So I turned 21 about a week ago, which was actually really fun! I got to celebrate with a bunch of my friends, and a week later took a road trip up to Las Vegas, Nevada.
Obviously, Sin City was amazing. I went to a couple of really nice clubs (and one pretty strange one), tried my luck at slot machines (at which I won about $9...thank you R2-D2), and just enjoyed my time there.
Since I was with friends, there were lots of pictures taken. And somehow, pictures always seem to end up on Facebook. I've been in quite a predicament with Facebook, and just the global social networking trends in general, but over the past 30 hours I've decided that I've had enough. What started as a couple of questionable pictures being posted by a friend turned into an angry phone call from home, and another angry phone call from home, and an extremely angry/agitated/WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR LIFE phone call from home.
There's no easy way to answer such unexpected phone calls, especially when the last one gets to you as you're eating lunch with a good friend at the Campus Center smack in the middle of the day. I called my friend, asked her to delete some of the pictures. That didn't make things much better, so I then proceeded to begin untagging myself from other pictures. Still, no positive results. After sitting through my stats and operations research classes for 3 hours, I made up my mind.
At 5:43pm PST on Monday, November 22, 2010, I deactivated my Facebook account.
When I clicked "Deactivate", I thought I might be going crazy. But I like it so far. Its not like I'm trying to excommunicate myself from the outside world (obviously I am updating this silly blog that no one ever reads), but I think this will be good for me. I can just feel it.
And now, I present to you...
MY MONTH WITHOUT FACEBOOK
Hypothesis: Life will not suck!
Shocking, huh?? Since I have so much free time, I'll be hopefully updating my blog more often. Hopefully, life without Facebook will result in me doing better things with my idle time. Maybe I'll watch more movies, make an effort to hang out with friends more, go for more runs (although I've been going 3 times a week as is), read ahead for the next four weeks instead of my normal two weeks, beat my calculator games, find more addicting games online...the world is my oyster!
So to all my non-existent readers, stay tuned! I am looking forward to my little social (or would this be considered anti-social?) experiment. And who knows...maybe I'll stay off the white and blue for good!
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
And let the good times roll...
So school started yesterday, and it's going to be a busy semester. My classes this semester are Advanced Technical Writing for Engineers, Korean 1, Microeconomics, Legal Environment of Business, Physics: Electricity and Magnetism, and Database Systems. Whew. And that's all of 22 units.
I don't know what inspired me to take 4 extra units, but what's done is done. Hopefully things aren't that bad, and I only have 4 exams during finals week which will be so nice.
Going home for winter break was both tiring and refreshing. I spent a lot of time working at Foodland Market City, and although there are better things to do than serving the greater good as a courtesy clerk, I enjoyed my time at work. I met some of the recently hired workers, and now I'm good friends with one of the new grocery clerks who moved to Honolulu from Hilo in October. Besides work, it was nice to spend time with my family and friends, although with everyone being extremely busy, it was difficult to find time to see everyone I wanted to talk with.
My most enjoyable times of winter break have to be the time I spent outdoors. You can't really go outside without breathing in pollution and smelling car oil here in Los Angeles, so the fresh air was appreciated. I did lots of hiking, surfing, paddling, and beaching. :) I think I got a little more tan too!
Well I have a diagnostic speech due for my writing class tomorrow. Topic: something you think your classmates and instructor know little to nothing about. I've chosen to talk about Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island or Isla De Pascua), one of the most isolated population centers in the world.
I'm listening to Haleakala Hula on my iPod, and it occured to me that I need to get on organizing our lu'au's student program. Great.
I don't know what inspired me to take 4 extra units, but what's done is done. Hopefully things aren't that bad, and I only have 4 exams during finals week which will be so nice.
Going home for winter break was both tiring and refreshing. I spent a lot of time working at Foodland Market City, and although there are better things to do than serving the greater good as a courtesy clerk, I enjoyed my time at work. I met some of the recently hired workers, and now I'm good friends with one of the new grocery clerks who moved to Honolulu from Hilo in October. Besides work, it was nice to spend time with my family and friends, although with everyone being extremely busy, it was difficult to find time to see everyone I wanted to talk with.
My most enjoyable times of winter break have to be the time I spent outdoors. You can't really go outside without breathing in pollution and smelling car oil here in Los Angeles, so the fresh air was appreciated. I did lots of hiking, surfing, paddling, and beaching. :) I think I got a little more tan too!
Well I have a diagnostic speech due for my writing class tomorrow. Topic: something you think your classmates and instructor know little to nothing about. I've chosen to talk about Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island or Isla De Pascua), one of the most isolated population centers in the world.
