ithaca

18

• final
• get up to ith
• drinks
• sleep

19

• the hobbit
• 
  

20

• 
  

21

• graduation ceremony
• leave

Hw to do over TG break

At AK's:

• finish book (6h)
• write essay (10h)
• ruby on rails due 25th (10h)
• comp bio due 24th (4h)
• do rels extra credit (2h)

At home:

• write biol paper/structure
• AI hw
• study for rels
• study for comp bio
• comp bio due 1st
• ruby due after tg

Stuff

1. Educational books
2. Spongebob toys
3. Art supplies
4. Tshirts
5. Jewelry
6. Scarf
7. Flash drives
8. Shower gel
9. Perfume

non-academic things to do

1. caught green handed sticker
2. green living cert
3. water fountain app
4. gch tshirt design
5. cafe posters
6. thank you letters
7. skate
8. christmas presents

TDD

• Wednesday
• 330-430 Monell
• 430-5 Ruby OH Lev 512
• 5-545 E Day
• 545-945
• laundry
• rice pudding
• study
• 945 espresso hour
• shower, pack
• 1030 study break
• 11 start AI hw
• 12 sleep
• Thursday
• 6 get up and study
• 10 cafe and study
• 1130 interview
• 130 sushi lunch
• get coffee
• airport
• study
• get dinner
• study
• Friday
• get up at 6am (9am EST)
• breakfast
• interviews...
• dinner & seattle - late?
• sleep
• Saturday
• get up at 6 (9am EST) breakfast in seattle
• airport 
• ruby hw
• flight 1
• ruby hw
• flight 2
• bio hw
• 1130 - home!
• finish bio hw + sleep
• Sunday
• 7 am: misc hw
• 10-4: essay
• 4-6: AI studying
• 6-8 tutor
• 8-9: buy pumpkins
• 9-whenever: finish essay
• Monday
• 7am: read AI textbook
• 10-11am: print paper
• 11-12 class
• 12-2: read AI textbook
• 2-330: class
• 530-730: meet for biol437
• 8-9: Eco Reps
• 9-1030: Eco reps pumpkin carving
• 12: sleep
• Tuesday
• 7am: study
• 12: midterm
• 130-5: Monell
• 5-930: AI hw
• tutor 930-1030pm
• BYOM
• Stay up all night doing AI. I actually have to finish it this time.
• Wednesday
• 7am-11: AI hw
• 12-2: AI hw
• 330: airport
• work on AI hw
• 9-11: hang out at wisc
• sleep
• Thursday
• Get up at 8am (9am EST)
• Leave at 840am, get there 930ish
• interviews.
• Plane back
• sleep, read for class
• 9pm
• Monell stuff
• Sleep early
• Friday
• 7am: more Monell stuff
• 9-11, 12-5 Monell
• 1pm meeting
• 7-12 House Office
• LEEK

things to do fall break

• Thurs
• Arrive
• Sleep
• Firefly
• Fri
• Food
• Movies
• Cooking
• Art Museum
• Camping
• Sat
• Food
• Sun
• Leave

CIS380 or Not

Pros of taking 380

• "Legit" CS class
• Learn stuff
• Satisfaction in the long term
• Looks good on transcript
• Something about tuition costing a lot
• 4.5 credits/semester is too low

Cons of taking 380

• GPA will go down for sure
• No sleep
• Unhappy
• Many many hours
• No time for interview studying/grad school essays
• No time for fun

Things To Do

• Mon
• 330-5 essay
• 5-6 tutor
• 6-8 cis380
• 8-9 eco reps
• 9-12 cis380
• review vocab words
• Tues
• 9-11 cis380
• 11-3 class
• 3-4 tutor CANCELLED
• 4-6 cis380
• 6-915 tutor
• 915-10 CIS380
• GRE
• Weds
• 9-11 GRE study
• 11-2 class
• 12-2 GRE study
• 2-330 class
• 330-12 GRE study
• Thurs
• 8-1 GRE
• Grocery shopping
• Water Fountain App (3 h)
• Yahoo
• Fri
• 11-12 class
• 7-12 House office
• Ruby
• Comp Bio
• Sat
• tutor
• House office
• CIS391
• Sun
• Epic Interview 9?
• Tutor 11-12
• Mon
• 11-12 class
• 1-2 Monell
• 2-330 class
• 330-430 tutor
• 5-7 tutor
• Tues
• Class
• 430 Interview - Merck
• Weds
• 930 Interview - Accenture
• LEEXOR

Things to do

Friday

1. Class (1)
2. Mock Interview (1)
3. Monell (1)
4. Go to office hours for CIS380
5. Hand in tutoring time sheet
6. Work 7-12 (5)
1. Do Ruby hw
2. Do Comp Bio hw
3. Water fountain app - finish
4. Post 1 food blog update.

