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This weekend was awesome. Shay was in, Ben and Becky came in. Krista was here. Zach hung around for a bit. Shay brought her friend John. It was a blast. I have enough leftover alcohol to kill 5 people and probably an equally lethal amount of cookie cake. And quite a few incriminating photographs! I'm sure there are some of me on these disposable ( Read more... )

 Well, today (I guess technically yesterday) was my 21st birthday ( Read more... )

That's the title of a manuscript the professor I'm working under has published and basically what I'm going to be working on this summer here in Morgantown. It's pretty neat stuff once you get a handle on the details and vocabulary ( Read more... )

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129

Very cool.

I'm back from the Amazon. It was quite an experience, and I loved it despite cold riverwater showers and sweating through my clothes all the time. :) Seeing how some people live down there really put things in perspective for me ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I leave for Iquitos, Peru and from there, into the Amazon rainforest! I'm way excited.

I'll return to the States on May 28th. Enjoy your May, everyone! :)

The on-campus portion of the Amazon May term started today. Moved back into a very empty Jenkins. I'm pretty sure there's only one other person here, on the floor above me. I haven't seen anyone else except people moving out this afternoon. There's an air of disturbing post-apocolyptic abandonment and sad nostalgia around here. I'll never again ( Read more... )

Junior year is pretty much over by now. I've just got my Evolution exam to get through. I can't believe we've made it through three years of college. It makes me a bit dizzy to think about it. It's almost over. Just one more year!

This year has been a blast, though. I'm glad some of my friendships from Ireland have persisted because I met some ( Read more... )