Maybe it is a very good thing that sometime later in my life I will have to wake up early in the morning and work work everyday.
Because of this.
I resisted going to bed early tonight for some reason even though the past few days have been absolutely horrible thanks to my problem set. Maybe I'll think differently in the future.
Wow, writing this is impossible because Opera web browser makes typing so slow
Friday, 30 November 2007
Saturday, 24 November 2007
my thoughts, my thoughts my thoughts my thoughts
Whatchu gon do with all that junk
All that junk inside that trunk?
Well, I had to clean it out.
I'm talking about the trunk of my car. I cleaned it out this summer, and in doing so managed to erase a great part of my personal history. Listen. Most of that junk had been accumulating in there since graduation; so naturally there were a lot of happy moments stuffed in there. Each object gave off the gas of memory (wow, bad writing), from happy cards I got at graduation (and especially one in particular) to stars from the prom with the glitter-drawn names almost fully faded to pages and pages of sheet music from duets and songs I had played at piano concerts. This is not the whole list; tennis rackets, which even for a month or two weren't all mine, textbooks that I had failed to sell back to the Prep or to Tufts, and a bunch of beautiful clutter that made it difficult to get the replacement tire out of the car, remember that? Yes, with all that junk, all that junk inside that trunk, I was ridin' dirty and rollin' for quite some time, but the time came to clean it out.
And so ended an era.
All that junk inside that trunk?
Well, I had to clean it out.
I'm talking about the trunk of my car. I cleaned it out this summer, and in doing so managed to erase a great part of my personal history. Listen. Most of that junk had been accumulating in there since graduation; so naturally there were a lot of happy moments stuffed in there. Each object gave off the gas of memory (wow, bad writing), from happy cards I got at graduation (and especially one in particular) to stars from the prom with the glitter-drawn names almost fully faded to pages and pages of sheet music from duets and songs I had played at piano concerts. This is not the whole list; tennis rackets, which even for a month or two weren't all mine, textbooks that I had failed to sell back to the Prep or to Tufts, and a bunch of beautiful clutter that made it difficult to get the replacement tire out of the car, remember that? Yes, with all that junk, all that junk inside that trunk, I was ridin' dirty and rollin' for quite some time, but the time came to clean it out.
And so ended an era.
Sunday, 11 November 2007
Happy Belated Daylight Savings Time Ends Day!
I think this is one of the best rap verses of all time.
"It's time to set your clock back 'bout as long as you can"
-Ludacris, from "One Minute Man" by Missy Elliott
We're all (I think) going through some roughness here, so wait for the ludacris situations to go away and the daylight to return. Rough it out; it'll only seem like a minute in future retrospect.
hee hee
AHOY
"It's time to set your clock back 'bout as long as you can"
-Ludacris, from "One Minute Man" by Missy Elliott
We're all (I think) going through some roughness here, so wait for the ludacris situations to go away and the daylight to return. Rough it out; it'll only seem like a minute in future retrospect.
hee hee
AHOY
Friday, 2 November 2007
For the sake that we never separate...
...post some blog entries!!
(I'm referencing sp1.) Anyway, I spent today thinking about whether I'll major in Japanese or French, and the first four days of this week I was seeing all of the great sides of the Japanese major: overall better teaching, the professors are more motivated to try to court people over to the major so that means they care more about the students (in this case, it does, anyway), a culture so fascinatingly separate in appearance from our own, a language so undeniably different from ours, an AMAZINGLY beautiful country (upon visiting both France and Japan for 2 weeks each, it was by far the more beautiful country just speaking visually), a (allow me to use the word again) fascinating drive to constantly get more modern (what does that even mean?), and did I mention my homestay mother was crying when she said goodbye to us after just spending the weekend with her as my host for a homestay? And the Tufts program is in the prefecture right next to the one where she lives, so I'll definitely be able to visit!
But today, my mood was totally French major. Easier to fulfill the requirements, I can actually take and fully comprehend all the courses in the language (most Japanese culture courses are in English here as they are in the Tufts program in Kanazawa, and the couple that aren't I'd have to go to Kanazawa in order to take, and I wouldn't get to take those courses until senior year), I can read in the language (to be able to read a Japanese newspaper takes 10 semesters at least of study. Or was it 10 years?) and that means bury myself in some good literature at a Paris café, the abroad program forces immersion unlike the Japanese program which doesn't so much (they put all the foreign students in a foreign-students dorm), the social structure isn't so rigid, France doesn't have that drive I see in Japan to get constantly more modern (you see how that could be a bad thing in Japan if I ended up living there?)...
I really don't know. I'd go for the triple major, and that's also another option (actually, right now, dropping math as a major would be really cool, I think, but my parents wouldn't like that), but what I need the most is time. time To relax, to think, and to be human. That's what I had freshman year, and that's what lacks really badly right now. That's what undergrad is for.
(I'm referencing sp1.) Anyway, I spent today thinking about whether I'll major in Japanese or French, and the first four days of this week I was seeing all of the great sides of the Japanese major: overall better teaching, the professors are more motivated to try to court people over to the major so that means they care more about the students (in this case, it does, anyway), a culture so fascinatingly separate in appearance from our own, a language so undeniably different from ours, an AMAZINGLY beautiful country (upon visiting both France and Japan for 2 weeks each, it was by far the more beautiful country just speaking visually), a (allow me to use the word again) fascinating drive to constantly get more modern (what does that even mean?), and did I mention my homestay mother was crying when she said goodbye to us after just spending the weekend with her as my host for a homestay? And the Tufts program is in the prefecture right next to the one where she lives, so I'll definitely be able to visit!
But today, my mood was totally French major. Easier to fulfill the requirements, I can actually take and fully comprehend all the courses in the language (most Japanese culture courses are in English here as they are in the Tufts program in Kanazawa, and the couple that aren't I'd have to go to Kanazawa in order to take, and I wouldn't get to take those courses until senior year), I can read in the language (to be able to read a Japanese newspaper takes 10 semesters at least of study. Or was it 10 years?) and that means bury myself in some good literature at a Paris café, the abroad program forces immersion unlike the Japanese program which doesn't so much (they put all the foreign students in a foreign-students dorm), the social structure isn't so rigid, France doesn't have that drive I see in Japan to get constantly more modern (you see how that could be a bad thing in Japan if I ended up living there?)...
I really don't know. I'd go for the triple major, and that's also another option (actually, right now, dropping math as a major would be really cool, I think, but my parents wouldn't like that), but what I need the most is time. time To relax, to think, and to be human. That's what I had freshman year, and that's what lacks really badly right now. That's what undergrad is for.
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