Monday, October 19, 2009

And...we're back!

So I have completely neglected this blog during the eventful summer and it has been so long I almost had to look up the name of it. Luckily for me I named it something rhyme-y.

So As midterm season starts up again I thought I would take my mind off things with some introspective soul searching. I had this nickname during the senior year of high school. My AP Lit teacher used to call me "Fire."

Now back then I had just assumed that it was because I was not mentally stimulated in high school I was fiery and energetic. I generated laughter, was really loud, and couldn't sit still. A sort of class clown, if you will, because frankly school was boring someone had to liven it up.

But even though I have supposedly moved on from those rose tinted intellectual dark ages, I find that I haven't really changed at all. The more that I think about it the more I realize that fire is a name that suits me well no matter how much smarter or more mature I think I have become.

College is supposedly this place where you "find yourself" or where your life changes. I'm really not sure if I have grown that much. Don't get me wrong, Columbia has taught me a lot since I have arrived. I feel as though I have learned to express myself more eloquently in both speech and writing. I have also been exposed to a much more wide variety of intellectual stimuli. However, I don't think I have yet experienced this life changing phenomenon that supposedly will change me into an adult. I am still that fire. Ironically enough, the sharpening of my analytical ability that took place here has allowed me to see that I am indeed even more similar to this "fire" than I had realized.

So let me think about this character I represent.

Fire is full of energy. I don't think there is much doubt that I am an energetic person. I talk loudly, I talk a lot, I have trouble sitting still, I have trouble focusing, etc. This I understood about myself even in high school.

Fire is warm and bright. I try to be. Of course I'm not a very objective judge of this but I do care for my friends. I like to be around people I like to see other people happy. I like to think that I usually bring smiles and warmth to people. When people are sad I like to brighten them up. I am almost always in a somewhat cheery mood. But as they say, "play with fire and you are going to get burned" which leads me to my next analysis.

Fire indiscriminately burns. Ever get too close to a fire? It burns. Does it matter who you are? No, not really. I am opinionated. I'm not going to pretend I'm not. I have things to say. I am pretty comfortable with truth as a whole. The closer you are, the more comfortable I get with the truth. And as all have experience at some point in life, the truth can hurt. Of course I'm not trying to hurt the people I am close to. I speak what is on my mind and what I think. I apologize if I hurt you by speaking my mind.

Fire is pretty uncontrollable. This kind of goes along with what I said previously. I have trouble controlling what I say and do. So do my parents. Ask them about it and they will tell you.

Fire is useful but only when given direction. If you just have a fire then you have a fire. If its not given direction, nothing will happen. I feel like I do possess at least some abilities and skills. I learn quickly but never perfect anything. I'm not really great on taking the initiative and perform much better when it is made clear what exactly I should be doing. This is ironic because I don't think I like being told what to do.

Fire doesn't "tone down." I'm sure you can make the case that on your stove if you turn it down lower the fire is lower...but I'm pretty sure if you touch the fire it will still burn you. So with fire I feel like the energy is either on or off. I also feel like it is that way with me. I have my off times and those times I am really off. Most of the time I feel like I am pretty constant. I used to play tennis by the motto "make every shot a power shot." (Actually I still do) I also feel like I tend to live life this way. Do what I want be outrageous and have fun. But power is inversely proportional to control.

I can't really think about anymore right now and whoever does read this sad blog anymore probably doesn't really care for anymore analogies anyways.

But despite this I feel as though I have matured since high school. Have slightly put my priorities in a better order. Have learned that screwing around won't get you anywhere. I have learned that life is harder than high school. Looking at myself now, I see that though there have been adjustments, the core is still the same. I am still the same person I was. Also I feel like I am still so much behind everyone else when it comes to knowing how to live the "right" way.

Also I have been completely neglecting my Art Hum review for the midterm tomorrow.
So I guess Ill quit now. I hope at least some of this made sense.

As you can probably tell, I have exhausted all desire to continue writing.

