$15,000 in winnable scholarships. My old friends. The championship soccer game. 46 points on the Chemistry test ( Read more... )

Today was happier than ever before. We are narrowing deals with a woman to have a house that has a balcony and a view that includes the entire campus and the entire bay and SF, entirely unhindered by trees or building ( Read more... )

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I just got a $2500 grant, which means, roughly, I'm going to Australia for the summer ( Read more... )

I suppose reading these other journals and their infrequencies make me happy in that we all have our own lives know and our (hopefully) out experiencing, but there is so pleasant about reading the updates of others' ideas ( Read more... )

Today Dear Jonah Matranga and the rest of Gratitude were in Berkeley for a in-store acoustic show. He was quite good and afterwards we talked and the rest of the band said howdy. Even Jeremy, who I remember Rebecca describing as the mean guy of the group, was nice. But hey he's not so bad. And Jonah invited me to dinner at his favorite veggie ( Read more... )

I truly feel I go to the greatest University in the U.S. Maybe Harvard is close, I'm not sure. It's not being elitist, it's just embracing opportunities ( Read more... )

These days are like riding a public bus, stop and start and stop and start. Morning laziness followed by 2 hours of tennis where I realize that yes, there are many players much better than me. I bike home again. Pace around the room and clean, bike back to campus, watch the Afro frat go through its induction rituals on the steps of Sproul, and then ( Read more... )

Well it's the night before my last full day in Hobart. I've come to realize that this place means more to me than possibly any other I have ever stayed in. Definitely on par with Berkeley, or maybe even more ( Read more... )

I have come back from the Franklin River, and for once since I departed for LAX in July, there is no more left to do. No more intineraries. Nothing left to plan out. To live. Just a few dying mellow moments with my dear friend Kieren and then a trip to the states ( Read more... )