haven't written in here much this semester...
where to start... it's been a good semester. I've finally been relieved of VD. I'm sure a ton of people are glad I'm no longer in position, and that's fine with me. I never wanted it to begin with, people could have asked me to step down at any time. I would have been happier not driving myself insane worrying about people and the house and running around and such. But it is done.
I finally did some cool stuff in college. Simply put, I made thousands of copies of a gene from a soup of a worm's cells. We were supposed to take it farther, put the gene into a plasmid and infect bacteria with it to make them make more copies and then put it into the worm again with an extra part that glows under uv light so as to follow it during the worm's development. But I only got to the copying first stage...cuz I kinda suck and messed up. ::shrug::
Which leads me to my next piece of info: So far, three of my four grades are out, and i have three A's so far...and there's a CHANCE of a fourth...which would make this my first semester getting straight A's at RPI :) :) :)
I've been sick for the past week. Second time this semester...kinda odd I don't normally get sick this often. Oh wells.
What else... its hard to say... I've done a lot of little things I guess this semester...met some new people, hung out with old friends. It's been a good first semester of senior year. I plan on next semester being a million times more awesome though. I'm getting a season pass to go snowboarding, and a snowboard for christmas. I hope to go snowboarding about two times a week, or more. I'm gonna go to Genericon for the first time since freshman year! And spend the whole weekend there. Happiness.
Something important I've learned this year:
Learn to praise people for the good things they do. Give them encouragement. Don't sit by thinking what a good job someone has done... TELL THEM. People very rarely tell each other these things, and it leads to people feeling that they are not doing a good job. It's easy to tell someone they are fucking up and yur angry with them...its a lot harder to tell them they are doing a good job and that you are happy with them. Remember to take some time out and let others know that you think they are doing the right thing.
It's kinda nice right now. No one's worrying me. I have no homework due, no classes to go to, no meetings to plan for. My dad is expecting me tonight, but if I didn't feel like getting up and going, he wouldn't trip out. It's nice to just be here for me for the first time in I don't know how long. Very nice.
Mmmm... my birthday: My stepmom Lisa (the good one) made chicken parm, pasta, and meatballs for dinner (i love her meatballs). I sat around and watched movies with alli. Saturday we layed around, went and saw pursuit of happyness... not really my kinda movie but everyone else thought it was really good. Sunday i relaxed, went to dinner with dad and my sis and alli, went to a great restaurant. Had amazing ribs, delicious shrimp scampi, they gave us popovers to begin with instead of just sliced bread, calamari i think i've never had it as good as they made it. This place was amazing. Hudson's, in fishkill. You ever have the chance to go there... DO IT. Came to my sister's apartment in the city, fell asleep watching lady and the tramp :) got up, walked around the city for a couple hours. Saw the tree in rockefeller center, walked around FAO shwartz, the Disney store (amazing... they had sculptures and painting and stuff... a lot of fun), ate lunch on time's square... and then it was time to take Alli to the train station. And I was sad. I don't get to see her nearly enough, and she makes me so happy.
Well, going back to dad's tonight, spending a couple days there. My grandparents will be around this week, so I hope to go have dinner with them friday/saturday. Then xmas eve morning/afternoon, spend it with my father and siblings, xmas eve go to dad's with christina, watch movies and relax, xmas day wake up, don't know what else. Xmas day night or the next day, drive down to VA, hang out at mom's. From there... we'll see. Hopefully...just sit around and enjoy winter break before classes start up. Need to start calling people in va to set up some hang out time.
mmm, so yea...there we are. small recap, none of the latest legendary stories...but then i don't really post those so there :P
PS I need to atleast private post my legendary stories...they are too awesome to forget.
I finally did some cool stuff in college. Simply put, I made thousands of copies of a gene from a soup of a worm's cells. We were supposed to take it farther, put the gene into a plasmid and infect bacteria with it to make them make more copies and then put it into the worm again with an extra part that glows under uv light so as to follow it during the worm's development. But I only got to the copying first stage...cuz I kinda suck and messed up. ::shrug::
Which leads me to my next piece of info: So far, three of my four grades are out, and i have three A's so far...and there's a CHANCE of a fourth...which would make this my first semester getting straight A's at RPI :) :) :)
I've been sick for the past week. Second time this semester...kinda odd I don't normally get sick this often. Oh wells.
What else... its hard to say... I've done a lot of little things I guess this semester...met some new people, hung out with old friends. It's been a good first semester of senior year. I plan on next semester being a million times more awesome though. I'm getting a season pass to go snowboarding, and a snowboard for christmas. I hope to go snowboarding about two times a week, or more. I'm gonna go to Genericon for the first time since freshman year! And spend the whole weekend there. Happiness.
Something important I've learned this year:
Learn to praise people for the good things they do. Give them encouragement. Don't sit by thinking what a good job someone has done... TELL THEM. People very rarely tell each other these things, and it leads to people feeling that they are not doing a good job. It's easy to tell someone they are fucking up and yur angry with them...its a lot harder to tell them they are doing a good job and that you are happy with them. Remember to take some time out and let others know that you think they are doing the right thing.
It's kinda nice right now. No one's worrying me. I have no homework due, no classes to go to, no meetings to plan for. My dad is expecting me tonight, but if I didn't feel like getting up and going, he wouldn't trip out. It's nice to just be here for me for the first time in I don't know how long. Very nice.
Mmmm... my birthday: My stepmom Lisa (the good one) made chicken parm, pasta, and meatballs for dinner (i love her meatballs). I sat around and watched movies with alli. Saturday we layed around, went and saw pursuit of happyness... not really my kinda movie but everyone else thought it was really good. Sunday i relaxed, went to dinner with dad and my sis and alli, went to a great restaurant. Had amazing ribs, delicious shrimp scampi, they gave us popovers to begin with instead of just sliced bread, calamari i think i've never had it as good as they made it. This place was amazing. Hudson's, in fishkill. You ever have the chance to go there... DO IT. Came to my sister's apartment in the city, fell asleep watching lady and the tramp :) got up, walked around the city for a couple hours. Saw the tree in rockefeller center, walked around FAO shwartz, the Disney store (amazing... they had sculptures and painting and stuff... a lot of fun), ate lunch on time's square... and then it was time to take Alli to the train station. And I was sad. I don't get to see her nearly enough, and she makes me so happy.
Well, going back to dad's tonight, spending a couple days there. My grandparents will be around this week, so I hope to go have dinner with them friday/saturday. Then xmas eve morning/afternoon, spend it with my father and siblings, xmas eve go to dad's with christina, watch movies and relax, xmas day wake up, don't know what else. Xmas day night or the next day, drive down to VA, hang out at mom's. From there... we'll see. Hopefully...just sit around and enjoy winter break before classes start up. Need to start calling people in va to set up some hang out time.
mmm, so yea...there we are. small recap, none of the latest legendary stories...but then i don't really post those so there :P
PS I need to atleast private post my legendary stories...they are too awesome to forget.