life on the obverse

…are not usually as amazing as this past saturday. Why was it amazing?

- bike ride: past lansing to terpening corners, along 34B then south to etna, along upper fall creek, beebe lake, then back home to cayuga heights. total distance: ~30 miles.

then i came back and was about to take a shower, but got invited [...]

while i was in the bay area, many friends asked me how graduate school has been treating me. the first few people that asked me received an answer that could best be described as somewhere between confusion and contrition. I had never actually asked myself how much I have been enjoying Cornell; my mind has [...]

goodbye, old friend.

as an aside, i have realized through the past several months that i don’t understand people for a few reasons, not the least of which is that i just don’t exhibit the wide range of emotions that many of my friends do. i just get depressed at a few things and laugh at [...]

being back in Berkeley has brought back a lot of memories of how things were over the summer. i’m sure listening to the music that was on my playlist back then hasn’t helped… but then again, it’s not that being reminiscent of the summer is a bad thing either.

i look back on my past here [...]

For the past two days, I have been studying for an exam that is going to be dropped my way at 3pm today. In general I wouldn’t be this concerned about taking a single exam, but the problem actually stems from the most recent utter disgrace that was handed to me from the most recent [...]