Why not?

dont cry over spilt milk just get another glass

 The quarter is finally coming to an end, makin this my 4th quarter done and means moving on to my 5th quater. But as much as i like AIP I just dont think its the school for me anymore. I found out that the major I have picked isn’t exactly the one I want so I’m lookin at other schools to find another school that will take me in the direction of where I need to be. The Time I’ve spent at AIP was a good expirence but I just don’t think the core classes for my major go over enough material for what I actually want to do. My major now does go over a few things here and there that are related to what I want to do,but not enough imformation for me to build a career off of it. I plan on staying in Pittsburgh just attending a different college. Most people have said that it’s only my first year here and to give it some time but I don’t think I should stay here when I know what I actually want to do isn’t the major im taking.

I will be attending my 5th quarter here just to make sure that I would be doing the right decision if I decided to leave AIP. I’m hoping that after my 5th quarter I’ll have better direction on where I should be with my choices for my future.

people are wack

  I have a big issue with rehab conditions, they say ” oh drugs are horrible if you want to get clean come here.” Well what they don’t tell you is how expensive they are and that if you dont have the insurance or the cash they can only keep you for three days. That is not enough to kick a habit if, anything it just makes their habit grow more. You take away their drugs for a couple day once they get out of rehab they run straight to a dealer. I’ve seen someone ruin their whole family over being addicited to crack and they put her in numerous rehabs but they would only keep for as long as the insurance company would pay for it and then the rest would come out of the family’s pocket. It’s like no wonder we have so many junkies laying around this place, it’s because our government hasn’t done too much with making insurance better for people. It’s just like wow can’t you just wake up and realize that we have people selling themselves for drugs, babies being undernorish and old people who can barely afford medications. Maybe they should trying a little harder to actually act upon all the talk they’ve been talking for the past couple years.

What’s beef

     I’ve lived in Pittsburgh for a year at the end of the quarter so I’ve had some time to observe the city. Since living here I’ve notice some things that I didn’t really expect out of the city.One of the things would be how everything in downtown closes pretty early it seems like most of the places around downtown close about 7 o’clock. It’s kind of shocking since things in my town back home don’t even close that early. Even when I was in California and remember things in the city not closing till real late. I mean there is still southside to go to for places to eat and hang I guess, but it seems most of the resturants/bars don’t let you in after 9 unless you’re 21, its kinda like having a curfew which is pretty stupid to me.

      I don’t really like the housing service that AIP offers really, mainly its the people they have working for housing. The students that are RA’s in shannon think they are almost better than you because they seem to think that they have a power of you. Which I mean it is their job to enforce rules but it’s a different story when you hear one thing and see another. The RA’s don’t always follow the rules themselves and bend the rules for their friends. I have a friend who is an RA tell me that they even admitted to her that they don’t follow the rules and there are certian students in housing that they like to cause trouble for.

     Another thing I don’t like about housing staff is recently they changed the package pick up times to ridiculous times. You aren’t allowed to pick packages up on the weekends now and you can only pick packages up  between 8am-6pm. My schedule doesn’t really me allow me to follow with that schedule and I get important stuff in the mail that i need to pick up and I have to basically beg whoever is working to let me get my mail which is ridiculous. I shouldn’t have to beg for MY mail. I mean if the post office can deliever packages on saturday so should the staff,I mean they do keep the packages in the back office so it’s not like they have to go very far to get them in first place.

shoot the moon

 I see this girl everyday, and I can’t help but wonder what is going through her mind. She’s loud obnoxious and out of control. I see her on streets yelling and laughing with her friends. She must be in her own world, how can someone act like her and not be embarrassed. She’s 19 and acts like she’s a child, seems to me she has not a care in the world. She has a mouth on her that could make a salior cringe, but that doesn’t stop her at all. She’s nothing like me at all, nor would I ever want to be like her. She has a bounce to her step when she’s walkin around, acting like there is no one else around her. Her music taste is ridiculous just a bunch of noise that makes no sense at all. Having a conversation with her is like having a conversation with a child, she can’t stay on one topic for very long her dreams and goals are out landish. She should really keep her head out of the clouds and set resonable goals for herself and be more perdicatable.

We used to do the dance we called obie-obie

 The smell of this place, varies between peoples ciggarette smoke, lunches, and cologne and purfume. You see the same people passing through each day and then you see new faces that you’ll never see again. Different types of people come through all day and night. It’s a nice view there are flowers and tress in bloom during spring and summer and nice green grass to lay on during a lazy afternoon. During the winter the tress look awesome, covered in snow and bending for the weight of the snow and ice. It kinda looks like a picture from a Dr. Suess book with the trees are bent over and twisted and the way the snow lays the the bare branches. 

There are a few  statues throught the place, random statues that when you look at them you’re not sure why they are there. But they kinda just fit there for some reason, still haven’t figured it out why I like them but it gaves me something to look at while I’m walking around. It’s an overall nice place to just chill out and hang with some friends during the summer. It’s even nice to hangout at night it’s a very calm area to just read a book or to do homework.

Bits of here and there

    When I first decided that I was going to attend AIP me and my best friend Sherri got really excited. I missed living in the city and I was excited that I was going to living in the middle of Pittsburgh. I had been to Pittsburgh before for a concert and I knew that the buildings around downtown where pretty big and awesome to look at. I knew moving to Pittsburgh would be a good change and could have lots of opportunities.

     Some of the first things that came to my mind when I knew I was going to be moving, were that I’m going to meet so many different types of people and be able to learn about a lot of different things from other people. I also knew that Pittsburgh is a big city and I could defiantly find many places to explore. About a month or two before I moved to pittsburgh I decided to do a bit of researching to find places to look at when I first got here. I googled maps of downtown and southside so that I knew how to get to places and make it easier on myself on finding my way around town.

         I came to Pittsburgh a few days before I started school and I met my roommates, one was someone I already knew because she moved here with me and then we met Ashley. This is a picture of the first day we met and the first day to the start of my next chapter in life. Pittsburgh turned out to be a good move and it met my standards and I found out a lot of different things once I moved here.

La La La

   First week back to school has been pretty smooth sailing, nice group of teachers fresh faces looks like  I could meet a few rad people things quarter. It’s my 4th quarter and this quarter I have perspective, math, english, history or analysis and design. Nothing too hard it seems, but perspective I can’t stand it it really bugs me. My schedule for the quarter isn’t that bad either though I do have class on friday but no early classes which is always a plus, since I’m a night owl.

             I should be moving sometime this week into a different room with my bud