The Ghost of College Past

The summer before I started school I was offered an amazing opportunity to spend a week in Chicago for the international Girls World Forum. I was more than eager to go and it would be the first time that I'd be traveling out of the time zone. Read about my trip here: http://www.girlscoutsnyc.org/blog?p=470

... and learn a little about one of the greatest experiences ever.

This is not a healthy way to live.
Welcome to college, it's all fun and games until its not.

Hell Week

Finals are upon us, and here's what's going down:

1. Sleep, but no rest
2. Adrenaline, but no will
3. EXHAUSTION, but no end
4. Sugar, but no high
5. COMPLETE AND ABSOLUTE EMPTYMINDED-NESS

On this day, I stared at my computer a whole lot and bought things from the interwebs.
Progress scale = 2% Accomplished!
It doesn't help that you can see turquoise water in the Caribbean from Living Earth. This chica needs a long vacation.

Spring 2013!

1. I think I'm sick. It sucks a lot. But I may just be delirious

I may be getting ahead of myself, but I'm really looking forward to spring semester. Even though it'll mostly be terrible weather until the end of April-ish, spring is a good season for me. Unlike the fall, I don't get allergies (yay!) and instead of getting miserably colder, it gets wonderfully warmer and by May, you get to go home and enjoy the wonderful bouts of sunshine and happiness. Sounds marvelous! I think that as long as I get the majority of the classes I want, I should be pretty happy. Nothing beats a class you really enjoy, but that's just the nerdbot in me speaking.

Plus, the springies are coming! It'll be nice not to be the freshest of the pick and funnily enough, the friends that I've made prior to coming here were all springies. But now they're coming and friends will be bountiful and everything will be wonderful!

Another plus: crew is starting back up! Although we won't be getting on the water for a while, I think it'll be nice to get back into the in-season routine.

But before the next semester starts up, Christmas is coming! I think that everyone's so obsessed with the close of the semester and finals and everything that they've forgotten that CHRISTMAS IS TWO (and a half-ish) WEEKS AWAY! I'll admit that what really got my excited about Christmas was the Holiday update for Tiny Tower #lame.

Before I start hurling everywhere, I'm just going to go back to watching Scandal and Grey's Anatomy and maybe I'll make some tea or something. Sucks to be sick.

Almost There

Bonjour, mes amies!

Can you believe that it's the end of the semester?! Only three more days of class to go until dreaded final exams...

Now that I've successfully completed my first semester of college and have nearly made it out alive, here are a few highlights:
1. Every single morning on the river, regardless of having to wake up at 5 and going to bed at 9
2. The anticipated A in my business seminar (that isn't actually official yet)
3. Founder's Day!
4. "Climbing" the mountain on Mountain Day

Nevertheless, I can't wait to go home and reunite with the wonderful city that I've missed so much! See you on the 15th, NY.

Fantasy Heaven

Holy moly please give me a moment while I process the fact that SCOTT SCHUMAN (The Sartorialist) and GARANCE DORÉ are a COUPLE. How on earth did I not know that?!
But actually, they are two of my favorite people in this world. I was even at the bookstore yesterday looking at the Sartorialist book and wondered why there was a section devoted to GD. It's like a match made in fantasy heaven sent to make us earthlings amazed in wonder.

On another note, I am now a proud owner of a 5, and for you un-savvy non techies, that's what the hip people call the iPhone 5 (just kidding, we don't say that). This means that I am now connected to the world 24/7 and that I am officially a cool cat. But more seriously, I got my contacts transferred then somehow deleted them all once I came back to school after Thanksgiving (which was marvelous btw thanks for asking). So if you contact me and I have no idea who you are, don't be offended (this applies to most people). Anyway I now have Instagram and you can also challenge me to a game in scramble with friends (and I will defeat you). But it also does not help that even though I have unlimited data, Sprint has TERRIBLE service in sohads.

Now you may go to bed happy and fulfilled.


From my iPhone

Thanks!

"Nostalgia needs time. One cannot accelerate meaningful remembrance." NYT

Now that Thanksgiving is finally upon us (nearly)  there will only be 2 weeks left in the semester upon our return on Monday. I've survived my first semester of college! I remember not being able to imagine myself in college when I was younger and I'd think Maybe I'll die before I get there... Well, silly 6-year old me was just not very bright. Anyway, I will commence this Thanksgiving break with a list of things to be thankful for:
1. People: family, friends, the whole lot! Because without people, you'd be very lonely and sad. Then there's all that wonderfulness that comes with them. It's like a package deal- you can't get one without the other.
2. The concrete jungle: I'm thankful for New York because it is such a wonderful place to grow up and as Neel Shah said in Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, "The suburban mind cannot comprehend the emergent complexity of a New York sidewalk." I couldn't imagine thriving anywhere else.
3. Opportunity: Without opportunity, the world would not progress.

Then all the other random wonderful things in the world (in no particular order):
1. Pho
2. Bubble Tea
3. Kimchi
4. Uniqlo
5. Cake
6. MTA
7. Moleskine
8. Muji
9. Google
10. Wikipedia
11. Facebook
12. Kellogg's 
13. Nutella
14. Rice cakes
to infinity and beyond...