so i found out last week i was accepted to USF, funding pending. Today i just found out i was accepted to UCSB, which pretty much doesnt have funding. now comes the decision making. do i want to be in debt for the rest of my life with another very recognizable institution behind me? or am i willing to sacrifice namesake for financial security and ( Read more... )

just finished a 14 mile bike ride through the everglades and man is my crotch sore. it was the perfect day for it though and we saw about 100+ aligators, no lie, we counted :) now im all sore and stuff but it was good, i feel refreshed and tired, but in a good way ( Read more... )

i need another job, or a real one, or at least to know im going somewhere in the fall, this whole sitting, waiting, wishing stuff is driving me crazy and frankly its having a serious effect on my mental stability, in the past 2 weeks ive been more emotional, irritable, and generally unhappy in a long time, and i have no real reason to be any of ( Read more... )

1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before? backpacked through europe ( Read more... )

there was a thing in the paper today about a zoo in japan trying to feed a hamster to a rat snake but instead of eating it, they became friends and now live together and sleep snuggled together in the snakes cage :) que cute...

today was also sposed to be the most depressing day of the year, calculated using the formula

[W + (D-d)] x TQ
       ( Read more... )

so im officially at the end of my early 20s, next year ill be in my mid 20s ( Read more... )

so...winter wrap up...

at thanksgiving i found out i have a new cousin(or some derivative there of) by a cousin who i didnt even know was pregnant! its a good thing that baby is damn cute or i might be offended. then i went to kevins house to finish up the evening with him and his family and friends.

my cousin davie came down and spent a week with ( Read more... )

what is wrong with people????

who are these idiots who think religion should be part of science? and these other people who want to deny the right to citizenship to babies born in the US to illegal residents.

why are people so insistant on pushing their beliefs on other people?

america is so self centered.

*phew!* i took my GRE yesterday, i got a 1270, which at first seems low considering my SATs were 1360 but most grad schools dont expect much more than 1000 and the average for UCSB is 1240.  let me tell you how daunting it is when the screen says "do you want to report your scores" before you even know them, and if you say no, you never get to see ( Read more... )

kevin got an 840 on his biology GRE!!! thats amazing, like 95th percentile stuff! im so proud of him :) smart is definately sexy ;) now as long as he does decent on the regular GRE he can pretty much go anywhere. i hope i can do even close to as well on my GRE...which i take on thursday :(

ugh... so nervous about everything