DOMINATING LIFE Starting Today

Hello to my dedicated following (of zero people). My name is Matt, and I am a calm, collected, steady person who needs a way to express himself. Enter this blog!

My wife thinks this is a really scary picture of me, but this is the quintessential DOMINATE picture.

Name of the Game? DOMINATION was a yell I did with a group I was (and still am) with in college. Whenever we do that yell, we are going to DOMINATE. Usually DOMINATING meant we would go lose a flag football game by 30 points. Or maybe it meant we were about to rock out on a performance at a show. Every time, it meant that we were going to have fun and enjoy whatever we were doing. 

This leads to the main motivation for starting this blog: to remind myself that I have one chance to live my life to the fullest. So why not DOMINATE life? This summer has been simultaneously awesome and horrible at the same time. I got married, saw my sister got married, made a home with my wife, and gotten some much needed R&R. At the same time, I haven't accomplished what I would have liked on my research for graduate school, I've distanced myself from friends, and I feel like I am no longer exerting myself to be the best person I can be. I hope that this blog is a constant reminder to live my life and go for it. Enter inspirational poster that I can make fun of...

I feel like the lines on this poster can only be read very slowly, in a deep voice.

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My second motivation for this blog is to force my mind to create sentences not related to graduate school. Writing is a large portion of what I do as a graduate student. That being said, writing about Tollmien-Schlicting Waves and the Orr-Sommerfeld Equation is not the same as writing about my life and the adventures I have. So please try to stick with me as I try to form my own writing style.

This blog will be the place where I will describe how I DOMINATE the challenges and adventures that life presents. No excuses. No regrets. So here we go!!!