Well, celebrate what you've got, I guess. I'm glad you're amused. :)
Meh, the school psychologist is honestly probably a little overwhelmed by the amount of relevant stuff here, but she thinks some of the non-enjoyment comes from the anxiety and some of the anxiety comes from the non-enjoyment, so basically part of the anxiety comes from the anxiety. 0.o Yup, I'm on my vacation, which meant Christmas shopping yesterday and I'm being press-ganged to help out in my mom's classroom sometime this week. Also means I get to play sims or just fire up my brother's computer and play portal if I feel like slacking off - I'm making Sims christmas gifts for everyone this year, though. I found some cute posters to put on meshes, because I decided that I didn't have enough simply cute stuff for kids and teens' rooms. (Though, to be fair, I know people with mostly adult sims in their stories might like them too.)
Little bit crazy. Yeah, that might be a contributing factor. Still I'll take happy Kismette no matter how crazy she appears. :)
Yeah, it only runs for one month, we and we have one class for three hours a day... a lot of our classes that require traveling, such as the archaeology digs, occur then, but on campus we just use the rest of our time to pelt each other with snowballs. The professors use it to blow off steam too, and some of the younger ones have actually been known to participate in snowball fights or sledding or stuff. :) So I figured that cryptography would be pretty good for my health given that I could spend the rest of the time drinking cocoa and taking my revenge on the fraternity at the top floor of my dorm by sniping their members with snowballs. Because, you know, word puzzles are hardcore like that. :)
Yeah, I'm still working out exactly how to measure the stuff, but I'll be popping it open at month or two month ratios, so I shouldn't loose it entirely.
Yup, pretty much what I'm going to do. I got lucky, considering most of the other Environmental Science majors that are double majoring have to do all this data crunching from outside articles because they're mostly in the field of biology. Plus, I might actually have a job this summer - one of my professors has a contact with the local department of natural resources and they need someone to test stream-water, so I'm going to give it a shot. :)
I know, it's great! How long are you on vacation? I seem to remember your break between terms lasting longer than mine usually does.
Whoa, a vicious cycle, she says? o_o I hope she's wrong. Or at least a change of environment is all that you need. :)
(Is your mum a teacher? :O) Well, you're smart enough to answer all the odd questions anyway, haha! Any cute posters!!! 8D I definitely want those, lol!
I can't help but wish for my college life to be like yours. We don't do such fun things on campus! :X I guess it's partly because I don't live on campus, heh. (Singapore is small enough, lol) Snowball fights! X)
WOW, a summer job in the midst of all that? I hope you'll survive than I did, haha!
Oh, the break officially starts from 10th Dec till 13th Jan, but you get to enjoy the holidays sooner if your exams finish early. ;) Isn't it about the same as yours? I thought we're trying to follow the US system more closely in recent years.
Our break usually lasts from December 15 or so (sometimes as late as December 19 - this year we got out early, because the alternative would have been December 21,) until the Tuesday after New Year's. So this year we've got until the Eighth of January, which is about a week and a half longer than we had last year.
I finished the posters last night, actually, so... Yeah, I'll just edit this post with a link once I've posted them.
Yup, my mom teaches fifth grade (ten and eleven year olds.)
We had a dude dressed as pac-man run down the street last spring during finals season. It was quite fun - people in different colored hoodies were chasing him and a lot of people were chasing them just to see what happened, lol. It could be the living on campus stuff, which I usually love, but it could also be that we have a large amount of people on campus who aren't taking very work-intensive degrees, and because of our required classes all of freshman year, our first and second years seem to have a lot of free time. (I remember then... I think I spent one hour per day on my homework, combined, the first three months of freshman year, and spent the rest of it playing ultimate frisbee... not to mention the fact that all of the freshmen were on campus that year for winter term (it's required) so when we got snowed in, we went sledding in laundry baskets.)
Yeah. I mean, the research was pretty good last year, and it's not like I'll have a chance at a job at all otherwise. The Natural Resources stuff is at least better than working at the outlet mall. Anyway, gotta start thinking about jobs and grad school... and oh my god, can I just crawl underground like a mole and live on the internet? Gah. Not looking forward to senior year. Especially if my brother ends up going to my university (he graduates high school this year,) because I will never hear the end of anything, ever.
Ooh, seems like you only get roughly 2 weeks, huh. (Our holidays are usually very fixed; we count by the number of weeks instead of deciding on the starting and ending dates separately.)
