Finally.....A POST!!!!!

01-01-09

Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! First let me apologize for the long delay, I was just being lazy. But now that it's all good. I'm typing now with my program that came with my OD operating system that lets me type was my voice. Yeah I'm that lazy. Anyway, onto the first blog.

Happy new year! I'm sure a lot of you out there had a lot of fun. I actually had more fun than I would have thought. Playing star wars monopoly and listening to old school rap videos, that is the way to bring in the new year. There are several reasons I hate the new year. The first you could probably guess a few it's an excuse for people to get wasted and make out with a stranger but that is not even what I hate most about it. I think people get the word resolution with the word declaration. To have a resolution is to have a plan you cannot just say " in 2009 I'm going to be happy" and not have any sort of plan. Because then what's the point? I can say that in june, July, October, really you can do a resolution or declaration anytime but the points of a new year's resolution is your suppose to actually carry out in my personal opinion that requires having a plan being ready for challenges and having good motivational reasons to do so. Without these you may start off great but you will immediately fall off and forget by spring break falling right back into your same ways. I'm not one to just hate though. I'll give you a few of what I think our real resolutions (of course they are my resolutions). 

In 2009 JD DeVaughn-Brown will....

1. Obtain a 4.0 GPR...that's right straight A's. New place, new school, and from my research Texas A&M's engineering program is easier than NC State's. There's many motivations for this. The first is to Texas A&M is kind of like getting something I wanted under the most horrible of circumstances. So I want to make the most of it. Also I need money to pay off all these loans no better way to qualify for scholarships than with a perfect GPA. Finally I have to desire to go to graduate school at MIT so I think I have played my cards right and I'm through all the BS courses so now I can just go into semi-interesting courses and actually do the work for it. 

2.Help out young people. Well first I live in a primarily freshmen dorm so they'll help me with learning about Texas A&M, College Station, and Texas in general and in turn I'll help them with the introductory classes and other young people stuff (like that wasn't me a year ago but I was never the typical "college freshmen" so I think I have some great knowledge to partake young students. But also I would like to become a tutor and I know next winter I'll be coaching a little basketball team if given the opportunity I'll do that this summer as well. Finally I would like to get some anti-suicide/depression organization started on campus. My plan is to just give high school/middle school students a young mentor to talk to about what parents and older people call "trivial" but means the world to them. Nobody understands that better than people who lived through that 5 years ago and came through it and went on to succeed. Other ideas may come to me but those are just a few. 

3. Gain to 10-15 lbs of muscle. Yeah I'm really tired of being made fun of being skinny (which i feel is a shame but that's another whole blog which will come). But also I have potential I have decent strength already and definition i just don't have bulk. So I signed up for this online dudes youtube vieos and he sends you emails and all this stuff giving you advice on everything from what to eat to when to work out to after work out sessions and everything in between. I talked with the buff people I personally know (shout outs to Tony and Jeffrey) to get more tips. So i'm going to follow their tips. I will sign up for a weight training class at Texas A&M so i can be on a set regimen. Once I get enough money I'll buy the muscle milk and vitamins and all that shit. 

There's other stuff I want to do in 2009 but those things are just that... things I want to do they're not resolutions there are no plans associated with them its either I'll do them or I won't. So what are your resolutions? What do you want to accomplish in 2009?