It's been a while and I'm finally able to post something here. I try to update my blog every day or 2, but I've been really busy lately. Makes me finally realize how being a full time student is really considered being a full time student. I didn't think it was going to be that big of a deal because high school was 6 classes, 5 days a week. Right now as a full time student I'm taking 3 classes a day for 4 days a week. A fraction of what I took in high school! But the homework piles up very fast and so does the studying. In high school you have the entire year for the class, but at Chabot, they go by semester classes, so everything has to be done within 1 semester. Therefore twice as fast as high school. In english, aside from our giant semester research project, we're constantly writing essays, and I have a new speech in speech class every two weeks. We cover 3-4 sections of a chapter over the course of 2 days in math. I still have to admit that all of the classes I'm taking right now are extremely easy, but it only forewarns me of the much harder classes I will be taking in the future.
I've been hoping to get a part time job so I could support myself with food and gas without relying on my parents, but now I realize it's going to be a tough life if I do that. Both of my parents know that I have no money. Even my mom's coworker knows it. So they're always looking for opportunities where I could make some cash. And I have to say, I'm too grateful for what they're doing for me, but it's spoiling me. Speaking of spoiling, my mom still gives me a $20 bill for lunch money every week. I try not to rely on it, but it's a real life saver. My dad constantly receives jobs to fix other peoples' cars at home. It's an extra under the table job for him to do on his spare time at home. Ever since I stopped working, he's been working me pretty hard on helping him fix cars. Problem is, I know nothing about cars! I've learned a lot from him, but there hasn't been a single session we've went without him yelling at me for something. It's not that big of a deal though, I got used to it. He's not really actually mad at me, that's just how he is. Later on in the day he'll be back to normal. As long as I don't argue with him, our relationship remains the same. Even if the car jobs are tough, they pay fairly well. For an unemployed college student that is. I'm very grateful that my dad gives me most of the labor money from our jobs even though he does most of the work. Oftentimes I just slow him down, but he still insists that I help him. The money I make from him usually goes towards gas and toys/hobbies, while the money I get from elsewhere goes towards food. On top of all that, my mom's coworker pays me by the hour to help him input questions into a database, which I think I do pretty fast, so my pay isn't as high, but still helpful by all means. Swift work makes for a reliable "employee". For the past 2 weeks, the small jobs I've been getting mixed with my homework have really been conflicting. I'm actually surprised because I usually try not to let school and other obligations conflict, but for some reason it's a lot more apparent in college. I haven't really had much free time in the past few weeks.
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