But just out of curiosity, who actually reads this? Leave a comment please?
Sorry for the rant. Also let me know if there is another addition I can make to this analogy.

Moral: If your mind is preoccupied with something, dropping whatever you were doing before and completely exhausting the intruding thought is a great way to regain focus (and take a break from studying because that is usually what you are doing when your mind wanders off). I did it and so can you!

Sunday, April 19, 2009

One of the Most interesting things that has ever happened to me

So today at about 10 pm one of the most unique experiences of my life happened. Aside from being in a building (McBain) when the fire alarms went off...with real smoke....this is definitely one of the most bizzare things that has happened here. So Jer and I were just experimenting with different drinks (non alcoholic mind you) from M2M called 2% and 17 tea both of which are pretty good if you like japanese flower candy or barley tea respectively. We had drank our fill and were walking outside and were about to cross the street to broadway when we saw these two people pushing a car. Not like a mini or like a smart car...it was a volvo wagon. A real car. They also weren't pushing it on the side of the road or something... it was in the left most lane on broadway. So as they push the car past we ask if they need help. Interestingly enough they say yes...(not many new yorkers would say yes but I guess the car was heavy) so with a woman inside steering jer and I help push the car and they pull over to the side I guess. They thank us and as we were walking away one of the guys thought he would be funny (or I hope it was a joke) and shout: "Its stolen!" while wheeling the car away. Jer and I laughed at this but did actually think for a second...wait now they have our prints and if it is stolen we are accomplises.

Hopefully it wasn't stolen and we were just being good citizens and helping out people in need. It was also so interesting to push a car...while other cars were still in the road. Ones that were not broken. I suppose it was a little dangerous but people have to live on the wild side a little. Prior to this I had always wanted to push a neutral car...now my dream has come true. I wonder what happened to our travellers.

In other news Days on Campus kids piss me off. Them and their cliquiness already and their carefree attitude. They think they are all super cool because the were accepted. They don't know what columbia is about yet. Come Fall 2009 their eyes are going to be opened wide. Say good bye to your innocense...welcome to HELL..... BWAHAHA I really want to say that to them. :/ maybe when Im a senior.

Ok now since I am pretty sure I won't be going to econometrics...again I should probably go to bed so I can at least make micro. Goodnight!

Moral this time: NYC is a city with unlimited opportunities for Fun and adventure but also for failure and disappointment. For those failing and disappointing times Kevin and Jeremy are always there to help...hopefully you actually need help and you aren't stealing a volvo.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

April Fools!!!!

It is officially April Fools now. I think today there is supposed to be something about the Conficker worm taking over like millions of PCs or something. Also I am curious to see what internet giants like google and youtube and facebook may do. As for me I don't think I will be doing anything.

I can't wait for my professors to throw clever things out there: Guess what? Pop quiz or guess what you failed your midterm or something....April Fools!...oh wait you are kh2332? no you really did fail your midterm.

Also... I dunno why I started blogging so much.

In other news I have discovered mathematically through the lovely econometrics hw I was doing that you are older for a lot longer of a time span than you are young. Like you are only young for like 30 years at most. Given that people live like 70-80 on average
that is mad shorter of a time being young than old. Also 30 years of youth is pretty generous I feel. So don't be in such a rush to mature and grow up folks. You don't have much youth left. almost 2/3s through it. OH GOSH I need to go do some juvenile things.

Also I had an epic conversation with larry today: discussing how Columbia pwns me

What is the lasting impression Columbia made on u?
Uhh, despite all of the metaphysical and philosophical questions that remained unanswered
[19:46] flowitup: Columbia at least gave me one guaranteed answer
[19:46] plazmanrg: hahahaha
[19:46] flowitup: How to fail the right way? Attend Columbia
[19:46] plazmanrg: "I may be a failure..but Im an ivy league failure"-Random Columbia student

So I think we want to make these into tee shirts and sell them. Who is with me?