I'm listening to Haleakala Hula on my iPod, and it occured to me that I need to get on organizing our lu'au's student program. Great.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
The eye of the storm
So I had my first final on Friday for ISE 220: Probability Concepts in Engineering, and it was somewhat challenging. I know I got several problems correct, but there were a couple that I looked at, solved, checked my answers, erased all my work, and did them again. So let's hope that those turned out okay.
Today, I am in the eye of the storm. Why?? Well, it makes sense. It's like the calm before the madness. And the madness I'm referring to is my PHYS 151: Mechanics and Thermodynamics final on Monday, ACCT 410: Foundations of Accounting final on Tuesday, and ISE 232: Manufacturing Processes final on Wednesday before heading over to LAX and flying standby to Honolulu on Wednesday evening. And to top it all off, I have one more page to write for my ARLT 100: Korean Literature and Thought final research essay. There is clearly some ultimate being that has a grudge against me.
Dad was here in LA yesterday for a few hours on a layover to Fort Walton Beach, FL. We went to Trader Joe's to pick up dried fruit and nuts for Mom and Lauren and then headed over to Koreatown for dinner. Then he had to go back to the airport so I came back to school, but then some of my APO brothers were going to go explore so I went along. We went to Crumbs Bakery on Larchmont and it was so amazing! I got a Peanut Butter Cup cupcake, and I am looking forward to trying more of their selection. The cupcakes are extremely top-heavy, so mine kept falling over in the box. After cupcakes we went to The Grove to look at the Christmas decorations.
Going home will be really relaxing, but at the same time I'll have to go to work and run errands for my parents (mainly chauferring my sister to paddling, school stuff, etc.). I'm looking forward to the semester finishing, but it's also kind of strange since I'll be 3/8 done with college. Isn't that crazy? Well, yeah. But it's about time.
Back to studying. My goal for today is to finish my K-Lit paper, even if it kills me.
Today, I am in the eye of the storm. Why?? Well, it makes sense. It's like the calm before the madness. And the madness I'm referring to is my PHYS 151: Mechanics and Thermodynamics final on Monday, ACCT 410: Foundations of Accounting final on Tuesday, and ISE 232: Manufacturing Processes final on Wednesday before heading over to LAX and flying standby to Honolulu on Wednesday evening. And to top it all off, I have one more page to write for my ARLT 100: Korean Literature and Thought final research essay. There is clearly some ultimate being that has a grudge against me.
Dad was here in LA yesterday for a few hours on a layover to Fort Walton Beach, FL. We went to Trader Joe's to pick up dried fruit and nuts for Mom and Lauren and then headed over to Koreatown for dinner. Then he had to go back to the airport so I came back to school, but then some of my APO brothers were going to go explore so I went along. We went to Crumbs Bakery on Larchmont and it was so amazing! I got a Peanut Butter Cup cupcake, and I am looking forward to trying more of their selection. The cupcakes are extremely top-heavy, so mine kept falling over in the box. After cupcakes we went to The Grove to look at the Christmas decorations.
Going home will be really relaxing, but at the same time I'll have to go to work and run errands for my parents (mainly chauferring my sister to paddling, school stuff, etc.). I'm looking forward to the semester finishing, but it's also kind of strange since I'll be 3/8 done with college. Isn't that crazy? Well, yeah. But it's about time.
Back to studying. My goal for today is to finish my K-Lit paper, even if it kills me.
Monday, December 7, 2009
It's cold and rainy and I don't really want to work...
Basically yeah. When it rains in Los Angeles, IT SUCKS. Unlike the rain I'm used to in Hawai'i, the rain here is cold. Plus, the air is cold. And the wind makes everything worse. So I'm sitting in my apartment with the heater on max and the whole place to myself since the other two girls that live here are never to be found.
Today, we had a holiday party for work at the Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs division. The food and dessert was amazing! Spiral-sliced ham, mac and cheese, mashed potatoes with gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce, fudge brownies, chocolate tuxedo cake, and more. Yum. But at the same time, I think that's when I finally realized I have to do work. This whole weekend, I was pretty much cruising. There was tailgating on Saturday morning, followed by the fail football game against U. of Arizona and the fail volleyball game against U. of Hawai'i. Yup, the University of Hawai'i women's volleyball team played in the Galen Center on Saturday against USC in the first round of the NCAA tournament. And sadly, the Trojans lost. Yesterday, I slept in until 12-something and then went to eat brunch at Parkside since I was too lazy to make anything. Then I came back, worked on my ISE 232 report, video chatted with an old friend, and went to meetings. Yay.
