I'm trying to figure out how to capture what it's like to be here right now as one of tens of thousands of students living and learning on this campus, which, despite what I've said in the past, is nice. It is a good place, and I've come to like it. Some day in the near future I'll probably be walking along one of these sidewalks and get hit with ( Read more... )

TDL:
-Bowings and fingerings for....at last three pieces
-Start writing managerial interview paper
-Do some math homework
-check CS website for quiz study guide
-check CS website for projects
-draw something
-plot
-Buy dress?
-Get haircut??

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J's been living at the boyfriend's house pretty much all week. Before today I'd seen her for maybe a total of four hours in the past I dunno...six months? I picked her up from there to bring her home so we could all decorate the house for Christmas as a family because we have nine aunts, uncles, cousins, and nieces coming into town tomorrow. Now ( Read more... )

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I went on a TED talk kick yesterday because it was my first night of real freedom in like two weeks. I've been working for the last week, solid, on a huge project which we finally turned in the paper and presenation for. So thank goodness that's over. I don't even want to hear a word about it anymore, the whole experience had part of me in constant ( Read more... )

But I didn't get enough sleep for it to have its normal effect on me. The only thing that feels really different is that I have a little stomach upset and I can feel my heart beating....which is a little weird. It's both awesome and horrible that I need to sleep tonight. I would be much more comfortable with the material in the presentation if I ( Read more... )

[Everything is still okay. You have work to do. It feels like more than it is but there is definitely time to do all of it. You might even be able to doodle today. Isn't that nice ( Read more... )

As the pressure ramps up for the end of the year, it gets to be more and more of a battle to fight my natural inclination to freak out. My brain is a rolling growing mess of "YOU HAVE TO DO THIS" and "WHAT IF THIS BAD THING HAPPENS". It starts at the simple stuff like worrying if I'll get my work done on time and it starts to extend to whether I'll ( Read more... )

Goes to show the lengths to which I will go to avoid studying. I will study this section of the material and then I will stop and do something else ( Read more... )

I got the results from yet another career assessment. This one's mostly based on your own perceived interest in various fields, whether you know the field very well or not. It correlates other people's perceived interests with their career satisfaction or something ( Read more... )