Thats it for now maybe I will update with any funny April fools things

Moral: Don't waste your youth....oh wait its pretty much too late.

Edit:
Google's April Fools:
http://cadiesingularity.blogspot.com/
http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/cadie/tech.html
http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/cadie/index.html
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html
http://maps.google.com/maps/mpl?f=q&ie=UTF8&moduleurl=http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/cadie/doc/panda-mapplet.xml&utm_campaign=en&utm_medium=mapshpp&utm_source=en-mapshpp-na-us-gns-mp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWcM0wowUSs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.intomobile.com%2F&feature=player_embedded

Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/t/new_viewing_experience


Microeconomics:
2nd Midterm coming up on April 15th with review session on the 13th

Gizmodo:
Being virus-y

Yahoo
http://sandbox.yahoo.net/isearch/index.html
http://ycorpblog.com/2009/04/01/it-all-comes-down-to-ideology/

Expedia:
Flights to Mars
http://www.expedia.com/daily/mars/flights-to-mars/?mcicid=Mars_home_us



More to come?

Boston

So I went to Boston this past weekend. Also for some reason it always ends up that Julie's free times to come down always happen to be like immediately after mine... go figure. So she will be coming down this weekend.

Anyways in boston it was very event filled.

We made white chocolate macadamia nut cookies with coconut on top.

We watched some episodes of an anime about musicians

We cooked burgers for a friend's birthday...this involved setting off the fire alarm and in an effort to stop it from ringing leaving the bread in the oven and the meat an onions on the stove and everything becoming overcooked/burnt. The bread was hard as rock but if you took it off it was still super yum.

I sat in the study lounge while Julie tutored someone in statistics...I did some hw and took a nap
We went shopping. For the most part it was Julie buying things here and there but then I came around in the end and got those Air Jordans I posted about earlier. YAY!

We wanted to go to a place to eat bar food...burgers and stuff only to find out that it was actually a Bar and we needed to be 21 or older to even go inside. Maybe it was the time?

Overall it was very fun

We even almost got Hustled by these little kids. As we sat down eating lunch (really good place called Scoozi) these two kids walk up and ask: "Do you want to buy some of these paper flowers in order to help us buy a birthday gift for our mom?"

I, being the evil person I am, said no. I also noted that that is a great marketing scheme asking children to ask for money to help their moms aww so sweet. They also preyed on those who couldn't walk away.

So these kids in their slick guido hairstyles decide to ask the people next to us. The people respond how much is one? The kids respond 2 dollars each. The two dudes then asked if he had change for a 10. The kids responded that they didn't and they could just buy 5. They did.

Then in a few minutes they were spotted walking away with their mom trying to sell to more people. Needless to say the two men next to us weren't happy and I think I heard something about going over to teach them all a lesson. I was like LOL. What a bunch of Pros.

Moral: When trying to sell things, use children and love appeal. Also after selling things don't lose your front that fast or you might find a lesson or two coming your way.

P.S. I think I'm going to start carrying my camera around with me so I can take pictures and not make my blog look so ugly. I've got one so far.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Time

Ok so today I am writing about the passage of time. I know I was talking to annie about this but we still remember just getting into college and we are already 3/4 done with our second year of college. Annie recalls when she just joined up with CSC and now she is president (yay annie!) I still remember the times when we would just sit on the steps until early morning or play frisbee late into the night. I remember all the times we used to hang out. The whole gang. Now we are moving our seperate ways and doing or things. New experiences and new accomplishments. We are all growing up...or shall I say most of us are. I dunno if I am. haha.

As I was walking back from work I saw all the tour groups of prospective students being led around like little dogs and recalled that at one point I may have been like that too. So full of hope about college and so unaware of just how challenging and different it would be. They don't have any idea of how their lives are going to change. The whole time the song playing on my ipod was Coldplay's Clocks. It was overwhelming amount of nostalgia and so I felt that I had to post.