Saturday

1. Eco Reps Kickoff 9-2 (5)
2. CIS Picnic? (0)
3. SkimmerFest 3-4
4. Mock Interviews with AK 430-6
5. Work 7-12 (5)
1. Python hw
2. Prepare Palantir Interview (3)
3. Prepare Amazon Interview (6)

Sunday

1. Python 9am -1pm
2. 1-3pm: mock interview with JM
3. Python 3pm-Finish
4. General Interview Prep (?)

Monday

1. Cafe (730-10)
2. Class (2.5)
3. Tutoring 7pm (1)

Tuesday

1. 9:00: Morgan Stanley
2. Class
3. 3:30-430 tutor
4. 5pm - Palantir
5. 730: AI Office Hours

Wednesday

1. 745-830am: Doctor
2. 11-12: Class
3. 1pm: Amazon
4. 2-330: Class
5. 330: Microsoft
6. 4-5: Tutor PHYS150
7. 515-615: Bio indep study meeting
8. Finish AI
9. Study break!!

Thursday

1. 8-10 Cafe
2. Do Monell stuff
3. CIS380

Friday

1. CIS380
2. GRE

Things to do

Tuesday

1. 11-3 Class
2. 330-430 Tutor Phys150
3. Job applications (the big ones)
1. Google
2. Facebook
3. Palantir
4. LinkedIn
4. BYOM
5. Skate somewhere...
6. Do the water fountain app

Wednesday

1. 10-12 Class
2. 12-1 Lunch at White Dog
3. 1-2 Get food for study break
4. 2-330 Class
5. Ruby Hw
6. AI Python Hw -- finish it
7. Study Break
8. Code@Night

Thursday

1. 8-10 Cafe
2. Read for RELS while at Cafe
3. 12-3 Class
4. Study algorithms/interview stuff

Friday

1. 10-1130 Class
2. 1130-1230 Mock Interview
3. 2-3 Monell

Weekend

Saturday

1. Eat proper food
2. Do CIS380
3. Work 7-12
4. Catch up on sleep
5. Work on webcam site for a bit...

Sunday

1. Eat proper food
2. Finish CIS380
3. Dropbox at Distrito
4. Dinner with friends at Estia!!!!!!
5. Apply to the rest of the companies (incl. Grok, Oracle)

Monday

1. Clean up CIS380
2. Email about BIOL499
3. Email RELS013 about skipping class
4. Go to the Microsoft Tech Talk
5. Cafe
6. Ruby homework
7. Watch CIS380 lecture

Incentives

1. More sleep!
2. Skateboarding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3. Leexor
4. Water Fountain site
5. Webcam site

Places

• Snow
• Nice Hotel / Alyeska
• Roof
• Camping
• Bonfire area
• Table
• Classroom
• Bridge at Beebe Lake
• Architecture building arc
• Gorges
• Under a waterfall
• Floor
• Beanbag chair
• Chair
• Hammock

Website

• Panels
• CS
• Bio
• Food blog
• Art stuff
• About/timeline
• Links (Github, LinkedIn)
• Environment/green

• Background - blank color?
• Highlight color
• Hover over - change image
• Favicon

Buying Stuff Rules

1. (except underwear and socks) do not buy new clothes because there are so many thrift stores that have cool things and who wants to buy into consumerism?
2. do not buy snacks unless it's something i've never tried before/i'm in a new state or country.
3. try buying stuff from people before going to a store.
4. use gift cards as soon as possible.
5. do not buy cosmetics until i'm done with all the ones i currently have.
6. buy animal products from farmer's market (or local brands).

Things To Do

First Week of Class

Weds 28th

1. 10: MATH240 COHN402
2. Pick up BIOL499 paperwork
3. 2: BIOL437 LLAB109
4. 330: HSOC135 COLL200

Thurs 29th

1. 12: CIS391 LEV101
2. 130: CIS380 LEV101
3. 3: CIS462 MOOR216
4. Floor Meeting

Fri 30th

1. 10: MATH240
2. Call cafe for pastries

Weekend

1. Cafe meeting

Things To Do

Overall

• Watch Serenity
• Watch Firefly
• Watch Raiders of the Lost Ark maybe
• Duck
• Class registration
• World Cafe recording
• Reading Terminal Market
• Chinatown
• Stromboli
• Penn Museum

Wednesday

• Dropkick Murphys

Thursday

• Leave

Foods/Combinations To Try

Food combnations to try

• broccoli and maple syrup
• soda and milk
• fries with ice cream--sweet and sour, honey
• banana and pizza sauce
• pb cheeseburger
• chocolate with chicken
• pickles and peanut butter
• garlic fudge
• chocolate milk and orange juice
• popcorn with cranberry juice
• cottage cheese on mashed potatoes
• chili and pb
• doritos and pb
• fries w pb
• chocolate asparagus
• deep fried pizza
• pb and bacon sandwich
• soy sauce and vanilla ice cream
• pepsi and alcohol
• grapefruit and pepper
• maple syrup eggs scrambled
• chocolate turkey sandwich
• wheat germ ice cream
• peanut butter marshmallows
• goldfish crackers and hot chocolate
• chocolate chip cookies and marinara sauce
• coke and mentos
• pbj omelette
• popcorn and ketchup
• pickles and gummies
• apple pie w american cheese
• pb and tuna
• swedish gingerbread and cheese, blue
• pb and rice krispies
• grilled cheese and maple syrup
• potato chips and rice
• asparagus pb
• ketchup in milkshakes
• grape and tuna sandwich
• pb sausage
• baked beans cottage cheese
• pbj with hot peppers
• grilled cheese and marshmallow sandwich
• rice on pizza
• ice cream and mushrooms
• corn and mayo
• banana rice
• funyuns and chocolate
• whipped cream pretzels
• fishsticks applesauce

