Wednesday, September 24, 2003
had another pretty busy day today, went to sit in on a psych de-cal class (these classes run by students) coz they had invited a professor to talk about how to go about getting letters of recommendation for graduate school...i'm seriously worried now, competition is tight for graduate school, and i don't really have that much time to cultivate relationships with the professors here, since i only have 2 years as a transfer student, while most people have 4. the best way to get to know a professor is to be involved in research projects, and i applied for one but didn't get it...again because i'm a transfer student and have no track record, so they can't really tell if i'll be a good person to let into the project or not. guess i shall have to try again next semester...but it's tough, all these extra obstacles. i'll make it, just have to exert a little more effort.
went to talk to my english GSI (graduate student instructor) about my paper due friday, and realized during the course of it that he has a twin brother who writes for time magazine...how cool is that? says his twin brother looks exactly like him too, and sometimes they have pictures of his brother in the magazine, so it's kind of weird, looking at himself, or sort of.
today must be twin day or something, coz i had lunch with this girl i met last night at IV (another transfer student), christina...she was there with her twin sister laurie. they weren't that identical or anything, though you could tell they are twins. turns out laurie's roommate during her first year here was a s'porean i know! what a small world.
very full now, just got back from dinner...the chicken wasn't bad for once, and they had sweet corn...yummy.
had a guest lecturer during my english class today, she teaches a creative writing class that runs parallel to mine. today we were doing emily dickinson, and i guess my teacher felt that as a woman, this other teacher could bring an additional dimension to the lecture. she turned out to be totally boring! was trying to stay awake during her monotone speech...plus it was afternoon time, aka nap time too...my teacher might be hard to understand, but at least he has lots of insightful things to say. i think he himself didn't quite like her lecture, coz towards the end he kept interjecting his own thoughts...which were far more interesting than what she had been talking about. think i appreciate my lecturer a bit more now.
got an email from another tutoring position i had applied for. they want to interview me, but even if they take me i'll only be able to start in the spring, so no difference from the other tutoring spot i've got held for me for then.
on an abrupt change of subject, verse of the day...
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God." - 2 Corinthians 1: 1-11
read that this morning for QT, thought it was really beautiful...when we go through any tough situation, all we have to do is remember that God's comfort flows into us...so that it may overflow through us into the lives of others. wonderful thought that he can use us just as we are.
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went to talk to my english GSI (graduate student instructor) about my paper due friday, and realized during the course of it that he has a twin brother who writes for time magazine...how cool is that? says his twin brother looks exactly like him too, and sometimes they have pictures of his brother in the magazine, so it's kind of weird, looking at himself, or sort of.
today must be twin day or something, coz i had lunch with this girl i met last night at IV (another transfer student), christina...she was there with her twin sister laurie. they weren't that identical or anything, though you could tell they are twins. turns out laurie's roommate during her first year here was a s'porean i know! what a small world.
very full now, just got back from dinner...the chicken wasn't bad for once, and they had sweet corn...yummy.
had a guest lecturer during my english class today, she teaches a creative writing class that runs parallel to mine. today we were doing emily dickinson, and i guess my teacher felt that as a woman, this other teacher could bring an additional dimension to the lecture. she turned out to be totally boring! was trying to stay awake during her monotone speech...plus it was afternoon time, aka nap time too...my teacher might be hard to understand, but at least he has lots of insightful things to say. i think he himself didn't quite like her lecture, coz towards the end he kept interjecting his own thoughts...which were far more interesting than what she had been talking about. think i appreciate my lecturer a bit more now.
got an email from another tutoring position i had applied for. they want to interview me, but even if they take me i'll only be able to start in the spring, so no difference from the other tutoring spot i've got held for me for then.
on an abrupt change of subject, verse of the day...
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God." - 2 Corinthians 1: 1-11
read that this morning for QT, thought it was really beautiful...when we go through any tough situation, all we have to do is remember that God's comfort flows into us...so that it may overflow through us into the lives of others. wonderful thought that he can use us just as we are.
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