So there I go again. Being a bad bad blogger…but you can’t REALLY blame me. It was my last week in Oxford and all…Well, I want nothing more for this to be an incredibly well-developed retrospect on my trip as a whole but unfortunately that wont be the case. To honest, though, I am not THAT embarrassed. I’ve come to the conclusion that I am quite possibly too young, too destructive, and too naïve to understand the magnitude of how great it was to study in Oxford. So for now, I will give you the superficial realization, which will most likely mature as more commercial anyway.
1) I survived. A few concert bruises along the way and perhaps a damaged ego or two but all and all I returned as blemish free as every other narcissistic American. =)
2) Americans are apart of some huge clique…I just realized this at the airport. We wholeheartedly believe that we are better, faster, stronger, and cooler than any of you old countries with only castles, cathedrals, and ancient artifacts. We have most of the world’s wealth even in a recession, okay? When did you’re castles make a liquid revenue of billions of dollars yearly? Yes... That is what I thought. The funny thing is that the US (compared to any other country really) is like an inexperienced 21 years old. Young, naïve, destructively dangerous, selfish and irresponsible. Team USA!
3) To anyone (vegetarian or not) complains in front of me (ever again) about American food lacking quality. I WILL slap them (lovingly, of course)
4) Why can’t SMU professors be outrageously witty, vodka-drunk more often than not, play guitar, AND previously used to be a guitarist in a 1960’s band playing at the Cavern on Mondays and Wednesdays when the Beatles played on Tuesday and Thursdays? Thank you once again, Oxford.
Well, considering this blog is much overdue I figure I will try my best to move onto real life. My senior year of college starts Monday. Crazy. Although I remain a bit more optimistic about the year to come, I’m more anxious than anything else about the cruel realities of my last year in the college playground before the real world slaps me oh-so kindly in the face. =)