Foods to try

• violet creams
• furikake
• beef tea
• malted milk biscuit
• But zai gou (砵仔糕)
• natto
• musk sticks
• duxelles/mushroom
• clafoutis
• ice kacang
• gruyere cheese
• gentleman's relish
• scrunchions
• jicama
• helado de salcedo
• triboluminescence
• pommes soufflees (double fried)
• mitraillette
• sofrito
• kaya
• popcorn on the cob
• chocolate straws
• avocado and miso (tastes like bacon)
• hori corn chocolate hokkaido exclusive
• wok and roast, port richmond
• konjac jelly
• dandelion burdock-fentimas and fitzpatrick's in rawtenstall
• hedgehog slice
• atole
• creme de menthe

Things To Do Last Week In Ithaca

M

• Stuff to do:
• Actually study for the GREs
• Start my presentation
• Dinner: 
• Milk + wild rice + sugar/stevia samples
• butter + kale

T

• Stuff to do:
• Finish that GRE book
• Return library books
• Watch a movie?
• Go gorge jumping?
• Breakfast:
• Yogurt
• Lunch:
• Roast beef + kale sandwich
• Other chocolate/snack items
• Dinner:
• FINISH MILK
• Blueberries in freezer
• Beans

W

• Stuff to do:
• Start packing
• Watch a movie
• Send final Abstract page
• Finish presentation
• Breakfast:
• Bread
• Lunch:
• Roast beef + kale + ricotta sandwich
• Other chocolate/snack items
• Red dates
• Marshmallows
• Digestives
• Beans. Need can opener.
• Dinner:
• Enchiladas or pizza or ribs or something

• Stuff to do:
• Practice presentation
• Watch a movie?
• Pack
• Breakfast:
• Yogurt
• Lunch:
• With lab
• Dinner:
• Duck soup + rice + kale + veggies + butter

F

• Stuff to do:
• Finish packing
• Breakfast: Covered
• Lunch: Covered
• Dinner: Some sort of parting celebration

Advertising That Has Worked On Me

• 2010 summer - WholeFoods gives out samples of Fage honey Greek yogurt. End up buying a case of 12 for $10 which actually is a good deal.
• 2009? - spend $100 at Radioshack, get a $10 gift card. Currenty still have the gift card because there's nothing to buy from there.
• 2007 - socks advertised as being made from recycled cotton

Changes Summer 2013

• Drink alcohol
• More social
• More extroverted
• Sing in public
• More promiscuous
• More carpe diem, less long-term planning
• More unsure

Small Observations That Mean So Much

These are some things that more than one person (not neccessarily someone who likes me), unrelated, in different circumstances, have said to me in my life. They are pretty interesting to me.
Numbers indicate the number of people who have said the thing.

• "You look Filippino." >5
• "You have a cute/button/flat nose." x2-3?
• "Your eyes look a bit blue/purple." x3
• "You type fast." >7
• "You have really good memory." x2
• "You run weirdly." x3
• "You sing surprisingly well." x1 (Had to put that there, hah.)
• "You are adorable." x3
• "You have really white teeth." x4?

Movies and Shows Watched in Summer 2013

• Lots of Parks and Rec
• LOTR1
• I, Robot
• The Last of the Mohicans
• Despicable Me I
• V for Vendetta
• The Transporter
• LOTR2
• City of God
• Eternal Sunshine
• The Forbidden Planet
• Alien
• Dead Man Down
• GI Joe 2
• LOTR3
• First 9? episodes of Firefly
• Serenity

Things To Do Fortnight of 7/22 (& Food Inventory)

M - 22

• Dinner with amk at Engineering
• Organize room - organize IFT foods and take pictures of them before I eat them all
• Update journal
• Hand wash clothes - start olive oil soap
• Do business card + Linked In connections!!!!!
• FINISH the AHA hand lotion
• Sleep before 11pm
• Food
• Have dinner out (Thai?)
• Night snack - Cheerios and milk
• Frozen Lindt chocolate
• Rummage through fridge

T - 23

• RNA extraction
• Do business card + Linked In connections!!!!! & flyers
• Do something with the FGFR1
• Skate
• Use coriader hand lotion
• Use conditioner
• Discussion Dinner
• Food
• Cheerios + dried fruit + milk
• 2 Cheese + dip sandwiches + kale
• Discussion dinner food
• Doritos
• Refrigerated Kool Aid
• Lemon iced tea

W - 24

• Do primer PCR stuff
• Apply for jobs on websites
• Use coriader hand lotion
• Food
• Cheerios + dried fruit + milk
• Lemon iced tea
• 2 Cheese + dip + kale sandwiches - FINISH KALE
• Frozen Lindt chocolate - FINISH CHOCOLATE
• FINISH INSTANT MASHED POTATOES
• dip + FINISH DORITOS

