Oh the Memories - 1st Best Decision

I may have already said some of this in an earlier blog, but the following are my disheveled thoughts on this year.

Even though the semester isn't over quite yet, I think while all of this is on my mind it would be a good time to jot it down. So much has happened this year being my first year away at college. Just wow, like seriously it feels like years worth of experience has happened since I first got here. But yet it doesn't feel like it's been a long time. It feels just like yesterday I was crying (yes I cried because I left) because I had to say goodbye to 2 very good friends, knowing I wouldn't see them everyday over the summer. I mean there are other good friends, but these 2 are the best of the best and I'm really thankful for them.

I didn't know what was going to happen when I got here, I didn't see any of it coming. I didn't plan as well as I should. However this has been the BEST thing I've done in my life. I know I'm just 18 and will be 19 in 2 days. But this will be the first thing I am remembering that has been the best decision I've made. 

I'm just amazed how much we've grown up. I'm amazed how much our appearances have changed. I'm amazed to know we won't stop growing.

You wonder what has happened this school year for me?
1st semester - I fucked up in my classes and I did things I shouldn't have (nothing illegal) However I learned a lot. I overcame my insecurities, anger, and jealousy. I did learn a lot for life.
I met some awesome people: Aaron, Nathan, Rachel, Jennifer, Samantha, Jessi, and Jordan.

2nd semester - I came back with full force. I was ready to prove to myself that I can do this. My grades are good and classes were fun! I became more independent, and have realized how much potential I have.
I met Colt.
I also met Robin, Stephanie, Carissa, Caitlin and Laura. (I love these girls)

I wouldn't change this year at all. No matter how many ups or downs I've had, it was perfect the way it happened. :)

Now I have to look ahead, and I'm looking at the positives. I'm ready for summer to be here even though I have summer classes, but after taking them I'll be another step closer to having an awesome life. Then fall will come and Ethan will be here. That'll make everything easier.

Well I guess this is all I have to say, but I will make this summer last. I want to make more memories to keep me going. :)

My artwork is up!!!

YAY!!! Finally I got off my lazy ass and did this. However I made it into a seperate blog. So then I could have a blog devoted just for my artwork. So you should go check it out guys! It's called:

My Art is Better Than Your Art! (that's a surprise). Also my friends and I are also starting this project. Which will involve vector and stop motion shit. So ya check it out it's cool. It's called:

Recess from Reality.

Blogosphere, Say What?

Conceptually, “My Blog is Better Than Your Blog” is straight forward. The name says it all, on a serious note and a deeper level, the idea behind it was to just let readers know what I was thinking and or doing. Which therefore why I titled my blog, “My Blog is Better Than Your Blog” because I felt that because of posting the way I did, my blog was unique. Every time right before I blogged I thought about my blog’s name and thought how I would live up to that.

“Where Did the Days Go?” is the best blog post I posted. Some of the reasons why I believe this to be the case is I blogged on a deeper and slightly more on an intellectual level. I felt that for at least one of my blogs I needed to be more serious and allow my readers more insight into my thoughts and understand where I am coming from, especially as a unique individual. I explained in this specific blog post how amazed I was in the fact that my first year as a college student was almost over and I just felt a little sad due to this soon to be abrupt ending. I also described how both of my semesters were at different ends of the spectrum. That my first semester was an academic failure but a life lesson success. My second semester I described how academically well I’ve been doing and there have been fewer life lessons learned. I then showed readers insights I had about the future and how they are worrying me slightly, but I am ready to overcome any obstacle that comes in my way.

My first thought on the blogosphere is what is a blogosphere? A good definition I have found about what a blogosphere is, stated by an article on Wikipedia, “a blogosphere is a collective term encompassing all blogs and their interconnections. It is the perception that blogs exist together as a connected community (or as a collection of connected communities) or as a social network.” Some good examples of a blogosphere would be Facebook, Myspace, Xanga, and many more! With that being stated, my second thought on the blogosphere is if it is a good thing or a bad thing? A blogosphere is a great tool to have in this day and age because our world is growing exponentially fast, and it is difficult for us to keep up with contacting our friends individually, especially that a lot of friends could easily be in other countries. Having a blogosphere to access is so genius it’s simple. Enabling us to post our thoughts on the web and sharing with our friends and or people we do not even know, allowing us to expand our connections around the world. A blogosphere is fantastic allowing authors to take a different approach on writing, and allowing their readers to get to know them more personally than a book or essay would.

In the end, a blogosphere is an amazing tool that we humans have access to in the 21^st century, and should take advantage of, because the world is not going to stop growing. To actually make a mark of who you are as a person, participating in a blogosphere is the way to go.

I'm a champion! Are you?

That's right, I'm a champion. You might be asking of what? Well I thwarted the Elite 4 last night in Pokemon Platinum, and became the new pokemon league champ. Pretty nerdy but oh well, Pokemon is pimp. After beating the Elite 4 there's always the one person that is the champion who beat them and you have to face them and defeat them to claim the real title. And ya I thwarted that bitch to, she didn't stand a chance. So now I'm a prodigy in the world of pokemon. 

Anywho...that's really all I had to talk about this time.

So next post I will be putting some artwork up seeing I've came to the realization I haven't taken photos of anything I've done this year...so I need to get on that!

Where did the days go?

What could I possibly rant about today.

I'm just amazed how close we are to finishing the year. I just don't know where the time went. It feels like I haven't done much either. In any of my classes and yet I'm doing fairly well. (As, Bs and 1 C)

Now that it's getting closer to it being done, I'm reflecting on what I really learned this year. Which is a lot considering my lovely first semester. (If you really would like to know just ask...it was dreadful)

Even though my first semester was rocky I still learned a lot of life lessons that I will never forget, then there's this semester where I really took everything seriously. I want to say I'm happy my first year is coming to an end, but I don't think that's how I feel.

I'm taking 2 summer courses this summer and still haven't gotten the money for them yet. =/

I'm worried about it because I'm doing it by myself, which is going to take a lot of discipline on my part.

I realize that even though I'm out of highschool I can still fall back on the thought, I'm still a kid really. Knowing I'm a year closer to ACTUALLY totally being on my own (not having medical insurance and other shit from your parents) slightly scares me.

However, I'm a very positive person so the positives I see are:

I WILL be completely on my own soon and I know because of my experiences at college I WILL make it.

I've made an awesome friend along the way, and the bonds between my old friends became closer

I do have a decent job in this economy.

Anywho I could keep going on but that's just been on my mind lately

I won a new car!

At least I thought I did. I should never believe ANYONE on April Fool's Day. Especially if they tell me their raffling away a brand new car. Long story short, my friends and I went to the Espresso Yourself night at Woodworth last night. They were having a raffle and told everyone that the grand prize was a brand new car. When it came time to see draw the name for the car, my name was called. Not really thinking it was April Fool's Day, I yelled "Yeah!" and hopped out of my seat to claim my prize. Come to find out my prize was a matchbox car. I made myself look like a jack ass infront of at least 30 people.

I wonder if I should put this on Fmylife?

What to blog about?

I have NO idea what to blog about for this week. I could try and think about what to blog about I guess. Maybe something about my spring break. I stayed in Indiana, fought with my mom, got sick and went to Depauw. However if I blogged about that I'd bore all of you to death. So I guess I'm going the sarcastic jack assery route and lie about it. I went to Japan, fought some ninjas and almost died. However Jonathan Swindle does not go down that easily I got off my dying ass, headed towards the leader of those Japanese ninja scum and kicked his ass. I was pronounced the hero of Japan. There is my spring break if it happened my way. And this is my blog.

Sounds great huh?

-Jon