Couple nights ago I had a dream. I was walking on a sidewalk and all of a sudden there was this shoebox-sized box in front of me on the ground. I looked and it was filled with bundles of hundred dollar bills. I looked around and hesitated. I started fumbling around the box and saw some receipts or records or other paperwork, and I tried to figure ( Read more... )

A few days ago my room was filled with eight people and they were all stomping on my floor playing DDR. Yes, DDR as in Dance Dance Revolution. And then some of us watched Charlez play Pokemon Sapphire on his laptop with a pirated CD. And then I did some calculus. I love this place.

I finally met Alyssa.

Tonight I was a pawn in the grand showboating of an International Chess Master from Russia. Pomona brought in some guy to play 25 of us simultaneously, so we all sat on the outside rim of a U-shape of tables, and he came around and made a move and left for the next guy. I was doing pretty well until move 13, and I was actually ahead a rook/bishop ( Read more... )

( my life at Pomona )

So SHERMAN ALEXIE, who wrote that wonderful little Indian piece in UW English, came to Pomona. He was very different from what I expected, fatter, with a bigger head and shorter head... and in other ways too. He opened up by berating us "priviledged" kids who were all here because we'd all taken advantage of Indian suffering throughout the ( Read more... )

Monday/Wednesday ( Read more... )

Yeah I'm busy, and I'm tired. But college is so much fun. I just got done playing some Texas Hold'em with some other residence hall guys, and I managed to survive with a banana and two mini-Twix's, after coming in with two hard boiled eggs and a little bag of candy. I'm signing up for my classes today. They better give me jujitsu and Introductory ( Read more... )

Mailing Address:

Vincent Ma
Smith Campus Center - Suite 118
170 East Sixth Street - #1475
Claremont, CA 91711-7004

I will post my room phone later after I figure out how to use it.

Call my cell! Free nights and weekends :)
(206) 218-3178

Send me mail! Postcards! Packages of underwear! Anything, I'd love to hear from you guys!

So it hit me again while I was unpacking my stuff in my new dorm, which by the way is extremely clean and beautiful and has air conditioning and is very comfortable. Every new student got a little caribeener to put our keys on, and I was transferring my old keys and rings onto it. When I saw that I had left so many keys on my old keychain, like ( Read more... )