What Happened?

Just a few weeks ago I was living the dream and now I’m about to loose my scholarship, I’ve been kicked out Rho Sig, and my parents are thinking of making me take summer classes to make up for my F in calculus. This is my nightmare. And my teachers are telling me it’s too late in the semester to do anything to significantly bring up my grades. The whole situation is horrible. I guess I should have learned the information in my pledge book and taken to heart what the brothers were telling me about being annoying at parties and creeping out girls when I got so shmasted. I honestly thought fraternity life was about drinking and partying all the time but I guess it isn’t. It just sucks to loose all my good friends form my pledge class. I mean, I’ve learned to be a lot more social and should find some new bros soon but I was tight with them. Well what is done is done.

I’ve actually met one kid named Jason who’s a member of the ultimate Frisbee club team and the skydiving club. The two organizations sound awesome, I just wish I had heard of them earlier so that I didn’t waste my first semester sitting in my room doing diddlysquat. When I asked how he heard of the two Jason told me his siblings had both been members of the skydiving club and that in high school he was an avid ultimate Frisbee player. I guess you just have to know people to know what clubs are good to join and which aren’t. Wish they'd publicize them more. Over and Out

Screw 9 AM's

Ugh, waking up on Mondays has become the worst/hardest task of my week. I just want to sleep and recuperate and skip my stupid classes. Like today for example, I was up till 3 am last night working on a pointless History paper that I didn’t do last week cause Mr. Samuel Adams was calling my name Wednesday through Sunday and I could have gotten a much better sleep in my dorm than I did in my frigan 9 AM Biology Lecture. The guy doesn’t even take attendance there so I don’t know why I show up. I guess its cause I’ll get yelled at again by the brothers for not having a 2.7 GPA this semester, which they “demand” that you have in order to get initiated. I think that’s a load of crap though, they should be worrying about keeping up drinking with me rather than watching my grades. I mean, this weekend, I drank more than anyone else at the entire party and had to be carried… that’s right, carried back to my dorm. And that’s the third time that’s happened! Its always such an epic time. Over and out.

Greek Life

Just before Jack left and we finshed up our convo and he told me about his Fraternity. He was like “I’m trying to get into the fraternity Rho Sigma Pi, best parties on campus” And I was like “Parties, huh? Sounds like you’re living the college life.” And then Jack was saying, “I am, I am. You should look into pledging next semester. See ya!” So this new plan of mine like I said the other day, DUH! Gonna do this pledging stuff and have a great time with the fraternity and party and live the life baby!! I gotta to check out which one I want to do cause I heard on the street they got a bunch here at Clemson. This fraternity thing is my dream and im gonna do it real big. I shoulda known this a long time ago. Well maybe Clemson let me down until I heard about this stuff from Jack. Hopefully everything goes smoothly lol. Over and out.

Intro To Fraternity

Listen to this! Im walking down the hallway going to take a pee and I see this kid all dressed up looking nice and fresh. Im thinking why is Jack, who I met during the first weekend of school, looking all nice. So I strike up a convo with him and ask him why. He tells me he is a fraternity pledge. Blew my mind. He looks like he is gonna go out and have a fun night, and meet some people and girls. Im thinking to myself, what am I doing with my life, I gotta be a pledge or whatever and have some fun. I got some sweet clothes like him in my closet and I can pull off that look. But anyway, just as he is about to get on the elevator we finish up talking and I got a brand new plan! Over and out.

Downtown

All right well going downtown is fun, IF I WAS 21!!! I can’t get into any bars and only go to food places. I don’t want to spend money on food every night! Screw that! Downtown seems like sooo much fun but only for people that are old enough to drink and get into restaurants and bars to have fun. Pita Pit isn’t the coolest place to hang out, especially as a freshman when I should be meeting people. Well even though downtown seems like a blast, I can’t even chill down there without being old enough. There has to be something to do around here, I am getting mad bored. I just wanna have fun and enjoy college, UGH! I need some advice here please! And what is going on at other colleges is Clemson the only school that has nothing for freshman to do and have a good time?? Well I guess im just gonna chill at the dorm for the rest of the semester, o and maybe the library lol. Over and out.

Chess Club

WOW!!! I went to that lame Chess Club meeting and it was sooooo stupid. There were so many nerds that seemed like such losers. Clemson sucks so much. Why don’t they have anything fun to do??? I mean I would try some other clubs they offer me but that was not a good first impression on the organizations they got at this dumb college. Why do they advertise for the Chess Club anyway, why don’t they give me a free t-shirt for showing up or something lol. Am I the only one that is going through this at this school?? Seriously Ima transfer if I only got Chess Club to go to HA. But I could hit up downtown, heard they got some sweet places and bars down there. Mine as well give it a try and see what happens. Maybe I could meet some people or something good, cause I am not having fun right now! Over and out.

https://secure.stuaff.clemson.edu/organizations/index.php?viewOrg=23487

The Emails

After a lovely dinner at Harcombe Dining Hall, I went on my laptop and checked out my email to see if I got any new emails. For the first time I received an email that told me about a bunch of stuff going on this week and some clubs that were holding meetings and what not. I got two emails from like “Student Life” and “Inside Clemson” and realized there is a bunch of things I can do besides sports, which I suck at, and pretty much nothing lol. I guess Clemson does offer some sweet activities and have some cool organizations, but I don’t know which one I should have chose. They all seemed so dull but I guessed I could try a few and see what would happen.  I saw that there was a Chess Club meeting so why not try that lol, I’m not that bad at chess so why not. After deciding that I was gonna show up to the Chess Club meeting I was pretty pumped to see how it would turn out. Hopefully it would go well or I would be pissed and want to transfer for sure. Over and out.