After it all I must say I am pretty happy about how things turned out. I am happy I am friends with who I am and enjoy my life. Leave a comment about time if you like.

Moral: I have developed my own type of morality. It has a simple principle. Do things as long as you won't regret them later. If you have no regrets you have done right.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Something that annoys me

You may not be familiar with what Im talking about here but recently I went to the orthopedic doctor because my back hurts and stuff. Go figure why I have back pain at age 19. Anyways they give a few choices for what I guess could be called relationship status. The choices are as follows:

Are you?
Single Married Divorced or like Widowed or something.

And Im sitting here trying to figure out where I am in the spectrum. Im certainly not married yet. which would make the latter two also impossible. But I am also certainly not single. I really was confused as to what/where I fit in here. I dunno if anyone else had any problems with this kind of thing before. Or has there been something else where they give you categories and you aren't really in any of them? Basically Im begging for comments because it seems that nobody comments so...please do comment.

Today's moral is: Take care of your body so you don't have to deal with potentially hurting yourself or filling out paperwork for your doctor that gets really annoying.

Seriously though,
Doctor's paperwork is really stupid.
It asked me please describe your pain in the following areas:
Back: Buttocks: Legs: Please use percentages keeping in mind that the total should add up to 100.

I was like how the hell am I supposed to put percentages of pain in different parts of my body? I can't measure that nonsense.

Also the more typical questions.
Have there been any cases of x,y, z conditions in your family since the last time you filled this out for a doctor? Have any members suddenly developed a history of cancer in like the one year you haven't filled one of these out?

They should really ask:
Are you wondering why we don't just do this electronically so that we can forward it to other doctors?

And basically Doctors annoy me

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Spring Break

Not much to say here. Im on spring break and have been studying for my CC midterm. Also I did a probability problem set. Yup.

However I was talking with a friend of mine about why female mantises eat the male ones after or during mating. and came across this yahoo question. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081004121427AA8HFwJ

If you look at the link you see that she poses the question and chooses the best answer. The answer sucks. Then scroll down to the first answer after that. Admire how it is infinitely better. OK thats all I really had to say.

Moral: Don't as questions if you don't want answers

ANSWER FAIL

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Spring Break will have begun by the end of today (Pretty Much)

So I don't have much time to post now as two midterms are coming up but I'm really awake right now and I hope I do well. In fact I'm so awake that my brain was like "WHATS GOOD SON?!" and nobody answered because a) I'm not telepathic and b) they were all asleep. -.-" Ill finish later today

OK so its actually the next day but I'm done until CC on the wednesday when we come back. Great success. Overall pretty tired. I dunno if anyone else is doing anything but I don't think I will be. I think I am going to buy tickets for Europe and have a phone interview on Monday but...other than that its time to rest and maybe do well on CC to make up for possible loss on both Econ midterms. I like Statistics a lot more than Econ. :/

I'm pretty sure there was a point to the post and I had something I wanted to say originally but I totally forgot by now. I am looking forward to dinner with the Vicky and Anna then gonna head on home! Rest Relaxation and Review.

Moral: Don't put off finishing your posts and at least if you do put a note in your draft about what you are going to write

Also I really want to get the white polka dotted Jordan Lows...opinions?
http://sneakernews.com/2009/03/12/air-jordan-1-polka-dot-pack/

:D

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Hidden Camera

You know how there are times when really cool/funny/unique/whatever things happen and you say to yourself: Damn I wish I had my camera/camcorder. (Well now you can! for only 5 payments of ... sorry I kinda felt that's what it sounded like) Or sometimes you have a camera but you don't have it out and it was only like a few second event?

Well that happened to me today. I mean it happens a lot. For example when I was coming back from Port Authority this past weekend, there was this man and his kid on the subway. The man was sitting with his arm around the kid and they were both sleeping. But they weren't just sleeping, both of them had their heads back and mouths wide open. I really wanted to take a picture of it. It was really cute. On the other side of the spectrum, today I witnessed a pretty epic fail.

