Replay

After 24 hours I am back in the same place, it’s like I never left, it’s like fucking magic.

How is it I made it this far? I should have been dead by now, all those obstacles and I am still here. I guess I don’t have a choice but to succeed now, I mean anything else is unacceptable. That’s why I can’t complain about the long hours, the sold memories, and the dying fun. I am one of the “chosen one” whether I want to admit it or not. I say that I am one of many because there are so many with similar lives out there. I just have to keep reminding myself of that fact, and everything will fall into place. I’ll know to be more patient, more forgiving, more humble, less arrogant, less demanding, and happier.

The Semester

I still find myself wishing I were still in bed, wishing that all this were a dream. The cubicle that’s going to hug me for the nine hours, the monitors that are going to be my windows to the world, the TPS reports that signify my allegiance to servitude, all of it should be a dream.
This semester is going to be the toughest of my academic career. It is required that a student spends three hours outside of class doing work for every hour that he/she spends in class; the engineering discipline demands it, they say. This semester I think I’ll have to follow this rule, this possible axiom (it’s axiomatic). Hence, we calculate to see how much time I’ll have to myself during the next four months. I’ll spend approximately 35 hours in class, if I follow the aforementioned axiomatic rule I will have to spend 105 hours out of class doing work. That’s 140 hours dedicated to schoolwork for four months, or 10 hours of ‘pen and paper’ time per week.

Total hours in a week = 168

Hours per week = HPW
HPW job work = 40
HPW schoolwork = 10
HPW sports = 14
HPW sleeping = 56
HPW driving = 10
HPW eating, cooking = 12
HPW hanging with the girl = X (it fluctuates between 7-168) we will take 7 just to see what we get

THW – THPW =
168 – (40+10+14+56+10+12+7) =
168 – 149 = 19
19 hours per week to myself over the next four months, and that’s only if I spend minimum quality time. Well, come to think of it I only calculated for one of my two classes. Hmmm, you get the picture.