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Halloween and Other Shenanigans

// November 1st, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Academic, Personal

I swear, college is one of the greatest impediments to blogging. With so much going on and us students getting so little sleep, blogging is one of those first pasttimes to go.

The motto for this semester is “Work Hard, Play Harder”. I’m happy to report I’ve been getting consistent A’s on prelims (Cornell’s name for “midterms”, weird, I know). The weekends, which start on Thursdays really, consist of endless partying, with the frat scene and house parties dominating. Sunday is a day of recovery, and the cycle repeats again. The frat brothers range from your standard total Ivy League douchebag to the WASPy Polo-shirt-boat-shoe-wearing gentleman to the huge engineer geek. Everything and anything. Any person, any study I suppose. I’m not meeting as many people as I’d like, but I’m sure that will come with time (I want to know everyone in my small faculty, for example).

I had two costumes scraped together at the last minute for Halloween. Night 1: gold dress + shovel = … GOLD DIGGER! Night 2: pink dress with bow + pink headband with bow + pink clutch + flats with bow = … I have no idea what I was but the boys said I was Barbie so I went with that. The notable costumes included your standard supermen, slutty bunny/maid/I’m-just-going-to-well-lingerie, rappers, nerd, bumble bee, police officer, Keystone light (rofl) etc. I might post photos at Snark if I have time.

I’m looking forward to my next 3 or 4 weekends.

Nov 6 - 8: going to Harvard for HUWIB’s Inter-Collegiate Business Convention
Nov 13 - 15: going to Syracuse University for an all-expense paid charrette
Nov 20 - 22: going to Kingston, Canada for Royal Military College’s annual Christmas Ball
Nov 27-29: Thanksgiving, everyone in my suite will be gone. If I stay in Ithaca, my friend from UPenn might be coming to visit.

For Fall Break I went to visit friends in Toronto, had a blast, shopped a lot, it’s nice to be near civilization again!

P.S. - Anyone doing Nanoblomo? I don’t think I will be, but I will subscribe!

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Happy V-Day!

// February 13th, 2008 // 11 Comments » // QOTW, Wordless Wednesday

Remember Valentine’s Day in highschool? Yep, we’re all too busy wasting all of our money sending paper roses and four-buck-a-piece chocolate and grams to be delivered to our friends/s.o.’s classes. Ahhh… the good life.

QOTW: How do you plan on celebrating/boycotting Valentine’s Day? Thoughts on the day itself?

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New Year Activities

// January 9th, 2008 // 11 Comments » // Academic, Fashion, Personal, Wordless Wednesday

Baked: peanut butter oat bars (see recipe) I’m surprised at how much ingredients I had readily available at home.

Peanut Butter Oat Bars

Ate: Plain sushi and Californian rolls. Mum’s first attempt of making them was a complete success!

Californian Roll Sushi

Bought: Hoodie from Garage (pics as close as possible), print dress from Costa Blanca, and brown belt from Suzy Cher. Call this my post-unable-to-get-anything-on-Boxing-day splurge. Don’t you hate it when after Boxing Day, only the Large and Xtra Large sizes are left?! What about us small people, grr!

3/4 Sleeve from Garage

Print dress and belt

Addicted to: HOUSE. Can’t believe it took me till now to settle down and watch it. Episodes of House interspersed with university application essays completely saved my sanity. Finished season one, woot!

House

Neglected: Solids of revolution in integral calculus, BAHHH!

Integral Calculus

And that’s what I’ve been doing so far in the New Year. Oh yea, speaking of calculus, yesterday I fell asleep as soon as I got home (6pm), napped for 5 hours, got up at midnight and did 2 hours of calculus, then went back to sleep . I forsee much more of this in my IB future.