sometimes you just know from the moment you wake up that the day isn't going to be so hot. i had that feeling today--sleepy and groggy for some unknown reason. then i check my email and it gets worse.
mind me for venting my frustrations. i feel very underappreciated as House Manager. I suppose this position is known to be underappreciated, but people need to stop yelling at me for things I have no control over. Someone asked me if there were extra rooms in the house because her room is too cold. Look at the house map, there are no empty rooms. why are you asking me?
But even more frustrating, is that I put in a lot of time and effort to be the house manager. i spent all frickin summer measuring storm windows so that we can actually get something done on the storm window project (rather than delay it for the 7th year). and what do people say to me? "why don't i have storm windows? where are my storm windows? why haven't you gotten storm windows yet? my room is cold. i'm sorry, but the project is not as simple as a touch of a magic wand, and i'm also an mit student which means i'm not a full time house bitch.
i'm sorry if i hurt anyone's feelings. i figure not many people read my blog anyways. if you knew what it felt like, you would give me some sympathy and stop it with the "do this, do that".
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Sunday, October 29, 2006
ah, the joys of senior life
I'm liking this schedule. lots of class on wed and fri but nothing much on mon tues thurs. i think our design project for 033 will eventually start gaining headway, as well as work on my thesis. enjoying life is pretty sweet right now. today, i spent all day hanging around the house and talking to people. irene is quite funny with her daily "i'm so stupid. why can't be smarter at course six?" schpeel. yuki makes funny faces. and inna is great to chat with while heading to a coffee shop. tonight was the first time we have ever been to burdick. the hot chocolate was scrumptious!
My legs hurt. And my feet. They just don't really like me right now. Thankfully there isn't practice until Monday. furthermore, I need to learn to stop getting hit in the face by disks. Or I might loose all my teeth, make my nose crooked, and in general, become a very pitiful looking soul.
mark you calendars! mw is coming to hk dec 27 - jan 9. i will need company. let's eat curry fishballs together! i can't wait to eat all those unhealthy munchies off the street.
Lily, this was the conversation at the fondue party last night when we were watching old smite videos:
Jess (a freshman): who's that smite girl and what she doing?
Catherine: We had some very strange characters on the team last year.
Doris: You mean...lily.
Catherine: Yeah, we had A very strange character on the team.
My legs hurt. And my feet. They just don't really like me right now. Thankfully there isn't practice until Monday. furthermore, I need to learn to stop getting hit in the face by disks. Or I might loose all my teeth, make my nose crooked, and in general, become a very pitiful looking soul.
mark you calendars! mw is coming to hk dec 27 - jan 9. i will need company. let's eat curry fishballs together! i can't wait to eat all those unhealthy munchies off the street.
Lily, this was the conversation at the fondue party last night when we were watching old smite videos:
Jess (a freshman): who's that smite girl and what she doing?
Catherine: We had some very strange characters on the team last year.
Doris: You mean...lily.
Catherine: Yeah, we had A very strange character on the team.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Purple valley or Orange mountains? Either way, it's pretty out there
since i built up hype about it, i guess i should write about the highlights this weekend at purple valley:
while i slept through the entire drive up to the tournament, i had a really bizarre dream. I dreamt that when I looked down the hairpin turn, I saw a whole forest of palm trees with huge purple leaves! And beyond this forest of palm trees there was a sparkling blue body of water. When we got to the parking lot, another car pulled up beside us and out came the crew team! I said "What are you guys doing here?" And they said "oh, we have a race here. And you?" "I play ultimate now. We have a big tournament this weekend." As if this dream isn't weird enough, when we were driving back to Boston yesterday, apparently five minutes past the hairpin turn, there was a town called Florida! And the sign had palm trees and a snowman on it. Hmm...how strangely coincidental.
the first day:
we played williams B, yale, cornell, and northeastern. it was frickin' cold and windy!
meri has hands like velcro! we were at the end zone, and someone couldn't receive the pass, so then i tried to get the disk, but instead, it bounced off my shin. somehow the disk then went right through jenny's hands but managed to land in meri's hands! that was pretty amazing. but meri really just has the knack for catching disks.
yale pulled zone d on us all of a sudden in the middle of the game. since the majority of us are new ultimate players and had no idea what zone was, we were all running around the field yelling pouched and being really confused. you could imagine what a racket that was. it was quite a silly scene. on top of that, no one knew if you could call a timeout during hard cap. alas, the rules said you could.
after we played williams, they cheered "see you tonight, smite!" of course, after that there was no question that we had to make our presence at the party that night. the party was holiday themed, so we dressed for Patriot's Day. Catherine brought a red sharpie marker to embellish our arms with "Yeah America!" "USA!!!" "US Rocks!" and such. But we also wrote "America! Go MIT!" on a bunch of condoms that Darlene brought along. When we got to the party location, there is a huge mob of ultimate players who couldn't get in. Catherine pushed through the mob and got in by pretending to be a williams student who lived there. darlene, jenny, and alisha got in through the side window. Although the rest of us couldn't get into the party, Darlene really made our presence known. She gave out the embellished condoms to random people and used the red marker to write "We love USA. (Heart) MIT" on other people's arms! She wrote on everyone she talked to, some of them she knew, others she didn't. I bet people were convinced MIT made a scene when they woke up hung over with (Heart) MIT on their arms. Feel the MIT love.
