I'm afraid of becoming an academic again this semester. I've spent my entire life in school, ever since 2004 I've been in college. I missed last semester by about ten days, so I had to wait until the semester that starts up today to take more classes. I wasn't technically out of school last semester because I took online courses at Rio Salado, but it wasn't the same. Now that I finally had a semester away from school, I've been becoming a more social person. I gladly do things with my friends and socialize, I want to be funny and entertaining instead of intelligent and a know-it-all. It's not my goal to read 100 pages of non-fiction a day or know everything there is to know in the universe any more. I'd rather have something clever to say that makes people laugh now. And I'm worried that by going back to college this semester, I'll go back to being that anti-social person with the overgrown head that finds a lame excuse not to go to parties when I'm invited. I don't want to be that person again, and I won't like myself if I become an academic again.

School starts today and I'm undecided about what I want to take. I am fairly certain that I want to take International Business and Brief Calculus, but the indecision is between taking Accounting or Salsa, Modern Jive, and Weight Training. Well, even mentioning the dilemma makes it obvious to me which ones I want to take. I just haven't finalized it and dropped the Accounting class yet. Why on earth I would choose to crunch numbers when I can dance and build muscle is beyond me. 

I thought about taking a Creative Writing course, but since there are no openings for it, that one has been decided for me.

Whatever the case may be...I woke up this morning (rather this evening. stupid sleep schedule) feeling like I don't want to go back to college, that I should just get a crappy job and deal with it and have a stable life. But I've been thinking long and hard about it all day and I think I've come to a healthy medium. I will take two Business classes, and three fun classes, and still have time enough to work two days a week. It's quite an ingenious compromise, if I do say so myself. The perfect balance between work, study, exercise, and play. It's not going to be the stable life that I've been feeling like I'm missing, but it's a huge step up from what I've been doing.

Anyway, I just wanted to post here that I want to be a social person, a good friend to my friends, and not a serious college student any more. I don't miss those days where I stuck my nose in books all day long and didn't care about the world around me. Even if I'm going back to school, I still consider spending time with good people more important than coursework. That's all.