akrish

I guess this is the first day where I’m really going to experience summer in all it’s glory. We’re going to the beach! (and yes how sad is it that i live like 40 minutes from the beach and this will be my first trip this summer) It seems that now my friends and I are all so busy that we don’t ever hang out much during the day so we never get to enjoy these sort of one-day trips. But I’m really excited to go today.

Anyway that wasn’t really the point of the post. I wanted to talk about what I have been doing (not what I wish I’d been doing).

Summer has been ridiculously jam-packed but at the same time relaxing. I went on a trip to Boston to see my brother graduate which was really cool (and I’ll write about that later). Then I’ve been working pretty much full time at VMware which has so far been a really amazing experience. On top of that I’ve been exercising a lot (playing soccer, ultimate, running, and weight lifting) which has also been really fun because I’ve been doing it with my friends and co-workers.

But with all this going on, I haven’t really been just hanging out and relaxing with my friends like one is supposed to during summer. During the week I’m just too burnt out after each day and I pretty much come home and crash. And on the weekends I do hang out with my friends, but they’re all just as busy as I am, so it’s often hard to organize something like a beach trip.

And what’s more, I haven’t gotten around to a lot of school-related things that I also wanted to do. Like finishing up my research project from last semester, figuring out what classes I want to take (which I need to do because I sign up on Tuesday), or even just spending some time on a couple of programming projects that I’ve been meaning to do for awhile.

But don’t get me wrong, I’m not unhappy with the way the summer is going. It’s been one of the best and most rewarding summers that I’ve had (except for the summer after high school because that was completely unbeatable). I’ve accomplished a lot, learned a lot and still managed to keep it pretty relaxing. And had I not been doing everything that I’m doing I’m sure I would be incredibly bored.

So summer’s coming to an end I guess. I have a couple of more weeks of work and then I may be heading to new york on vacation and then it’s back to school. But I’m kind of looking forward to school because it’ll be a good change from the routine of working. And I guess that’s what summer is supposed to do to you: It’s suppose to get you excited to go back to school, either by making you really bored and dying for things to do, or by keeping you so busy that you think school will be relaxing in comparison.