Changes

So after about a year and half a semester of taking Hospitality classes, I've come to the realization that it's just not for me. This may come as a surprise to you all considering how dead set I was on getting my HBM degree. However I finally admitted to myself the service/hospitality industry just doesn't interest me. I suppose part of it comes from taking other required business courses. In my accounting and management information systems classes I find myself so much more engaged and interested. I've found a new passion for business, but not so much in hospitality. Honestly, I don't want to work in a hotel for the rest of my life, and I don't ever want to work in a restaurant again. Now I realized that as I would have climbed the corporate ladder I would have found myself in less operational positions and more corporate ones. This is good, but I don't want to have to wait ten years for that. Also why would I want to limit myself to the hospitality sector.

As it stands, I'm looking at a finance degree with a concentration in real estate. Currently I'm just thinking perhaps work as a real estate agent for a year or two, then go to Portland State University where they have a Masters in Real Estate Development where I could have more advanced and lucrative jobs in the future. But then again I still have lots of time to figure this out. I'll keep you all posted.

So the other day I received a call from a friend of mine, who knew I qualified for work study about a job opening. As you could imagine I accepted and am now one of the desk assistants for a residence hall. It's actually the front desk for 5 different residence halls, so it can get a little hectic. Today is my first day, from 1-3 I had a shift but was working with help. Now I'm on to my 5-7 shift and I'm all by myself. It's only 11 minutes in, but only two people have walked in. It was considerably busier earlier today, but I suppose its a good thing right now. I have always wanted to have some sort of front desk job, even if only for a year. Something about it just excited me. Well I should probably get back to sitting around watching the door. I don't have much else to say. School has been going well, the walk to class continues to get easier each day, and my roommate and I still haven't killed each other!

I'll try to post more, but I feel like nothing new or monumental happens to me anymore since this is my sophomore year. Everything that happened last year was so new and blog-worthy. I'll try to keep everyone updated though! :)

I promised I would update this, and I haven't been doing the best job of doing that, my apologies. Now probably isn't the best time in the world to start writing a new update but I've found inspiration so I must. It's 7:25 AM and I'm up waiting for the best time to start walking to class. My first class of the day is Accounting which is stressful and yet strangely intriguing to me.

I could go on about my classes but it's all boring, in more exciting news, yesterday I earned about 20 cents buy purchasing an Arizona Iced Tea from our friendly campus Starbucks. How did I do this, you ask? I'll tell you. All I did was grab a can of the iced tea, and hand it to the young woman working the register. My total was $1.07 so I handed her a five dollar bill. In return she hands me four one dollar bills (already incorrect) and a whole bunch of coins, which I later discover includes over 4 quarters and totals about $1.20. Soooo, thanks to this woman's incompetence, instead of getting the $3.93 back in change that I expected, I received $5.20 and made a quick profit! And then later my friend Brenda bought me Taco Bell for driving her to Moscow. Although I did spend about $70 bucks total yesterday on Gas, a poster and a hair product.... needless to say the rest of this month will be tight, but I'm in college and that's what it's all about!

I'll talk to you guys later!

Eric

So I've been back in Pullman for a little over a week now and things have been good. Lots of stress involving classes, job hunting, and some other drama that just never seems to end. My classes, so far seem like they shouldn't be too difficult, but it's only the first day so I won't trust my initial opinion. Today I'm off to my classes that I have on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which are Hospitality, and Management Information Systems (MIS). Should be easy enough. I may be meeting up for lunch with someone afterwords but we'll see how that pans out.

Yesterday I signed up for a Pilates class that runs from 7:00 pm-8:00 every monday and wednesday, whilst completely forgetting that I just applied to a few places where I said I would be available to work during those times. Whoopsies. I don't want to go and cancel my class, because I haven't even been hired anywhere yet, but we'll see!

I forgot to mention, yesterday I tried walking to class, which from my apartment is difficult, but possible, and done by many of my neighbors. The other option is to take the Bus which my good friend told me was like a can of sardines... that's what I call, not great. Besides my feet hurting after the walk, I realized that part of my exhaustion could be due to the fact that I wore a sweatshirt. I know, it's still summer, but it was 7:30, and freezing outside. Today I don't have class until 10:35, so when I leave here in about ten minutes, it shouldn't be so cold. Despite really not enjoying the walk, I think I am going to go ahead and do it again today, I mean it may be tough at first but I'll adjust, and hopefully loose a few pounds from doing it every day! Part of my walk includes a very steep hill, so my legs should get quite the work out!

Alright, well I think I've said enough for today, I'll update later with more of an update about my Tuesday/Thursday classes!

Helllooo? Anybody still out there?

Hey I'm not sure if people are still checking this, but I will be updating it while I'm back up at school. The blog IS titled "Eric at WSU" so I figured posting anything during the summer wouldn't make much sense. Anywho, I move up tomorrow morning into my first apartment and I couldn't be more thrilled. I've already got that jittery excited feeling I usually get on christmas morning or when I'm about to leave on a fun trip. Usually I don't get this excited until the actual day arrives but I guess I'm more excited that I thought. Tonight, falling asleep will most certainly be a challenge.

Okay well I'm going to go, I've got my last day of work ahead of me, which I'm not looking forward to, but I get paid today so that's helpful. I'll be posting pictures of my apartment when I get up there!

Just a thought. If it seems like I didn't update this blog enough during this school year, well keep in mind that this is my 66th post. I'd say I posted quite a bit. I don't feel so bad now! I don't have much to say other than I've taken three finals, and am feeling relatively confident about them all. I've got two more to go so I'm going to go study right now for them. Today is Cinco de Mayo and this is a special day for me. Let me elaborate. I'm not entirely sure if I believe in the whole "reincarnation" thing, but I do feel that if we do have past lives, then my past life was as a mexican. I have all these weird memories of living and walking around a small mexican village, and considering I've never been farther south than Florence, Oregon (or was it Dunes City, OR? It was to see Nick and Megan and Drew back in the day!) anywho, It doesn't make sense for me to have these memories. Amy claims she was a star in her past life, and well I was a Mexican. So naturally since today is the holiday of my people, I must celebrate in some fashion. But it's wednesday during finals week so I'll probably celebrate by studying and watching TV. I am getting subway with my friend Janie today, so that can be my celebration!

Feliz Cinco de Mayo!

So I've begun packing for the trek home and it's quite overwhelming. All I can say is, I'm glad I started today. I just pretty much packed all my clothes, which only account for probably 35% of my things. Looking at my desk, it's kind of frightening to think of how much crap I have and how little storage I have for it. I'm probably going to need to go buy a box or something because I just have too much stuff, and nothing to carry it in! How did I get it all up here? I really don't feel like I've accrued that much since moving up here, but perhaps I have.

Anywho, again I can't wait to come home this friday! My freshman year is over!