This thesis outline is kicking my ass. How does this sound for a statement of purpose: In the context of cross cultural literature, I want to explore the duality between the true but unrecognized self and the false outer being whose sense of identity is determined by the need to adjust to the demands of a fundamentally alien society.Today was a ( Read more... )

I am so stressed, you can't even imagine! This writing-two-research papers deal is not working for me, especially since senioritis is in full swing ( Read more... )

On Friday, I went to a Karaoke bar for the first time in my life. I disovered the following:
a) I am tone deaf
b) Julia has an amazing voice
c) We ARE the new Spice Girls: "If you wannabe be my LOVER, you gotta get with my friends! Make it last forever, FRIENDSHIP never ends!"Oh that was a BLAST. After the Karaoke-ing, we wandered around Midtown, ( Read more... )

Take the quiz: "Which American City Are You?"

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s0d4496 [12:59 PM]: Last June, a nine-year-old Indian girl was married to a dog near Calcutta after a priest told her parents the wedding would ward off evil.

last night = dressing up for no reason + too much vodka + me acting like a crazy fool ("I'm SORRY guys") + samosas and cheerios + mohabbatein + candelight + talking about everything and nothing.

Let's have more nights like this (without me acting like dumbass, of course) :D

Since Friday is off and Monday is Senior Cut Day, we have a FOUR day weekend coming up. This is really exciting - the prospect of no calculus and statistics for FOUR whole days. FYI- I won't techically be cutting CALC since Ms. Potter is probably not going to be here. Too bad I'll have to start working on both my papers sometime during this four ( Read more... )

I'm looking outside, and suddenly I'm overcome by the need to take a picture and somehow capture this moment of utter tranquility. It's that time of day where the snow shovelers haven't come out yet, the little kids are still indoors, and the lawns are footprint-free. Everything is just silent, except for the sound of the snow speckled trees ( Read more... )

today was crazy! calc test first period, which wasn't as great as i had expected. u-substitutions just elude me. second, i worked on the film project with amna and we got very little accomplished. the rest of the day breezed by, with the highlight being my media class, where we acted like "true second semester seniors" in the words of ML. we spent ( Read more... )

Today was pretty eventful. First, I had to get through the Habitat Dinner from 5-8, which was a little crazy. Overall, from what I saw, the fundraiser was looking pretty successful. Saj, Fram and I were ushers, and we had to walk all over the place, leading people to their seats. Of course we were FREEZING and our feet were hurting like crazy(high ( Read more... )