February 2008
Food
The retreat was awesome. I need to put some pictures up, which I will...eventually.
The applicants were amazing this year.
I'm so excited--it's hilarious because we are excited that they're amazing, yet at the same time you know that these are the people who are going to probably kick your butt in everything...
It was funny, because last year a lot of people didn't know what I did for my research, and this year a lot of people did. It just goes to show what one year's difference makes (perhaps in demographic as well).
Went to Cupertino with my friend Erik and my mum who is visiting. We ate at a restaurant there, and bumped into a kid I knew from violin when we were little! His parents were here for parents' weekend. Also, Subarna met up with us at Ranch 99 to do a little awesome shopping. Afterwards we went to the safeway in menlo park, which is, by the way, pretty darn large. It's very similar to like meijer or dorothy lane in ohio, but I haven't seen groceries like that here in California so much.
It's a little...foofy.
And now i have a phone call. So I shall go now.
edit:
The people who live above me set off their fire alarm. I spent a tense 20 seconds thinking...please, please please let it not be a fire so i can stay in bed...
Retreat
I will post something more informative in the near future, but in short.
We are at asilomar for the BMI retreat.
It is 3:35 in the a.m.
We just came back from Denny's.
It was good times.
Everyone should apply to BMI.
Test?! I have to take a test?!
Well, it's approximately 1:40 in the a.m. and I am commencing my studying for my BMI217 exam by ...
blogging.
I think that in the last few weeks i've been so tired by computer use and also by all these other things i've been trying to do (volunteering for science bowl, making a poster for the BMI retreat, and then remaking it in LaTeX with the help--no, formatting--of Jonathan, trying to actually get sleep), that I have very little motivation to study for an exam.
The class is run by my current rotation professor, Dr. Atul Butte--a very cool guy with some interesting new takes on research. There is a convention that you are supposed to do well in the course if you're trying to get into a professor's lab.
I'm banking on the fact that hard work will win over exam smarts.
We shall see how that goes.
At any rate, the reason why i am blogging is that I was studying in the clark center, and the lights flickered around 1 a.m. (early this time) and then...after about 10-15 minutes, shut off. I was there, alone in the dark, and thoroughly confused, since the light switches don't reset the system. There is a reset somewhere, yet I did not know where it was.
I need to find that reset button.
Does anybody know where the reset button is?
Happy Chinese New Year, by the way.
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