Why can’t I edit =[

Sure, I miss gaming. But when I look back… I spent weekends just gaming, chatting and watching movies. Fun enough, but when you start with Half-Life for the 8th time and finish yet another game of Baldur’s Gate II, there’s always this feeling of something missing, something more important. Or at least there was with me.

That’s why I’m glad I went to London and left pretty much everything behind. I grew up in a way, found out there’s more. Do a real job, meet new and interesting people, have more of a social life. I still get to see more films than the average person and I’ll still do some gaming once I’ve got my pc back.

It’s just, when you live together with your partner in a strange and new city, other things start to become more important than gaming and always being online. And I’m glad for that. I wouldn’t give up Michelle for BG3 of HL3 ;-P

Anywaaay, this wasn’t about me.

Good to hear you’re enjoying the things you do. But I still can’t see how you’re gonna combine the enormous amount of gaming and utopia you do, with writing a MA thesis, doing a new Bachelor working at the same time. You’re gonna need self-discipline and that was never your (or mine) forte.

p.s. I know your balls are bigger than mine. It’s because you never have sex. I do. Blow your load, dude.

I am able to retain my pleasant life AND have a viable plan for the future. I am now working for ICT & Onderwijs and will soon be paid regularly for stuff like blackboard maintenance and videotaping lectures, allowing me to drop the student loan. I am learning all kinds of essential things in methodology class which will most certainly have a positive effect on the quality of my master thesis. And I am definitely planning to do moar than just the propedeuse, most probably aiming for sociology bachelor at the very least.

And my balls are bigger.

I only realized that I’d never be able to finish the complete 4 years of Japanese after I started it. Besides, I wasn’t writing my MA thesis.

You on the other hand know that you’re never going to do 4 full years of Sociology. You’ll probably only do for one year. Which leaves you with nothing. These days a propedeuse means nothing. Meanwhile you’re not finishing your MA thesis (van uistel komt afstel) and your student loan debt grows ever larger without anything to show for it. You’re in your fifth year already. Starting with another MA would’ve been more useful.

I think taking a years break would’ve been the best thing to do for you. It would’ve given you enough time to finish your thesis and think about your next step. Do some jobs to see whats out there. Just for a year.

I know how you feel, I still feel like that quite often. Just wanna sit inside my room, game, watch movies, listen to music, do nothing. But eventually you have to start thinking about your future.

It worked quite well for me. Moving to London turned out to be a really good decision. I met great people, made new friends, got some valuable work experience en worked on my language skills.

I’ll come back next spring, do my Master’s and be awesome.

But hey, whatever makes you happy, I guess

=)

thanks

GOOD LUCK