Can't...study...anymore...GAH ( Read more... )

Grad School is hard. Don't let those people in the so called "real world" fool you into thinking that just because you're still in school that they have it harder. Or that they miss classes. I was talking to Stu Weiler and he told me he envies me having classes and being challenged. There's being challenged and there's having my ass handed to ( Read more... )

I'm getting ready to go jogging. My friend Lindsey and I jog a few times a week. We'e at 2.5 miles, hoping to get it to 3 relatively soon. We want to run the 5K's in Baltimore, think it would be a good thing to help keep us in shape and give us a stress reliever. It's my substitute for band now that I'm in graduate school ( Read more... )

Funny how Allie and Mike seem to have read my mind. Last night I found myself missing Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon, more than I have all summer. It might have something to do with classes starting last week, but even that seems vaguely familiar. I feel like I'm supposted to be here at Hopkins, but that all my CMU friends were supposted to ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I was attempting to pull into my garage after making a Dunkin Donuts run with my (brand spanking new) friend Lindsey, and the door wouldn't open. I went to talk to the guy at the front desk who told me tough, I'd have to park on the street for the night. Now, take away the fact that I pay $85 a month to park in the garage, I don't like ( Read more... )

I have had an exciting 6 weeks here in Baltimore. I've been working like crazy because my new research group was going to Argonne National Lab to use their synchatron, and beam time (what you get at a synchatron) is very valuable and you don't get to use it very often. I showed up after the 4th of July and they were like Hey! No one has ever ( Read more... )

I have arrived in Baltimore. I got here last Thursday, and it's been a little scary. My mom and I drove here, and we spent our first day searching for apartments. I'm subletting for the summer from a member of my research group who is spending the summer in Japan, but I'm going to need a permanent apartment, and we found one! It's REALLY close ( Read more... )

I am so close to being packed in this house forever. I should be, I leave on Wednesday for Baltimore. I'm excited, and more than a little nervous. Matt Simone, a perpetual lab partner from the past four years, will also be attending Johns Hopkins, and he kept calling me the past two days with apartment woes (he was there this past weekend). ( Read more... )

I am packing up and leaving my room for good. My little brother Daniel is moving in. What that means is I need to sort through everything that's been sitting in drawers and closets for the past 7 years. It's a lot of stuff, and it brings back so many memories that I forgot I even had. I found all my collage applications (I made coppies!), ( Read more... )

Today, for the first time in God knows when, I checked facebook. I do this purely as a time waster, a procrastinating tool used by many in the college world. And I found a comment on one of the photos I posted, taken at my friend Allie's 21st birthday party early last semester ( Read more... )