i’m almost done with school! here’s what is happening in the near future:

• one project left to design, due monday morning
• keep having fights about the senior show, i think i’m done fighting though
• senior show opening on tuesday
• graduation on thursday
• doing a proper resume, got advice from the career services center today on what to edit, going to get help from peggy too
• working at commonvision fulltime this summer
• probably going to be curating a “commonvision” gallery exhibition for the fine arts first floor gallery space to run over the summer and into the school year
• doing contract work for SEB this summer, stuff for next year like a new calendar and web transition work
• lots of fun stuff this summer, art, festivals, music, movies, whatever
• real life
• my future

this is the last post i will be writing, most likely, as i will be graduating on thursday, may 21st, and then will no longer be an undergraduate student. i’ll be around UMBC at least through august, maybe longer, but that will be a new experience.

i hope that this blog has given some sort of insight into my experiences as an undergraduate student at UMBC, especially one who was really active and constantly busy in his senior year. here’s a brief recap of what happened:

• welcome week 2008
• homecoming
• 20th birthday
• adam’s AWKWARD AWESOME UMBC project
• major freelance project fiasco
• graphic design VI projects - Times New Roman
• latkes and vodkas holiday party
• winter break working in The Commons
• UMBC ArtWeek 2009
• Quadmania 2009
• GDVII, Web II projects
• dropped my second major

i have officially failed a class. it’s my fault, it was a tough class and i didn’t have time / didn’t make time. anyway, it’s costing me my second major, and i’m getting the MCS certificate instead.

honestly, it’s weird to fail a class right before i leave, but i think i knew it was coming to this. this semester has been nothing short of truly draining, but i think i learned more through my co-curricular involvements than i did from my classes over the last few months, and it’s that “real world” experience that i know has prepared me for what will come after may 21st.

i spent last night on campus, it had been a while. i went to the spot / outtakes at 4am totally out of my mind it was so late we were nonsensical. it was a weird feeling, reminded me of my first year at UMBC three years ago. actually everything reminds me of my first year at UMBC now. everything is nostalgic. “last time making popcorn for the SEB movie,” “last quadmania,” “last time ignoring a campus blood drive,” “last time using this random sketchy bathroom in the basement of LH1.” it’s weird to be graduating, even though i am planning on sticking around another year after this.

last night i felt like i needed to listen to the first scissor sisters album. not the really poppy shit, but the more synthy smooth wailing tracks like “it can’t come quickly enough” and “comfortably numb.” it was a good idea, this is taking me back / feels perfect for right now.

sean mercer is a freshman music major here at UMBC, and he’s one of five finalists in this contest! exciting! please vote and share!

in class right now, our professor came pretty late, but it looks like he’s super sick. like actual sick, not just “real fuckin sweet.”

haha uhhhhh quadmania is this weekend, i can’t think of much else. i have a ton of work to do since i have to do this research paper deal and some other shit but whatevssssssss quadmania is my weekend to hang out and not care. except that i have to work. except that working at quadmania is super sick (like “real fuckin sweet,” not actual sick).

blah blah blah what is happening i don’t know i am so tired.

paul-william came home from his model UN conference in NYC last night but he came home really late and we stayed up to get him but i was so tired. also the chinatown bus dropped him at the cherry hill light rail instead of on north ave, so we had to change directions and get lost twice until we picked him up, sitting at the side of the road at 2am. creepy! i was worried he’d get mugged or something, he dresses nice so he always looks R$I$C$H.

god i am so tired i hope jesse and i can sneak out during our in-class work session and eat some breakfasts like we did last week.

this is what i look like when i am in the forest

QUADMANIA IS TAKING OVER MY LIFE