September!

It's so soon! I can still remember stepping into September last year. It feels like it was just not too long ago, but now it's already a year later. Oh dear.

I read back on my first entry in September last year. Here's a paragraph from it:

Since some years back, when September arrives, I'd always look back on the entire year - beginning September the previous year - to see how I've changed and what I've learned. I just wanted to know if I had matured and became a better person since my last birthday.

So this year, the most striking difference, to me, would be having graduated college.

- 'Hello, September'. September 3, 2011.

This year - at least for now - I can't seem to be able to reflect much on what's happened since the last September up till now. It seems to me that it was just a short period of time; so short that I can't seem to think of it as a year's gone.

This is funny!

But, there is a significant change in life for me. Back then, I was a fresh college graduate (with a diploma, that is); and now, I'm a freshman again, at university.

Life's definitely different at these two stages of life - by that, I meant being in college and in university. First would definitely be the difference in courses: journalism back then; psychology right now. And then, it's the changes in the medium, the system, the lecturers/professors, and the amount of dedication we're expected to(or advised to) put into our studies.

Many of my friends who've already got the chance to experience uni life for sure know what it's like to be a uni student. And wow, some of them are already preparing for graduation (if they have not graduated yet). I'm so new, and fresh. But I appreciate it as a different experience- to be able to go through this stage of life when I'm already much more matured than fresh leavers of high school and/or pre-U.

What's on my bedside table.
Before: Novels or sorts; Now: American Psychological
Association Manual and, Writing for Psychology.

Psychology is so different from what I used to do, and the importance of scientific reasoning and statistics is way more than I've expected. My family and friends know how much I dislike mathematical stuff, but now I think it's a good chance to test and see how I'd survive in such a course. I'm taking one step at a time, and for now(after the first week), it feels good.

Ten days more, and I'll turn 21. I believe my twenty-first is going to be a quiet and simple one. Probably waaay quieter and simpler than my twentieth - at least I'm sure I'll be busy with uni work - but I'm contented. Seems to me there are more important things(and work) than big birthday celebrations.

Do I sound more grown-up compared to last year? 

Anyhow, I'll stop here for now (and get back to reading my uni texts - WOW ME!), and I guess you can expect more stories about the course and my lecturers soon, when I find time. 

Stay well!