and exciting. I don't think I'll ever be able to be truly CONTENT with my life; there are always things that I want to do and ways I can better myself and experiences that are offered. That's my happiness, I guess. Never knowing whats coming next and just going with whatever comes your way.
I have been busy...it's been good.
I had a good conversation today about caring. Like actively deciding what to care about and what to think about and neglecting the things that you deem unnecessary. He said just care about what you have to care about because everything else will blow over. SO right, I just need to remember to apply this to my life more, because lately I tend to get swept away by every little breeze. It's fun I guess, but to be anchored is more practical.
My midterm is tomorrow which is why I decided to write a blog that trails off and has no definite substance. Should really study.
Plus, I'm waiting for a real blog worthy thought to enter my head.
Till then, stay free of swine flu!
4.29.2009
4.21.2009
unreachable
where is everyone! ):
true or false:
all we really want is to feel like we belong.
i miss you guys
true or false:
all we really want is to feel like we belong.
i miss you guys
4.11.2009
oh lately it's so quiet
it's perfect timing, really.
My parents+sister came down to visit today; so we spent some green on delicious food & clothing. My tame Saturday ends thus: cleaned my room, wrote, etc. And this, I suppose.
DIRECTIONS:
- Go to Google image search.
- Type in your answer to each question.
- Choose a picture
- Use this website (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php ) to make your collage.
- Save the image for use in this note.
- Post and tag all your friends.
QUESTIONS:
1. What is your name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What is your hometown?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. What is your favorite movie?
6. What is your favorite drink?
7. What is your dream vacation?
8. What is your favorite dessert?
9. What is one word to describe yourself?
10. How are you feeling right now?
11. What do you love most in the world?
12. What do you want to be when you grow up?
It was entertaining.
My parents+sister came down to visit today; so we spent some green on delicious food & clothing. My tame Saturday ends thus: cleaned my room, wrote, etc. And this, I suppose.
DIRECTIONS:
- Go to Google image search.
- Type in your answer to each question.
- Choose a picture
- Use this website (http://bighugelabs.com/fli
- Save the image for use in this note.
- Post and tag all your friends.
QUESTIONS:
1. What is your name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What is your hometown?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. What is your favorite movie?
6. What is your favorite drink?
7. What is your dream vacation?
8. What is your favorite dessert?
9. What is one word to describe yourself?
10. How are you feeling right now?
11. What do you love most in the world?
12. What do you want to be when you grow up?
It was entertaining.
4.06.2009
cut the crap
What are you doing in college? What are you looking for? An actual education? Fun? Lasting friendships? A relationship? Experiences that will help you get a job? Life lessons? The chance to experiment?
Honestly, why are we where we are right now? Past the reasoning that my father paid for this academic pathway and that's how I'm in this dorm, what am I REALLY doing here?
Success, I just overused my question mark key. But seriously. Answers appreciated.
Honestly, why are we where we are right now? Past the reasoning that my father paid for this academic pathway and that's how I'm in this dorm, what am I REALLY doing here?
Success, I just overused my question mark key. But seriously. Answers appreciated.
4.03.2009
sigh of relief
So judging from the varied "IMUNNA DIEEE" tweets that my friends posted, I'm guessing we all pretty much had a hard week. This week was jam packed for me and I am now over the week 1 hump, with two rather sad side effects:
1. Busy schedule = no time for project 365. I neglected it rather shamefully, and I am realllly sad about this. I guess it only really lasted for 60 days? I'll pick it up again later, for sure.
