| --------------------------------------- Thursday, September 15th, 2005 |
| when leaves fall... |
| A beautiful morning up here in Uconn! Relatively speaking anyway, because it's raining outside. At least the humidity's gone. What's new: Well, I just discovered that my roomates Thor and Brian are both running for President and VP, respectively. I have as much confidence in them as I would in a turtle jumping to the moon. But we can hope, can't we? :D Just kidding. I think they have a pretty good chance of winning, because the ballot was smaller than Michael Jackson's nose... or something. If they do win, they have the power to do all sorts of stuff for our dorming area Hilltop... they can make the cafeteria start up later, or have Uconn put in some new furniture, or even install some urinals in the floor bathroom (since the floor I live on used to be a girls-only floor)!! That'd make my day. It's an essential monopoly in one room. Guess what else is just as surprising? I'm actually bored in my Chem lectures... not to say that it'll remain like that indefinitely, but for the last three weeks, I just sat in the back and drooled. All these people around me learning about moles and density and all this other stuff that makes me want to get up and scream, "I KNOW THIS ALREADY, LET'S MOVE." Mr. Tamborra taught me well during the summer, and I benefited extremely during that time. I have a very good grasp on the basics of Chemistry, and then some. I want to look ahead in the next few chapters so that I don't have to study so much in the future. :P All the other classes I have marginally under control... the only one I'm really worrying about right now is Calculus... because I hate calc. With a passion. Like, I'll stab Newton when I go back in time. Where I'm so used to having high school teachers show us a problem, give us specific steps to solve it, and then do it again and again so all we have to do come test time is to spit it back out at her... In college Calc, they give you problems with little background on the chapter, and you yourself have to find out how to solve the darn things. And trig! Don't get me started on that, either. What now? I could start to piss and moan, now. But that's not how Stirba's deal with stress! We just end up jogging a few kilometers and end up screwing up our knees. Umm, I'm pretty much study for 3-4 hours a day, everyday, here in Uconn. That's not even alot, all considering. I really need to stay on top of this junk, or I'll get sucked back with all those other people that drop classes. And no one wants to admit that, do they? I found a really cool name that could be used in a story as a name of a ship, or just a username online: Elegance Enshrined. That'll probably be my alternate alias when I don't feel like everyone gunning for me when I'm Jackie Chan. So, just to give everyone a heads up. The sketch book is coming in handy, indeed. You'd usually find me writing something in there either about what I'm seeing, or what I'm feeling. It's very interesting to see what you are capable of writing, or creating. Once in awhile, I'll look back and read the last few pages... and I'll be pleasantly surprised. I wrote that? Wow. I for one will cherish it more and more as I grow older. About the quote from the song below! That is merely a translation of the lyrics from John Williams famous Duel of the Fates. There is a line from "The Battle of the Trees" as is translated into sandscrit. The original poem was in celtic, and in the 50s or 60s was translated into english by Robert Graves. The line Williams translated is below. Very interesting, no? Extra-Curricular: Yes, I am still jogging everyday. I haven't gone to a karate class in weeks, but at least I'm keeping in shape. I beat my old mile record by thirty seconds last weekend. :P *cheers* Yeah... I miss a few people. I can't wait until the next moment that I see them again. Oh, happiness! Oh, fortune! Please bless me with thy acne! I hear words: "Under the tongue root a fight most dread, and another raging, behind, in the head." Duel of the Fates Translation - John Williams |
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| ---------------------------- good morning!, Bonzai Moderator: Jackie Chan |
| --------------------------------------- Thursday, September 1st, 2005 |
| the dorm, the covers, and the books |
| Ok, where to start, where to start... I'm in Uconn now! Woot. I should have updated earlier, but I was too busy arranging everything around in the dorm. My dorm room is pretty pimp, compared to my brother's, for four dorm mates. Yes, I'm in a quad. :D Shameless fun, indeed. The really funny thing about it is that in my dorm, we have two fridges... That's right, count them! Two! And Cliff has to drag that sorry excuse for a half-fridge to his dorm, and SUFFER. HAHAHA- Besides that, everything is going a bit more smoothly than I had planned. This scares me sometimes. But I'm not in the military or anything like that, so why should I worry? It's not like anyone's out to get me... which reminds me, I should check the locks on the doors again. Anyway, all my classes are pretty challenging, and I'm sure they'll keep me pretty busy during the school year. I'm a Biology major, instead of a Chem major, like my older brother. I saw him in the middle of college