April: You might’ve wondered why I didn’t post anything back in April. I realize I could’ve used the opportunity to do a piece for Autism Month, April Fools’ Day, Spring, or something like that. However, while I did have plans to post a few things in April, I decided to take April off to focus on school.

June: I also took June off. I could’ve done somthing for Pride Month or Summer, but I was busy finishing up the tough Spring Quarter I’d just had, moving back in with my parents for the Summer, as well as dealing with an injury I’d received back in May (which I’d rather not talk about right now).

I am definitely going to try being more active during the rest of the Summer. In fact, tomorrow, I am going to post a story I wrote for my Creative Writing class last quarter.

Speaking of school, I am changing my major to Geosciences (which is a new department created through the combination of Geology and Geography). I have always loved geography, and I was so good at it when I was little, and my relatives used to quiz me on geography. It started out as just state capitals, but I was able to answer more and more questions over time, including countries, languages, and currencies. In 2009, months before my 8th birthday, my second-cousin Jordyn quizzed me on the 2008 election results (as in, which states went to who), and I got most of the questions right. I mistakenly said that Alaska went to Obama, but I was too stubborn to admit I was wrong, so Jordyn, if you’re reading this, sorry about my stubbornness, but thank you for quizzing me.

When I turn in the paperwork, this will have been the second major change I’ve made. When I was in Running Start (Washington State’ Dual Enrollment Program) at Pierce College Fort Steilacoom in Lakewood, I didn’t know what I wanted to major in when I transferred to a four-year. I took a technical writing class, and I really enjoyed it, and my mother pulled up an article on Data Analytics, which was apparently a hot field back in the late teens (2010s), so I decided to double-major in Technical communications and Data Analytics when I got to Eastern Washington University. But that proved to be too much for me, so I switched my major to Computer Science. That turned out not to be a great fit for me either. However, my boss at the visitor’s center was giving us a presentation last month on the college’s restructuring, where I learned about how Geology and Geography were morphing together into Geosciences. It suddenly hit me: Geography! This geoscience program sounds like a good fit for me. So, I am going to do a BA program in Geosciences, during which I will create my own degree by stacking three certificates, one of which will be in Geographic Information Systems, or GIS. I’ll probably go into more detail on what GIS is in a future post, but for now, I think this is a good place to end the post.

Thank you for reading, and be sure to read my new story, “The Curious Store,” which is coming out tomorrow.

Bye for now, and have a Great Summer!

-Matt