so i decided to start this new blog and write about my time at stanford since...1. it might be nice to share my experiences at Stanford because i haven't ever done so before and 2. it might be good to remember how i felt as my college days were coming to an end.
i've been super tired these past few days still trying to catch up on my sleep. i drove to school with Vy at about 930am, and had chinese class - 1st year, 3rd quarter bilingual. It was nice to see Liao Laoshi again - she loves me and i love her! It's such an awesome class because she's an amazing teacher. very energetic and enthusiastic. i'm excited about reading actual stories in chinese!!! after chinese, i went to Economics of Education, which is being taught by a prof who i guess we took from harvard. to get her to come here, stanford gave her husband tenure. pretty slick move i guess. anyway, i enjoyed the lecture VERY MUCH. she's a great prof and apparently a genius, and she talked about issues that i've thought about, for example - what's the point of going to college? one of the main things she said was that college is only good if it provides a good rate of return, so one should only go to college until the rate of return equals his or her discount rate (i'm not TOO sure what that means) in order to maximize. i think the math might get to be over my head, but i'm going to try and audit it.
i had lunch on lee chang and with zhihao at Olive's Cafe. i had a beef gyro. yummmm. oh how i've missed good food from the States, and it's so much cheaper here! In Europe, the food was way variable and muy expensive.
i took a nap in trancos and at 3pm gordon and i went to TOTAL BODY WORKOUT. it was HILARIOUS. i cracked up the entire time, especially at the beginning. the best part was probably our skipping and reaching with the hands, OH and the SQUATs, the PULSING SQUATS. lol. oh boy. i was using 1lb weights the entire time. i'm such a stud. :)
i took another nap and then went to dinner at 5:45pm. this time, the meal was on edwin! woot. yes, i'm a bum.
7pm to 8:15pm i had a class called "Community Health: Contemporary Issues in Family Health and Patient Advocacy". looks like it will be really good. i'm so excited!
afterward, i ran all the way to tressider because i knew that it was danny's birthday and everyone was heading over to roble and my phone was dead. for some reason, the battery has only lasted like 20 minutes. weird eh? i have to get a new one. i happened to run into gordon, dtrieu, steve, and edna on the way, so we all went to lake lag together to find danny. it was cute cuz he was blind folded and they had took him on a raft into the middle of the lake. we sang him happy birthday from the shore, then went back to Roble for some Asian snacks. then we lingered and played pool and piano and foosball.
as the clock struck 10pm, i rolled out toward my car. i called my mommy as i charged my phone, and then made the short drive back to the house.
since then, i've just been trying to figure out classes. i'm going to take the bare minimum. so it looks like this:
Human Nutrition (4 units)
Chinese (3 units)
Community health (2 units)
Total Body Workout (1unit)
Hip Hop (1 unit)
Yoga (1 unit)
Total = 12 units.
yeah, i know. i'm a lazy bum. actually i have a lot on top of this. in addition,
Teaching Asthma classes to elementary school kids - Mondays for 3 hours
Meetings and prep for medical project - Monday evenings
Volunteering for the Family Resource Desk - 3 hours a week (5 times during the quarter)
i'm also going to be hanging out with friends because it's our last quarter together.
my schedules a lot more hectic than oxford. i do miss the free time...oh well. at least i experienced it. :)
i'll try and update this blog as often as possible. that's all for now. i need to catch up on sleep!
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