for). Well, make sure you stop by my website sometime (https://webspace.utexas.edu/bmc57/home.htm). I've been workin on some digital graphics stuff in my free time and put up some wallpapers. Make sure you stop by and sign the guestbook. Got a lab session today from 5:00-7:00 pm (ew). Then goin to ACTS college outreach ministry called "FREQUENCY". Cool stuff. This weekend is gonna be so great and so crappy at the same time. Great, because I'm done with tests and feel so refreshed. Crappy, because practically everyone is out of town (going back home and stuff like that), and I'm gonna be bored out of my mind. Oh well. We'll see how that turns out. Running out of things to say. Funny. Only have like 4 paragraphs to summarize my life for the past 5 or 6 weeks. I'm sure things will slowly come to me, and I will update accordingly. Have a great weekend everyone!----------------------------------------------------------------------------
My Name is Brian Cho.
UT Student from 2003-2008.
Thanks for all the memories.
