Why is it so easy to get in over your head? We think we have all the answers figured out, a clear picture of how our life will unfold, yet any particular circumstance, any feature of our life, could change in an instant. In fact, there should be a giant flashing sign that comes on whenever you start to get too entrenched or too ambitious about ( Read more... )

Revelation of the day: I am exactly like my brother. In so many ways, I treat life like a game, and I am easily bored and seek compelling new diversions. That is not exactly discrediting to either of us...I think. I think people often associate that sort of playful, free-spirited personality with irresponsible, whimsical people. But I don't ( Read more... )

4 weeks of my 4th semester at Cornell have passed, and yet, it feels like so much longer. I wonder why that is. Perhaps I am becoming quicker at settling in, and ever so slowly, Cornell starts to feel more like a second home. Sometimes I hear students around me say that Cornell IS home, their one and only home, and read statuses and notifications ( Read more... )

I have a problem. Here it is ( Read more... )

So, "Firework" by Katy Perry is currently on repeat, and after having watched the video, I keep thinking about what it really means to be one of the people who have huge physical or emotional (or some combination of both) barriers that suppress them and prevent them from being "free." I grew up in LA; not just LA, but one of the wealthy suburbs of ( Read more... )

It's kind of strange that we choose the new year to set a list of things for us to accomplish. How is that different from any other day of the year? I understand that the date on your calendar will change by a digit, but how on earth does that give you enough motivation to move mountains and leap to your goals? For students, especially, shouldn't ( Read more... )

It was on a total whim that I decided to revisit my livejournal. As I try to think back to whatever the hell my thought process was ~30 mins ago, I can't deduce what brought on this completely spontaneous impulse to check out a vital component of my adolescence! And that's precisely what it was, I'm now realizing...I can't imagine what middle ( Read more... )

just for your own personal satisfaction, i do read your entries! [to the people who still provide the lj administrators with some remnants of dignity after being succeeded by the myspace generation ( Read more... )

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