So I was walking back from chipotle (obviously) and as I was crossing the street I saw this guy sitting in his van. I guess he had something in his mouth that he didn't want because he tried to spit out of his window. Now I know that when your vehicle is moving and you spit, sometimes the wind will make it come back at the vehicle. So instead it ends up on your car. Or sometimes you try and spit and it doesn't have enough force and it lands on your door or window or something. There are loads of possibilities. But for this guy. He is parked on the side and he attempts to spit and not only does it not hit the ground OR his car, it sorta just dribbles onto his shoulder. So there is this white line on his shoulder. Then he decides to be more fail. He brushes off his shoulder with his hand. So now he has this whatever on his shoulder and on his hand. Luckily for him he pulls out a napkin and starts to alleviate the situation. I know sometimes in my car I didn't have tissues and stuff.

But let us recall what happened. Man sitting in an unmoving vehicle fails to remove something from his mouth...without getting it on his shoulder. I don't think anything from my mouth has ever arrived on my shoulder before. Then he decides to use a body part of his to wipe it only to find out that thats no good. Of course this may not be funny to you at all but I think it would have been if you were able to see it...if only I had my camera. :/

The moral this time is: a) have a camera on and ready at all times b) If a picture is worth 1000 words and a video is thousands of pictures, I didn't write nearly enough to portray how fail this man was.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Quick Post about friends

Well I haven't posted in a while because I have been mad busy. There are many things that have happened in my life since the last post. Of course now I don't think I can recall them . I am going to europe this summer though. That is going to be awesome. Housing remains as confusing as ever. There is a reason for this post today. In fact the post has more than one purpose.

First I wanted to have somewhere where I could remember something I wrote. Of course this may be cocky but I gave some advice that I thought of on the spot and I kinda want to remember it in case I am feeling down.

no use in sulking though
(11:30:28 PM) jlz0813: that is true
(11:30:32 PM) jlz0813: just gotta get the work done
(11:30:49 PM) plazmanrg: yup
(11:30:54 PM) plazmanrg: bounce back
(11:30:55 PM) plazmanrg: and recover
(11:31:00 PM) plazmanrg: we are still young
(11:32:15 PM) jlz0813: haha we're approaching oldness pretty quickly
(11:32:27 PM) plazmanrg: hey
(11:32:38 PM) plazmanrg: we are growing the same rate we have been
(11:32:43 PM) plazmanrg: a second is still a second
(11:32:50 PM) plazmanrg: just depends on what you do with it
(11:32:52 PM) plazmanrg: :D
(11:33:28 PM) plazmanrg: while a child's second could be just chasing a butterfly and ours may be doing a pset an adults may be providing for the family
(11:33:32 PM) plazmanrg: its all the same
(11:33:36 PM) plazmanrg: just seize the moment

I will use this when I am feeling like I have no time. I have the same amount of time as I did when I was younger and will have the same time when I'm older. I chose what to do. Don't waste it and everything will be better.

Also I want to remember what my dad said to me this past weekend.
As a business man I feel that this is pretty important (to me anyways).

Money is not everything, but without money you are nothing.

Of course this is a little more dramatic than necessary but I feel it captures the truth.

The second purpose of this post is mainly to ask a question.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7920434.stm
This article says something about friends. How many is average, how many good friends, how many you can confide in? What do you think?

What makes a good friend? How many do you think is appropriate. This is interesting to me. I know vicky and I and Julie and I (I didn't know how to say that without it seeming like vicky and julie also talked about it together) talked extensively on the subject. What do you think?

