Tomorrow I´m finally coming home from Mexico. My cellphone broke weeks ago so I don´t have a way of contacting my family - well, I´ll probably end up using a friend´s phone card and calling people as a preferable way of returning from the airport to paying cab fare. After Mexico, I think that US cab fares would frustrate me greatly. 4 dollars is ( Read more... )

Hola de Mexico. I can´t use this keyboard para nada. Having fun, have not started school, last night I went to a Mexican club. I have a video and photos, but I´ll wait till I get home to show them in person because I would rather they not be intercepted by people who shouldn´t see them.

The end of my photography teacher's end of term comment ( Read more... )

I've decided what I want to do with my life. I know it's probably due to how late it is, but it all makes sense now. I need to go into particle physics research and so go to college somewhere with really good skiing, language and physics programs - but afterwards I want to work at CERN. Think about it. Working in Switzerland? Near the Alps? ( Read more... )

Despite an overall disappointing day, my attitude has picked up remarkable. There are other schools that I've become more interested in exploring recently and now I'll have the chance to do that. I'm actually pretty relaxed about the whole thing. I'm a bit nervous about telling all our family friends I got deferred at Christmas, though.

I really want involved in an adult education program. Sometimes the US just makes me so sad. In such a developed country there is no excuse for this. I can't figure out if this is a failure on the part of the government, or if it's a failure on the part of the people/culture. Leave a comment

For some reason I'm more interested in seeing the comments on my finals than seeing my admissions decision to Yale. I'm actually getting pretty excited about some other colleges, namely Middlebury and Dartmouth, so I won't be so disappointed if I get deferred/rejected. I think it'll hurt a bit on some level, though, because I'm excited enough for ( Read more... )

My English final is in an hour. I have to write a play in-class, integrating characters from Paradise Lost, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Waiting for Godot ( Read more... )

I am actually overcome by the snow. It's amazing. Every couple of minutes I have to stand up and just stare at the white abyss that is the Wetherall Quad and mutter to myself. I love the snow - I'll miss it in Mexico. I'm resolved to go skiing this winter. I'm in the process of looking for good deals and seeing if I can get permission from my ( Read more... )

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