Ok, so my life has been pretty stressful as of recently. The last time I wrote I was going to work at UPS and it was still around Finals week. Well, finals weren't the best, here are the final letter grades for my classes. Music was an A-, Physics was a B-, Physics Lab was an A, Politics was an A-, and Differential Equations was a C+. Now, that C+ looks pretty bad but I wasn't expecting to pass the class and with that C+ I was able to get a semester GPA of a 3.096 which allows me to keep UTD's scholarship for next Fall. The down side is that my cumulative GPA needed to be a 3.0 to keep my outside scholarship and since I had dropped below the 3.0 the previous 2 semesters (slightly at best) my cumulative GPA is now a 2.994!!!! I can't freaking believe how close that is and it gets me nothing! Ok, so done with school for the summer...... Ok, now UPS: I started on the second of May, this past week has been all about training. We learn how to do our particular job, how to use the equipment, how to lift without hurting ourselves and how to handle packages and such. Well, each day we also spend time out actually doing our particular job in what is known as the HUB. The HUB has all the belts and trucks dropping off packages and such, just a big warehouse with lots of noisy equipment and no air conditioning. Here is where I feel I luck out to some extent. I was placed on the Primary Sort. My job means I take the packages off the main belt just as the unloaders are sticking them on the belt from the other side. When I take a package I decide which belt it then needs to be placed on based upon its state and zip code. This job is not as hot as the job of loading the trucks. The down side is I have to know the first 3 numbers of every zip code across the US so that I know which belt the packages are to go on and when we get to Texas, I have to know every zip code in north Texas because they freaking all go to a different location than the package before!!!! I don't understand how it all works or where all the packages are going, but I know that the job doesn't seem that bad, I am always busy so I don't have time to think about the heat or getting tired. Now, on the morning of my first day at UPS I got a call from the insurance company I applied with nearly a month ago. At the time I applied I was told that the company would contact me within the week. Anyhow, she wanted me to come in for a formal interview in which I could actually sign all the release forms for drug testing and background checks and such. Well, yesterday morning I got the call back from her that they want me to work for them if I am still interested. I took the job and plan on working mornings to mid afternoon at the insurance company fixing computer equipment or printers or any job the feel I should do, making $10 an hour and around 20 hrs a week, and then working 5:30 to 9:30 at UPS making $8.50 an hour (until I pass my test over the zip codes were I get a dollar raise) giving me around another 20 hrs of work. Now, if I can hold them both at the end of the summer I am quitting UPS and continuing on with the insurance company as the job is better suited to my degree and would be a better mix for taking classes again. Well, that is my life for now, work.... work.... work... Ok, so I better go study my zip codes some more.... if you only knew how many zip codes there were across the US!!! ~Aaron