The moral this time is: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7913552.stm which means.... CHEER UP be happy and be healthy. Otherwise you will be upset and you will then be unhealthy and be more upset. Then your whole life will suck.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Dreams

Now I don't remember my dreams very often and I don't know if you do but all of a sudden in the middle of the day I remembered a part of my dream that I had last night. And disturbing as it was, this is a pretty neat thing to happen to me. I don't remember the last time I could remember my dreams and when I do they are usually pretty stupid. For example I would fail a test or something. Boring...that happens in real life too. This time it was pretty unreal. So here is how it went...
~~

I walk downstairs into my kitchen at home. It is around noon time and for some reason my mouth hurts. So I see my parents and open my mouth to complain when my teeth all fall out in a bloody mess onto the table. Everyone was seemingly unperturbed by this event (though I was pretty freaked out) so I pick up my teeth. For some reason they were connected in groups, for example my front two teeth were connected. They also didn't have the roots that teeth have in real life. It was just a flat plate. I take a good look at my teeth and then proceed to insert them back into my mouth. It felt really weird. I can still feel it now. Something along the lines of pushing a plate into gum but it being both numb and painful at the same time. After I put them in I think the dream ended and I woke up...
~~

Then I think I went back to sleep.

I dunno if any of you have like wild dreams or remember them very often anymore but I thought it was pretty interesting.

Moral: Don't loose your teeth out of your mouth or you will experience a feeling of numbness mixed with inserting a plate into gum and pain.

Monday, February 9, 2009

KhaosNoodle

So today marks the beginning of our food blog. Jer and I have been trying to put this together for a while now. It has started and well we haven't written anything yet but you can expect to see stuff happening soon enough. Well I am happy to announce the birth of khaosnoodle.wordpress.com. If you have any food you want to talk about go visit!

Moral: go visit our food blog!

Sunday, February 1, 2009

People are retarded

I dunno why this decided to piss me off so much...maybe I had just finished doing laundry and wanted to just sit for a while. Nope! No rest for the weary. Instead it was time for a fire drill. OK normally I would be like screw this nonsense its time to just lock myself in my room. But then there was that email sent out by the school that was like don't stay in your room we are going to randomly inspect shit and you will get diciplinarily rocked if we catch you. And lets face it what floor are they gonna open rooms on? They aren't going to hike up to like 10 they are gonna check on three. Oh wait I live there.

So I got my tired behind up and got all my things wallet cell etc. And left. On the way down amidst this loud ass blaring this chick was like...whoops I think I set off the fire alarm on floor 4 while she was holding her bowl of food. They checked the lights and what did we find? She did. She was all super happy and like laughing with her friends. Meanwhile I was pretty pissed and was really contemplating setting her life and perspective straight. It would be along the lines of: Yo, Im going to be all the way real with you here. Setting stuff on fire isn't funny or cute. IN FACT you aren't cute either. You are obviously stupid as fuck. You are in fucking college learn how to NOT set shit on fire. Its not like 2 pm on sunday you are drunk as hell and do stuff you don't remember. I dunno about your carefree ass life but I have things to do and you are wasting my damn time. Instead I walked around campus. At least it was nice out.

Moral: DON'T MOTHERFUCKING SET SHIT ON FIRE....AND THEN LAUGH ABOUT IT.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

CC

I wrote about in my last post, a changing of tastes as people age, grow older, mature, whatever. In a sort of continuation of that I have noticed a definite change in the way I view some of my classes. This time I am talking specifically about CC. Now CC is an interesting class one that usually does not happen before the college level. We read and discuss things in large quantity and of large historical importance. Ill be honest with you. My activation energy regarding reading is extraordinarily high. It will take forever to get me started. Same with writing. But I can't say I honestly hate to read. If I find it interesting after I have been forced to read I will. Pretty simple. Like most of the world I read Harry Potter without putting it down for hours on end. I think I just need a catalyst to help me lower the energy needed. Maybe its the realization that Im not as smart as maybe I thought I was. I thought it would be fine with just Bs in CC but I think it is important as the rest of my classes for my major will get harder that I have to do as well as I can in every class. I am beginning to enjoy it I suppose. I made promises to read everything before but not until now have I actually read. Rousseau isn't too bad and I think that things will get more interesting from here. I also must thank Microsoft One Note for allowing me to take real notes divided by section and topic. I think this happens to all people at Columbia at some point. I think there is a point of realization where its like oh I guess its not so bad. Some people enjoy the humanities immediately some change one or two semesters in. Finally its my turn. Who knows though. Maybe its just because I don't have any other hw yet. But I want to do better. Im going to try to meet the challenge.

