Hawaiian-shirt wearing student-athlete band groupies
Posted 10:04 PM, September 11, 2006, by tenfordeHawaiian Shirts - Groupies - Student - Athlete: parties - Dave Matthews - 15 hour study-session - 20 miles
Ok, so my weekend was a mix of relaxing, enjoying music, running, and studying (of course:)) I am happy to report that I did it all in style. I always enjoyed the movie "Office Space," especially the part when the boss suggested that employees could 'wear a Hawaiian shirt to work with jeans on Friday.' The first-year class got together for a party on Friday evening with a tropical theme, and that was more than enough incentive to wear my vintage Hawaiian shirt. My roommates and Kate dressed the part too and enjoyed the opportunity to see our fellow classmates outside the familiar class setting of histo labs and lecture halls.
Saturday evening I enjoyed watching The Dave Matthews Band perform at Shoreline Ampetheatre with Kate. It was a really tough week, as I've been spending nearly every waking minute studying with classmates and did not have many opportunities to see Kate in a relaxed setting. The band was amazing (interesting fact on Dave Matthews: despite growing up in South Africa during Apartheid, he started a multi-racial band). Personally, the violinist Boyd Tinsley impressed me the most during the performance, though it's hard to explain the passion and zeal that he played during the concert that made him the most memorable to me.
After this brief respite from studying, Sunday was a challenging day. With quizzes due and half our 4-week quarter completed, there was so much to review. Fortunately, my classmates came to the rescue and made the day fly by with multiple study groups for anatomy, cell and molecular biology. I know that the term 'fly' should not apply to studying, but it seemed so perfect working with my fellow students to conquer the unknown and to teach each other the concepts.
My prediction is holding true - Stanford is fostering collaboration between students in mastering the material. If only the world could approach its problems and work with the same goal in mind...
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Comment by: Diane Tseng at September 11, 2006 11:55 PM
You forget all you have learned from the Mid-Columbia. We are water people (well river) and you live in CA of all places I would think that a stress reliever for you would be to go to a beach and just hang out. I recommend Montgomery Bay; it was rather nice when I was last there. If all else fails you can always come out to Texas and visit for stress relieve. Remember you only have as much stress as you allow yourself to have. In addition, intelligent blogs are hard to come by; please don't sub come to the temptation of lowering your blog.
Comment by: Evan at September 16, 2006 08:36 AM
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Flying could be appropriate in this case. Like you, airplanes run really fast before taking off. The neat thing about flying is that we departure together, and we also arrive together in a new kind of world.