Today... I turned an age that wasn't supposed to happen while in college.

Hmm... January 20th, 1983, this whole debacle of being me started. Well 23 years later, I would say things have turned out to be pretty good! So I am celebrating my birthday today, and what other way to better celebrate by posting a life update on me.

So since my last posting, a few things have happened... I returned to the United States from Taiwan, flew to Los Angeles, went to a bowl game in San Francisco, drove everywhere in between, went out and spent way too much on New Years Eve, Flew to Salt Lake City, drove to Wyoming, drove back, spent a week with 55 of my pals from GT in Park City, landed on my tailbone learning to 50/50, recovered, and did nearly every single trail on my snowboard.

Whew, so now that things are settling down, life is freaking awesome. This semester, I'm taking 12 hours, half of those are grad courses that I think are pretty sweet, 6 of those are required, and 3 of those are only once a week. I guess patience does pay off, and what I mean is that everyone needs to take 5 years to graduate.

So I've decided that in my last semester, as tempting it is to lush out, I really want to be productive and make the most of it. While in Taiwan, I published my first life goals notebook, which really means I just am finally writing down all of the things I want to accomplish this semester, and thereforward. I have a pretty big list to conquer as of now, but am slowly working away at it.

I'm almost done with all of my grad school applications, which is pretty nice, and now I'm just trying to figure out how I'm going to pay for everything on top of that., But I guess education is an investment, and it'll be worth whatever I have to cough up to keep at it. So to continue with the hectic life of spring semester. We will finish up Rush at the house tonight (by the way, this is my 10th rush that I've witnessed... ouch), then tomorrow, I am expected to be up in Athens, GA by 9AM for the Red Bull Spring Kickoff, which will end at 11AM Sunday. From there I will go directly to the airport to catch my 3:30pm flight to Washington DC for the Transportation Research Board conference which I will be at until Wednesday. I have no idea what that will keep in store for me, but hopefully it'll paint a picture of my future in grad school and in transportation.

Well I ust be off to go gather more reccomendations.
until next time.