THE LINKS FIXED...

--edit-- I fixed the link below to my new site/blog.  Sorry, I had the URL wrong, but thanks to my grandma it came to my attention.

Ignore my xanga from now on, or that website I had (I don't even remember the URL).

I'm leaving xanga because none of my friends really post anymore, so I'm switching to a nicer blog since I'm free to do so.

My new site/blog is http://tatonetti.blogspot.com

My new email is tatonetti@gmail.com (although I still have my mtatonetti@urbana.edu, but that is more for school and work, so use my gmail)

Contact me with any questions/comments/concerns/hello's.

It is getting really warm really fast here in Urbana... no rain either, so it's dry.  Yuck.

Nothing special going on... Saturday night sucked since everyone cancelled on going out after we drove three hours home, but that's okay.  *Sarcasm*

Sunday we had Ben's party and that was nice.  Always good to see my family.

Otherwise just schoolwork like normal... I have an exam and a quiz to do online this week for Statistics, and an exam in Community Psychology next Tuesday, but I'm not worried, I'm doing really good

Damn is it hooooot... alright, time to go... some statistics extra credit needs to be done.

I'm trying to clean and pack to go home tomorrow after work.  The bad thing is my sickness is really kicking my butt... I'm feeling tired, light headed, and my nose won't unblock despite my time spent with kleenex.

This stinks.

 The real world is starting to become reality to me.

I mean my perspective on college and working is changing.  I used to go to college because it was the normal, next step after high school.  I worked because I wanted my cell phone, and my car, and to go out.

Now that's changing.  It's becoming reality that I work to build a resume and references for my future career.  I go to college to really learn this stuff, not just get by and compete for a better GPA than someone else.  The grades only matter for acceptance to graduate school - the material is what is more important.  The theories, ones that have been tested by great psychologists, are at my hand to study and know as a building foundation for my own research and theories.  It is practical material that I can apply to my own counseling after I graduate next year.

Talk about surreal, but college and work just became something more important than the 'normal' thing to be doing at this age of my life.  It's become something serious that I must master as best I can, so that I can be the best that I can be when I am able to get my first 'real' job next year.