last year, and decided against it. For the first two years, I have to take the same chem and bio classes as he did, but after that, I'm free for whatever I like in Biology instead of Chemistry. I always found the human anatomy and physiology much more fascinating that Chemistry anyway. That'll be my specialty. :P Cliff and his inorganic chemistry. Anybody can do that, apparently! The farking building I'm dorming in has no AC! What are they smoking? They're clothes? I'm dying in here! All I have to do is touch my bedsheets, and I feel the flame come shooting out of my... none of your business. I guess it'll be a bit better in the winter, when instead of my butt being on fire, it's turning to ice and falling off. Ah, life goes on. The more clever of you will notice that I have moved slightly the whole site over a few pixels to be better optimized for those of you who don't have a high resolution like mine. Hehe. It is now geared for 1024x768 instead of 1280x1024. Hopefully, this will solve this side scrolling problem to see the shoutbox. Keep the comments and crits coming people! Don't let me dry up! |
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| ---------------------------- i'm melting, Bonzai Moderator: Jackie Chan |
| --------------------------------------- Thursday, September 7th, 2005 |
| september update |
| Indeed, it's time for another weekly update. Exciting stuff, in the life of Fil! What's new: For starters, the classes I'm taking are beginning to take the toll on my life. Extremely. Especially Bio 107. Their textbook is complete physiology jargon that no freshman college student can hope to understand. Calculus 115 didn't start off that hard (since we started with pre-calc), but now we're getting more and more into trig and physics, which means more appointments with my professor. As for Chemistry, I'm struggling to stay awake during the lectures, because everything they're talking about for the last two weeks I have gone over already (twice) in the past, and I managed to finish the problem set in less than ten minutes. Where it took other people two hours. What's with that? When the professors said that you would be spending four times the amount of time studying out of class than actually being in it, in orientation last year, they weren't kidding. Just reading, answering and reviewing stuff for my geo class took me a good hour and a half. Did I mention that my professor for my Bio lectures has a crazy asian accent? (He's asian, for the less clever of you.) It makes it more entertaining for him to make jokes to the class, because the accent does something that makes it seem funnier. Eh. Us college kids. The dorm room I'm in currently somehow feels hotter than the hallway which connects us to the floor of my building. I have no idea. Maybe it's all the computers, or the fact that there's always four of us in here. Although it is getting a bit cooler, especially in the mornings. I feel like an old man in the mornings. But I still sweat like heck on those bedsheets. The bedsheets are blue. Blue bedsheets. Turns out that there's this other person that has the exact same classes as I do: A bio major (in pre-med), with the same Bio, Chem and Calc class as I have. :P Very convenient, because we're a good study team. Where I am weak in Calc, I make up for in Chem, and vice versa. More like individual pillars supporting a greater structure (woohoo for analogies)! I'm trying to jog everyday, but it's proving a bit more difficult than I imagined. I really really don't like getting up early in the morning for a jog, because I just feel like crud. During and after the jog, I still feel like crud. I have a very hard time taking a shower with all the others that are using it, juggling my cleaning tools, clothes, shoes and towel all at the same time, while trying to keep it off the water-infested floor. Yeeees, I'm definitely more of an evening jogging person, but only after I'm done studying for the day. And this leads to unpredictable levels of... stuff. What now? Well, I plan to keep up my good study habits (my roomates say I make them look bad), but I have to improve on my taking notes. I'm still fooling around with a good note-taking system that would prove efficient come testing time. I am reviewing all my notes for each class everyday I get some more; and I also like to keep on top of the reading, if not already ahead. The only class I cannot really do that is Calc. :D I also want to keep up my literary side going (if I have time), by writing more of those short stories. I know, I haven't released the other two, I'm still working on those, but right now, I have lots of ideas. I bought a small sketchbook that I use to jot down any thoughts that strike me at the moment. So, expect some of that later. Extra-Curricular: For the more adventurous of you, no, I haven't found anybody that I would consider. Stop bugging me. For the love of Swedish powder-cake. I'm sure it'll just be another disappointment, anyway. I hear words: "So hold me when I'm here Right me when I'm wrong You can hold me when I'm scared You won't always be there So love me when I'm gone..." 3 Doors Down - Love me When I'm Gone |
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| ---------------------------- good nite!, Bonzai Moderator: Jackie Chan |