So That's What College life Is Like

Holy shit, ha-ha, that was the craziest week of my LIFE! Sad its over but rush week was amazing. Four days of straight partying and kickin it, I can’t think of anything more that I wish college could be.  Partying at night and meeting guys at smoke out during the day, it was all around straight frat. It was so nice to get away from Michael and to actually meet some nice guys that aren’t looking to ditch me; shout out to my boys Tim Shannon, Robbie B., and Mikey Arsnow. As for my choice after rush… the boys and I have all got bids for Rho Sigma Pi and have been accepted as associate members (pledges)!! I’ve heard the parties we throw… which yes, are every weekend… are even crazier than the rush parties we went to last week, and even better, they don’t have to be dry anymore! Dam its amazing what a week of being social can do for a kid whose been cooped up in his room for a semester. I feel normal again and my faith in Clemson as the right choice for me is back to its full. Over and Out

Finding My Place

You know what sucks? When the highlight of your entire Friday is going to class. Seriously, I’m about to go crazy here. Michael and barely speak past the usual “Hey, how’s it going?” and I barely talk to anyone in any of my classes. I chill with a few people on the hall, but I’m starting to wonder if I’ll be able to find my place in Clemson. It really seems like there’s nothing to do here except eat out and go for walks. So instead of heading to Harcombe for dinner, I decided to make something a little more high-class – beef ramen and a can of Pepsi. I ate, then decided to fiddle around on the internet, look at some funny YouTube videos, StumbleUpon some stuff, the like. But after a while that got pretty old. I decided to check my Gmail like I do every hour or so, and came across something that gave me a little hope for this place. It was a link to the list of clubs offered at Clemson, so I decided to scroll through it. A lot of things were listed – African and Caribbean Society, Asian Student Association, Clemson Players, and hundreds more. There were so many that I had never even heard of. I have no idea where to start. Over and out.

Seriously?

Looks like I’m back to square one as far as making friends goes. Michael and the rest of his friends have been acting weird towards me lately, almost avoiding me. I can’t really say that I didn’t see it coming. They’d started to hit up Schilletter without telling me, and go hang out on Bowman whenever I was doing homework, just little things like that. Whatever, I don’t even care at this point. Clemson’s looking less and less appealing the longer I stay here. If you hate going out to eat, then you’re going to be extremely bored here in Tigertown. The only places we really have to hang out are restaurants. That seemed fine the first week or so, but now my pocket’s feeling pretty empty because of it. I’m kind of starting to wonder whether I made the right choice or not. Over and out. 

Hanging Out

The first week or so has been alright, I didn’t realize how much I was going to miss my parents, CRAZY! My roommate’s pretty chill – his name is Michael. I’ve been hanging out with him and his group of friends for a couple of days now, and we all seem to get along great. It feels good to have some people to hang out with, some people that I know. I cannot believe how nervous I was when I first got here. Everyone’s been nice, and even random people you see walking to class will randomly say, “What’s up” or smile. That’ll definitely take some getting used to. I’m wondering if all this campus-wide niceness is something that’s going to last, or if it’s going to die down after a while. Who knows? I gotta give everyone who’s been a “new kid” in their life some props, it’s tougher than I thought it would be – not knowing anybody and all. But now that I’ve been chilling with Michael and the rest of the crew I feel like I’m getting more set in to the college life. Although, I gotta say, Clemson is definitely one of the more boring places on the map. Over and out.

Graduated, Now Moving Out

I leave my life, as I know it, tomorrow. I had thought about how I would be dealing with this for pretty much the entire summer. Thinking about how much I’d miss my friends: James, Brian, Dillon and me were practically brothers. I’ll miss seeing them every weekend, playing Call of Duty together, and just hanging out. I’m still finding it hard to believe that I’m going to be so far away, I never thought I’d be the kid to go super far away for college – but Clemson just feels like the right choice. It’ll be a nice change of scenery though, almost like an escape from normalcy (or a redefining of my “normal”). But this past week has more than made up for all the times I just brushed off the idea of relocating. I’ve gone to three end-of-the-summer parties, but they were really going away parties in disguise. I heard Alphaville's song "Forever Young" about twenty times between the three parties. It’s weird, but I don’t feel like college is my next step, I kind of feel too young to be going? It’s hard to explain. One more spin of the Earth, folks, and this guy will officially be a college student. Better catch some sleep, got an early start tomorrow. Over and out. 

The next time I graduate will be the last time I graduate...weird.