suite life

i finally got around to taking photos of my room! it's not fully decorated but i hope these still convey some of its understated charm...

left: my pink cushiony spot for doing those 12-2 am reading // right: my bed plus bday gift from lx and lj from march

oops bad pic. where i study/facebook/send those incredibly long emails...

left: tn, ax, st, and dv who collectively make the suite a warm fuzzy place to live in :). ax and st are unofficially my physics tutors now. seriously who needs professors or TAs when you have PLME suitemates (that means brown students who are already accepted into brown medical school). i was so grateful to them on tuesday night/wednesday morning for helping me get through those blasted questions.

oh and there's also Sir Duckly Ducklington of Duckshire the Third, Esquire in the photo. can you spot him?!

anyway crazy week finally over. :) it was good. i even enjoy working at the career development center cuz we get to meet so many amazing students. spent an hour today with a mature undergraduate student (she was forty...but looked 25, which was unbelievable!) critiquing her resume. it was just... well i guess i feel so humbled when i talk to these people and hear/read about their life experiences. she spent twenty years around the world, being self employed, and even did humanitarian work in Haiti in the 80s. it was silly trying to put all that on her resume (we didn't).

no piece of paper will ever be able to capture a person's true talents and courage.

i really like the word courage these days...

me and who

i really don't want to end up a scrawny old spinster with the cats and fumbly knitting. i don't even like cats.

maybe it's just me and my romantic illusions...but how is it that the protagonists in books always end up with someone, however plain or flawed they may be? 'it just happens', but how does it all really happen...that moment when you just click and something is stirring and you feel all floaty and champagne-bubbly like.

there are no real answers...just felt like wondering through writing.

sophomore!

couldn't have asked for a better first week back: minimal jetlag and homework, interesting classes (especially 'the victorian novel' - steeped in novel reading, including dickens' Bleak House), beautiful summery weather, fun suitemates, and all the wonderful brownies. when i first stepped into newark airport i confess to feeling a bit sickened by all the americanism that was at once familiar yet instictively foreign. but college campus life is so different...! it is nice knowing you belong.

courses i'm taking this fall semester
* Intermediate Japanese
* Basic Physics - yeah i know what you're going to say; my answer is i actually enjoy physics and chemistry more than biology (or at least i did, back in the GCSE years). i also shopped Intro to Calculus Part II but the professors were horrible at teaching. what is with the math department anyway? is it that hard to find qualified individuals who are enthusiastic about their subject, can smile, and know how to explain integration lucidly? sheeesh.
* The Victorian Novel
* Chinese - still wondering whether to take Academic or the lower level course, Advanced II. i shopped both and am confused. i feel as if the lower level one would be an easy A; the Academic would be one of those work- hard-or-fail courses (for my level anyway). and i don't do the failing thing.

so that's about it for classes...i'm a little apprehensive about taking three languages, but a lot of people do that, so it can't be that hard. will post photos of my room some other time! i haven't finished decorating though the turquoise/blue rug lx recommended does wonders to the colour scheme, or as dv said, ties the whole room together :D.