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It's Monday, I guess, and that means we only have four more days till Easter vacation. It definitely feels like we just got back to school, so while I'm excited about getting to go home for another four or five days, I kind of wish the timing would have been better- more to the middle of the remainder of school we have left. Ah well. I've just got to take it one day at a time, and for now I just want to get through Monday. For some reason, today is my busiest day, with classes, Chips articles overdue, and Tuba stuff at night. Poor planning for a guy who already has a perpetual case of the Mondays.
This weekend I went up to Gustavus for a Tuba-Euphonium conference, Tubonium. It was... educational. And enjoyable, but mostly educational. I have to admit that by the end I was ready to be done with anything remotely relating to a tuba. But I did get to spend some time with my high school friend who goes there, and I got to hang out with some of his friends. It was weird to see that my friend from high school sort of played the same sort of social role in his new group as he did in our old group- perhaps we just naturally gravitate towards certain social behaviors, and aren't purely placed there out of circumstance and organic social development. The important thing, though, is that he doesn't resent that position, but rather accepts it as a natural condition.
For those of you who know me well, you know that for a long while I have been considering transferring out to the University of Montana. It has probably been pretty evident in my blog entries that I've not experienced that sort of idyllic college high, or even remotely found a comfortable position here at Luther. But I've kept my thoughts about transferring to myself, in respect to this blog, because I really feel like my job as a blogger is not to ruminate about the potential benefits of a different school, but to give an accurate picture of what life is like at Luther, what I have found to be the most fundamental experiences and feelings accompanying my time here.
But I feel comfortable talking about my desire to transfer now, because I've decided to stay at Luther. Don't ask me to explain why, because I don't really know. But it does feel a lot better to have made a decision- at least now I know what I'm going to be doing next year. I was pretty much certain I was going to transfer- I had applied, gone to visit, gotten financial aid, even talked to a friend out there about looking at apartments- but something just stopped me, and now I am staying here. Perhaps in a week or so I'll be able to explain why.
Well, class is about to start so I have to go.
Take it easy,
Danny
1 comment:
Glad to hear you are staying, Danny. I went through the exact same decision. If you want to chat about it, meet up with me sometime. I'd like to hear your thoughts.
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