Rooming Next Year

I am so happy! I got a real big scare from an email I received from housing saying that I was living in Craige with NO AC!!!! That would be freshman year all over again. I was so dreading this condemnation but then I got online today and I checked housing online and I saw that I am actually living in MCIVER 325!!! WHOOOOOO! I am soo happy happy happy joy joy joy joy joy! OH, I am so pleased to know I don't have to go bug people to fix this potential problem anymore! :)

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Final Exams again...

This will be a semi annual reality for me until I graduate. The funny thing about finals is that they stress almost everyone I know out, but in the end this is something most people long forget once they get into the real world. No final examinations to be found in your career. I suppose that the success you attain or the comfort with which you are able to retire is essentially your "final" exam. A review of your life accomplishments - what you have done for yourself and others, and thus the more you give, the more you will receive. Still, my exams make me cringe because it's just a very simple way to judge whether someone has or has not learned anything from the class... Not everyone learns the way that traditional education teaches us - memorization after memorization after memorization... Sometimes I learn more from a conversation (one on one) then a large lecture, and sometimes the reverse - it all depends on the delivery. If the lecturer has a way to relate and engage my mind and make that day memorable I tend to remember it, but if it is just a regurgitation of what we have read in the book well, it justs seems to float away from me.

I need to go back to studying now.

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Roommates from Hell

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Working on the website

I have been tiring myself out a little bit working on the UNCWRFC website. It is looking awesome I have to say. I am extremely proud of this one and a bit shameless when it comes to advertising it, but I looked really diligently for a template that I felt suited our needs and I found it. So what more can I say? It's wonderful and will only be getting better. Right now, 3/5 links at the top work, and 5/8 work in the Navigation on the side posts. Pretty much all I have to do is a bunch of text editing and get people's info on there. The roster is up! And I am getting updates from players everyday. I love the new website it is so professional - all we need now is our own sweet domain and google will do the rest for us and our publicity. Ahhh, i really do enjoy working with websites, although sometimes I admit they are a little overwhelming when you do it the old fashioned way (page by page).

Here is the link UNC Women's Rugby Club

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The car of my dreams

Honda Insight

For me this goal is in sight. I plan on saving money so that I can buy this car. Now with that in mind, I hate money - I really wanted to say that. This car get 70 mpg Highway. 600 mi average on one full tank, and the most magnificent part is that older cars from like 2003 go for $10,000 US.

I
want
it
so
bad.

And since that is the case, i will be saving up for it, for reallllz...

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For my thoughts almost a year ago.

Periodically I like to look back at my posts in the past, to catch up with feelings months and months ago and to see if I have resolved anything since the time being. It is a sort of reflective therapy for me and I am able to feel and experience the feelings I had once again, it's almost like reliving the past. I was reading a post back from my freshman year at the end of my first year at UNC and it was full of feelings of anguish, emotions, and overall just distress because it was an emotional first year at UNC. LOTS of things happened, so many different things coming from all different angles - but I read on thing then that has been solved now.

My Major:

Environmental Studies, & Español.

Why?

So one of my biggest fears was mixing my simple desires and love for nature with that of my society generated "career goal" which basically my plan was this: get a traditional job (DR, LAWYER, BUSINESS,...) and make lots of money. That was the plan, so simplistic, I wish I would have known about ENST earlier. Spanish was just a no brainer - I have for a long time just wanted to be fluent in Spanish so this is the best way I can get that goal accomplished at the moment. This semester I have been in a class called ENST 201 - the goal of this class is to raise awareness of the environment and the situation it is in around the world. With books about: When the Rivers Run Dry, Exposed, The High Price of Materialism and The End of Oil; weekly journals about current events involving the topics we cover and presentations and case studies about environmental catastrophes around the globe - this class really helps to raise awareness and I like it. Also, the listserv just sends an enormous amount of internship opportunities at least once a week.

Spanish - well I just really want to hone in on my spanish speaking skills and grammar so I thought it would be best to continue on with spanish until I start sucking at it so horribly that I should give up... That should not happen.

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Google's Custom Time

On monday evening when checking my email, I saw on my inbox page a new link for Google Custom Time by Gmail and I at first didn't pay much attention to it because the link didn't work when I clicked on it. Then on Tuesday morning when I checked my email again, I saw an advertisement for new Custom Time : never send a late email again! I was actually very excited with this new application and I was about to try it out today but it was gone! I googled 'custom time' and found out that it was their April Fools day prank. Last year it was the Google paper which I did not buy into, but they totally got me on this one... :p

I wish it were real. ;)

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