Hey there all! A quick update from Stanford! Things are really really fun here. A little ummm,m planned, but fun! I’ll tell you all in detail about the funness on Sunday, but right now, I have a date with a waffle machine….
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Archive for April, 2005
I turned on our local PBS station, which, during the day at least, is all-Sesame all the time. The Sesame street monsters were fighting over who got to sing the alphabet song, when suddenly a tall, dignified black man walked in.
“Surely that’s not…I mean, doesn’t he have better things to do?”
But then he spoke and removed all doubt.
“Who are you?” shrieked the monsters.
“I am Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the United Nations,” the man replied.
Oh yes, yes he did.
He taught a valuable lesson about working together.
Kofi did.
On Sesame Street.
Oh man it is so pretty I can hardly stand it. And it’s MINE!
I just got back from “babysitting” for NHS hours at CDO. We were the childcare for a parenting class in the MPR. There were 15 of us and 5 kids. Mostly I worked on my problem set with Kevin, the other BCer who was there.
Then, on my way home, the kid whose parents like the Elkhorn and who also goes to Stanford called. On my cell. On the way home. I had nothing to say. It was kind of funny. He was nice, but it was possibly the most halting conversation I’ve ever had in my entire life. There was NO POINT! But still, very nice of him to call me, etc, etc.
Tomorrow: Last BC Calc test EVER!!! (Exciting, and really sad. No more Yetman. I could cry.)
I heart the Magnetic Fields. Especially “Epitaph for my Heart.”
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Mom just came back here to comfort me in my studying with the remains of a fruit salad. This, in itself, is not funny. The funny happens when I tell you that it’s still in the big crystal bowl and I’m eating it with the GINORMOUS two-tined serving fork.
It’s like eating something Alice left.
Check these out. They’re really cool.
I’m doing a Government “review project” (we’re in teams of two and each team has a section of the material to review and then re-teach to the class) on Federalism. I have now made a really kick-ass outline of everything you’d ever want to know about Federalism in the context of the American system of government. And, as of tomorrow, we will have a cool poster with charts and graphs. (I use cool here in a slightly reduced context.) Keep me in mind for all of your Federalist needs.
It really, really kicks ass.
Check this out! Can we go? Please?
This is incredible. Kudos to the professor for being so completely terrifying. (I recommend downloading the option with “I trimmed out the actual educational part of the lecture and just left the ‘good part.’” as its intro.)
Dad and I had an awesome time in Philly. I was hoping I’d hate it so that this whole decision would be easier, but no such luck. It was actually pretty cool, although I must say that the Stanford ProFro I’ve met were friendlier than the Penn ones. Also, the Stanford crowd seems much less worried about their qualifications. There was a lot of comparing of glory at Penn, and there’s been very very little from Stanford.
Also, I must confess, I’ve gotten kind of addicted to the Stanford Admit Website. It is a pit of time-wasting delight.
Last night I bought my ticket to go to the Stanford Admit weekend, so that’s become a lot more real. Yay!
The only downside to being back is that I have to get back into the academic groove. Ugh. I just want it all to be OVER already!