I can't wait to see your creations! :D
Hahaha! I think I vaguely recall you mentioning that pac-man before. It's still such a cute idea! (LOL sledding in laundry baskets! You guys are crazy! XD)
Whut, you're a top student; you'll definitely be head hunted! (But hey, I think I actually prefer waiting tables than being an engineer, heh. :P) Haha, I know how it's like to have a younger sibling in the same school! How much younger is your brother, though? Is he on some gifted program like you and gets to go University earlier?
Yeah, it's by far one of the crazier things that's happened. I'm a pretty good student but unfortunately there's still sort of a disconnect between being good in your major and actually getting a job around here, which is true for the science students as well as the ones who take a more common route, like business or communications. Most of us figure we won't get a decent job unless we go to grad school - according to a lot of professions you're not a proper scientist unless you're a doctor of something or other. :/
Oh yeah, we made our school's community page (someone videotaped us,) and were mildly famous as the six craziest girls on campus for a few weeks. We also learned, you can't overload the baskets, because there are rocks at the bottom of that hill. Still, the worst that happened to us was that there were a couple of jammed elbows when we tried to brake to avoid capsizing.
My brother is three years younger than me, and he's an AP student too. (He actually got to take more AP's than me, but that's only a function of them allowing more in the schedule now that they've changed how our high school did scheduling.) AP students don't get to go to university earlier, they just get to skip some of the basic university courses when they get there. :) Anyhow, he just got accepted to University of Chicago - which is his dream school - this week, and it looks like he could get financial aid of some kind, so maybe I won't have to deal with him being in the same school, lol.
(You know, now that I think of it, I think I might be the less well-behaved sibling. He constantly claims that nothing happens at school and I did spend a lot of my class time in high school messing around... Of course, it could be more of the fact that he's a dude and wouldn't tell me or our parents anything that would make it sound like he ever did anything interesting at school because then he'd have to talk to us, oh no. XD )
Grad school! O_O I told myself I'm done with studying when I graduate, but if I can't find a job... (no, please, no! I don't wanna go grad school!) It's kinda true, though, that it's necessary for scientists to enter grad school. :P
LOLOLOL!!! The 6 craziest girls! XD Well, you guys were lucky none of your baskets broke then, haha!!
WOW, seems like you guys have got good genes. Your parents must have been intelligent people too! :O
(Hahahaha!! I highly doubt that too! Boys are usually so much wilder! :P)
Could just be that my parents know what I got up to and they don't know what my brother gets up to. :)
Yeah. Dad's a programmer and mom teaches elementary school, so I guess my parents might be smarter than the average bear. :)
I don't want to think about grad school yet, which is good, as I can't do that until I've finished thesis (whee! thesis! I got approved to not have to do two of them!)
Yeah, see - this kind of stunt is why you should bring sturdy laundry baskets to college. :)
Meh, the school psychologist is honestly probably a little overwhelmed by the amount of relevant stuff here, but she thinks some of the non-enjoyment comes from the anxiety and some of the anxiety comes from the non-enjoyment, so basically part of the anxiety comes from the anxiety. 0.o Yup, I'm on my vacation, which meant Christmas shopping yesterday and I'm being press-ganged to help out in my mom's classroom sometime this week. Also means I get to play sims or just fire up my brother's computer and play portal if I feel like slacking off - I'm making Sims christmas gifts for everyone this year, though. I found some cute posters to put on meshes, because I decided that I didn't have enough simply cute stuff for kids and teens' rooms. (Though, to be fair, I know people with mostly adult sims in their stories might like them too.)
Little bit crazy. Yeah, that might be a contributing factor. Still I'll take happy Kismette no matter how crazy she appears. :)
Yeah, it only runs for one month, we and we have one class for three hours a day... a lot of our classes that require traveling, such as the archaeology digs, occur then, but on campus we just use the rest of our time to pelt each other with snowballs. The professors use it to blow off steam too, and some of the younger ones have actually been known to participate in snowball fights or sledding or stuff. :) So I figured that cryptography would be pretty good for my health given that I could spend the rest of the time drinking cocoa and taking my revenge on the fraternity at the top floor of my dorm by sniping their members with snowballs. Because, you know, word puzzles are hardcore like that. :)
Yeah, I'm still working out exactly how to measure the stuff, but I'll be popping it open at month or two month ratios, so I shouldn't loose it entirely.
Yup, pretty much what I'm going to do. I got lucky, considering most of the other Environmental Science majors that are double majoring have to do all this data crunching from outside articles because they're mostly in the field of biology. Plus, I might actually have a job this summer - one of my professors has a contact with the local department of natural resources and they need someone to test stream-water, so I'm going to give it a shot. :)
I know, it's great! How long are you on vacation? I seem to remember your break between terms lasting longer than mine usually does.