R - 25

• Fix SEAS site
• Food
• 2 Cheese + dip sandwiches
• 2 small apples - FINISH APPLES
• Dried red dates
• Lemon iced tea
• FINISH ZIPLOCK CHOCOLATE SAMPLES

F - 26

• Fix SEAS site, move things to Github
• Bonfire
• Happy Hour thing
• Food
• Cheerios + dried fruit + milk - FINISH MILK
• Cheese + dip sandwiches - FINISH CHEESE
• Granola bars
• Ramen
• Dried red dates
• FINISH LEMON ICED TEA

S - 27

• MI Green video chat
• Fix SEAS site, move things to Github
• Go to mall
• FINISH CONDITIONER
• Do laundry
• Go to movie night?
• Food
• FINISH GRANOLA BARS
• FINISH DRIED RED DATES
• FINISH EARL GREY TEA
• Lime Cheetos
• Oysters + cheese + bread + fancy

S - 28

• None

M - 29

• Use coriader hand lotion
• CD returns
• Give him raspberry powder
• Run to Aldi. Obtain:
• Milk
• Bread
• Roast beef/pastrami
• Some sort of vegetable and fruit items
• Food
• FINISH PORK AND BEANS
• FINISH MANGO
• FINISH BEEF JERKY

T - 30

• Use coriander hand lotion
• Food
• Cheerios and dried fruit...
• Coffee/tea
• FINISH BREAD AND DIP
• FINISH CHILI
• Green Pepper

W - 31

• FINISH CORIANDER HAND LOTION.

R - 1

• Finish 1 GRE practice test
• Food
• Ramen
• Chili beans
• 1 Pepper
• Capri Sun

F - 2

• Abstract due
• Food
• All the roast beef sandwiches!
• Some other packaged drink object

Happiness That I Can Buy

I don't have these yet. It's fine. I don't need them either...they're just luxurious goods that are not necessary to life.

• Maltesers
• Fire Hydrant Red eyeliner
• Emerald green eyeliner
• Lip piercing
• Castille bars of soap in various scents
• Hazelnut coffee
• Drumset
• Tiny sharp tweezers

Chicago Plans

foods

• deep dish pizza
• Pizzeria Uno  (Uno Chicago Grill)
• Aurelio's Pizza 
• Connie's Pizza 
• Rosati's 
• Lou Malnati's 
• Nancy's Pizza 
• Giordano's 
• Gino's 
• East Edwardo's 
• Natural PIzza 
• Ricobene's
• stuffed pizza
• chicago hot dog
• Buona Beef 
• Fluky's 
• Gene & Jude's 
• Hot Doug's 
• Portillo's 
• Superdawg 
• The Wieners Circle
• italian beef sandwich
• tamale/mother in law
• saganaki
• jibarito
• big baby cheeseburger
• breaded steak sandwich
• atomic cake
• taste of chicago

other stuff

• millenium park

"Male" vs "Female"

I want to be special.
So for some reason, I am attracted to a bunch of "male" activities/interests. At the same time, I am pretty sure that I'm female.

"Female" Interests

• Drawing
• Cooking
• Crochet
• Eyeliner/eyeshadow
• Nail polish
• Skirts

"Male" Interests

• No dresses - changed my mind in 2010
• Baggy pants
• Metal music
• Electric Guitar
• Ultimate Frisbee
• Computer Science
• Skateboarding
• Consumption of large quantities of food

Meal List

• Tuesday
• Breakfast - cereal and banana yogurt if it hasn't gone bad yet. Else mashed potato + broccoli
• Lunch - sandwich with pastrami and kale
• Dinner - fries. Go home and eat broccoli + cheese
• Wednesday
• Breakfast - mashed potato and kale
• Lunch - walnuts + mango + cheese
• Dinner - ramen and broccoli!
• Thursday
• Breakfast - ramen and broccoli
• Lunch - kale + cheese
• Dinner - kale and broccoli and cheese and whatever is leftover

food inventory

• 6 pieces lindt chocolate
• mango
• 6 packs of ramen
• 1 can chili
• 1 can pork and beans
• 1 packet red dates
• 1.7 lbs cheerios
• 2 broccoli crowns
• lots of kale
• semicircle of cheese
• dried apricots
• a few chunks of mantou from somewhere...
• 1 lb powdered peanut butter
• 1 bounty bar
• 1 turkish taffy
• crystal light
• mio
• kool aid
• iced lemon tea

Reciprocity

Reciprocity. How contrived...but comforting...?

