Midterms and all that

Are preventing me from posting.
In other news, the facebook group ‘Stephen Colbert for President’ is the fastest growing group ever, and is causing facebook quite a problem because of the sheer multitude of people joining it. I posted the link to this blog on its wall and got a huge surge in traffic to this [...]

I have a slight suspicion that some of my professors are reading this

Another incentive to take this thing down!

Spending a rainy day applying for internships

It’s a very drizzly day…

and I’m bored filling out applications to work for the NSA this summer (and slightly annoyed that they have a ridiculously early, October 15th, deadline).
I decided to apply for the NSA positions to keep my options open; the consulting positions that I’ll be applying for later on are notoriously difficult to [...]

If you’re wondering where I’ve been

and why I haven’t been updating, you’re probably my mother. Hi Mom!
Well, fourth year has turned out to be pretty time consuming. Big surprise. On top of the coursework, my family was in town last week, and this required me to take many a slow and smelly taxi ride from Beijing Normal to their Chaoyang [...]

Back from Europe, preparing for Beijing

I’m back from my three week joyride through Europe. I’ve added a pretty sizable sample of the photos that I took to my Flickr page.
It was a bit daunting to get back to my computer after three weeks and see my Google Reader displaying 100+ unread articles. I spent quite a bit of time today [...]

Done with finals

Done!
I’m leaving for Europe tomorrow, and I will be back in three weeks.

Greetings from Lanzhou

I just got an interesting e-mail from my dad, who’s arrived in Lanzhou safe and sound. I thought his message was pretty amusing, and I can definitely tell that he’s getting a sense of that difficult to describe dose of oddness that many westerns get when they first go to China.
He writes,
“This has so far [...]

Computer crashed

My Powerbook G4 crashed this morning while I was in the middle of writing the final paper for my journalism class, which was due today. That caused a bit of a panic.
Luckily, I remembered that I’d sent an earlier draft of the paper to my professor using Gmail, so I recovered that document and got [...]