Sunday, April 12, 2009

Quickies

Got dinged by all the grad schools I applied to in January. FML.

Submitted last-ditch R3 application to Stanford. Not expecting to hear from them.

Finally learning to take life a day at a time.

Took a look at the sad state of my bank account, thought "aiya I only live once" before forking out the cash for round trip tickets to Buenos Aires.

Dusted off my Spanish textbooks and looking forward to backpacking solo.

Yale has a gorgeous campus except for the fake Tuscan village-- what were they thinking?

New Haven has ugly buildings and good food.

I wish I had mentors as a college freshman.

My toe might be broken, but I couldn't care less and I'm running and kicking punching bags like nobody's business just because I can.

A young man asked me why women play hard to get. I told him to enjoy the pleasure of the chase-- after all, it's part of human nature to appreciate hard-earned prizes ;).

I wish people will never lose their sense of idealism, and understand that it's possible be both pragmatic and imaginative at the same time.