40oz To Freedom...

Matthew Vigil. Salvadorean. Long Beach resident. Tong brother.Marine Corps veteran. What else do you wanna know!?


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A little update on my life. If you care about it anyways…

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Hey. I’ve been gone from tumblr because i’ve found another website that is able to give me the same quality of interesting pictures, videos, and gif without slowing down my phone or laptop: Reddit. I’ve been on reddit for close to a year now and i enjoy it alot. Im constantly on the r/usmc subreddit, so if you’ll like to hit me up, you can do so there. My flair on those posts are “Arty made me deaf”. If you see a comment with that flair, that is me! 

I’m also going to UC Berkeley this upcoming spring semester. Some shit happend last year and my admission for the fall 2016 semester was rescinded so i had to reapply again in october of 2016. After i applied, i had to wait until may 2017 to hear what they had to say. When i got their notification letter, my admission to Cal was denied. Heartbroken, i wrote a letter of appeal hoping i would get a second chance at attending Cal. It wasnt until June 2017 that i heard from Cal and my appeal letter worked, i got accepted for the spring semester of 2018. What was suppose to be my first semester on fall 2016 was moved back to spring 2018. It has been a long year, i feel as if i have wasted a year and half of my life. But i do see the tunnel at the end of the light. I am 3 weeks away from attending orientation on January 11th and unlike last year, i have all my paperwork completed. 


So that is pretty much what has been going on in my life the last year or so. I hope everyone else is doing great. I do not see myself returning to tumblr anytime soon, it takes up waaaaay too much memory and space on my phone. But you never know. Cheers and have a wonderful holiday. 

Another Update on my life: 
I graduated from UC Berkeley in Dec. 2019 with a degree in Rhetoric (think of philosophy and english put together - that is what rhetoric is). After i graduated, i moved back to my mother’s house while applying to jobs in 2020. Of course, the pandemic hit and we were in lockdown. A lot of my internships and job applications were closed due to the pandemic. That same year, i had a son. He was born on Oct. 24 2020 so i am a father now. Pretty crazy, i did not see that coming. After he was born, i was working full-time in a lumber yard before i was able to land a role in the desire career - Marketing. I now work for a media agency where we do the planning, buying and recommendations on behalf of our clients. My client tends to be T-Mobile so if you see any T-mo ad anywhere (think tv commercials, post on social media, billboards, online videos on youtube, etc.), my team managed to buy the ad space for that. In other words, i’m the annoying person that puts ads on things when you don want to see it lol. I was hired in Feb. of 2021, got promoted in Mar. 2022, and am now making more money than i have before. I live in Los Angeles now, about 2 miles away from USC, and i love living in LA. I have three friends that work for the same Mediagroup that i work in now so that is amazing. Life has turned out for me the way i have planned it and things are looking good. If you’re stll on tumblr after all these years, feel free to reach out to me if you’ll like. I’m planning on going back to tumblr just to see what has changed and what i have missed after 5 years. Crazy how time flies. Thank you for reading this if you’re reading this sentence. I appreciate it. I wish yall the best and i hope yall are doing well. Much love, Matthew!

A little update on my life. If you care about it anyways…

Hey. I’ve been gone from tumblr because i’ve found another website that is able to give me the same quality of interesting pictures, videos, and gif without slowing down my phone or laptop: Reddit. I’ve been on reddit for close to a year now and i enjoy it alot. Im constantly on the r/usmc subreddit, so if you’ll like to hit me up, you can do so there. My flair on those posts are “Arty made me deaf”. If you see a comment with that flair, that is me! 

I’m also going to UC Berkeley this upcoming spring semester. Some shit happend last year and my admission for the fall 2016 semester was rescinded so i had to reapply again in october of 2016. After i applied, i had to wait until may 2017 to hear what they had to say. When i got their notification letter, my admission to Cal was denied. Heartbroken, i wrote a letter of appeal hoping i would get a second chance at attending Cal. It wasnt until June 2017 that i heard from Cal and my appeal letter worked, i got accepted for the spring semester of 2018. What was suppose to be my first semester on fall 2016 was moved back to spring 2018. It has been a long year, i feel as if i have wasted a year and half of my life. But i do see the tunnel at the end of the light. I am 3 weeks away from attending orientation on January 11th and unlike last year, i have all my paperwork completed. 


So that is pretty much what has been going on in my life the last year or so. I hope everyone else is doing great. I do not see myself returning to tumblr anytime soon, it takes up waaaaay too much memory and space on my phone. But you never know. Cheers and have a wonderful holiday. 

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