The First Post! Or, The Orgins of Jake and Matt

Half out of boredom, half out of curiosity, I've decided to start this blog chronicling The Adventures of Jake and Matt, two Graphic design students who are just a week from starting our first years of college at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. I'm starting this blog to keep people informed and updated on our trivial lives as we live and go to school in the city. We leave on August 18th and 19th, with school starting August 21. Yeah, we're feeling a bit rushed with everything, but it will all work out and with the days winding down, we're both feeling a strong mixture of anticipation, excitement and nervousness with a hint of fear, all building and meshing into one as the days pass and as the realization that we're leaving this small town and it's people for a while grows steadily in our minds. It's quite a feeling and it's left us truly perplexed.

We've been working on getting things lined for the leave but we still have some shopping to take care of before the week is over. But I'd really like to start out by introducing our selves to the blogging community. My name is Jake, I turned 18 in May, as did Matt. We've know each other since the 10th grade, are going to the same college and we're rooming together. Matt and I are pretty much not alike at all, which kind of surprises me that we get along so well. Matt is extremely outgoing and I, well, am not. He's tall, I'm short. He has black hair, I, blond. We live in a small town, the kind of place where nothing ever happens, ever. As cliche as that sounds it's very true. Our town has absolutely nothing to brag about except for having the biggest WalMart on the east coast (well - when it was designed). we have that and lots of trees. That pretty much sums it up. We're just two teens, about to be launched head first into real life away from friends and family.

So this is it for tonight, I'll be sure to update as our adventure continues, as we move in and start classes, but for now not much is happening.

-Jake. (Thanks Matt for the awesome poster!!)