After moving into a new apartment, I found that the shower head was really weak. The flow was so bad that instead of taking a 5-10 minute shower, I think I took a 30 minute shower just so I could wash off all the soap. After looking online, I decided maybe buying a new shower head would be good. That's where things got interesting ... I learned a lot of more real world lessons than in school.

Welcome, to ... "The Real World". It's finally happened! I've completed my schooling and am now working! It's great, though this transition has been pretty stressful. After graduating, I moved a lot of stuff to my new place and am still unpacking. At work, there's a lot of onboarding material to review such as policies, benefits, and team projects. I feel slightly overwhelmed by everything but I still feel ready to go but extremely tired by the end of the day. Maybe it's the student in me that still likes to get my work and still likes the stress.

Apartment hunting can be stressful and a pain. I finished finding an apartment for the next chapter in my life and needless to say, there were a lot of questions that made the process so much easier! My girlfriend and I probably spent over 40+ hours looking online for apartments, making appointments, visiting, asking questions, looking around, and making decisions. And there were a lot of things to remember that even in retrospect we still had some questions that we wish had been answered right away. The best thing to do is always have a contact number or email address of someone in the leasing office so that in the worst case, you can contact them with more questions!

"Are you ready kids? Aye, aye, captain!" ... these words echo through my room every now and then when I'm eating a meal or preparing to go to bed. I don't know many "adults" who watch "Spongebob Squarepants", but I do know, this may not be normal. I don't even know how many actually know this but I'm pretty immature. I like to watch cartoons (two of my favorites are "Spongebob Squarepants" and "Phineas and Ferb") and by cartoons, I mean cartoons aimed at kids. I do watch other animated TV shows such as "Futurama", "Family Guy", "Archer", but those of course are for "mature" audiences. I think a good reason cartoons maintain a presence in my life is because of my little brother who is 14 years younger. Thus cartoons have pretty much dominated my life on TV. But one thing I know for sure, cartoons help me relax at the end of the day. I love normal TV shows but the suspense, the drama, etc, all make me want to think, imagine, and discuss. With cartoons, I pretty much just sit back, relax and let my mind go blank and consume the entertainment. It's quite frightening to think about. Maybe it's lowering my IQ every single time ...