Math's life and stuff

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And now I wait

So, finally, after what I was only informed yesterday by my friends has been a three month college inscription, I am done. It's been pretty tough, I remember often feeling like the classic image of a man trying to push a boulder up a cliff. After all, I am a kid with a serious case of A.D.D who had to learn how the hell you even do a normal college inscription and then how to make an international one. It's been crazy, I started out making I don't even know how many calls a day, taking enormous amounts of rendez-vous with academic advisers, but, slowly the "to-dos" on my clip-board started kind of, converging like water drops, one by one into more meaningful moments until today when I finally payed my application fee, sat back and thought to myself "And now I wait." Mountains are tall, but each has it's peak. I still have to wait to know if all my documents are in order, or if I may have missed something but, I feel pretty confident it'll go smoothly from here on in. As I sat home, I felt like a rock tipping, rolling down the other mountain side, down, down it's trail.

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Update: DigiPen

There's a big misconception about drop-outs. That, once you've dropped out, you've dropped out.

I dropped out for a simple reason: I wanted to take my time and find a place where I would like to learn. So, when I dropped out, I decided I'd go to as many different classes in as many schools as possible, and that's what I did. Eventually I realized there was nothing for me in Montreal, but there was something in Redmond Washington. Yes my 2 followers, if you are game designers you know I speak of the Hogwarts of Game Designers, the birth place of Portal. The institution I speak of is none other than DigiPen. I literally had a little moment of "is this even real?" when I saw the course sequence of the program I'm applying to coz it looks just so damn purrfect. Not to mention James Portnow, my idol in the game biz, works there. Anyway, so now I've been working hard at my inscription for the past couple weeks, trying to get my crazy complicated foreign student application together (coz I'm Canadian remember?) but it is almost done. And I have to admit I'm kind of proud that, I, Math, the kid with a terrible case of A.D.D and who's never done any remotely close to an application in his life has managed to pull this off. And I'm glad to see that, now, after many calls and paper work and research, only two letters remain and a portfolio, and then I cross my fingers. Until then, take care party people.

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Hack Space: Foulabs

So today had its ups and downs. For one, I found out my admission for university would have to be delayed, as they require me to take an English test (coz I'm from Canada and all hence I'm a foreign student). The delay isn't too bad, I won't be late but I won't be early either which scared me a bit. Afterwards, however, I decided I'd check out a hack space I'd found online, called Foulabs. It's basically an open garage where people do stuff that range from, building radios and 3d printers to animating stop motion lego movies. It's kind of kick ass. At first I was scared, thinking maybe the people there would be in-your-face know-it-alls that would mock me for my little knowledge. But what I found was quite the contrary. I immediately felt at ease when I walked in and saw all the friendly faces turn to me, and kind of at home. I didn't do much on my first night, I started making a big lego crab but didn't finish, then I discussed with someone how I would go about making a Fallout 3 pip-boy in real life. He gave me names of the hardware I should buy which was real cool. Anyway, a night that ends rather well, coz at least I know if I don't get accepted to uni next year I've got some places to go to to learn still. Signing out, 'night party people

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Testing... Testing...

Hello world, my name is Mat, I live in the frost bitten tundra that is Montreal and, uhm, yeah. Today I've decided I'd start blogging coz iunno been wanting to do that for a while now. I guess I've always wanted a place where I can express myself to my truest and just archive all the dumb ideas and weird things I like to do. (not too weird I promise) Zina Lahr is actually the one who inspired me to start doing this. I didn't know her but she has had a pretty big influence on my life. As a matter a fact I realize I'm writing with her voice in mind so I might be writing like she would... it's just a thing that happens to me. I often walk out of movies and suddenly talk like the main character or even act like them, or like the character of a book if I've been reading it for too long. I'll walk out of a British drama going "right right chereo"... that joke was just racist, But anyway, This year has been a major turning point in my life, mainly because I finally dropped out of school in a search of what I want to do in life. It was kind of amazing, coz I decided I'd cast my old self aside and just do literally everything I want. And that kind of life is amazing. I won't lie tho, at some point, I actually fell depressed because of an art project I forbid myself of doing just coz, I dunno, I have this weird habit of thinking a lot of fun and harmless things are wrong. It's not I really believe it it's just sort of hardwired into me. I got back up tho coz, no matter what I can't undo what I've learned. That life is worth living by the day, with our old personas cast aside and only that of the day that matters. Coz when I did that, life was amazing. I may have a long way ahead of me to master it, but I think I can do it, step by step. So today, I decided I'd finally make the blog I've always wanted. And if anybody actually reads this well, thank you and I hope you enjoy!