First Journal of Any Kind

As the subject states, this is my first journal of any kind, but living at home has given me a significant amount of time to try new things. So here we go...

It has been nearly a month and a half since I graduated from Berkeley, and it has just shown me thus far that the time I had in college was surreal, and something that I did not fully appreciate. In college, I was given a free pass on every mistake that I made: skipping a class, bombing an interview, doing poorly on an exam, and even living a lifestyle that no ordinary human (even Jlau) should ever attempt to live.

Moving back to Sunnyvale to live at home for the next year has been a blast from the past. I have been attempting to retrace what I had done before going off into the four year time capsule of college. Where did I go to have a good lunch? Where did I take people when they came to visit? Even remembering the most efficient routes to my friends' houses has definitely made me feel as if I have just returned from a long adventure to the familiarities of home.

However, everyone is different and moving toward different paths in our lives. Most of my friends are staying in their neighborhoods near their respective colleges and others are expanding to new parts of the country. I should be excited for them, but a part of me still wishes that the good times did not always have to change. Although we are all turning a new chapter in our lives, I understand that as we are growing older, each passing chapter will be more solitary than the next (I guess until marriage arrives). I am excited and nervous at the same time for this prospect, as work is less than four weeks away now. After talking to Jason (Lee) about how his work is going, I am going to try and maximize the time I have left and will try to keep this blog updated as well.

That is the conclusion of my first post and hopefully I will have more entertaining anecdotes later.