brick by boring brick

so today, i went to the library with just my book, pens, ipod, and phone. I barely glanced at my phone, took pages of color-coded notes with my numerous, variegated pens, and read an entire chapter of biological systems in under 2 hours. not bad. it's amazing how productive one can be without a computer.

but with a computer too! i love this new template of mine. obviously, it's taken from the creator who gets credit on the bottom, but with numerous edits of font, picture, and colors from ME :D i love coding, and i miss it, so whenever I get to manipulate some, i'm a happy nerdette.

in other news, "will grayson, will grayson" arrived today! right on time / maybe a day early! and so did my wavecams. I read about 6 chapters into WG, WG and like it enough so far. (i am not used to david levithan's style, so i'm partial to john green's WG for now.) ironically, levithan's non-use of capitalization bothers me a lot within a book. reminds me that i should capitalize. But this looks weird to me for blogging; so I don't know.

wavecam required dissembly and assembly of my original torpedo 40, or gnarls 'gnarly' barkley, as i've dubbed him from an early age. the dissembly was EASY with the hex key that they thankfully included as per my request. :) the removing of the locktab took SO long for me to understand. and the black grease is still underneath a few of my fingernails. (i haven't figured out cleaning that much yet...) and i found that my wave cams weren't really broken, just ungreased. (gonna invest in some white lithium grease when i get home) but i installed the new, freshly greased ones and reassembled. and it rides like a dream. much more sturdy than it has been for a few months. feels like a new board, minus the wheels (which are on their way + bearings! yay!)

STILL waiting on my all caps bundle... minus t-shirt. : /
what baffles me is that WG,WG was ordered maybe saturday and it's here, while my all caps which i ordered two weeks ago, still isn't. yes, yes--sticker troubles, but that doesn't make up for the waitinggg in anticipation while knowing that its climbing on itunes and everyone else already has their copy.

BME is still a go-- meeting with advisor tomorrow. (that rhymed!)

that's all. please comment letting me know what you think of this blog, my vlogs, me in general, etc. :)

xoxo,
maithreyi

valia/balia

so here's my first vlog.

and testimony that it isn't false, here's detailed account of yesterday.

so i woke about 10am, took a shower, met D for WAFFLESSS my fave part of weekend mornings, had a great chat with her while eating them, and then waited for N to get up and at em. Finally, we traipsed around the perimeter of SC's campus looking for buses, waiting for buses that apparently would never show. Then, giving up, went to the Lot for a refresher of wallaby yogurt before trying again. we took the hollywood bus, and found that we only needed ONE and itd take us directly there! success! there, we saw a falafel place and Yogurtland on our way in. then we walk into the best most uppity but well put together set of stores this side of awesome, and went to town. first looking for D's shoes, then looking for N's bracelet, and along the way, i got some sweet jean leggings (that I hope stretch outtt :[ ) and then once done with our purposeful shopping ate falafel to reenergize, and then perused some other stores. i got this teal and black and white magazine print dress that D and the store lady told me i HAD to buy. then felt this high from buying something so nice and serendipitously and shopped a lottt, not necessarily buying, but looking quite contently. then, it was time for yogurtland, and maneuvering to downtown for school : ) where we watched project runway in my room and chilled. then departed our separate ways.

but yeah, i'll blog here more. and vlog there more.

it's VALIA and BALIA FO' ME : vlog a lot in april, and blog a lot in april! :D

xoxo,

reyi

don't unplug me or just shut me down.

I LOVE how much i vacillate between ideas. Legitimately, I don't have the same ideas from one day to the next. Yesterday, I was praising Wellesley, and today, on a whim off a conversation with a friend, I start checking out Viterbi. I'm like an academic courtesan, courting any and all of the options on my academic menu. Theoretically, being a TO and viterbi student, I'd have it alllll. Top 10 engineering school in the country, and top humanities program where I will figure out how to articulate myself and acquaint myself with a variety of topics.

