Year-In-Review

This class has been a bubble from the rest of college for me. NO matter what is going on, I am always just so relaxed and nonchalant in Parlin Hall. Ultimately, in this pseudo-bubble created by the awesomeness that is Plan II, I've been reborn! And not only that, I've awakened in my rebirth to realize that college, like high school, will one day be over. It's just another stop on my road, and like another wreck, I realized that I don't know where I'm going! Like Alice, I'm just taking a stroll through Wonderland. I wonder if I'll ever find my way back to the real world. It's unbelievable how life was going so smooth, but now, I'm a wreck. I've got to lead myself through the Wonderland of college, and then once I'm back in the real world, I've gotta do it again-repeat!

Life is one big circle...


I suppose that's how it should be. College is supposed to prepare you for the real world, but college is also a part of the real world. It's sort of like a parallel verity. People are different; they believe in different ideals. We fight. We party. We help others. Altogether, we do it all! We do it all because we're curious. If Alice could be here, she would say, "Curiouser and curiouser" (Carrol, 20). With such diversity and a vast array of different perspectives, one can't help but to be interested. All of their ideologies make sense to a certain extent, and I want to adopt some of them. I feel a little lost in this pool of perspective as I lose sight of my own... Yet, I'm still here writing this blog; I'm still here somewhere! I feel like the Dormouse, "[I] shook [myself] and began singing in [my] sleep" (Carrol, 74).

Follow a logic, whether it's your own or not, but know what logic it is!


Every night I dream of what could be the future. I vision things in a manner that Black Elk would've been jealous! Yet, I just vision. The leadership vision essay was an excellent manifestation of the reality that will await us after college. I mean think about it; everyone probably went through something like this, even Shakespeare. I bet no one's thought of that before; Shakespeare in school. He was in someone's English class! In the end, we all have that potential. Through Alice's eyes, Alice is my consciousness and I'm analogous to the White Queen. I've to consciously work on myself like when Alice dresses the White Queen she's shocked. "Am I dressing the White Queen," she says (Carrol, 194). We criticize ourselves more than we like to admit. Somehow everything goes wrong at the same time, and our inner Alice sees it and says, "Every single thing's crooked" (Carrol, 195). We have to utilize this energy in a constructive manner to ever have a chance at being successful in life.

Free Yourself!


But success is just a result. Brilliance is in the process. Life is not in the destination but in the journey itself. I haven't exactly piece together what I'm going to do with my life, but I know that I will have fun doing it. I will put every inch of myself and every possible heartbeat into my efforts. I may not know where I'm going in life, but right now, I'm enjoying the Wonderland of college, learning as much as I possibly can. I don't know what I'll need in the real world, so I'm stocking up on brain-power. I believe in myself. I've liberated myself from my deepest fear, and I know how to learn from others around me. I am different from others, yet I am still human, still the same, but still, being human is a gift!