Still not dead, just college

I'm still alive apparently. College has been busy and fun.
My views are significantly different than all of yours, but I still visit because I care about all of you.

I was wondering where you had been. College IS a lot of fun. I know I enjoyed it, almost to a fault. My problem in high school and college was that I just didn't care. I wanted to be average. I wanted to make C's and be done with it. My attitude at the time and my grades were average. I think I graduated college with a 2.3, which was .3 higher than I expected. Over 20 years later I wish I would have applied myself better. If I did, college still would have been fun. Made some great friends in college and met my wife there.

Definitely. I've made a lot of good friends here.

Yay xenonlion makes a visit!

Yeah college is fun and definitely life changing. I don't blame you for not hanging around here so much now that you're there - but you're always welcome and we care about you too!

How are you all doing

Also, can I still be family if my views on almost everything are different?

Hey Xen!

Good to see you're still alive and kickin'!  Different views doesn't mean we can't be friends.  A lot of us have different views than each other.

Xid wrote:

Hey Xen!

Good to see you're still alive and kickin'!  Different views doesn't mean we can't be friends.  A lot of us have different views than each other.

True.

Very cool to see you liongirl!  Different views or not it is great to see you post here, even if it is only to say "hi" once in awhile.  Also happy to hear you are enjoying college, I enjoyed it myself even if I was a little older than a lot of the other students.

Good to see you here XL. 

kerrick wrote:

Good to see you here XL. 

We haven't talked in forever. I see you're married now?

Gosh, yeah it does seem forever-ago that we last talked!  Yes, I am now happily married.     We moved in to a cool little "apartment" (attached to the main house of the landlord) with a pretty creek out back and about 20 minutes from my work.  We had a very small and intimate ceremony in the backyard of my parents' house of only about 17 people total.  (I still need to post some pictures actually - we got some great ones.)  So that's the biggest news for me here!  How the heck have you been???

Good to see you, xenon! 

Did you ever talk to your parents about your change in beliefs from your Seventh Day Adventist upbringing?  I was wondering about that a few weeks ago.

You say that you have different views from us.  Are you sure?  If you don't mind me asking, what makes you feel that you are on the outside looking in?  I am going to say that your beliefs in some subjects will line up with someone here.  You may not be a clone of us, but I think I am the only one that really thinks a clone of myself would be a good thing.  No one else thinks that a clone of me would be a worthwhile pursuit, though.  LOL

alldatndensum wrote:

No one else thinks that a clone of me would be a worthwhile pursuit, though.  LOL

What?!?!
You're still a babe, you have to grow
Give it 20 years or so
If you wanna be one of His
You have to act like one of us!

Nice to hear from you XeL! It's been a while, indeed. I haven't been around much either.

I've started college as well (well, here they call it university). What program are you taking?

Good to see posts from you xenon.

kerrick wrote:

Gosh, yeah it does seem forever-ago that we last talked!  Yes, I am now happily married.     We moved in to a cool little "apartment" (attached to the main house of the landlord) with a pretty creek out back and about 20 minutes from my work.  We had a very small and intimate ceremony in the backyard of my parents' house of only about 17 people total.  (I still need to post some pictures actually - we got some great ones.)  So that's the biggest news for me here!  How the heck have you been???

Up and down, but generally good.
When was the wedding?

Right on. 

We got married August 27th and then we had a post-wedding celebration of about 100 people just this past Saturday which was a lot of fun.

alldatndensum wrote:

Good to see you, xenon! 

Did you ever talk to your parents about your change in beliefs from your Seventh Day Adventist upbringing?  I was wondering about that a few weeks ago.

You say that you have different views from us.  Are you sure?  If you don't mind me asking, what makes you feel that you are on the outside looking in?  I am going to say that your beliefs in some subjects will line up with someone here.  You may not be a clone of us, but I think I am the only one that really thinks a clone of myself would be a good thing.  No one else thinks that a clone of me would be a worthwhile pursuit, though.  LOL

I haven't talked to them about it actually.

Well... I say that my views are different because I'm no longer a Christian. I'm also not religious. As you can imagine, my views would be very different. I hope I'm still welcome here. I still see you all as family.

kerrick wrote:

Right on. 

We got married August 27th and then we had a post-wedding celebration of about 100 people just this past Saturday which was a lot of fun.

That's awesome.

Driven wrote:

Nice to hear from you XeL! It's been a while, indeed. I haven't been around much either.

I've started college as well (well, here they call it university). What program are you taking?

Chemistry. Which one are you taking?

xenonlion wrote:

Well... I say that my views are different because I'm no longer a Christian. I'm also not religious. As you can imagine, my views would be very different. I hope I'm still welcome here. I still see you all as family.

Of course you're still welcome here!

xenonlion wrote:

Driven wrote:

Nice to hear from you XeL! It's been a while, indeed. I haven't been around much either.

I've started college as well (well, here they call it university). What program are you taking?

Chemistry. Which one are you taking?

Environmental science, which includes chemistry. We're discussing electron bonds right now, and orbitals.

xenonlion wrote:

alldatndensum wrote:

Good to see you, xenon! 

Did you ever talk to your parents about your change in beliefs from your Seventh Day Adventist upbringing?  I was wondering about that a few weeks ago.

You say that you have different views from us.  Are you sure?  If you don't mind me asking, what makes you feel that you are on the outside looking in?  I am going to say that your beliefs in some subjects will line up with someone here.  You may not be a clone of us, but I think I am the only one that really thinks a clone of myself would be a good thing.  No one else thinks that a clone of me would be a worthwhile pursuit, though.  LOL

I haven't talked to them about it actually.

Well... I say that my views are different because I'm no longer a Christian. I'm also not religious. As you can imagine, my views would be very different. I hope I'm still welcome here. I still see you all as family.

You are more than still welcome here, girl.  We aren't going to turn our backs on you just because of a change of beliefs.  Besides, this tells me to step up my game praying for you and all of our CHM family.

That's very good to do ....praying.