Positive reciprocity

1. Mar 2011/Aug 2013: Win gift card to Tartes -> Give gift cards to lab friends
2. May/Jun 2013: Return someone's iPhone -> Win an iPad mini
3. Apr/Aug 2013: Buy a homeless person a sandwich wrap -> Get free salad and an extra bunch of kale at the farmer's market
4. Jun 2013: Obtain bad food (ramen...really...) from the Korean restaurant on Monday -> Obtain free Indian food on Saturday
5. Jun 2013: Get locked out -> but in the process get free Indian food
6. Jul/Aug 2013: Give a guy-going-to-college playing saxophone some change -> Get token discounts for Toronto Metro and Citipass
7. Aug 2013: Someone drives my stuff back to home so I don't have to lug it to Toronto -> [Pending]
8. Aug 2013: Give some kids playing music some change -> [Pending]
9. Aug 2013: C gives me some brisket pork but doesn't get to try any. I give her some cinnamon bun so I don't end up with any (except a small chunk)
10. Dec 2013: Donate crayons/pencils -> Get soda and sandwich sample
11. Dec 2013: Give (homeless?) person pastries -> [Pending]
12. Jan 2014: ??? -> 1.5 snow days to study for math240
13. CIS455 class cancelled -> More time
14. 2013/14:  [pending] -> Get paint for Eco Reps
15. Mar 2014: Give away salad bowls -> [pending]

Negative reciprocity

1. There are many?
2. Dec 2013: consider CDD -> throw up on bus

Resume Advice from HR

1. Cut down to 1 page
2. In the descriptions, say how significant your contribution was. E.g. "Increased sales 200%" or something. Don't just say "Made this for this...". Show SIGNIFICANCE.
3. If it's not related to the job, don't include it
4. Don't include references
5. ...Darn it, I've forgotten all that advice they gave us.

Concerts

In the order of how much I enjoyed it

1. Trivium/In Flames - Jan 2012 - Trocadero, Philadelphia
2. Train/John Legend - May 2013 - Penn Park, Philadelphia
3. Dropkick Murphys/Swinging Udders/That other one - The Mann, Philadelphia
4. Tiesto/Passion Pit - April 2012 - Franklin Field, Philadelphia
5. Some orchestra in HK - ??

Feelings

1. Acceptance
2. Rejection
3. Sadness
4. Lamentation
5. Self-loathe
6. Anger
7. Betrayal
8. Depression
9. Loneliness...
10. Maliciousness -> Hope

1. Comfortable
2. Control
3. Wanted
4. Power
5. Generosity
6. Desire

Significant Other

It occurs to me that some of the bullet points don't make grammatical sense when aligned with respect to the heading.

• Requirements for a significant other (not really in order?)
• Male
• Really intelligent
• No STDs
• No drug addictions
• No criminal record
• Generally around my age
• No cigarettes
• Honest/clear
• Vaccinated
• Good at saving money/no reckless spending
• Preferences in addition to the requirements (not really in order?)
• Athletic/enjoys exercising
• Can cook basic foods
• Science/Engineering major, but not a Biology major
• Some sort of artistic talent (visual art, music, DIY, etc.)
• Has a job
• Does not do drugs
• Cares about environment and sustainability
• Proper English grammar and diction (unless English isn't his first language)
• Supportive
• Other lesser preferences that slightly confuse me because I can't think of concrete reasoning for them. Or maybe I can but I wish I weren't so selective about what attracts me.
• White
• Understands/learning/interest in Chinese and Chinese culture
• The joke that TJ and I had in 2011-2012
• Male
• Can read
• No STDs

MI Green Shirt Specifications

1. Images of recyclables
1. Glass
2. Wrappers
3. Bottles
4. Metal can
5. Paper
6. Foil
7. Plastic Bags
8. Plastic fork
9. Cardboard
2. Trash
1. Food Waste
2. Soiled Paper
3. Foam
3. Penn Logo
4. Vector art converted to outline
5. .ai file
6. Colors specified in PMS number
7. Foil like this
8. Buxton Sketch font (the one used for Paper and Soiled Paper) for all labels
9. All lowercase, except RECYCLE, TRASH, SINGLE STREAM
10. Add "aluminum" label
11. Make "plastic" smaller
12. Jar lid plain - or more bottle-like?
13. Slogan - "Know Before You Throw"
14. Transparent Images

Things to Do 6/10-6/16

• 6/10
• discussion dinner
• run to Aldi for groceries
• observe area for dumpster diving?
• mi green shirt logo in comp lab
• sleep at 11
• 6/11
• get paycheck
• obtain skateboard
• 530 run to Ollie Bargain Store
• dinner at Wegmans area
• check out Trader Ks - closes at 8pm
• skate
• sleep at 11
• 6/12
• skate skate skate
• mouse training 9-1130am
• finish mi green shirt logo
• sleep at 11
• 6/13
• skate more
• GRE prep
• 6/14
• skate
• math 240 prep
• 6/15 Sat
• mall
• skate
• gorges
• 6/16 Sun
• math and GRE prep
• skate

Things to do: Weekend 7-9 June

7th

• 17:30: Get back from work. Make ramen/spinach
• 18:00: Edit paper
• 19:00: Shower
• 19:20: Email about PennApps sustainability
• 20:00: Skype with mum maybe? Food blog.
• 22:00: Go to bed

8th

• 08:00: Get up and eat cereal. Redesign MI Green logo
• 12:00: Go on Chocolate Shop Tour
• 14:00: Run to Trader K's? Run to grocery store?
• Frisbee or something
• Finish TOC site
• Sleep early
• At some point, remove split ends from hair

9th

• Get up 8 again
• Not sure if I'm going hiking
• Do some GRE stuff
• Start Math240

Permanent Contributions to My University

1. Added the option "I do not drink" to the annual (or biannual) alcohol survey.
2. Added collection boxes to college dorms for writing utensil terracycling.
3. Added composting and recycling to dorm cafe.
4. M.I. Green shirt design.

