the formative years--junior year in high scool

Junior prom with PJ (we knew each
other since 2nd grade...i miss him---facebook me, buddy!)

sleepover at lisa's! Oh man so many good times at that house... ahaha this is my favorite picture from that night!!

happy 18th birthday heather!

band tour to Canada... haha so many pictures with tim...

junior retreat, and our skit. making the pyramid right in front of the FIREPLACE. haha

RIP Grandma Linda...

St. Lawrence junior prom with Sabrina (and Jon P haha)

I spent the remainder of my days with my trend-setter buddy on the hill...

JENN!! My favorite German buddy from England lol

The epitome of German class: nonsensical and funny

[Attempting to] study for my Chem final... If only Chem was the only thing to cry about...

The beginning of something...


Song--Naive Orleans by Anberlin

A few days after finals, I realized that senior year was very real and happening now at that very moment...
Senior Portrait.

I finally breathed... but not

I actually went out [and partied] this weekend! I felt it happened at a perfect time, academically. However, the overload of good memories and epiphanies yet again have my mind whirling, and so I can only give you a few snippets in the forms of pictures...

Hmmph.

how do professors feel when a student outsmarts them?

Maybe this gives some insight. (please click on comic for full view--there should be sixes boxes)


Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

Cows & butterflies.

So my friend emailed me this thing called the "Tibetan Test," and it's one of those surveys where you choose unique answers, and based on those answers, they mean something. It was only four questions long, and it's supposedly a big deal and has to do with the Dalai Lama or something... Anyhoo the first question (and the only one I'll bother talking about) asks you to rearrange the following five animals in any way: cow, sheep, tiger, monkey, pig. I said cow, pig, monkey or tiger (or vice versa), and sheep. Cow means career, pig means money, and sheep means love. Ok so I don't really remember the animals, but I remember the translated outcomes, which got be pondering again...

Lately, I've been really ambitious and pro-active, trying to think of my next move, so I guess it is appropriate that "career" and "money" would be my top two, but that is what bothers me: In order to be ambitious, it's necessary to leave others behind and think about yourself. Of course, that's not ALWAYS the situation, but it's pretty much a prerequisite to think of just YOURSELF, most of the time. I want to succeed, but, in an oxymoronic way, I want to help people. Where is the altruism?? What about those individuals that I still care for...?

I believe in the butterfly effect--"If you love something, let it goes, and if it comes back, it's yours." Let me clink my glass and make a toast to optimistic goals: May I pursue ambition and career, while being lucky enough to have those that I want around me.