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As much as I'm supposed to hate Stanford, I wish Berkeley "protesters" could have more civil and intellectual debates.

Stanford students fry some Rice

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I've been lurking on LJ and whatever blogging sites these days since I'm generally too lazy to post things. I keep on posting through half my trips on my travel blog and then getting too busy/lazy to finish the rest, and usually, I've already finished another trip by then. I still need to do the rest of Alaska and Hawaii ( Read more... )

First of all, Election Day was one of the most infuriating, frustrating, and worked-up day in a while.

Election Day is a scary day when masses of uneducated people vote on policies that they know nothing about or have not thought critically about that will eventually affect hundreds and thousands of others.

A couple things:

Proposition 2 is a ( Read more... )

Today was a torrential downpour. The heavens basically opened up and dumped a 357254-gallon pail on us ( Read more... )

Ever since the semester started, I miss reading for pleasure. Instead, I'm currently struggling to finish 500 pages of reading a week for my Global Poverty and African Politics classes. Can't wait until I have to start doing research for my thesis class...

Don't get me wrong. Some of the readings, especially for my Global Poverty class are ( Read more... )

...So much for trying to sit down and write my thoughts down for myself again ( Read more... )

Last night, Mike and I went to the Chabot Observatory. We tried to land a lunar module, we climbed into a black hole, we walked on the moon, and we had a free-falling moment. The observatory was amazing. It's the first time I've really thought about the starts and the cosmos in a long time. I had stopped visiting the NASA web page for the ( Read more... )

For those of you who don't know, I went backpacking for the first time (First time camping, too! ...Girl scout camp doesn't count... I still didn't even know how to pitch a tent yet.) from Thursday, July 17, to Sunday, July 20 in the Yosemite High Country (starting from Tuolumne Meadows)

Blog entries, maps, and pictures can be found at my travel ( Read more... )

( the cake is a lie )