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

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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