Skateboarding Progress

1. This: 
   
2. Obtain skateboard. //Thanksgiving 2011
3. Skate awkwardly in basement (tile). //Thanksgiving 2011
4. Skate/stand awkwardly in driveway. Distinctly recall being in grey XC sweatpants and running sneakers. //January 2012
5. Skateboard gathers some dust and rust. //January 2013-May 2013
6. Skate mongo, balance on board //9 May 2013
7. Realize that I'm skating mongo, so I learn to skate regularly. Turns out I skate goofy. Learn to kickturn. Skate around a bunch. Start learning ollie. //10 May 2013
8. Practice ollie while clinging bannister of patio stairs with left hand. //11 May 2013
9. Wake up with my right quad feeling ridiculously sore from practicing ollies. Apparently I've never run with my quads before. //12 May 2013
10. Soreness gone. Quad no longer gets sore from practicing ollies. Can tic tac. //14 May 2013
11. Sister learns how to skateboard. She skates regular. //16 May 2013
12. Still ollieing while (sometimes) holding onto bannister. Board often swings 45 degrees back. Can balance better. //17 May 2013
13. Can do half an ollie in place on carpet (tail wheels do not leave ground)! No clinging onto things! //19 May 2013
14. Can do half an ollie in place on rough cement! (tail wheels do not leave ground). Definitely much better at balancing. //20 May 2013
15. Can ollie about 2 cm off the ground with board still diagonal. 1 success in 30 tries. //30 May 2013
16. Obtain better skateboard //14 June 2013
17. Can ollie about 2cm off ground with board still diagonal. 1 success in 10 tries.

DC Weekend 2013

Friday

1. Noon - Leave to DC
2. Dinner on the way
3. Get to hotel

Saturday

1. Go to botanical gardens?
2. Go dinner in DC?
3. Niff and mum go to Natural History Museum

Sunday

1. Not sure.
2. Niff and mum go to Air/Space Museum
3. Go to Baltimore, visit family friend

Monday

1. Hang around Baltimore

Cornell Packing List

Bags

1. Suitcase that can be brought onto the plane
2. Bag for day use
3. Drawstring bag & reusable bag (for groceries)
4. Laundry bag

Some Wearables

1. Suit jacket and skirt
2. The closed-toe shoes for formal occasions
3. Sneakers
4. Flip Flops
5. Sandals for formal occasions?
6. Oh no. I don't have formal pants.
7. Non-Penn shirts. Do I have these?

Other Stuff

• Eyeliner + eyeshadow
• Lip balm
• Leftover shampoo
• The 2 containers of castille soap
• Laundry detergent
• Hair ties
• 4 pens
• Meds + cough drops
• Scissors + tape
• Flash drive

Things To Do Tomorrow

On the 16th of May:

1. Get up at 9am...have a regular schedule. Sleep at around midnight? This gives me 15 hours in my day.
2. Eat coconut bread for breakfast. (30 mins)
3. Finish pasta sauce at luncheon. Maybe with the fancy cheese. (1 h)
4. Code the weather extension/app. (5 h???)
5. Do nails. (10 mins)
6. Continue to learn to ollie. (1-2 h)
7. Finish the Taste of Chemistry Podcasts. (2 h)
8. Do abs while watching Spongebob. (1 h)

Skills

What skills and/or hobbies and/or talents do I have?
In bad grammatical form:

Fun skills

• Art (particularly visual art/drawing from pictures)
• Baking (particularly bread)
• Running (particularly long-distance)
• Creative writing
• Frisbee
• Badminton from a long, long time ago
• Cross stitching
• Crochet
• Clothes-making (sewing)
• Hair-cutting (pro at giving mushroom haircuts)
• Piano
• Basic guitar
• Basic skateboarding
• Eating

Useful-for-employment skills

• Writing
• Biology lab stuff (PCR, cell culture, plasmid preps, transfections etc.)
• Coding (Java, HTML/CSS, PHP, SQL)
• Cafe stuff
• Speaking and listening for Mandarin Chinese
• Some basic French
• Extensive knowledge of keyboard shortcuts

Lifeskills

• Thinking
• Cooking
• Riding a bike
• Swimming. Slowly.
• Sleeping
• Recycling
• Personal finance management

Working to improve these skills

• Social interaction
• Time management
• Organization
• Worrying...

Movies To Watch With SP

1. The Closet (French)
2. That other French movie
3. Despicable Me
4. Despicable Me II
5. The Dictator

Brands - Not Me

1. Univ Penn
2. Vans
3. KR3W
4. (deadmau5?)
5. Zoo York
6. InDUStrial
7. Enjoi

Future Home

• No TV/Cable
• No landline phone
• At least 5 different scents of castille soap in the bathroom
• Large kitchen!
• No fabric softener
• Preferably a small lodging - 1 bedroom, 1 kitchen, 1 bathroom. Living room is optional
• Hard mattress
• Avocado plants
• Lots of herb plants (onions, chives, basil, mint)

Item Removal

I have too much stuff. Stuff, as in, magazines, stickers, broken pens, elastic bands, ribbons...
Stuff that you probably would recycle or throw away.
Each day for the next year I will remove at least 1 item from my posessions.
This started on the 8th of May 2013.

