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5 hours ago
Would you buy this?
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Notes: 3 / 1 day ago from kindakaity
I really like living in Milwaukee
I think people need to enjoy where they’re living, or move. If they can’t move, due to their circumstances, they should try to see the positive in their surroundings.
My neighbor is outside on the phone LOUDLY complaining about how he hates this city. I want so badly just to push him out of it.
YOU complaining about hating this city is one of the things on MY list (and it’s a good sized one) of things I hate about this city.
THANKFULLY there are plenty of other things to keep my love strong.
regardless.
If you don’t like it here, then leave. if you can’t THEN SHUT THE FUCK UP BECAUSE I CAN HEAR YOU AND IT’S ANNOYING!
You have to admit, though. There are days when the wind just pulls that wet dog stench off of the river that no amount of Febreeze can disguise for anything other than shame and guilt.
On the other hand, Milwaukee’s pretty awesome when it’s lit up at night time.
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Notes: 74 / 1 day ago from kindakaity (originally from anditslove)
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Notes: 2 / 1 day ago from mrcolling
Colleges
I hate deciding what college i wat to go to because if i go away it means im giong to leave my instruments behind and the feeling of comfort. But i love that feeling of leaving and going somewhere uncharted. Im so on the fence with what im doing. But here are the colleges i am narrowing down
The university of wisconsin - Milwaukee
The Univeristy of Illinois - Chicago (if they accept me)
Oakland University (if i stay at home)
I was awful at planning for college. For over a year I had planned to attend Milikin University, some five hours of driving away from home. I hadn’t really ever thought twice about living on campus versus living at home because it was the only college I was seriously considered. For all intents and purposes, I didn’t have any other choices.
Spring of my senior year I dropped that idea off at the curb. Most colleges were within weeks of accepting final admissions applications, and I completely changed my major, and as a result, my college. Now I was going to go to the Milwaukee School of Engineering - a school that was only some 30 miles from home. It’s on the border between being too far to reasonably commute to in one day and being a total PITA. The first couple months of school I saw the commute as a total PITA, because I did choose to stay at home. I’ve since gotten used to it. Aside from having to fill up my gas tank a little more often, I hardly even notice the commute now.
Actually, it’s nice each morning to have a little under an hour of travel time, which I can handle driving myself or by taking a bus. It gives me time to go over last-minute details on assignments due those days when I take the bus, and gives me plenty of time to enjoy some podcasts of You Look Nice Today and This American Life when I take my car. I also have ample time to wake up.
Coming home is a little different. I just want to get the heck off of campus at that point, but still, I get an hour to wind down from the day, read a book, work on my laptop, or listen to music.
What I wasn’t prepared for was spending every flippin’ day in the city. I grew up in the ‘burbs. Not the, “Always a mile from anything important” suburbs, but instead, more of a middle-of-the-nowhere side road leading to my parents’ lake front property in the quaint Town of Summit. Milwaukee’s an awkward city. There are lots of great little restaurants and places to hang out, but more than half of the school year is spent in winter and — this is going to sound wimpy — it’s just too cold to really want to go anywhere.
Still, there’s that great bagel shop a couple blocks off campus, a great coffee place a little further off, and Milwaukee’s spy-lore treasure, the Safe-House for the truly adventurous. Despite having to navigate parking regulations for a city under snowfall, it’s a pretty easy-going place in my little reality of downtown Milwaukee, just east of the Milwaukee River and a few blocks north of Wisconsin Avenue.
I still can’t possibly imagine myself spending all four years commuting though. It’s a lot of work to go on campus usually a minimum of eight or nine hours each day, and add another two hours on for commuting. I won’t be surprised if it burns me out of by the end of this first year, but I don’t know when else I would be able to force myself to make time to listen to my podcasts if not for during my commute.
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3 days ago
“That umbrella can’t save you from monkey cancer.”
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Notes: 98 / 3 days ago from oldeenglish (originally from adamconover)
I just sent a discouraged student this piece of advice from Ira Glass, and in so doing watched it again myself. If you’re a person hoping to make a career doing creative work, I highly recommend — actually, I insist — that you watch it as well.
In a nutshell, here’s his message: Yes, you suck right now — that’s because you haven’t been working long enough. The only way to stop sucking is to keep working, because that’s how you get better. No one is born great; everyone sucks at first, and every person who does what you want to do got there by pushing through that long, dark period of sucking and working hard to improve. If you give up now just because you think you suck, you will suck forever. So just. Keep. Working.
Adam posted this in his blog a few weeks ago, but it bears repeating here. This is sound advice.
- R
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5 days ago
Anyone who has seen any of the movies in the Gremlins series will appreciate this clip.
