For those of you who don't already know, starting on Monday I'm going to be embarking on the 10-week Latin Institute at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan. It's a famous program that aims to inculcate 2.5 years (6 semesters) of college level Latin into one's brain (or more likely, one's soul) over the summer. For anybody unfamiliar with the ( Read more... )

:: dies from exhaustion ::

Find something else to do you stupid assholes.

Never again will I get my hair cut at a barber school.

With an average of 1 or 2 hours of sleep per night, I'm starting to feel like a motherfucking grad student.

For the Japanese literate, this made me laugh so hard that I almost cried earlier:

http://www.kanken.or.jp/henkan/happyou.html

春眠不覺曉
處處聞啼鳥
夜來風雨聲
花落知多少

Oh, Christmas. This is the one day of the year where I am forced to face the impecunious reality of my family and loath those who brag about their wealth by listing all the gifts they received in their freaking AIM away messages. There were no presents under the Mandel family tree this year. If only my mom could get that job she interviewed for ( Read more... )

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I had another dream last night about being accepted for an analyst internship at the CIA....I don't know where it came from, because I haven't had a dream like that in four or five months and I haven't been thinking about it much lately. Maybe it's a sign!! Ugh, my little obsessions like this always come right in the middle of a test week and ( Read more... )