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A week left of this semester and then the solace of Winter break. Just two more days of finals and I can breath easy for a little while. I'm about to practically lose the only two real friends I've ever had though. One is graduating and the other will be moving across town to live with his girlfriend, which will make hanging out mostly impracticable. I knew our trio would have to break eventually, but this just feels to soon. I have to make it another two years here basically by myself. Classes are only going to get more difficult and I'm cursing myself now for not having gone into engineering or programming. I'm studying Geology and the job market will be rough, even rougher for me since I have zero chance of getting into or wanting a job in education.

I'm taking some steps to keep myself out of the danger zone though, I'm talking to my brother again and I've decided I'm going to start weight lifting with him next semester. 6 months from now I'll no longer be quite so scrawny. If school and the Geo career doesn't work out I should definitely be prepared for a career in something that requires being in shape like the Military. I'm not really afraid of having "no future" I guess, I'm just in a depressed lull because I feel like I'm wasting my time here doing something that'll have no future benefit for me.

I've resigned myself to the fact that I'm going to be alone for a good chunk more of time as well. A relationship wont solve any of my problems really and starting one this soon is only destined to end in failure.

I really am my fathers son

I just felt like venting, thanks for listening.

You have us. We love you no matter what.

Hey Man,

If you had the Three Musketeers over the last year, you can get a new Three Musketeers this coming semester.

I know you're going to miss your friends--can't you email them sometimes? Or maybe visit them once in a while?

For the next month or so, don't think about school, just get into your Special Interests.

I bet you could find somebody in school like Drawyer!

Good idea. Make sure you watch your joints (where the bones connect, lol) though!
Many people have problems with that after weight lifting.

Yeah, we'll still be friends, but contact is going to be severely limited. I want to believe I can make more friends, but I'm such a thorn bush around people most of the time. Getting to know these guys was a happy fluke, I only met them because we lived on the same dorm floor, found 2 people out of the thousands that I could get along with. Sheer dumb luck. I no longer have that advantage living in an apartment, I don't know how or where I could possibly meet new people that I could get along with, anyone like me would have the same idea and probably is just sitting in their apartments wondering where to find people. So ridiculous, but it's true. I could still potentially meet new people in my classes, but all my department related classes in geology are spent, I know everyone now and there's little to no prospects there. I've been a lone wolf before, and I think I'll be able to handle it again.

Oh I definitely intend to tap out of all responsibility for the next month and just do nothing but veg and explore unknown regions of my interests

Sheer dumb luck can happen anytime, anywhere.
It is as real and as powerful as any other belief system in the universe.
Dumb luck is divine.
May the dumb luck be with you.

Is that some kind of mind trick you're trying to play on me Jedi scum?

Maybe.
Is is working?

I wouldn't know, I guess only time will tell.

Tide and time wait for no man.
But if you don't fight against the tide it will bring you back to the shore in its own time.

^Random deepness right there^

Dehehehe

You'd probably really enjoy geographic information systems jobs as a whole, it pays decently, you can use your degree and you can program, plus travel at a computer all day and learn from more kinds of people. I met a lot of great devs in my last job and learned a lot of tech, yet the coolest person there was an archaeologist.

I promise this has nothing to do with the tired '90s cliche of every graphical console being "just like a videogame"...

Works every time. Some people wonder why I don't mind driving in snow...

Or through heavy Rainstorms for that matter.

This Geographical Information Systems job sounds interesting.....I'll need to take another crack at learning programming first though.

Not necessarily, believe it or not, GIS leans on databasing a lot more. Working with it as a dev is one thing but the buck doesn't stop there. The sheer volumes of information are beautiful. Major backend firms like Esri & OpenStreetMaps aren't picky about what languages people use to build from their source and I found my job dealing with LiDAR topology quite similar to game level design.