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Fall Semester 2008: Research and Scholarship Ethics - M 2:00-3:40p Advanced Topics in Molecular Biology - MW 4:30-5:45p Advanced Biochemistry, Cell, and Molecular Biology - TR 9:30-10:45a, F 9:00-9:50a Physiology of Human Systems - TR 2:00-3:50p Colloquium in Molecular Biology Research - R 4:00-4:50p Old Journal Entries
Or rather, entries from the old journal, as it were... - An open letter to the College. (August 27, 2006) - Untitled. (July 16, 2006) - Haunted (Part One) (May 29, 2006) - Are we growing up, or just going down? (May 3, 2006) - I had a dream... (March 19, 2006) - ... (March 14, 2006) - Enjoy it while it lasts. (September 12, 2005) - Scene: 3:27 AM. (September 3, 2005) - Untitled. (July 26, 2005) Psst... if you're looking for the academic writings I used to have here, head to my Reading Room. Blockbuster Total-Access DVDs
Week of 6/30/08: - Tokyo monogatari [Tokyo Story] (1953) Week of 6/16/08: - Akira (1988) - Habuah [The Bubble] (2006) Week of 6/9/08: - Prime Suspect 4, including: - The Lost Child (1995) - Inner Circles (1995) - Scent of Darkness (1995) Week of 5/26/08: - Like Minds [USA: Murderous Intent] (2006) Week of 5/5/08: - La Strada (1954) - Black Orpheus (1959) - Le Notti di Cabiria [Nights of Cabiria] (1957) Week of 4/7/08: - Cleo de cinq a sept [Cleo from 5 to 7] (1962) - Det Sjunde Inseglet [The Seventh Seal] (1957) Week of 3/24/08: - Prime Suspect 3 (1994) Week of 3/17/08: - Funny Face (1957) - Lalechet Al Ha'mayim [Walk on Water] (2004) - Charade (1963) Week of 3/10/08: - Yossi & Jagger (2002) - Mists of Avalon (2001) - Blow Up (1966) The *New* Reading List
Since June 2006... - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Dead Emcee Scrolls by Saul Williams [61.3%] - - Junk Science: An Overdue Indictment of Government, Industry, and Faith Groups that Twist Science for Their Own Gain by Dan Agin, Ph.D. [64.4%] - - - - - - - - 1984 by George Orwell [18.8%] ClustrMap
So THAT'S where all the people reading this come from... | Don't come too close / You don't wanna see my ghost Wednesday, April 4, 2007 @ 2:27 pm For all the hard work I've been putting in lately to make up for all the stupid decisions I made during my stint at Pomona, I don't feel quite as alive as I did back then. If experiencing life is what makes us human, what keeps us alive, then I probably am dead at the core, because I rarely go out anymore. All my social interaction is mediated through the internet... you know, when it actually occurs. Everyone I know is off doing real things in the real world and I feel like I'm still here in the playground, playing all by myself in the sandbox, still trying to build my castle like everyone else has. I don't believe in Catholic mythology, but I suppose where I'm at is something akin to Purgatory. After all of those transgressions I had committed in the past, there had to be someplace to go to attempt to set myself right--what better place than here, and what better time than now? In the last six or so months, I have plenty to be thankful for and proud about--things that represent steps in the right direction: - I recently learned I've been placed on the Dean's List for the second time in as many quarters since I returned to college. - I feel I am at the very least moderately successful (read: actually competent) in the graduate seminar I am taking at SJSU. - I rocked the general GRE, whose scores will be valid for five years (YESSSS, no retaking required for that long)! - I landed the internship in the Astrobiology Program at NASA Ames Research Center. - My GPA is finally at a level at which I feel can be competitive for entry into graduate school, and I have one more year of schooling to try and improve on that even further. - My work ethic has rebounded to a level that I haven't experienced since sophomore year... of HIGH SCHOOL. (I got pre-senioritis starting junior year and my grades had been slipping since.) - I proved to myself that I can survive a calculus class despite a four-year gap between the last time I took any sort of math class and that calculus class. So for the next six months, I want to see more of the same in myself. I had enough fun in college to last me for at the very least the next year, so I'll deal with my self-imposed penance like a champion. And I guess I forgot to mention the thing that I was most proud of: I have faith in myself again. I seemed to have lost that feeling about halfway through my first semester at college and it followed me around for the longest time. Well, no more. Here's to the future, and to holding onto dreams! 3 Comments. Congrats! I need to pull up my GPA like mad. Every time I go to do it, I get discouraged by teachers who couldn't teach their way out of a bag made of phyllo dough. » ikimashokie on 2007-04-04 05:58:04 Yeah, that's the only option. Say "fuck you" to the teacher and get it done my own way. » ikimashokie on 2007-04-04 06:19:08 this post inspired me. » helloiloveyou on 2007-04-04 06:55:23
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