Also. Vicky is cutting Jer's hair right behind me. So today's moral is: don't cut hair by yourself.

Edit: I then also got my hair cut by Vicky. It is short but apparently ages with time. I like the cool feeling of wind where I never felt it before.

Second moral: Haircuts are like wine

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

School

Today is my first day of classes!

What a day it has been. I was late to my first Class and half and hour early to my second. I'm going to miss my last one of the day and I purchased two wrong textbooks. What is even going on in my life? Later today I will be attending a on site presentation by Primerica about summer internships which would mark the second day in a row that I have attended a Citi group internship presentation (Yesterday was Citi bank's and today is Primerica) I suppose that this is a good thing especially since if you get the sophmore internship you are basically guarenteed a job at Citi for like life. Only 30 people were accepted last year (when the economy was good so fewer this year) and like 25 were automatically accepted to the junior program. The other 5 or so decided that they didn't like it. So after working at Citi for two years in a row there should be no problem getting an offer. There is one huge flaw in this plan. Over 1000 people will apply for fewer than 30 slots.

Classes seem pretty good so far. My two econ professors seem interesting enough but my Analysis and Optimization prof...is sorta boring. Also for some inexplicable reason I am mad tired like all the time. I have no idea why.

More importantly, Jeremy and I were going to start a blog about the foods and drinks that people could get around campus. But before this we need a name. Something classy but clever. If anyone has suggestions please don't hesitate to let me know.

Also, it seems as though tastes really do change as people grow older.

I have begun an indepth analysis on how I work in order to perhaps procure a study method that can boost my studying and as a result, my GPA.

Im beginning to appreciate classical and orchestral music more and more now. I liked it previously but I could never listen to it on my ipod. If it came up I would simply not be in the mood for it and skip it. Now it represents an important part of the music I play. Because I dunno about other people but no matter how I lie to myself, most music is not good for studying at all. I have reached the conclusion after many trials that the best things to listen to are orchestral things with no words. I think classical music is better than silence because when things are too silent, every stray thought is comparitively louder. It is also harder to ignore things that suddenly change. I dunno if this makes any sense to you readers but say you are reading and someone drops something and it makes a noise. If it was silent there is a significant change which will disrupt you. However, if there is background music either, a) you won't here small changes or b) it will be easier to ignore. So distractions decrease overall. I can't stress how many times when I was taking a standardized test there were kids sniffling or sneezing or coughing all the time and I was just thinking to myself... PLEASE SHUT UP. If I had just had some mozart, who knows maybe I wouldn't have got a problem wrong. I find that I can even listen to classical and orchestral music when reading. (My favorites are the Lord of the Rings soundtracks) Songs with english just have me thinking about the lyrics. So I either focus on the lyrics or focus on ignoring the lyrics but cannot focus on what Im supposed to be doing. (I dunno if anyone has tried to write something important when listening to someone talk to them but its pretty damn hard and you almost always write something that you hear) SO If you don't like just instruments there is another alternative. Listen to music with no english. Works like a charm. I find it really easy to ignore what they are saying simply because even if I listened really hard I would still have no idea what they were talking about. So I do that sometimes. Latin, Italian, Japanese all work pretty well. (Note: I found Reggaeton does NOT). I dunno if anyone has similar feelings but let me know what helps you study. I know people are all different but I suck at studying and am looking for all the help I can get.

So today's moral is:
Just like Obama, Today is my first day of the semester and also like him I am dealing with a storm of things. My poor GPA, my classes, the Jobsearch, etc. Like him I think it is time to change how I do things and to be more motivated. I must have hope but... can't expect shit to just change. I need to do something about it. Im waiting to see what you do Obama but for now. We are in it together. NOW LETS GET TO IT!

