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Bah….blogger was down yesterday for some reason or another.

This week was surprisingly painless….Mandy and I have been studying at the Motley these past few nights….I did laundry and finished an algebra assignment….and I started this CS assignment that’s been super-fun. I am a fan of Prolog!

My Asian-American lit prof. is hilarious….she keeps hounding us to do our webCT posts all the time, but here was an email she sent us earlier:

WebCT.

Things that rule: professors who care.

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In other news, even though I was freaking out for some weird reason on Friday night, suddenly I don’t feel as nervous about my classes…..:sigh: getting back from any break is always a really tough week for me. Maybe tomorrow I’ll go over it with Dr. Liz, alongside how to take better tests. Mom thinks it might’ve started with the SATs….interesting theory, as the PSAT might’ve very well been the first test I didn’t do well on.

My friends are the best.

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Things that Rule: Crashing after an all-nighter.

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tired.

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Yay for friends!

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Spring Break came and went, and oooh it was marvelous. If you’d like me to email you an invite to my Snapfish album, let me know and I’ll happily do so! I’m not looking forward to class starting tomorrow, but I get that every year with Spring Break–for some reason I always want nothing but summer straight after Spring Break ’cause it seems like just a week is never enough! But I had an amazing week, so I’m grateful for that.

I’m finally starting to get burned out from school this year. I remember feeling pretty burnt out after sophomore year in high school, but I never quite thought it would hit me quite the same way, let alone in college. I guess I still like the work, and the topics intrigue me….but the pressure gets to you after awhile, and that’s unfun. Graduation is in just another year from now though–wow, in another year I’ll be done with thesis and on the home stretch! My plan for next year is to take a bunch of fun classes for the last semester; my two art history classes and an art elective, plus one math class (and maybe something easy, like stats or something like that). First semester should involve two theses, a math elective, and a science elective….I think I’m going to resolve to take some lighter classes next semester though, ’cause this semester’s been really rough for me….actually, not even just classwise….the RA thing was a major disappointment this year as well. And as for this semester, I think I might have signed up for too much with some heavy classes, and even though they’re fulfilling, not getting the best of grades in them doesn’t feel fulfilling. Maybe I should lighten up….the fulfillment is definitely in the learning process. So even if, heaven forbid, I actually don’t make Dean’s List this semester, I still think I’ll be proud of myself for having stuck through it and still pulling through. I learned that abstract algebra sucks, CS is really fun but you’d be insane to major in it, PDEs is awesome, even if you need to recall a lot of calc ideas, and asian american lit is good but trixy.

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Dizzy!

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Oooooh man, so tantalizing close….I want Spring Break!

^^hmm, I’ve looked at that post just now and realized how incredibly superficially I’ve been posting for the past week or so. My apologies. Inspired by Tasha’s post, I realize that I too owe people a real update. Let’s see. This morning I found myself a little taken aback by the news that Chelsea is going to be an RA and Mandy is going to be her pull-in, but I guess it makes sense too. I’m happy for Chelsea, but also surprised she’s taking the position, ’cause she knew about my troubles pretty well last semester. Last night the Math Spot opened, and the math majors did some chilling with Professor Towse. He had Lisa and AnnaLee’s theses, and it left me a little scared and thoughtful about my own. I still think about next year from time to time, but it only makes me enjoy this semester all the more. I had a good hour-long discussion with Professor Aarao yesterday about failing. Not that I’m failing his class or anything, but he was saying he had failed three math courses in his undergrad years, and it was the best thing he ever did. That left me thoughtful.

Earlier tonight Kevin and I got camping supplies for Spring Break….we’re going camping up near San Diego for a few days; I’m really excited. We’re also going to rent a car the entire break so we can take a lot of day trips, and we plan to bum around Claremont a lot too. I’m really looking forward to it; I need a break from school badly ’cause it occurred to me this week that I took a heavy load, classwise. But at least I am enjoying everything. Busy but happy (the worst is busy and unhappy, happy and lazy is almost as bad, but I like being busy and happy).

I’d also like to comment on my dissatisfaction with the HP Book 6 covers; they are quite ugly, particularly the British version.

There.

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