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(Is your mum a teacher? :O) Well, you're smart enough to answer all the odd questions anyway, haha! Any cute posters!!! 8D I definitely want those, lol!
I can't help but wish for my college life to be like yours. We don't do such fun things on campus! :X I guess it's partly because I don't live on campus, heh. (Singapore is small enough, lol) Snowball fights! X)
WOW, a summer job in the midst of all that? I hope you'll survive than I did, haha!
Oh, the break officially starts from 10th Dec till 13th Jan, but you get to enjoy the holidays sooner if your exams finish early. ;) Isn't it about the same as yours? I thought we're trying to follow the US system more closely in recent years.
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I finished the posters last night, actually, so... Yeah, I'll just edit this post with a link once I've posted them.
Yup, my mom teaches fifth grade (ten and eleven year olds.)
We had a dude dressed as pac-man run down the street last spring during finals season. It was quite fun - people in different colored hoodies were chasing him and a lot of people were chasing them just to see what happened, lol. It could be the living on campus stuff, which I usually love, but it could also be that we have a large amount of people on campus who aren't taking very work-intensive degrees, and because of our required classes all of freshman year, our first and second years seem to have a lot of free time. (I remember then... I think I spent one hour per day on my homework, combined, the first three months of freshman year, and spent the rest of it playing ultimate frisbee... not to mention the fact that all of the freshmen were on campus that year for winter term (it's required) so when we got snowed in, we went sledding in laundry baskets.)
Yeah. I mean, the research was pretty good last year, and it's not like I'll have a chance at a job at all otherwise. The Natural Resources stuff is at least better than working at the outlet mall. Anyway, gotta start thinking about jobs and grad school... and oh my god, can I just crawl underground like a mole and live on the internet? Gah. Not looking forward to senior year. Especially if my brother ends up going to my university (he graduates high school this year,) because I will never hear the end of anything, ever.
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I can't wait to see your creations! :D
Hahaha! I think I vaguely recall you mentioning that pac-man before. It's still such a cute idea! (LOL sledding in laundry baskets! You guys are crazy! XD)
Whut, you're a top student; you'll definitely be head hunted! (But hey, I think I actually prefer waiting tables than being an engineer, heh. :P) Haha, I know how it's like to have a younger sibling in the same school! How much younger is your brother, though? Is he on some gifted program like you and gets to go University earlier?
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I posted the posters
Yeah, it's by far one of the crazier things that's happened. I'm a pretty good student but unfortunately there's still sort of a disconnect between being good in your major and actually getting a job around here, which is true for the science students as well as the ones who take a more common route, like business or communications. Most of us figure we won't get a decent job unless we go to grad school - according to a lot of professions you're not a proper scientist unless you're a doctor of something or other. :/
Oh yeah, we made our school's community page (someone videotaped us,) and were mildly famous as the six craziest girls on campus for a few weeks. We also learned, you can't overload the baskets, because there are rocks at the bottom of that hill. Still, the worst that happened to us was that there were a couple of jammed elbows when we tried to brake to avoid capsizing.
My brother is three years younger than me, and he's an AP student too. (He actually got to take more AP's than me, but that's only a function of them allowing more in the schedule now that they've changed how our high school did scheduling.) AP students don't get to go to university earlier, they just get to skip some of the basic university courses when they get there. :) Anyhow, he just got accepted to University of Chicago - which is his dream school - this week, and it looks like he could get financial aid of some kind, so maybe I won't have to deal with him being in the same school, lol.
(You know, now that I think of it, I think I might be the less well-behaved sibling. He constantly claims that nothing happens at school and I did spend a lot of my class time in high school messing around... Of course, it could be more of the fact that he's a dude and wouldn't tell me or our parents anything that would make it sound like he ever did anything interesting at school because then he'd have to talk to us, oh no. XD )
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LOLOLOL!!! The 6 craziest girls! XD Well, you guys were lucky none of your baskets broke then, haha!!
WOW, seems like you guys have got good genes. Your parents must have been intelligent people too! :O
(Hahahaha!! I highly doubt that too! Boys are usually so much wilder! :P)
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Yeah. Dad's a programmer and mom teaches elementary school, so I guess my parents might be smarter than the average bear. :)
I don't want to think about grad school yet, which is good, as I can't do that until I've finished thesis (whee! thesis! I got approved to not have to do two of them!)
Yeah, see - this kind of stunt is why you should bring sturdy laundry baskets to college. :)
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