3 posts tagged “college”

I have preregistered for next semester's classes!

1. General Chemistry
2. Gen. Chem. Lab
3. Eng. 120 Literary Analysis
4. Intro o French II
5. Topics in Am. Music: Rock Music
6. Rock Climbing

I'm so excited! Especially for #5. I can't wait for that moment when everyone will be talking about how much writing or calculating or reading they have to do, and then I say: "I need to listen to 20 songs for tomorrow!" Of course, as it's Grinnell, I'll probably be writing papers and papers on the music as well. After all, the class is actually a study of American culture through music, where we'll be touchig on jazz, rock, hip-hop, and rap culture.

I just realized there are exactly 4 weeks until classes end and we enter exam week. And then it's be 3 weeks of winter break in Colorado for me, where I'm going to learn how ski and not die crashing into a tree.

02 Let It Happen

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Haha, just look at Achmed's expression. Jeff Dunham's a pretty good ventriloquist.

I have been enjoying my summer vacation immensely. While during previous summers I'll expend energy feeling guilty for not doing anything productive such as studying for the SATs and such, I have spent the last month since graduation just relaxing, catching up on reading, watching tv series I have always wanted to watch (Angels in America, Heroes, & Grey's Anatomy are brilliant!! and different in nature), and sleeping peacefully for long hours without having to wake up suddenly filled with anxiety in the middle of the night or the rise of dawn wandering if I am late for school or whether I finished all my schoolwork. I'm glad there's still a month and a half of this carefree lifestyle, though at the same time, I can't wait to get on the plane and fly to the States where I'll "commence upon a new chapter of my life" in college.

Yesterday I came upon a disturbing realization. I realized that in a month and a half, I'll be going to a place that I have never been, alone; and that in my new life, there will be nothing similar that I can think of now to my old life, except for the studying of course (though even this will be different in terms of difficulty and workload). For a moment as I had this epiphany, I felt a wave of anxiety rush over me, then I quickly push it away and tried to forget about it. Then I thought with a smirk, maybe I'm in denial. But hey, I have always preferred to live life as it comes and not to worry too much about the future, because one never knows what will happen then. And planning too excessively for the future is also unnecessary since something usually comes up and changes the course of events. When I planning about the future, I just picture the skeleton, just the structure and brief details. And for now, my plan is that I am going to college and that I am going to do premed because I want to be a surgeon, but I also think I should major in economics since too much science seriously bores me. I have always found more enjoyment in the humanities and language area.

I was looking through my computer folders yesterday and I came upon some really hilarious pictures that I don't remember where I stole from the internet a year ago:

Math work 2

Math work

Such humor. I'll consider doing something like this next time I come upon an unsolvable math probelm during a test.