Second day:
we played dartmouth, williams B, wellesley
williams kept scoring on us pretty badly using their horizontal stacking and hucking. but during the second half, we really pulled it together from low spirits to hold them off. we impressed darlene!
i caught a disk in the end zone for the very first time (even though i failed the first time i was given the chance to) ! i also finally caught a pass and threw it to someone else who also received my pass! yay, it was so exciting!
for bad pictures of me, here are karen and jenny's photos:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=1335nc74.1a1jokus&x=0&y=-ns0iv4
http://www1.snapfish.com/share/p=935231161613233780/l=216931663/g=5301247/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB
while i slept through the entire drive up to the tournament, i had a really bizarre dream. I dreamt that when I looked down the hairpin turn, I saw a whole forest of palm trees with huge purple leaves! And beyond this forest of palm trees there was a sparkling blue body of water. When we got to the parking lot, another car pulled up beside us and out came the crew team! I said "What are you guys doing here?" And they said "oh, we have a race here. And you?" "I play ultimate now. We have a big tournament this weekend." As if this dream isn't weird enough, when we were driving back to Boston yesterday, apparently five minutes past the hairpin turn, there was a town called Florida! And the sign had palm trees and a snowman on it. Hmm...how strangely coincidental.
the first day:
we played williams B, yale, cornell, and northeastern. it was frickin' cold and windy!
meri has hands like velcro! we were at the end zone, and someone couldn't receive the pass, so then i tried to get the disk, but instead, it bounced off my shin. somehow the disk then went right through jenny's hands but managed to land in meri's hands! that was pretty amazing. but meri really just has the knack for catching disks.
yale pulled zone d on us all of a sudden in the middle of the game. since the majority of us are new ultimate players and had no idea what zone was, we were all running around the field yelling pouched and being really confused. you could imagine what a racket that was. it was quite a silly scene. on top of that, no one knew if you could call a timeout during hard cap. alas, the rules said you could.
after we played williams, they cheered "see you tonight, smite!" of course, after that there was no question that we had to make our presence at the party that night. the party was holiday themed, so we dressed for Patriot's Day. Catherine brought a red sharpie marker to embellish our arms with "Yeah America!" "USA!!!" "US Rocks!" and such. But we also wrote "America! Go MIT!" on a bunch of condoms that Darlene brought along. When we got to the party location, there is a huge mob of ultimate players who couldn't get in. Catherine pushed through the mob and got in by pretending to be a williams student who lived there. darlene, jenny, and alisha got in through the side window. Although the rest of us couldn't get into the party, Darlene really made our presence known. She gave out the embellished condoms to random people and used the red marker to write "We love USA. (Heart) MIT" on other people's arms! She wrote on everyone she talked to, some of them she knew, others she didn't. I bet people were convinced MIT made a scene when they woke up hung over with (Heart) MIT on their arms. Feel the MIT love.
Second day:
we played dartmouth, williams B, wellesley
williams kept scoring on us pretty badly using their horizontal stacking and hucking. but during the second half, we really pulled it together from low spirits to hold them off. we impressed darlene!
i caught a disk in the end zone for the very first time (even though i failed the first time i was given the chance to) ! i also finally caught a pass and threw it to someone else who also received my pass! yay, it was so exciting!
for bad pictures of me, here are karen and jenny's photos:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=1335nc74.1a1jokus&x=0&y=-ns0iv4
http://www1.snapfish.com/share/p=935231161613233780/l=216931663/g=5301247/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB
Friday, October 20, 2006
wee frisbee, it rhymes, sort of
i'm suprisingly very excited about our tournament this weekend. i was quite disappointed when i realized the WILG 70s party was going to be this weekend too. but then i found out that there's going to be a party where our tournament is (not that every game isn't a party)! i'm not a party-goer, but oh boy (as gilbert strang used to always say), it's so great to be absorbed into music and dancing all crazy.
yikes, i can't even survive 5 hours of sleep anymore. my brain shrinks until it ties all my nerves into knots and i can't do anything. guess that 058 test tomorrow with an 813 assignment will have to wait. i must be reaching my limit for college sleepless hours.
