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Name: Miang
Birthday: 6/20/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: What would I gain in sharing this knowledge with you humans?
Expertise: Ressurecting our god, ~Deus~, utilizing humanity for my personal gain, trying to become one with the Mother.
Occupation: Executive
Industry: Government
Message: message me
AIM:  ImpGeneralCeles
Member Since:
4/27/2002
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| Seems weird to say this, after all the years that's passed where I've had this account, but it's about time for xanga and I to part ways. My account's suffered a lot in the past few years of college. I had a night of fond reminiscence before I went back on my vacation to New Hampshire to see my mom get remarried, where I read through all my posts and was stunned to realize just how much of my high school years were lost in my memory. What was most fascinating was how as soon as I read over events, then re-read them to get more familiar, I suddenly could recall a taste or a scent I'd forgotten completely about; remember the feel of the air the day Genny, Joe, Matt and I went hiking.
My new site, in case anyone's interested, is http://reflectionsofamindseye.blogspot.com/ and it's pretty new so there's only my hello post. I'm not ready to delete my xanga site, though. It may sound selfish to cling to the name (although how many people want to be xenochick? ~laughs~), but I love holding onto all these old posts, digging through them like one would uncover burried treasure.
Take care, everyone.
Peace, love, Krelian.
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| Sowwy--I'm really slow :P :P Picture time!!
the day before graduation
before the ceremony, and before I picked up my other cords
my brother's girlfriend, Allison, my brother Matt, me, and Chris in his dashing white coat
Sandy!!!! The future Pulitzer Prize winner ^^
my dad, Matt, Allison, Chris, me, my mom, after the ceremony. I know you can't count 'em too well, but that's five cords ^^
All of us at diner afterwards at a Japanese Hibachi grill.
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| My dad came on Wednesday, and tomorrow the rest of the entourage will arrive--my mom, my brother Matt, and his girlfriend, Allison.
Today my dad was finally introduced to my world for the past three years. I gave him a small tour of school, looked around for pillow (hehehehe), went to Great Lakes Crossing, and met Sandy and Allison. We went out for pizza, Allison gave me an awesome graduation gift (Kirara and Sesshomaru plushies!!). My dad also got me some very nice long black slacks with white pinstripes and a very nice black top, as well as my first pair of denim shorts in like the past four years. I <3 shorts, I just never have the money to buy them when they're in stores. It's about July where I have spare summer cash somehow and by then, they're typically disappearing from stores, even though the weather practically mandates them until October.
Can't say much about tomorrow, except that Chris is going to pay his respects to his former school friend from his graduating class, Garrett Knoll, who perished in an attack in Iraq last week that took not only his life but that of his eight comrades. Sad stuff, to say the least =( =( I wish I could go to pay my respects, too, because although I was never fortunately enough to meet him, I've been surrounded by some of his high school friends and news and beautiful stories about him, and I've heard nothing but amazing things. Still, I gotta go pick up my mom.
Hopefully the next update will come Sunday, when I can post up graduation pics and info!!
It's intimidating. It's like, oi, am I really ready for this? @_@ lol I guess the school deems that I am.
Peace, love, Krelian.
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|  Tonight I have to give a short presentation about internships and how earning my degree at OU has prepared me for the work place and the professional world. I think I'm gonna give my presentation something like this:
http://machall.com/index.php?strip_id=224
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| I wrote this as I stumbled onto a girl's site who is about to graduate high school and is looking foward to going to college. It made me a bit nostalgic to think about what it's like to be in my shoes, and still clearly remember how it felt to be a graduating senior in high school. So here are my comments I posted on her blog. I'm posting them here becuase I have a lot of friends younger than me who are still early in their college education, and I hope at least someone can profit off this.
Here's some thoughts that might help you plan out your college career:
1) I vividly remember all the anticipation, the fear and the confusion that gripped me my senior year in HS towards the end. There are some friends that I'm furious at myself for having lost touch with and I'd track them down if I could, but you gotta wonder if we're all even the same people. I'm sure not the same person I left high school as.
2) The fears and anticipation, they're just a part of life. They don't go away; they become something else. Right now my fears and anticipations are no longer centered around grades (the semester is almost over, I just have two more exams and one more final paper to submit for classes and I'm done). I'm terrified about the job market and how horrid it is. I'm a California native but after I realized I'm not one for big universities, I transferred out to a smaller school in Michigan, where the job market is one of the worse in the country. But it's not just here. It's hard anywhere to get a job without so much as a masters now. A B.A. barely cuts it. I'd go for my masters, but I'm already dirt poor from getting the B.A. Despite my beautiful high school transcript (the AP classes, six or seven music ensembles, the clubs, everything), I was never able to qualify for scholarships. I just always had one thing against me, be it that my family was never poor *enough* or who knows. But yeah, if you can, start at your freshman year, and depending on what you want to get into, set aside money as soon as you can (if you haven't already) for a Master's program.
I would have done just that had something not come up in the middle of my sophomore year that screwed me over financially. I was completely debt free starting that year and by the end of the year, the loans began to pile up.
3) Meet your profesors! Definately find them in office hours. They are (for the most part, becuase I have had some awful ones) amazing people and it's their job to help *you* find yourself and the career that best suits you. I got some amazing guidance from my English department faculty and some amazing assistance on the side for my own personal writing and literary projects. Because I went in to meet them during their office hours, that let me get to know them and them get to know me, so whenever I had a personal project going on, they were always more than eager to pitch in and do what they could.
4) Remember what's most important. This may sound like bad advice, but honestly, I tried it the other way, and it almost killed me. After the night I spent in the emergency room because my stomach was getting torn up inside due to pent up stress (middle of sophomore year again), I realized something in my life had to change. You have to reach that balance between professionalism, academics, and your social life. It's very hard, but believe me, if one suffers, it won't be long before all three do. I'm not a very extroverted person, so don't think that I'm telling you to go out and party and be crazy, but it's amazing just what it does for me mentally to at the end of the week go out with a friend to get a cup of coffee and sit and talk about writing or *anything* going on in our lives. I feel like I can breathe all over again.
5) If you can, take your time and enjoy yourself more. Because of the crisis that happened to me my sophomore year, I was forced to rush. I'm two credits away from a history minor to accompany my English degree, but I don't have the time and money to finish those last two classes, as painful as that is. It hurts like a knife in the gut. I wanted to travel to Italy, but with the financial problems, that was never possible, and my fear is that years from now I'm going to regret it. There's nothing I can do now though except to get a good paying job, save up money and finally get my butt over to Italy when I've got both the money and the vacation time for it. But oh well. This leads me to my final point.
6) Stuff happens in life. All the time. You never know where you're going to be 4 years from now. When I made my predictions graduating high school, it was nothing close to where I'm at. Part of it was my imagination getting the best of me, but even my realistic plans are nothing close. But you know what, you just ride with it and see what happens. ^^
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