Monday, April 29, 2013

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

Sunday, April 28, 2013

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