This weekend, after many,  many weeks of coordinating and planning and hoping and praying, we finally had our Dil Se reunion in LA, .. and it was every bit as epic as I thought it was going to be. While nothing will ever actually compare to five weeks in India, it was still amazing seeing everyone again after a whole year. I left from SF on Friday ( Read more... )

So, today officially marks the one week mark from the MCB commencement, and I figure if I don't write this now, there's a good chance I'll start forgetting stuff .. and given my overwhelming sense of nostalgia over the last few weeks, I am actually glad I bothered to write stuff down now and then. Plus, I really can't seem to work on this personal ( Read more... )

You know that weird thing that happens .. your iPod's on shuffle and you're doing something else so you're not really paying attention to the music, and then that one random song comes on .. and you stop. And all of a sudden, there's this memory flashing in front of your eyes with such a ridiculous level of clarity you didn't even know you ( Read more... )

About a week and nine hours from today I will finally, FINALLY, be done with the MCAT. I haven't bothered to consider whether I'll have to retake some time in the distant future, and in all reality, it's the farthest thing from my mind. At this point, I don't need anything else psyching me out.

Now of course, owing to the ridiculous amounts of time ( Read more... )

I've said on more than one occasion in the last few weeks (usually to pretty shocked and dismayed expressions) how thoroughly excited I am to graduate and be done with this whole undergraduate business. In reality, though, that's only partly true. I am ready to be done with certain things, with the stress and worry and unending panic that seems to ( Read more... )

If you ask any random passerby what they know of the University of California, more likely than not, if they identify it all, they'll spit out words like "protests' and "free speech" and "crazy liberals." Even now, decades after it's all been said and done, so much of Berkeley's identity remains associated with events like the Free Speech movement ( Read more... )

I've wanted to update for quite some time, and figured I'd do it when I finally got a free minute or two. However, the last ten weeks or so of this semester have irrevocably proven that there's not going to be much free time in my future, .. not unless I'm ready to give up sleeping altogether. And so, I figure it's better to temporarily postpone ( Read more... )

I'm not feeling very paragraphy right now .. so, spring break hmm ..

- I was in Fremont for all of break, which, despite how often I come home, was a vacation in itself. Being able to stay at home for a week, without having to worry about getting work done or what stuff I was taking back was, well .. relaxing. Caught up on all the TV I'd missed in ( Read more... )

It's been several months since I lasted update .. .in the middle of winter break. If it's any indication of how much time has passed, spring break is next week. I can't believe the semester's already half over. I have a fat load of midterms after break, including for physiology and human reproduction, so I already know how I'll be spending the week ( Read more... )

At the start of winter break, I'd decided I'd be happy meeting up with a few people once or twice over break. After all, as much as it saddens me, breaks from school are hardly breaks anymore. They're just more free time to look for internships and jobs, study for grad school exams, and, of course, worry about you're never ever going to get into ( Read more... )