There was the Harvard Yale game! We won. American football is a lot easier to follow than Rugby (at least in my experience).
Thanksgiving has gone and passed. I went to New York City and stayed with Katherine for two nights including actual thanksgiving where I helped around the kitchen and setting up for dinner. It was a really interesting experience, an American thanksgiving. The turkey went into the oven at 12pm. We ate at 7pm. It was pretty crazy and the food was delicious (naturally) :D
Such nice table settings :) Such a nice house as well
Foodddddddd.
The other two nights I stayed with Adam in the city where I also saw [imagespambelow]
Central Park
Metropolitan Museum of Art
And of course:
FOODFOODFOODFOODFOODFOODFOOD (cinnamon buns @ kat's, bibimbap, sandwich panini @ adam's, pasta carbonara @ adam's, raspberry mousse cake, cappuccino chocolate cheesecake, xiaolong bao, shrimp fried rice+pork shoulder+red bean pancake + bakchoyyy, cannoli (and jason's tongue, but nobody wants to eat that), hot chocolate, oreo ice cream sandwich, and sushi :D)
Yay image dump. So that was my thanksgiving in a nutshell.
What's next... oh yeah there was that one snow day on december 1st, which was a nice thing to wake up to I guess. Makes you feel like Christmas is coming (though in actuality xmas is blistering hot in the summer in the southern hemisphere)
Just as it was beginning to snow haha. You can see it gathering under the tree.
Last week was a big work week, I had to finish my photographic project for history of photography (which was fun, but also messed up my room entirely. It's no big surprise why the starving artist stereotype is an unkempt bearded 20 year old male in his messy studio apartment. It doesn't take much to mess up a place when you're working with paper and crafts, and I'm not even throwing in any paints or wet media...).
Not that it's been all work. At the beginning of Reading Period I took a trip into Chinatown with the HVA upperclassmen and had dimsum. It was a relaxing introduction to what would become a somewhat hectic study period.
HVA Christmas Event
Oh yeah so I should probably explain the weird relationship I have with HVA. What happened was I went to one of their events (the making Banh Mi one) where I ran into Arthur who I know from Archery, and I met Peter there as well because he was a massive troll. Anyway since then they somehow conned me into joining their mailing list and going to their meetings (even though I have absolutely nothing to contribute, the free food is good though)... but actually everyone there is really nice, and I like how it's kind of a small group so it feels a lot closer than some of the bigger groups like CSA or AAA. I'm not vietnamese obviously though, but I've met a lot of cool people at their events and stuff and I like hanging out with Arthur and Peter despite (/because of?) their supreme troll and annoyingness :) So yeah that's my story of how I somehow became roped into HVA.
I also took a visit down to the Carpenter Center last week to take a look at the VES studios and the work they've done. I was really inspired after going to that exhibit actually, I can't wait to take a VES class. Hopefully I get one lotteried next semester but it seems hard to get into them since there's so much interest. The History of Photography exhibition was also really good, the sandwiches and apple cider were excellent and the inclusion of gingerbread men in the snack tray was a plus one in my book :P
Then there was the CS50 Hackathon/CS50 Fair, which were both pretty good, but only came about after a lot of hard work and sleepless nights (which later induced illness as I found out).
4am @ Microsoft or something
Then I had to do another all nighter pretty much right before the due date because I'm a silly student who didn't finish earlier. But all is well, everything was ok in the end, I finished and presented at the fair and CS50 is no officially over (sadface). Still got free swag from the fair. 5GB on Dropbox, tshirts from CS50, Dropbox, Quora and Google, drink bottle from Oracle and lots of candy cupcakes and helium balloons haha.
SO MANY BALLOONS
Well, I was kinda sick over thanksgiving and now I'm kind of sick again ....... I spent yesterday sleeping, trying to recover after the dual CS50 all nighters. I got up for a few hours during dinnertime to go and have dinner with an alumnus from an investment company which invests in tech startups thought, and he had a lot of compelling and useful things to say.
I think I finally realize now the importance of time, especially in college. I always end up thinking about stuff that happened before in my life in the shower, and how quickly it all changed. Because I think when you're younger and adults tell you you'll understand when you're older -- that time's already come for us. We're standing in it right now and we have these four years to find out how to cope without extremely dire consequences. I think it's important to make the most of it then. Actually already 1/8 of my time for that kind of experimentation is gone. I better not waste the rest of it, huh :)
Wish me luck for my finals @_@ Economics this Friday and then History of Photography next Wed. And then flying back to NZ to see all my lovelies again~ ♥
Promise I'll write something actually thought-provoking soon. Maybe. Got a lot on my plate right now gaiz bear with meeeeee
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