Just One More!

One last final on Friday, then a week of blissful nothing! Winter retreat (going to learn how to ski!) and to cap it off, Eric's visiting from MIT the last weekend! Super excited. =]

Got my math and biochem grades back. Not too shabby. Pretty worried about physics still though... And econ today was rough, though I'm pretty sure (I really hope) I passed...

Bit worried about history honestly. So many topics and emperors, and I've never been good at keeping events and dates straight haha... Well, I have two whole days. Time to cramcramcram!

(Not) Being Premed

In light of lots of conversations lately regarding premeds and their attentiveness to grades and GPA, I can only be insanely thankful that I have no plans to go to med school, no matter how much I joke that I could be a doctor. Because honestly, I couldn't. I'm nowhere near competitive enough to get the grades needed. I'm happy with my B+s most of the time; an A- is a blessing and an A would be a miracle in quite a few of my classes. Hearing friends talk about a B+ like it's the end of the world is honestly just... sort of sad and rather demoralizing.

I'm sure I was guilty of it myself in high school. And not that it makes it better, but we're at Princeton now. Princeton. The currently ranked #1 school in America. Princeton, with its grade deflation and difficult courses. A B+? I'd say that's pretty damn good.

But at the same time, I can't help but feel a little insecure. I'm studying hard. I study with these people sometimes. Why am I not doing as well? Sure, I don't do it for the grade, and I don't worry about my grades as much, considering I'm not premed, but still...

It just makes me feel a little bad.

1 Down, 4 To Go

I'd like to say I'm done with physics, but that's not entirely true... And it sort of sucked. Ah well. I've never been good at physics, and I'm still not. Judging from the fact that I have no intention of taking anything beyond intro, I will never be good at physics. Meh, I'm okay with that I guess.

Math tomorrow, biochem Sunday, econ Tuesday, classics Friday. Then retreat!

Whew. Prayers please? (And prayers going out to all you lovely people in finals mode as well! We can do this!)

My friends care so much about me.

And I don't realize it enough because I don't reach out to them enough. I've sincerely been so amazingly blessed.

Going Back...

Back in the Bubble! And hard at work at not doing work. =P

Landed around 7:15am, baggage claim took about an hour. We barely missed the 8:30 NJTransit (my fault since I thought taking the elevator instead of the escalator would be fine, but that made us late for the AirTrain and the next AirTrain made us late for the train...). Anyways, we got back in one piece though! Big shout-out to Jenny for helping me with luggage on the way back. =]

Got to the dorm, unpacked, slept for like 4 hours, derped around for an hour, got dinner, slept for 3 more hours... Currently derping more haha.

Tomorrow's not going to be productive either, but I get to see Matterpie! Planning on a day of just chilling, with snow-related things (the snow's so clean since no one's on campus to walk over it!) and Wall-E. Excited ❤

Lisaur ❤

Luggage Woes

I fail to see why I consistently have so much crap to bring back and forth. Basically, I don't understand why I fail to learn that I really only need to bring back jeans because I have a horrific amount of clothing both at home and at school. (Lawrence, if you're reading this, you're right, you don't need to say it.)

In the weakest of defenses, half my luggage is books. Most of which I didn't look at either.

Hopefully I'll learn next time. I think the books are here to stay - I should plan better and not bring all of the subject back (so I'll probably leave my humanities behind next time) but I do like having the safety of knowing I could study if I want to... Safety net overrides reality I suppose.

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On the upside, bowling and lunch was tons of fun today! And we weren't too bad. =]

Happy 2014!

First blog post of a new year! Let's make it wonderful. =]

As if it weren't low enough...

I realized today that I had been under-estimating my GPA haha. Turns out I got an A in stats last semester. Which makes sense, because I was pretty annoyed at having gotten an A-... Which I didn't, it turns out. Derp. Ah well, it doesn't make that big of a difference, but it is a nice little boost.

Tsaichu's Adventure

Matterpie made me a game. =] A present in the best adventure of them all! (And if you're curious, the secret words made an acrostic of my name =P)

Merry Christmas! ☆

Let it Go

You know what? I have a week and a half after break to do work. I'm going to stop stressing myself out and just relax.

Frozen was amazing by the way. =]

Being Home

It's been almost a week, and honestly, while I've loved being home and hanging out with friends, I'm also insanely restless. I've been trying to study but not getting anything done, and just being more stressed as a result.

And I think it's honestly impacting the rest I get - my dreams have been chock full of people trying to kill me. And I've been sleeping a lot if not through the entire time... I generally fall asleep by midnight and don't get up until like 10am...

I don't remember it being this hard last year. I don't know what's going on.

One More Day

Feeling a bit melancholy that most of my friends have left already. On one hand, it's nice to not have to fight through the snow to get to the airport, but on another, I'm rather lonely... Even the snow is making me a little sad - what's fun about snow if you don't have friends to go sledding or have snowball fights with? Even building a snowman yourself just seems a little sad...

On the bright side, had a nice brunch with Christie this morning, and I'm going to chill with Evan/Marisa/Daniel tonight! Grab dinner, hopefully see Catching Fire, and just relax. Skyping Matt later tonight too. =] I'm already feeling like I need to use all my time and start doing work, but let's be real...

Excited to go back home and see family+friends. Visit school and Amgen and just chill. Heard Cal had an early acceptance to Stanford!

In a bit of an emotional turmoil right now. Happy about some things, sad about others. Anxious about work but really just wanting to sleep and relax (it's the first day of break for Pete's sake!).

Ah well. Winter break shall be a good one.

Edit: Mostly done packing now - just a few things to pack tomorrow morning, namely my computer and uke. Found this little guy chilling in my suitcase. =] Bringing him back to Cali with me! <)

On Snowball Fights and Staying Safe

Woke up to a campus absolutely blanketed in snow, and snow still falling. I love the snow, so it was absolutely amazing. =] This campus is sincerely gorgeous normally, and absolutely stunning in the snow.

Classes went normally - classics was pretty amusing. We were supposed to have a superquiz and he gave us the option of voting whether to take it. Obviously everyone voted not to, and it turns out he hadn't prepared one anyways. Gotta love Glenn.

Had a huge snowball fight with Hansen, Michelle, Allen, Christie, Matt, and Brian during late meal. =] Pretty amazing, though now my jeans and sweater are soaked haha. Hopefully they'll dry off by tonight? Got the first dose of the meningitis B vaccine too! Here's to staying safe!

Hoping to go sledding later... Apparently Whitman lawn's pretty much out of snow, but maybe we can find some other hill? -crosses fingers-