you have got to be kidding me. it's april 12th, and there's snow on the ground. and i woke up early just to do homework. what is wrong with the universe ( Read more... )

on the second day, we went to a cave in the west of ireland. the view was amazing- we drove past so many deep green fields with the stone walls all around them, ruins, animals grazing in pastures, churches, villages- i pretty much fell in love with the beauty of the countryside. the cave was pretty cool too- apparently, a farmer discovered it in ( Read more... )

1) ran a 5k with a huge green stamp on my face that said, kiss me i'm irish (also ran a personal best time, no one really knows why ( Read more... )

as soon as we landed in shannon, there was a light rain shower and a huge rainbow in the sky. we got through customs and picked up our luggage, and then we hopped on the bus and met dan, the driver, and peter, the tour guide. peter was from london, and obviously enjoyed hearing himself talk, since he was able to keep up a steady stream of ( Read more... )

i decided i'm never going to have enough time to sit down and write about everything that happened over spring break at once, so i'm going to do it in parts, so here it goes ( Read more... )

since i have 2 minutes to write this post, here's the short version ( Read more... )

this weekend was yet another example of bad life choices made after drinking ( Read more... )

it seems to me that i've been here before. i have a sense of deja vu as i sit here at the computer in the library, contemplating the 6 hours i will spend studying until the library closes for the night. two weeks ago, i was in the same position, with a physics test the next day, panicking and wondering if i could pull off a good grade. now i'm ( Read more... )

it's amazing to me that science is closer to curing cancer than to curing the common cold. now, i'm all for supporting cancer research. there's actually nothing that's more important to me. however, when you wake up with your throat on fire, sore ribs, unable to breathe out of one nostril, and feeling like your head might explode, it makes for a ( Read more... )

so i got an 88 on that physics test. after all of my stress about it, it seems kind of anticlimactic. i mean, i could be doing better in the class, but there's still plenty of time before the end of the semester to get my grade up to an A. the way it's looking this semester, i better get an A in physics because that might be the only one i get ( Read more... )