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...and I absolutely love it!  I mean, I still have my "bored" moments, and walking around these hills is hell on my legs, but I wouldn't trade it for anything.  I'm glad that I ended up going to UT, and it's just the best school ever!  Go 'Horns!!!

LOL, as you can tell, I so bleed orange.  But serious, great school, awesome professors, wonderful campus, and just some of the best resources and people you could ever come across.  I mean, everyone is really nice, and the school is right in the middle of everything.  I can literally walk wherever I want to go from campus (well, except back to my apartment, lol).  And for places like my apartment, the public transit system is awesome.  Not only does UT have their own shuttle to go from student housing and back to campus, but the city transit system is really efficient, too (my roommate who goes to ACC uses it daily).

Also, Austin is a magnificient city.  Great scenery, tons of things to do, it's so enviormentally friendly (aka - clean air), and it just has this great feel to it.  This really good urban bohemian feel to it...

And, if only classes could be so laid back, but no, we have to have tons of homework.  I mean, don't get me wrong, I love learning, and I know it's a lot of work, but there's way too much of it!  I mean, I sit down and do homework everyday, and I'm still at least a lecture behind in all of my classes.  I have so much reading...and so many Cyrillic letters...I'm gonna go insane, I swear, lol.

That, and my folks are getting pissed at me about wanting to take a semester off.  Thing is, I love going to U, I love learning, but I don't know if I got into college because I wanted to or if I got into college because that was what I "should" have done.  Like...I was just doing what everyone expected of me...

And, out-of-state tuition is killing me...  I mean, I can take a semester off, work, earn enough money, qualify for in-state tuition, and then use the money I earned to go to school for a full year!  Why don't they understand that I don't have to get a degree in 4 years?  It's not like high school; I don't have a "set" time to finish by!!  I'm gonna have to do 5 years of undergrad anyways, so why not take a semester off?  Why not earn enough to go to school instead of digging myself deeper in debt?  I mean, I'm the one who's gonna have to pay all of this back!  This is MY debt, so why do they think they have a say over it?  It's not like they're gonna have to work themselves out of the whole!  And, I can go to school for 2 years for the price of one semester of out-of-state tuition...  It's ridiculous of them to expect this of me...