1. 1 Elle Decor magazine
2. 2 prom dress magazines from 2010 and 1 CosmoGirl magazine from 2007

Spring Semester 2013 Memories

1. Regret
2. Computer Lab
3. Turntable.fm in the computer lab
4. That weekend in which I slept for 34 of the 48 hours
5. Heartbeat/Childish Gambino
6. Sleeping on the dusty floor in Virginia
7. Happiness
8. Breaking up and getting back together
9. Get Lucky - Daft Punk
10. Moore 100
11. Falling/cuts/injured knees that took a month to heal (still not healed)

Things To Do (Friday 3rd - Sunday 5th)

Friday

• 7: Get up; study Greek Myth
• 9-11: Greek Myth final
• 12-14: Biochem final
• 14: Make brownies
• 16: Bring brownies to Monell
• 16:30: Empty compost and clean up cafe
• 17-21: Do Biochem take-home final
• 21-23: Work in House Office
• 23: Hang out with SP

Saturday

• 930: Get up
• 10: Brunch with friends
• 11: Probably in line at Green Line Cafe
• 12: Finally ordering food
• 15: Done with food - back in my room
• 15-17: Frisbee meeting
• 15-235959: Let bread rise, pack for move-out, defrost fridge
• Time table as of 20:26:
• 20:26 - Whenever laundry is done: Facebook. Then, check the cafe for fridge situation (currently defrosting).
• 22:00 - 22:10: Re-roll dough for baguettes, let sit for second rise.
• 22:10 - 23:00: Preheat oven, make brownie batter or cookie dough.
• 23:00 - 00:00: Bake bread and brownies/cookies.
• 00:00: Get autograph from JL.
• 00:00 - 03:00: Do Bio take home exam.
• 03:00 - 09:00: Sleep?
• 09:00 - 10:40: Start first challah dough rise.
• 10:40 - 11:10: Pack.
• 11:10: Start second challah dough rise.
• 11:10-12:10: Pack.
• 12:10: Start third challah dough rise.
• 13:10-13:40: Bake challah!
• Later: Go home.

To Read

1. This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz
2. And The Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini
3. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
4. The Casual Vacancy, JK Rowling
5. More Egyptian Mythology
6. The Iliad, Homer

Hate

• HuffPo
• Daily Pennsylvanian
• Under The Button
• Professional Journalism
• Me Failing.
• Rejection
• Buzzfeed

Since 2010 with many redacted:

1. the collegeboard monopoly
3. phones. cell phones, landlines, old fashioned dial-up phones... i hate them all.

5. arrogance/pompousness/katerina ivanovna in crime and punishment

7. leggings/tights without wearing something over them.

8. flats.

10. tmobile.

11. lop.com

16. uggs

18. scams.

19. PETA.

20. plastic disposable bottled water for sale. plastic bottled water, in general, too.

21. humid weather.

25. disappointment.

26. evony.

29. styrofoam.

38. the idea of nylf.

39. ETS.

40. hypocrisy.

42. the lie that "columbus is a hero".

43. lies about how great the U.S. is.

48. hypocrisy: "oh, people who eat horses are disgusting, inhumane, and heartless!", she says, as she consumes her cow-filled quarter pounder at mc. donalds.

49. writ-077 301

50. v. ross's legacy in the critical writing dept at upenn

51. the critical writing requirement at upenn.

52. core curriculum requirements at upenn.

Perfection

Or, well, close to perfection.

• Gmail keyboard shortcuts
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Auto-saving screenshots
• TM's hair
• Everything about JM
• Crisp waves crashing onto a sandy beach
• 100%. Nothing below this counts.
• Cold water after a run
• Refrigerated juice
• Pressing headphones into ears
• Finishing a writing utensil
• Cleaned out email inbox
• Waking up by myself after a nap in a non-humid and slightly below room temperature climate
• CD ...
• Neatly-applied eyeliner

Foods I Enjoy Despite Constantly Binge Eating Them

• Whole wheat bread
• Peanut butter sans sugar/salt/added oil
• Most types of cheese
• Marshmallows
• Fruits and vegetables (particularly avocados)
• Raw salmon! (sushi/sashimi)
• Fried potato
• Pretty much everything else

Foods I Don't Really Like Anymore

1. Nutella - after binge eating it in 2007
2. Mustard? After going through a passionate put-mustard-on-everything-including-peanuts phase in 2007
3. Peanut butter flavoured things
4. White durum flour pasta
5. Insomnia Cookies...too many of them at Eco Reps GBMs
6. Chipotle
7. Corned Beef
8. Strawberry flavored stuff (yogurt, candy, jelly, popsicles)
9. Barbecue sauce/flavour
10. Sunchips
11. (Whey) Protein powder (except for the gritty, textured kind, which is...soy? in Naked Juice)
12. Roasted plain almonds (Oct 2013)
13. Plain bagels (2012)

Foods I've Never Really Enjoyed

• Liquorice
• Balsamic vinegar
• Root beer
• Brie rind
• Strongly cinnamon-flavoured foods
• Anise
• Cilantro - but I've possibly become used to it after a summer of it in 2012
• Olives - The more salt, the more dislike.