2. My throat is starting to get a little sore, which frightens me. I DO NOT WANT TO BE SICK! ):
Besides that, I have tons of reading to do this weekend. Which I am actually not dreading. In fact, I am kind of excited to pick up my texts! My classes are pretty engaging and interesting so far and I'm happy that I picked classes that actually spark my interest:
Stats & Probability: okay, so this class has a lot of homework and tests but I'm thinking that's gonna keep me on the ball. The reading is pretty easy so far and there's a lot of people in this class with me. By far the best thing about this class is the professor. He reminds me of an old wise turtle cause he talks kind of slow and has some sort of strange (but kind of enjoyable) inflection. The first class he was sick so he sounded like he was drowning in his own phlegm half the time, especially when he said "guh-guh-guhghg-good". He keeps everyone awake in this class with his slow, subtle humor...or actually, I think most of the time everyone is just laughing at how strange he is. Haha. The first class he talked about giraffes and now I'm not sure I know what a giraffe is. Today he talked about letting a die decide the route of your life and now I'm convinced that it will be a fun experiment.
Humanities Core: The lecturer this week is relatively good. What I'm most concerned with is my pregnant discussion leader. First of all, I am a little bit (a lot bit) freaked out by pregnant women, and damn she is PREGNANT. Her belly button is no longer inverted. Every time I look up there I think about how there are actually TWO PEOPLE behind the podium, not just one. So she's due like 8th week of the quarter so she's leaving 6th week I believe. She made a joke about how she might go into labor in the middle of class...nobody laughed. Everyone kind of got tense and looked at each other like "how fast do you think I can drop this discussion??" She tried to smooth over that fail joke but I don't think it worked. She's really nice though, really smart and I feel like she'll be a good discussion leader. Second bad thing about this situation is that once she leaves, my professor (aka HEAD of the whole HumCore dept) is taking over. Just the last three or four weeks...oh yeah, and she's grading my research paper (70% of my grade) and my final (50% of my grade). I'M A LITTLE SCARED.
Atmosphere: This teacher is clueless. She struggles with her powerpoints and all the TAs are super ^___^ Y so they don't really know how to help her either...but it's okay. It's KIND of interesting, so far I've learned about the ozone and water vapor and great things like that. ALSO this guy: TROY HARTMAN. Surfs on air! Because really, we are at the bottom of an ocean of air! Hahaha. SO COOLLLLL. Oh and during the first class she mentioned "Pineapple Express" and EVERYONE perked up. But she didn't mean THAT kind of pineapple express...she meant the warm current of winds from Hawaii! Duh!!!
Urban Studies: Definitely love this class. The teacher is super passionate and pretty much knows EVERYTHING about every city that ever graced the face of this planet. He seriously made the three hour lecture super interesting, he has tons of pictures (that he took himself!) of cities ranging from Machu Pichu to Vienna to Beijing to Mumbai. He's super well-traveled, knowledgeable, approachable, and e's really funny too, and the class feel is just really engaging and interesting. This class is making me consider a major in urban planning or urban studies.
Besides academics, I've been rushing for PAPhi Lil Sis this week. So I went out to all their events just for fun and to meet people and they all turned out to be really cool. I'm a little wary of doing the program and I'm not completely sure I want to be invested in it yet, but we'll see what happens. The rush chair actually JUST called me and told me to come pick up an application at their booth sooo I will see how that goes.
I definitely had my gross grumpy patch on like Wednesday and Thursday. I was in the worst mood ever and every little thing was getting on my nerves but I'm pretty much over that now I think! Life is rainbows and daffodils again. I think it's cause it's Friday and it's sunny. (:
I've been in and out of my room so much this week that it's getting pretty grody...I need to clean and do laundry and catch up on reading and all that goodness.
Random highlights of the week:
-Natalie's phone call on April Fools
-watching Meher get his hair cut via Skype
DAMN spring break feels so long ago. Still missing NorCal hella-effing much but I'm keeping busy here so I won't die of loneliness.
1. Busy schedule = no time for project 365. I neglected it rather shamefully, and I am realllly sad about this. I guess it only really lasted for 60 days? I'll pick it up again later, for sure.
