I totally rocked my first semester of college. Booyah!

I got all A+’s except for one A (in Calculus) and my GPA is above a 4.0. There is also a new feature on our academic records site that shows your “term rank.” Mine was 1 out of the 4209 freshmen here at NC State. Yes, I know it is just based on grades, and there are plenty of people here that are way smarter than I am, but… but I’m superficial and numbers mean a lot to me. *shot* I’m just really proud of myself and I want to shout it to the world, but I know I shouldn’t talk about it to my friends or anyone else because bragging is wrong and feelings can get hurt. There is such a fine line between honestly being proud of yourself for your accomplishments and being labeled a braggart.

Also, you would think I would be able to get a scholarship with grades like that. *sigh*
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This semester I am taking 22 credit hours.

I am still sane… I think. I have been feeling pretty exhausted for days on end and want to just sleep all the time, which I don’t remember being a problem last semester. I’m still getting all my work done and I haven’t missed a single class yet, not that I plan to. My list of current classes is as follows:

- English: Academic Writing and Research
- Fortran + Lab
- Physics for Engineers and Scientists + Lab
- Calculus 2
- Graphic Design Theory and Practice
- Ergonomics

I’m also proud that, even though my English teacher ended up telling me to pick a new topic after I handed in my first rough draft, I got a 100 on my first major paper. She ended up absolutely loving it and said mine was the best one she had read so far. I mean, I can write better than your average student, I think, but I have never been a star student in anything English or grammar related… let alone for a college teacher. It seriously, like, made my week. Especially since that paper was 15% of my course grade. And I was so worried about taking English this semester too.
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Oh, go check out my new gallery folders layout. I created the icons and put them up a few weeks ago when I found out you could do that (I felt slow), but I never mentioned it. Do you think they are too busy? Should they be smaller and more spaced out? Any other picture suggestions instead? I think they look okay like they are but it’s always nice to hear other’s opinions.
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In other news, Spring Break is coming up pretty quickly—only two weeks from now. Unfortunately, that thought does not cheer me up very much. I have an English paper worth 20% of my grade due that week along with 4 different midterm exams. I will be lucky if I m still breathing when it’s all over.

And, gawd, I have been so bad about the art stuff recently. I just…have nothing. I haven’t drawn anything substantial in ages and I rarely feel like doing so anymore. Instead of my previous art block going away like I thought it would it looks like it decided to take up permanent residence. I haven’t drawn anything in so long I think I have lost what little ability I had been clinging on to for the past year or so. It takes me so long just to do one picture that I wonder if it’s worth the time and effort anymore.

I think I would like to try to draw something again over Spring Break, but we will see. I said that about Christmas Break and look how that turned out. The problem is I have to be in the just the right mood with just the right amount of inspiration.

I feel like… a soufflé.