Things To Do

• Go to Okunoshima.
• Actually play Master of Puppets.
• Break 6:17 mins for the mile.
• Go to an Avenged Sevenfold concert.

Unassigned Lists (But Not Really)

Unassigned Lists (But Not Really)

1. TB
2. NA
3. JW
4. AL
5. NL
6. <<interlude>>
7. EC
8. KC
9. BV
10. AM
11. PB
12. RS
13. SP
14. CD - both lists. Unfortunately? Fortunately?
15. AK
16. FJ

1. CL
2. JJ
3. FC
4. KS
5. JS
6. JL
7. RG
8. AP
9. TM
10. CD

Things that Promote Adrenaline Rushes

Things that Promote Adrenaline Rushes

1. Running at a XC or Track meet.
2. Giving someone special a note.
3. Public speaking (but not really, anymore).
4. Catching a frisbee in the endzone.
5. Complimenting a stranger, face-to-face.
6. Telling a stranger that he/she just did something mean, face-to-face.
7. Confrontation.
8. That one time in TF2 I was a Scout and I had the enemy intelligence and I was running back to my team's base and I was literally a meter away...
9. Roller coasters.
10. Answering a question correctly on Piazza.
11. Message from a crush.

Songs on Replay for Hours

Songs on Replay for Hours.

Song	Artist	First Heard	Approx Listening Time (Hrs)
I Won't Give Up	Jason Mraz	June 2013	5+
Heartbeat	Childish Gambino	March 2013	55+
Fade Into Darkness	Avicii	January 2012?	6
Just a Dream	Nelly	February 2011	Probs >70
She Will Be Loved	Maroon 5	2005	15?

Songs

I associate certain songs/artists with certain people and events. The type in the mapping is not entirely strict. For some reason my mind is telling me that Python and Javascript work but I'm not confident in this answer.

My mind can work like a map, in this aspect.

The <key, value> pair would be something like
<Song or Artist, Arraylist<Person or Event or Memory or Place>>

July 2013

• Titanium, David Guetta/Sia -> Cornell
• Pretty Lights -> AK
• Can't Hold This, Macklemore -> Ithaca, KV, DeWitt, Cornell
• Closing Time, Semisonic -> DJ
• Drink, Lil Jon/LMFAO -> DeWitt
• I Love College, Asher Roth -> DeWitt
• We Can't Stop -> DeWitt, KV, Cornell

June 2013

• I Won't Give Up, Jason Mraz -> CD
• HYFR, Drake -> Lounging around in Rose house, KV, JT, EH, RN, Cornell
• Macklemore -> KV, DeWitt, summer 2013

April 2013

• Get Lucky, Daft Punk -> LP, Moore 100, CIS Party Spring 2013, Summer 2013
• Just Give Me A Reason, P!nk -> SP, TJ, bittersweetness, but mainly bitter, summer 2013, DeWitt
• Radioactive, Imagine Dragons -> CC, Time to Shine concert

March 2013

• Heartbeat, Childish Gambino -> TM
• Childish Gambino -> TM

December? 2011

• Levels, Avicii -> SP
• Superbass, Nicki Minaj -> Biol421
• Just a Dream, Nelly -> Organic Chemistry, Engineering Library
• I Just Had Sex, The Lonely Island -> December 18 2011, SNL, TJ, Fling 2011

Spring 2011

• Just a Dream, Nelly -> BV, Biomedical Library

High School

• Ember to Inferno Album, Trivium -> Cross Country

Some time <= 2006

• She Will Be Loved, Maroon 5 -> JJ, Windows XP, MSN Messenger, 20 minutes
• Orion, Metallica -> Year 9 and Year 10

Summer 2013 Plans

May 2013

• Mouse/cheese drawing
• Make pizza with friends  Cancelled
• Finish updating the Taste of Chemistry website and make it rely solely on MySQL instead of having it save information using GoogleDocs
• Try the FusionTables thing, or at least make the Taste of Chemistry data plot itself into some sort of visual display
• Design the MI Green shirt 06/24/13
• Teach Niffy frisbee 05/05/13
• Learn Windows 8 touchscreen app development
• Skateboard.  Started 05/08?/13
• If I get good enough I can skateboard around Cornell.
• Figure out eco friendly ways of conducting PennApps

Cornell (June - August) 2013

• Play pickup ultimate frisbee
• Do that "making friends" and "socialising" thing
• Solve the 3x3 Rubik's cube
• Fix resume
• Make business cards
• Fix online resume (on site)
• Find the profs with whom I should have coffee

Overall Summer 2013

• Make a Chinese character writing app
• Run a lot
• Make that alarm clock app I've been wanting to make all year
• Make that weather app that I've been trying to make for the past 2 summers
• Continue food blogging
• Study for GREs...?
• Remember that I shouldn't spend a lot of time on Medjaden because being creative is much more important  Since May
• Listen to a new music artist each day On and off.
• Learn pen twirling tricks