2. My throat is starting to get a little sore, which frightens me. I DO NOT WANT TO BE SICK! ):
Besides that, I have tons of reading to do this weekend. Which I am actually not dreading. In fact, I am kind of excited to pick up my texts! My classes are pretty engaging and interesting so far and I'm happy that I picked classes that actually spark my interest:
Stats & Probability: okay, so this class has a lot of homework and tests but I'm thinking that's gonna keep me on the ball. The reading is pretty easy so far and there's a lot of people in this class with me. By far the best thing about this class is the professor. He reminds me of an old wise turtle cause he talks kind of slow and has some sort of strange (but kind of enjoyable) inflection. The first class he was sick so he sounded like he was drowning in his own phlegm half the time, especially when he said "guh-guh-guhghg-good". He keeps everyone awake in this class with his slow, subtle humor...or actually, I think most of the time everyone is just laughing at how strange he is. Haha. The first class he talked about giraffes and now I'm not sure I know what a giraffe is. Today he talked about letting a die decide the route of your life and now I'm convinced that it will be a fun experiment.
Humanities Core: The lecturer this week is relatively good. What I'm most concerned with is my pregnant discussion leader. First of all, I am a little bit (a lot bit) freaked out by pregnant women, and damn she is PREGNANT. Her belly button is no longer inverted. Every time I look up there I think about how there are actually TWO PEOPLE behind the podium, not just one. So she's due like 8th week of the quarter so she's leaving 6th week I believe. She made a joke about how she might go into labor in the middle of class...nobody laughed. Everyone kind of got tense and looked at each other like "how fast do you think I can drop this discussion??" She tried to smooth over that fail joke but I don't think it worked. She's really nice though, really smart and I feel like she'll be a good discussion leader. Second bad thing about this situation is that once she leaves, my professor (aka HEAD of the whole HumCore dept) is taking over. Just the last three or four weeks...oh yeah, and she's grading my research paper (70% of my grade) and my final (50% of my grade). I'M A LITTLE SCARED.
Atmosphere: This teacher is clueless. She struggles with her powerpoints and all the TAs are super ^___^ Y so they don't really know how to help her either...but it's okay. It's KIND of interesting, so far I've learned about the ozone and water vapor and great things like that. ALSO this guy: TROY HARTMAN. Surfs on air! Because really, we are at the bottom of an ocean of air! Hahaha. SO COOLLLLL. Oh and during the first class she mentioned "Pineapple Express" and EVERYONE perked up. But she didn't mean THAT kind of pineapple express...she meant the warm current of winds from Hawaii! Duh!!!
Urban Studies: Definitely love this class. The teacher is super passionate and pretty much knows EVERYTHING about every city that ever graced the face of this planet. He seriously made the three hour lecture super interesting, he has tons of pictures (that he took himself!) of cities ranging from Machu Pichu to Vienna to Beijing to Mumbai. He's super well-traveled, knowledgeable, approachable, and e's really funny too, and the class feel is just really engaging and interesting. This class is making me consider a major in urban planning or urban studies.
Besides academics, I've been rushing for PAPhi Lil Sis this week. So I went out to all their events just for fun and to meet people and they all turned out to be really cool. I'm a little wary of doing the program and I'm not completely sure I want to be invested in it yet, but we'll see what happens. The rush chair actually JUST called me and told me to come pick up an application at their booth sooo I will see how that goes.
I definitely had my gross grumpy patch on like Wednesday and Thursday. I was in the worst mood ever and every little thing was getting on my nerves but I'm pretty much over that now I think! Life is rainbows and daffodils again. I think it's cause it's Friday and it's sunny. (:
I've been in and out of my room so much this week that it's getting pretty grody...I need to clean and do laundry and catch up on reading and all that goodness.
Random highlights of the week:
-Natalie's phone call on April Fools
-watching Meher get his hair cut via Skype
DAMN spring break feels so long ago. Still missing NorCal hella-effing much but I'm keeping busy here so I won't die of loneliness.
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