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I'm a slacker, but here is my summer in a few poorly written paragraphs.

I know, I've been a terrible blogger this summer. I think I wrote 4.. maybe?

I had a busy summer ok!!?!

Well, as it begins to wrap up, I want to try this 'reflecting' thing. My therapist says it's healthy.

Who am I kidding, I don't have a therapist... Although that cartoon shithead on my shoulder has been getting pretty annoying lately. Ok that's enough of that nonsense...

Let's jump back to the beginning..of summer.
                 
*Cheap TV shaky screen into memory but for a blog effect*

The first few months were, for all intents and purposes... absolute write offs. That is the LAST time I take hard online classes at an accelerated rate. Jesus it was bad.

Fast forward to August and here's where the fun-if-you-can-call-it-that stuff happened. I won a gold medal in Ri.... oops, not me. Oh silly, all I did was joinnnn a gym for a month. That's right, I'm slightly less fat and slightly more "in-shape..ha...ha" than before. So, GO JAY!

I want to say one of my biggest accomplishments this summer was listening to A LOT of podcasts and audio books on my endless commutes to Guelph. I made a friend named Fred, he's a manikin cow at the front of a farm I pass everyday. Maybe I do need that therapist...

Ok, on to the good stuff! I went to more conservation areas/beaches in this month than I have my whole life. I also found out I'm not horrible at throwing a Frisbee. That's right, that's a highlight.. and it gets better.

I got the new Windows 10 Anniversary update.. it was AWESOME.
I am currently getting the new Android OS (7.0), and it'll be even MORE AWESOME than the last awesome thing right above this one!

For the truly humbling/humblebrag experience of my summer, my group was hand selected for an important project at school dealing with an actual industry project. The head of Chem Eng at my school has recognized our experimental problem solving skills and notably mentioned my excellent Excel skills. I kinda pride myself on having some exceptional Exel-Fu so it means a lot when other's notice.

Speaking of Excel, I had my first major pay it forward effort this summer designing and coding a work manager for a fellow Redditor in the UK. I learned some new things and hopefully he is finding use for it, so this is a shout out to Scott! (Not that he will have any way ever to read this blog, unless it gets fantastically famous - which I have a better chance going to space tomorrow.)

I had a great summer with old friends and even some new. Here's to getting back to the "don't jump off the bridge Jay it's just a test" mentality of Chemical Engineering. I usually get inspired to write these more when I'm procrastinating something which I do a lot of at school, so keep an eye out if you're interested! (All 5 of you!)

Until next time,

J

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