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So this is going to be a brutally honest post.

After two long days of travel with my wonderful parents, we arrived in Thunder Bay. I have to say, the second day's drive was absolutely beautiful. Mountains, Lake Superior and tons wildlife. It was awesome, although my feelings of starting this engineering program had not set in yet.

Fast forward the unpacking and room organization process, and two days of orientation, I'm sitting here writing this blog. I spent the last 4 hours watching videos about old trig and functions math from high school and wow am I ever rusty. I haven't even cracked beginner calculus yet. It is safe to say my nerves are firing on all cylinders (Ha get it? Engineering, cylinders.. I'm hilarious.)

All I kept hearing about these transfer courses are the insane amount of work and pressure I'll be experiencing and it kinda psyched me out. Won't know until later this week how fast they go and what the workload will be like but fuck me I feel weird about the whole situation.

My parents began their journey back today and yeah I lived on my own before but now I'm far as fuck, so its almost new territory. Maybe I'm getting nervous for no reason, or maybe my gut is right and I have hell to look forward to. College didn't really force me to put 4 to 5 hours of work in each night and to be completely honest, I forget most of everything I learned there and it was only a couple months ago. Fuck.

Well, I know this wasn't the usual comedic post from the humour master himself, but I just had to get it off my chest.

Day 1 starts tomorrow and I am going to try to gather myself like a damn man and push through.

Thanks internet

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