Statement 14 - 9/10/25

Statement begins.

(Written during Psychology Of Well-Being class)

Formatted - Event throughout the day, how it made me feel

Woke up to a reminder about a TRiO event that i forgot about - spent a few minutes deciding whether or not to do it, before deciding to go for it, because it claims to help with internship opportunities. Annoyed at the fact that it required cameras be on at all times.

Found out that charlie kirk got shot - guys it's not funny, he might survive... oh wait. Lowkey made my day. What a start to the morning.

Attended the virtual TRiO event - it was fine. It had some stupid parts- it started by stressing how much we had to do in the session, and then got into nonsense trivia. Also had the organizers calling on people. Large part was essentially a personality quiz, some of which had questions like "which one do you relate to more???" where I related to BOTH... and a few about "how much do you REALLY care about how much a job pays" which felt like trick questions, frankly. It also had breaout rooms, ours of which was basically silent, because that's how breakout rooms go. And we were required to RSVP for more goddamn sessions... man, i just want to know about internships...

Made breakfast and coffee during the thing- mmm, coffee and chicken bake.... maybe too much coffee though, been distractable all day.

Went to class one- yknow.... fine. Tried to pay attention but so much of it sounds like woo-woo nonsense that it makes it hard. Prof mentioned going to Israel.... great. Classmate mentioned being scared about shootings while at pride, so that's a win... the fact that she also goes to pride, not the shooting part.

Went to class two- fine. Prof seems weirdly doubtful of some examples students give, even when they fit what he's looking for perfectly fine... which is annoying, and it's kind of giving try-hard? like ohhh, i'm the expert, i gotta REALLY think about it.... man whatever

(Significance Star) Break between classes, since class 2 always ends early, so I went to my car to grab my jacket and eat my seaweed snacks - i gotta stop looking at tiktok, man. The charlie kirk thing, another shooting happened, apparently Russia attacked Poland so NATO is issuing article 4, apparently France is falling apart or something?? Israel dropped flyers telling Gazans to either evacuate or die. I'm tired of the news, dude. We have a responsibility to stay informed but there's only so much we can really take, and I don't know that we're made to take in this much bad news all the time. It's anxiety-inducing. I get how stupid/uninformed people seem happier, but people being stupid/uninformed is what makes it so nothing ever gets better. So I can't really morally say I'd rather be uninformed, or thata anybody should be. The advice is to focus on a few key issues at a time, but it's hard when those issues ARE so massive-worrying about and trying to help Gaza isn't like, a small task, and we're gonna hear OTHER bad news to worry about regardless. Even stuff that effects me, I can only do so much about-I'm in a very progressive area, so i certainly can and SHOULD fight for trans rights, but that fight is already going on here. And I'm busy. I have class, and bills to pay, and only so much energy and motivation-it's hard to find the time or energy to do anything outside of those things.

Went to class 3 - this bitch gave us a mandatory 20 minutes of journal writing in class, bruh. And I think his ass is going overtime now. whateverrrrrr

Summary of patterns: I'm very anxious about the news and annoyed by unnecessary time wasting

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