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What do I do now?

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By Charlie Low
Staff Columnist

Posted January 23, 2009 at 7:59 pm

I would like to start this article with a disclaimer: Since I am in Writing 1 this semester, my articles will become so tightly wound, so potent, so descriptive…that it may blow your mind. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!

My New Year’s resolution: get straight As, but, you know, with variety, maybe an A- here or there, an A+ if I’m feeling brilliant. Yeah it’s cheesy, generic, thoughtless and probably parallels the wishes or resolutions of many Washington University students, but hey, it could be worse. At least it’s not to lose weight, exercise more or stop submitting self-aggrandizing mindless drivel to Student Life, because if it were that, I don’t know what I would do with myself.

The fact of the matter is that as vapid and typical as my resolution may have been, I am actually going to have to work for it. During winter break, I was lucky enough to spend two weeks lying in the sun, somewhere warm and beautiful. It was amazing; I got tan and therefore happy. I spent the other two or so weeks participating in similar activities, except on a couch, in front of a TV, under a blanket, because it was cold. Between the hours spent sitting studying for finals and my winter break triathlon-caliber training regimen, my muscles seemed ready to atrophy and I would be bound to a wheelchair while a stay-at-home nurse massaged me back into walking shape. Needless to say my brain was not in much better shape. My mental activity was limited to reading GQ and The Da Vinci Code and deciding what to eat for lunch. Yes, I might be the last person in the world to have read it and now I know why, IT IS SO GOOD!

As you may have guessed, I arrived back on campus with synapses firing, ready to absorb all the information I could. The first morning back, the most my poor, troubled brain could manage was how to set the snooze on my alarm. It helps that my earliest class is 11:30, and that’s only twice a week, (the other three days are 12) but because of that I end up trapping all day and playing all night, because this is the life of a, the life of a, go getta. Anyway, the symptoms of my four-week vegetative experiment are still catching up with me. In fact I totally forgot that I had to write this piece until a little bubble popped up on my iCal that reminded me of my duty…hehe, duty!

It was then, at the point where iCal took over the responsibility of managing my daily activity, that I realized I needed to get my act together if I even wanted to come close to realizing my New Year’s resolution. Straight As is no easy task, especially at Wash. U., and it seems that getting back into my old work habits is even harder. I have been flexing my massive brain muscle for a little more than one week now, and it is starting to put itself back together, but there are still so many ways to be distracted. Still, every now and then I find myself starting at my wall, drifting back to the beach, soaking up the sun and thinking, really thinking, about what I want to eat for lunch.

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