From the Very Interesting Mind of Hunter S. Thompson, II

“We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.”

Nearing the End

I can't believe that graduation is so close by. It's really scary. One of my friends asked me if I was graduating in December, adding that she would be sad and scared if I did. I told her that I would be sad and scared if I graduated in December. Graduating in May allows me to procrastinate thinking of the real world out there.

There's a buzz among the graduates. As the class Vice President, I help plan out Graduation weekend, and I even gave the idea for the Class gift, so that's nice. Still, it feels very surreal planning out the biggest weekend so far in my life. All my classmates are also in some sort of denial, we can't believe it's almost over.

The IRR majors are gearing up for their Nicaragua trip, and I cannot lie, I still wish with all my heart that IRR would have worked out my freshman year. I really would want to be on that plane in January.