So this crazy little thing called school...

      So right now I'm studying at Idaho State University. At the conclusion of this semester I will be a sophomore (as far as credits are concerned). I am studying generals at the moment but will eventually be knee deep in physics in about a year; and over the head in two ;-). I have basically just been doing busy work and have mixed feelings about getting good grades on it. For instance, I just finished taking the second of three tests for my social problems class. It was open note and open book  and I scored 105/105. I feel proud yet I'm not sure that I should be. The test was a little tricky but not extremely difficult. I have also been doing exceptionally well in my other classes but since they are just generals they continue to feel like busy work and I'm not sure if I should be proud of my good grades. I know it is a good thing that I am getting them though because I sure don't want to play for my education; I'd much rather have a government institution pay for it ;-). So it is important but I'm still stuck with the question: Should I be proud? I know what my family would say, and what the other people in my immediate social/support group would say but there is still a part of me that feels like i'm only scratching the surface and not really digging as deep as I should be. I'm sure a lot of you are reading this and thinking, man this guy is a ****ing moron. If I was getting those grades I'd be happy. So perhaps this is just an illogical rant and maybe I am just a moron but it still takes up some of my precious non-daydreaming thinking time.
      On another note, holey pissin sea monkeys batman, its the beginning of november and your semester is over in 6 weeks(ish). Has anyone else noticed how fast this school has been going? Its crazy, just when I thought I would be all over college living the life I seem to have let my conscious mind step back and press the fast forward button. I suddenly jumped into the middle of a show and now I'm saying to myself WTF? where did everything go? Where is this college life I'm suddenly missing out on? sigh, who will ever know. I think this is going to conclude today's quasi-rant...

In regards to next door dance parties...

So tonight we experienced our first dance party with the girls and everyone next door. So we're at the dance party and dancing and everything. It's your typical dance music, and by that I mean obnoxious grind music that just talks about sex and drugs, you know the typical stuff "our generation" likes. What you don't know is that 90% of the girls over there are LDS and are very serious into the religion and what not. So I run over to my side and up to my room to get some wholesum music; some good old techno (Daft Punk, Bass Hunter, etc.) the good stuff. However these songs typically have intros that are about thrity seconds long. I managed to get them through All I ever wanted - Bass Hunter, and onto some Daft Punk, they skip through three songs which have good lyrics and aren't all sexual and bad and what not and after skipping through three just pull out my zune and go back to their bad music (as it is classified by their religion). I find that hypocrisy quite disgusting and after that happened it just kind of threw off the party for me. On top of that several of the girls were just one boy or half a step away from dirty dancing and grinding all over each other. This is not clean dancing as it is outlined in their religion. I would just have to say that their morals were laid out before me tonight and I'll have to remember that the next time a dance party or other activity happens. I'm really dissapointed by these girls who act as though they are the pinnacles of society and should be examples to all other girls of extreme chastity and politeness and yada yada yada. Well at this time I'm definately calling the B.S. in this case. So in concluseion; WTF people? Really?

A little about me...

So, clearly, this is my first blog. I figure I'll just go over a few things about myself really quick. I'm Daniel Peterson, I presently live in Pocatello, Idaho and am a full time student at ISU studying Physics. I'm rooming with a good friend from high school, Anthony Wilcox.  He is going into psychology and I say good luck to him :-). We live off campus in like a boarding house which will probably be explained in one of my later rants, which are sure to come. I love music and all most all types of it except for country and screamo. While I'm writing this I'm enjoying some melodies from the Aquabats, a relatively unknown skalternative band. I am engaged to Courtney Michelle Allen and we're going to be married on June 17th 2011. I am living life and loving it. I'm slowly becoming a professional body builder and would have more success if I could get more sleep. But speaking of sleep, I think it's time I got headed that way. Goodnight interweb.