Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Senior Blues.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Goodbye, Oxford. Hello, Real Life.
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. =)
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tourism a La Mode
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Touche Amsterdam...
Well, although it has been a few days since I got back from Amsterdam and I am still thinking about all of the things I experienced whilst there. The overall theme of the weekend as my tourist-partner-in-crime and I toured the city asking locals where to go and them responding with the subtly condescending question "Are you American?" (...we would flash our expensively excessive orthodontic smiles and give them the truth as they judged us with progressive Dutch eyes), is that Americans (according to the Dutch) are a bunch of squares. Yes, everything we boast about having is bigger, better, and tastier (dear god the food is dreadful in England), than anything European's could even attempt at creating, but here are the reasons why the Dutch think that we are all a lovely group of unprogressive pricks (with as many pictures as I could provide...which is not alot):