DND and Friends:

8/31/2025

Over the past few months I've had the absolutely pleasure of playing DND with my very best friends in the whole world and it was been a joy. This campaign has been my first foray into DND and I could not have asked for a better experience.

For anyone that has not played before but is interested i highly recoment you try it out. It can be intimidating at first. Theres a lot of expectation on what a game should look like, what your characters should be like, should you roleplay and how much. But honestly I think just jumping into the game is the best way to do it! The only way to learn is to do it and the whole point of the game is not to play it "correctly" but to have fun and grow closer to your friend group. If you worry to much about the deep mechanics or rules you distract from that main point of bonding with the other players in your game.

Theres not really an experience like DND. Both Video Games and traditional board games are a completely different (yet also totally fun) experience from Table Top Rpgs like DND. The methods in which you play the game itself is almost entirely different being very "mind" focused. Ultimately everything in the game must be filtered through the imaginations of the players and that creates such wonderful and cool interactions that are not really birthed in other mediums like VG's and Board games.

This experience with DND has also forged such strong and long lasting friendships which is something I really didnt expect going in. I was already good friends with everyone who I was in a party with but this campaign reenforced those friendships 20 fold. The quality of my friends in this campaign are something I am simply so grateful for.

So yeah go scrounge around for some buddies and enjoy some DND together!

Rant about school and the learning process

8/31/2025

Hey... been a while :/ yeah uhh sorry about that.

I am once again writing about school and the ways I feel about it. (I promise I will write about something else eventually.) Bottom line is, im a senior in college now, and boy howdy is that senioritus hitting and HARD. At the time of writing we're going into our third week and I'm already done with classes. I'm hoping I can get some motivation to study hard and be a "good student" as the semester goes on because man I am NOT FEELING IT. It's just like I said in my last blog post about school, I've been doing school in some form or fashion for 16 years now and I'm tired man.

I'm not tired of learning, not at all, I'm tired of the format. No one told me I had to make this website. No one told me to learn HTML, there wasn't a grade assigned to how good my CSS is written or how well I write my Javascript Jukebox on the Homepage. I did all of it because it sounded fun and exciting. It was tough at times but it was ultimately so rewarding that I was able to find the motivation to learn something hard and stick with it and learn. I can ultimately look at this website and I know the everything, from the colors of the text to the font its written in, was chosen by me and carefully selected to look how I want, and that if I want to change it, I can!

Anyway, this Blog post sorta turned into a rant about something else sorta, but you get my point, maybe idk.

School is Stressful

2/26/2025

I don't know why but school has always been a source of stress for me throughout my entire life. I dont know whether its just because of the idea of not meassuring up or because its essentially someone testing you for 16+ years (elementary to middle to highschool to college) to see if you're "good enough" in some subject. Maybe its because now that I'm in college I have to start making real decisions about my life. Real, long lasting, life changing decisions. That's a lot of pressure, and its an expensive mistake to make if you decide that what career you chose isn't what you expected.

I think I'd much rather be in the work force already. Sure that brings new stressers and anxieties, but at least theres a time limit for most jobs! What I mean by that is that most jobs are a 9-5, you come in at 9am and leave at 5pm, an hour for lunch in between and then you're done for the day! Maybe some overtime here and there if you're really feelin it, but you dont have to worry about it after 5 though. I think thats what naws at me with school. You constantly feel like you could be doing somthing else, studying something else, there is ALWAYS something you can be doing in order to get just that point or two higher in that one class. Theres always one other side project that you could be doing. Theres always more leet code you could practice. Its all just too much.

I'm getting close to being done with school and honestly I can't wait. I just want to find a job and get on with the hustle and bustle of life. But I don't know. Perhaps I'll look back and be wishing that I could just be in school again because of x, y, and z! I'll just have to wait and see.