yikes, i can't even survive 5 hours of sleep anymore. my brain shrinks until it ties all my nerves into knots and i can't do anything. guess that 058 test tomorrow with an 813 assignment will have to wait. i must be reaching my limit for college sleepless hours.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
climbing!
my love for climbing has resurfaced! the view at the gunks last weekend was the most beautiful thing i have ever saw. being above the tree line, you can see a plane of bright colored trees and mountains in the distance. not too far away, there was a small, peaceful pond reflecting all the lively colors of the surrounding trees. blue skies and a blazing sun covered the landscape above. i was only at the first pitch of the climb, but i felt like i was on top of the world. for once, i was above the world that controlled my life; i was more powerful than the world that gave me stress and frustration. if i were given a choice, i would have stayed there forever. at least down on the ground, you get to buy things like harnesses and climbing shoes so you can experience that rejuvenating feeling once in a while. i got my very own harness and climbing shoes! they're so pretty...
i hope i get to go climbing at the wall at least twice a week this year. i wish it was as easy as sophomore year when we ditched psetting for climbing. we somehow managed to get the pset done by the deadline. now, it seems as if no matter how hard i try, i can never get anything done. *sigh* i'll be out of here in less than a year.
to hong kong or not to hong kong for christmas?
i hope i get to go climbing at the wall at least twice a week this year. i wish it was as easy as sophomore year when we ditched psetting for climbing. we somehow managed to get the pset done by the deadline. now, it seems as if no matter how hard i try, i can never get anything done. *sigh* i'll be out of here in less than a year.
to hong kong or not to hong kong for christmas?
right on gershon...
mmm...i wonderful dinner with jingwen, dorri, lizzie, talia and her parents! that's been the best dinner since a long time. and then we had tea and coffee with mike's pastries. pistachio macaroons are the most extraordinary dessert. talia's parents are so socialable and fun. i think MIT doesn't give you much of a chance to enjoy life like this. but then again, i probably wouldn't have appreciated it as much if i didn't have torturous work here. friends are the most amazing part of life; and i think it was wilg that taught me this fact. if i didn't have people like yuki and inna to listen to my silly stories, i don't think i would be sane at MIT.
i have decided that saturday morning is my favorite time in the week. i get to sleep in and even with a lot of work ahead of me, i feel like i can do it. it's really the only time in the week that i can have a normal schedule, a normal life. i have time for a nice breakfast and tea, or i can go running with nothing to worry about.
next week: 058 pset, 058 test, 033 research, chinese homework & essay, thesis assignment. 058 really needs to give me a break. thank goodness for friends like jen who pity the helpless souls like me who stare at matlab for hours in lab and get frustrated rather than getting anything done.
:) life is hard, but good.
i have decided that saturday morning is my favorite time in the week. i get to sleep in and even with a lot of work ahead of me, i feel like i can do it. it's really the only time in the week that i can have a normal schedule, a normal life. i have time for a nice breakfast and tea, or i can go running with nothing to worry about.
next week: 058 pset, 058 test, 033 research, chinese homework & essay, thesis assignment. 058 really needs to give me a break. thank goodness for friends like jen who pity the helpless souls like me who stare at matlab for hours in lab and get frustrated rather than getting anything done.
:) life is hard, but good.
Sunday, October 08, 2006
i have made my decision...
I am determined to go to Europe next year, after I graduate. I haven't decided if I'm going to continue taking classes or get an internship. I guess it all depends on what kind of internships are available. At this point, I'm leaning more towards getting an internship for a year or so. If I like it, I might want to stay there forever. Something about the comfort zone in the US is unsettling. I want to be always adventurous and carefree; that way, i can tell everyone about my stories and people can laugh at my silliness. As my high school senior quote says, "i mean, a lot of people say differently, but I just like having people smile for me...it's so great..." I can hear Yuki's voice, "MinWah, you're so silly!"
Even more exciting, though, is that I'm going to Europe this January with my faaaaavorite wilg people. And we might go backpacking in the Alps (if we don't freeze to death?) I still have to solve my dilemma of whether I want to go to Hong Kong this Christmas. I want to see my friends from KCC and windsurfing, and Lily is also there!
hmm, I think I should stop thinking and focus on studying. After all, I'm not done with the MIT monster yet.
Even more exciting, though, is that I'm going to Europe this January with my faaaaavorite wilg people. And we might go backpacking in the Alps (if we don't freeze to death?) I still have to solve my dilemma of whether I want to go to Hong Kong this Christmas. I want to see my friends from KCC and windsurfing, and Lily is also there!
hmm, I think I should stop thinking and focus on studying. After all, I'm not done with the MIT monster yet.
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