As USC tradition dictates, you are supposed to plan what you'd like to do in the summer before the fall semester even ends. So that's what I've been trying to do for the past couple of weeks. I submitted my resume to Boeing's summer engineering internships in the Seattle/Tacoma area, and made it past the first round of reviews (surprisingly). Just now, I finished writing a personal statement for the Global Fellows application, which is through the USC career center. The program places students in internships based on their fields of study in Asian cities such as Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Beijing, and Shanghai. And they pay for your transportation and rent, which is pretty sweet. If none of these things work out, I might look for something at HECO, Hawaiian Air, Pearl Harbor, or Hoku Scientific back at home.
I have a Korean Lit paper due in 9 days in which I am supposed to analyze excerpts of literature from the North and the South and explain, through the lenses of these works, why the two Koreas behave as we outsiders perceive them. It's such a simple yet complicated topic that I'm beside myself. Plus I am hungry, which makes matters worse. And I should really use my meal plan except I'm sick of campus food. Oh my silly dilemmas. I should just drink some hot chocolate.
Today, we had a holiday party for work at the Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs division. The food and dessert was amazing! Spiral-sliced ham, mac and cheese, mashed potatoes with gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce, fudge brownies, chocolate tuxedo cake, and more. Yum. But at the same time, I think that's when I finally realized I have to do work. This whole weekend, I was pretty much cruising. There was tailgating on Saturday morning, followed by the fail football game against U. of Arizona and the fail volleyball game against U. of Hawai'i. Yup, the University of Hawai'i women's volleyball team played in the Galen Center on Saturday against USC in the first round of the NCAA tournament. And sadly, the Trojans lost. Yesterday, I slept in until 12-something and then went to eat brunch at Parkside since I was too lazy to make anything. Then I came back, worked on my ISE 232 report, video chatted with an old friend, and went to meetings. Yay.
As USC tradition dictates, you are supposed to plan what you'd like to do in the summer before the fall semester even ends. So that's what I've been trying to do for the past couple of weeks. I submitted my resume to Boeing's summer engineering internships in the Seattle/Tacoma area, and made it past the first round of reviews (surprisingly). Just now, I finished writing a personal statement for the Global Fellows application, which is through the USC career center. The program places students in internships based on their fields of study in Asian cities such as Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Beijing, and Shanghai. And they pay for your transportation and rent, which is pretty sweet. If none of these things work out, I might look for something at HECO, Hawaiian Air, Pearl Harbor, or Hoku Scientific back at home.
I have a Korean Lit paper due in 9 days in which I am supposed to analyze excerpts of literature from the North and the South and explain, through the lenses of these works, why the two Koreas behave as we outsiders perceive them. It's such a simple yet complicated topic that I'm beside myself. Plus I am hungry, which makes matters worse. And I should really use my meal plan except I'm sick of campus food. Oh my silly dilemmas. I should just drink some hot chocolate.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
I'm on the wave
So Gita invited me to try Google Wave and I'm still trying to figure it out. It's pretty crazy, you can see typing in real time, and you can edit your chat and reply, so it ends up to be like this ridiculously long chain of chat, which is apparently called a wave. And then there are things called pings, but I still haven't figured that out. I think a ping can only be between two users, while a wave can be between multiple users. I don't know, and I'm not about to find out.
Tonight I have to complete my portion of a group presentation for ISE232, Manufacturing Processes. Our design team created a DeskTopper, which is a portable, durable, and flexible table device meant for home and recreational use. My job was to create the computer models using IronCAD software, and I did a pretty good job (in my opinion).
Tonight I have to complete my portion of a group presentation for ISE232, Manufacturing Processes. Our design team created a DeskTopper, which is a portable, durable, and flexible table device meant for home and recreational use. My job was to create the computer models using IronCAD software, and I did a pretty good job (in my opinion).
Besides wrapping up this design project, I'm also going to work on ISE220, Probability Concepts in Engineering, homework. It's hard to believe that there are only three instructional days left in the semester. And that I'm almost halfway done with my undergraduate degree.
My request for exceptional funding was approved by the Center for Academic Support, so I'm going to be taking 22 units next semester. Although it sounds daunting right now, I hope it won't be too difficult. I figured to do it now instead of later, before my engineering classes will start to get serious.
Now playing on my iPod is "Kane'ohe" by the Brothers Cazimero. It's a cheerful song, talking about the rains that regularly fall on that side of the island. I miss the rain. It's not humid at all here and my skin is cracking. Gross.
My request for exceptional funding was approved by the Center for Academic Support, so I'm going to be taking 22 units next semester. Although it sounds daunting right now, I hope it won't be too difficult. I figured to do it now instead of later, before my engineering classes will start to get serious.
Now playing on my iPod is "Kane'ohe" by the Brothers Cazimero. It's a cheerful song, talking about the rains that regularly fall on that side of the island. I miss the rain. It's not humid at all here and my skin is cracking. Gross.
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