I found out I have taken all the bio and chem prereqs and would be on track to graduate, probably. [things holding me back i can remedy in summer school.] & because lots of the reqs are 2 or 3 credits, I would most probably finish on time.

hmmm. seriously mulling this over. going to figure out meeting an advisor next week (when sched permits it :P )

BUT THIS OPTION is something i was seriously considering in 9th and 10th, before discovering neuro. and with the neuroengineering concentration, i can have the best of both worlds and a definite career.

ranjani auntie was onto something suggesting olin for me :P

and i think being an engineer legitimizes me. makes me seem less stupid for coming here.

and bme's are ubiquitous in this global age of biotechnology.

job offers and ideas and opportunity lie everywhere. one just has to seek it.

and grad school isn't impossible with it. (even for neuro) .

i think i'm going to go for it.

i just have to work tons harder though.

just getting by will NOT suffice.

and speaking of not getting by--

THAT"S (getting by) ALL I DID TODAY. my brain refused to concentrate.

ive been up all night for almost zero purpose. i got a rudimentary equations sheet done, not even my TAKE HOMEEE : (

this is going to be a very very very long day.

what i DID get done was getting amphetamine abec 7 bearings, cambria 62mm 82a duro wheels from 3dm, skatetool, and wave cams to FIX UP GNARLS BARKLEYYY :D

i miss the tightness i had when i just got him, and this will hopefully rectify how it's been riding lately. and in the last week i have become an aware longboarder--finally learning maintenance and keys to good longboarding hygiene. [changing bearings if rain, etc.]

can't wait to put it together and have it ride nice and smooth : )

(and look brand new with sick new wheels :D)

and hopefully the skatetool works as planned. i think it's the same one a longboarding club person used to "tighten" my trucks (kingpin)

one thing that worries me are the scratches it's accumulated... but i think that's natural.

i'll def consider upgrading to S8s or a new board in a year. [spring semester next year....lots of decisions around then]

and i cannot wait to ride around boston on it. my boston walks were so serene and slow and peaceful, but riding on a longboard? exponentially increase the awesomeeeee of boston. speed, agility, i can be across harvard bridge in like a hop, increasing longboarding's exposure and awesome along the way. ; )

and with mom's promises of driving to boston with her, i can definitely roam boston like a playground with my board for at least a stint of a week! :D

yep, definitely one thing i DONT want to give up ever.

longboarding made me and makes me brave.

:O)

xoxo

maithreyi

hum hallelujah. :)

DANCE DRAMA IS A GO-GO! :D

("wake me up before you go-go"...haha)

i'm in a weird mood.

slept kinda sorta late ishhh last night and looking at an almost all-nighter tonight ,most likely.

tomorrow's going to SUCKKK

i have a chem midterm which i don't know how to study for/don't want to study for even though I NEED the good grade studying would give me.

and i just realized i didn't bring my calc for my self-said all night study seshhion.

bleh.

not in the mood. thank god i got my anthro done with already. less stress.

more chem!

& i'm thinking about kinda sorta maybe possibly hmmm .... transferring to WELLESLEY! : O

there are tons of pros, and tons of cons.

we'll see. i'm looking to definitely explore it. [visit alone in the summer on one of those jaunts with the car ALONEEE. i'm totally excited for the driving practice mom's promised me. and the possible car! haha.]

i'll put a detailed procon list when i have the time to realllly think this through, but for now check out this picture! that's like reason enough to pack up and go back home! hahah. [it's not really funny, is it?]

the thing is, wellesley is the type of school i would have seen myself at if it weren't for rhp.

a liberal arts school with strong science. it's very much a school in the mold of brown and yale, but just with all girls. and their amazing cross-reg program with MIT gives me perks that i always wished for when reading the MIT admissions blogs... like an mit email id! and going to MIT, ish. ; )

the all girls thing would also put me in a similar situation as ninks, if she chooses simmons! so we could be like in the same consortium and things, i think. [i don't really know what's up with all that in ma... haha]

& talking to sandra will help put this in perspective, so i'm going to hold off on any definitive decisions until probably july.

...back to chemistry. but just felt like putting up SOMETHING.

:D

xoxo,

rafiki

feeling uninspired, but happy?

I feel so uninspired today. chemistry is so dry.

and boring.

and meh.

i can do most of the problems from the practice test.

yeah, that's not a good sign, but it's better than nothing.

and i have four hours plus lecture to review tomorrow.

i can do it.

right now, though, i need sleep.

g'night.

and i'm going to start blogging more substantially from now onwards.