On Procrastination: Or How I Wasted 1.5hrs by Making an iPad Case

It’s funny how desperate the find gets for relief and change from normal routine under the stress of college and readings and impending psets. Today, my mind decided it wanted a new case for my new iPad. Inspired by the recent library sessions, I thought, hey! A book would make a perfect case for my iPad! My library buddy was not impressed. In the tones similar to when he tells me how my latest internet discovery was on reddit weeks ago, he shook his head and flatly said, it’s been done. You can buy tons of cases like that on Amazon!

Undeterred by this lack of enthusiasm towards my latest idea, I kept it in the back of my mind every time I pulled out my iPad to do a reading. Until finally, I had one reading too much, and my tired mind refused to fuse morphemes into meaningful sentences.

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Published on March 29, 2012 2:03 am.
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Startup Fair

Was so fun today. I loved talking to all the start-ups, even if I wasn’t too interested in joining any of them. These are people who are truly passionate about their work, their projects — I’d love to find my passion and do the exact same thing.

Published on February 10, 2012 11:53 pm.
Filed under: Life

Expectations

Somehow we started talking about expectations.

It started off playful, of course, with silly name-calling and ridiculous accusations that neither of us really meant. I don’t remember how we got to it, but things turned serious and he said you’ve met all my expectations so far so of course I asked him what were they?

His answer came after a short, weighted pause, and surprised me in being less a list of expectations, but a list of characteristics that described me. I didn’t buy it at first. No one perfectly meets every expectation on someone’s list! I could name you three things immediately why he’s not my girlhood image of Mr. Perfect.

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Published on January 15, 2012 10:21 pm.
Filed under: Conversations, Love?

Disgrace

“You are a disgrace to the Eastern Time Zone”
-T.Kolasa, after I woke up at 1pm to respond to a text he sent at 9:30am.

Published on January 11, 2012 9:03 pm.
Filed under: Conversations, Laughter

On Spam

So I manage quite a lot of websites for different clubs on campus using WordPress, including Harvard Wushu. Of course, I don’t really go in and moderate these websites too much, just once every so often. To my surprise, one day after logging in there were 300+ comments.

Wow, I thought. Wushu suddenly got really popular!

Then I actually read through the comments, and realized most of them were spam. In fact, all of them were. What amused me greatly was the content of the spam. I must say I’m extremely impressed by the thought and detail you put into these spambots, and it saddened me that these wonderful praises of the non-existent writing on the wushu website was alas, only a script. If only I could get actual comments like this on my blog!

Some highlights:
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Published on January 9, 2012 12:35 am.
Filed under: Laughter

Playing with kids is the most understated cute quality in guys ever

There is something brilliant about this relationship in not only how happy he makes me feel; but also in how much fun it is to share him with those close to me. Never before have I been so eager to introduce someone to my friends and family.

Our dinner with my blockmates, my family at school, was the first affirmation of this new feeling. Not only did I feel fantastically loved by my friends (an entire panel, judging my prospective boyfriend?) but the way he fit perfectly with their sense of humor and ridiculousness was an extra bonus that delighted me to no end.

Telling my parents about him was also, surprisingly, not a chore. I had always thought I’d dread the talk, but it came so easily, and I even shared stories about him that made my mother laugh, which I took as a rare, subtle form of approval.

Last night, my sister and I were making origami while he was hanging out online. He started playing with my sister, making silly faces, bouncing around like a 5 year old. Then he started asking her Quiz Bowl questions, and we spent the next two hours, the three of us, geeking out on obscure facts from middle school, high school nerd competitions.

That’s it, said my heart to my mind. Thats what I want do every night.

Published on December 24, 2011 2:43 pm.
Filed under: Love?, Reflections

Fall Colors

I am having problems processing all the happiness right now. This weekend was amazing in so many different ways. Good company, good scenery, exciting events coming ahead…loooove it. ♥

On Friday, my business board went out on an outing to beautiful Blue Hills, where we hiked among the falling leaves. The colors were absolutely stunning.

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Published on November 14, 2011 11:17 am.
Filed under: Life, Love?, Travel

Day and Night

Took these pictures before it got too cold to go outside. (Can’t believe it snowed yesterday, ye gods.)

View from the roof of the science center:

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Published on October 28, 2011 1:24 pm.
Filed under: Art Tags: ,

SQUIRREL

I woke up early (read: 8:30AM) for the last few mornings, because for some reason I thought it was a good idea to brave the cold to take pictures. Yes, three papers looming, cold weather chills, and yet the D90 provided generously by me yearbook begs me to use it. And so I did.

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Published on October 7, 2011 5:56 pm.
Filed under: Art

Alien Warfare

Another dream:

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Published on October 1, 2011 11:57 am.
Filed under: Dreams