Monday, January 12, 2009

Three things that bother me now

I know I probably shouldn't be posting twice in one day... but I think its sort of important to separate the first post from the rest. I would wait... to post again but I have a few things on my mind. And you know you can't let creativity slip away...it may not come back and then my blog would be derelict like my xanga.

Now that I got my first post out of the way... I'm practically a veteran now. Its time to shed that seriousness.

Onto more serious business: Business itself.
I dunno about all of you out there but I am currently looking for a summer internship in...finance. Yes I know given current times it may not be the most wise thing to do and let me tell you it certainly isn't easy. (By the way if anyone happens to know about any open positions leave a comment and I would happily send you my resume) In any case nobody wants a sophomore intern. And those who do think to themselves, who the hell would want an internship his sophomore year? That is some driven ass kid. Lets have a minimum GPA of like 3.5 yeah that sounds like a good idea. So it gives a large percentage of the college population a 0% chance of acceptance. Moving on from that I recently went to a Career Fair at Rutgers. I attended with Julie and Will. Now these are some good kids. I dunno where one could find some better candidates. So I was kinda stressing out about this career fair because my dad was like oh yeah they may give interviews and like its good networking...serious stuff. It was. But not in the same way. First of all the day was dark, dreary, and rainy days...all days. I was nervous too so I was not feeling ok. In fact I think the bad weather is a good example of what looking for a job is like right now. So basically the whole "experience" consisted of handshakes exchange of materials and a brief like 2 min talk with some manager of recruiting or something. I dunno I guess the experience was sort of unsatisfying. Most of the time they were like sophomore? pssh. And thats not the worst of it...what was most unsatisfying was that I have heard back from nobody. Who the hell attended that career fair? Harvard 4.0 scholars who major in like saving the world? From what I heard will got no career action afterwards either. And he is deans list material. Man lets be serious looking for jobs in finance really make even good students feel like they are losers. I was so depressed when I saw I didn't meet a MINIMUM GPA REQUIREMENT. But its kinda too late to start making drastic career changes. Screw it! Its time to buckle down campers! Its Showtime! (Im serious about the resume thing too)

Secondly
Microsoft Windows 7...I went through all this effort to try and get that beta because my bro's laptop is screwed up and I was like oh Ill just reformat and install windows 7 I heard its better than vista anyways. And I got to the last step and I clicked the button for download now... and it didn't work... Screw you microsoft...Why have you been so damn failure recently? is Apple putting the pressure on so hard that you can't freakin do anything right anymore? Vista...blows and you have like trial periods for parts of Microsoft Office? Internet Explorer...Major security flaw? Step up your game Microsoft. Its time to realise this...the only reason I am still on windows is that you have the most software available. Screw the rest.

Third and lastly for tonight,
Man this winter break totally was lame. I didn't do like anything... I have been looking foward to this break ever since...summer break and it just wasn't the same as last year. Maybe its because I didn't go anywhere...at all....not even once....maybe thats it. Or maybe its because Im looking for a job now. Nah, must mean Im getting older. I hear that your life gets worse and worse as you grow older... But lets be serious now for this last statement: At least Im not a high schooler anymore...but too bad Im not in elementary school.

And that is the lesson for today

The First

Since this is the first one, let this be a warning to you readers. A disclaimer, if you will. I will start by saying that I am not the most educated person in this world, far from it in fact. Nor am I completely up to date on everything all the time. But! I am, like most of you reading this, human. Thus, I am entitled to my own opinion. And regardless of how informed I may be on a subject, because I am human I will form an opinion even if it is one drawn from insufficient data. So let me make this as clear as possible now. I do not claim to know everything. I do not claim to know anything. But this is where I can maybe share what I do claim. And claim I will. I may not be the best at anything or particularly special but I am damned sure that this day to day Huang has something to say! And it shall be heard! So...let us begin.