Today is our first Texas Tech football game of the season. It will be my first time to march in front of 50,000 people, and participate in all of the traditions that I don't even fully understand yet. But all I know is that it is going to be incredible. Wreck'em Tech.

Have you ever seen anyone that looks like someone you know? Well yesterday I saw someone who looked like me! It was the creepiest thing ever.

The Tulane University baseball team moved into my dorm building today because their school happens to be under water at the moment. I think that it is incredible that Texas Tech, as well as most other colleges are getting to serve the students from the Louisiana schools that can't continue classes.

I have heard, however, that the students from Tulane don't like to be referred to as "refugees"...i thought that was a little humorous because i would have never even thought of them as refugees because that word puts a mental picture in my head that these people don't meet up to. It just hits a little closer to home when I realize that the people affected by this disaster are no different than I am..at all.

Made to feel like a 2nd-rate citizen

I'm a bit younger than most people in my circumstances. I turned 18 two days before college classes started for me. I did everything that you're supposed to do when you become of legal age. I registered for the draft and to vote. I renewed my license, and I even got a job to be less dependent upon my parents. Well, I showed up to get all of the paperwork done so I could start making some money and they tell me that I can't work there. "What?" Apparently the paperwork showing that I had registered for the draft hasn't gone through yet. It can take up to a couple of months to clear and they can't hire me until the Selective Services get my signed form saying that i would love to be forced to die for them.....
I have nothing against serving my country...I'm not even completly against the draft...I would die for my country if I had to. But are you telling me that no, law abiding, male in the country can get a job within the first few months of turning 18? I think something might need to be changed about that.

Just got back from a sweet weekend at a family reunion. It was SO much fun. But, I am really excited to be back in Lubbock..because....well... because I love going to school here. I'm rushing Kappa Kappa Psi starting today, and Tech's first football game is this weekend. SO EXCITED.

I will probably be in the Flowerplex the weekend of October 8th. So clear your schedules...haha