"that's the reason you go to college: not to gain more money, but to make this place a better world."
- Samuel Mockbee

I'm in the mood to be pretentious. To read some scintillating, incisive, witty yet wholly insightful piece of literature. Wilde, or Moliere, or even Wodehouse; something picaresque. Something which makes me feel like I'm in one long inside joke, where the author is slyly inserting hidden winks and poking fun at everything. But instead I have to go ( Read more... )

I was having a conversation recently about how the whole adage to "live like today's your last" is an incredibly peabrained and irresponsible idea. In fact, people who're told that it is their last days, and later find out that it isn't, have sued doctors for false expectations. Because it's a nice idea to live free from fear of consequences, but ( Read more... )

I finally remembered/realized why I'm studying what I'm studying. Not because I'm wonderful at it (I'm passable, but nothing outstanding), but because I'm atrocious at everything else. Like math. Or - help - physics.

In sec4, my mom refused to let me drop Amath because she insisted that I'm not dumb, and I can do it. Sure I can, but it takes me ( Read more... )

Ostensibly (I really like that word for some reason; I use it in every essay I've written for the last two years. so deliciously snarky), I have an essay to write that was due 20 minutes ago. So far, I have about three lines.Oh well, it's pass/fail anyway. But once the insanity ends (it never will) or at least lessens, I intend to read many ( Read more... )

OMFG THIS CLASS IS SO USELESS GETMEOUTOFHERENAAOOOOOOO

I SPENT A YEAR STUDYINGTHIS. I KNOW THIS BY HEART IN MY SLEEP. HALP.

I'm taking two classes with the same professor, and one's supposed to be a pre-requisite for the other, but he let me take both concurrently. Now I see why. One's called Shaping the Urban Environment (henceforth referred to ( Read more... )

I can't tell if it's my mind playing tricks on me or something, but I feel like I've been spending an insane amount of time in school or in school-related activities. Technically today I only had class from 9.30 - 12.15 and 3.30 - 4.45, but from 12.30 to 2 I went for a sample lecture because Gallatin's trying to hire more architecture/urban ( Read more... )

I'm feeling rather taciturn, which is odd since I'm actually pretty happy with life now that midterms are over and spring break is here ( Read more... )

I'm in class right now. There're about 30 people in this lecture room; I say room instead of theatre or hall because it sits about 60, maybe 70. Probably less. It's a nice cosy room, with spot halogen lighting that gives a warm, intimate feeling. It's a pretty small class, enough so that class feels more like a really one-sided conversation with ( Read more... )

THE AGENT BACKED DOWN! :D :D ( Read more... )