Archive for March, 2002

woo! i’m officially done with my exams before spring break. i think i did pretty well on my regression exam. i actually finished with ten minutes to spare. amazing! woo. life is great. yesterday my organizational behavior group presented in class. everything that could go wrong went wrong for us. first we couldn’t hook up our laptop to the projector. it took us a good ten minutes before it worked. usually you just press function f7, and it works, but not for us! at 1:25 (five minutes before class), the guy in our group realizes that there is no sound when he plays the dvds. since we were going to show two dvd clips to the class, erin went to get her speakers so we could plug it in during our presentation. when it was kevin’s turn to talk about “braveheart”, the sound for the dvd player wouldn’t work, so everyone just watched it without sound. it was kinda sad. haha. our presentation took a good 30 minutes when it should have only taken 15 minutes. yay technology! :/ ok well i’m going to go relax. almost 2 more days before cali! woohoo

hi guys. i really haven’t had the time to blog about my exciting and stressful life at cmu. so as you guys know, i had this huge biz comm presentation on friday. we spent 7 hours doing that stupid thing thursday-friday morning. we planned on meeting at 12:30 to practice our presentation since we never had a runthrough. so louis and i are outside of simon auditorium all ready to practice. sharon calls and says she’s getting our stuff printed and that she’ll be there in 15 minutes. this was like at 12 pm. so we wait and she doesn’t come. so louis and i start practicing our parts. she calls again and says there’s a problem with the printing place. she ends up showing up at 1:25 when our class starts at 1:30. so we never had our runthrough. it sucked. oh yeah she forgot to bring the powerpoint presentation so she had to ask her stupid boyfriend to email it to us. it was horrible. our presentation was messed up because sharon decided to change the entire order, which confused me. argh. anyway, i suck in giving presentations. julyan told me that it didn’t seem that we worked any harder than any other group. so whatever. i’m pissed. friday was pretty busy. i had to tutor kids to earn another 10 points for my business class. woo. i earned 50 points this week. i’m halfway to an a! awesome. then i had an ob meeting at 6:30. i watched some cmu bands at the underground and then came back up to take a nice long nap until like 10 pm. that rocked. i did some regression hw and relaxed.

on saturday i woke up at like 1:oo pm. it was awesome. i thought my review was at 2:30, but right before i left i found out it was at 2:00 pm. argh. anyway i went there and then julyan came and we were both like what is the professor saying? we didn’t understand at all. so we left and went to baker to do some regression stuff. argh. regression takes forever. i didn’t even finish it last night. i emailed the professor as usual. and as usual he thinks i’m stupid. last night julyan, grace, lynne, and i went to some lame party at cat man. 99% of the guys there were gay. it was pretty dumb. we left and went to dtd at around midnight. you’d think there would be people partying, but of course there weren’t. dtd was dead. grr. so sad. we went home before 1 am, and that was it. i didn’t really do anything after that. watched tv. i went to bed.

today i woke up at noon, finished my regression hw, and began to study for evil micro. i found out that my ta taught us how to do all these problems differently than the professor and other ta. i didn’t even understand my professor’s answer key. it was so sad. anyway, now i know what consumer surplus, producer’s surplus, and deadweight loss now. go me. now i’m going to review compensating and equivalent variables. yay. micro is so fun. i have a regression exam on wednesday. joy. i can’t wait until spring break. 6 more days baby! la here we come!

i really hate biz comm. i spent four hours with my company’s “president”. it sucked a whole lot. we basically redid the freaking financial statements. i just don’t like how she gets so easily distracted. i mean like hello let’s get this shit done. stupid. tomorrow she told me to clear my schedule from 5-12 am. hello. i have other things to do. biz comm isn’t my life. i don’t see any other biz comm groups meeting this often. i’m just going from like 8-12 or something. i never brag about anything, but out of my group’s written documents, i must say mine is written the best. i followed the audit’s guidelines. i can actually write sentences using correct grammar, which sadly is not true for the rest of my group. my president read my revised document, and she didn’t even share hers with me. hers is the one that needs a lot of help. on monday my biz comm professor tore apart my group’s mission and vision statements. haha. guess who wrote it? yep miss know it all president! he picked out this one word that she used, “demiurgically” (or something like that). he asked the entire class who knew the definition to this word. no one knew it, including the rest of our group. and even worse, a girl pointed out that our president used it incorrectly. haha. our president said something to this extent, “i used the word because i think it’s pretty”. haha good comeback. i almost started to crack up during the 20 minutes of tearing apart our document. haha. maybe she has realized that she’s not all that since she can’t even compose a grammatically correct sentence. geezus. i’m really annoyed about this project. i really don’t want to spend seven hours with my group. we are so unproductive.

after my four hour meeting with my president, i headed to the gym. once again the only machine that was free was the freerunner. i decided that since the gym was about to close, i might as well use it. so i started to run on it, when i realized one of the ellipticals were free so i ran to it and used it. i ran 3.5 miles baby! man i am still so stressed out. i came home and showered. here i am. i don’t think i will be going to work for the rest of the two weeks before spring break. i have too much crap to do. cmu really sucks. now i have to go read two chapters for ob. peace. show me some love and leave me an inspirational comment. <3

mondays suck. i have to go mail the xp cd that was left in my tower back home today. so much stuff to do. so little time. i want to go back to sleep. wahh.

hi everyone! today i had a very good day, so i felt like sharing it with the entire world wide web! haha. ok so last night (this morning) i was taking out my contacts, and i lost my right contact. my mom told me i won’t be able to get a replacement until three weeks later. bummer. i guess i’ll either wear my old contacts or my glasses. unlike my old glasses, my new glasses are quite stylish, but i still don’t like wearing glasses. they get all wet in the rain and stuff. we’ll see what happens. i hope i get my contact before spring break. what else…

in microeconomics today, our professor asked us if we had any questions. then some dude was like, “the homeworks are hard”. then suddenly the entire class started to complain. surprisingly, our professor listened to us. we explained to him how we didn’t have any examples to help us do the hws. he then said that he’d move the due date for the two hws to monday instead of friday! awesome! i also had emailed my micro ta last night about meeting with him today or tomorrow to go over the hw. and he told me he’d be in his office at 3:30. so julyan and i went after boring regression and he explained us cv and ev. it was great! he’s so cool. i like how he doesn’t skip any steps.

i get back to my room at around 4:15 pm. i watch some tv and then grace, me, tania, and her annoying friend pablo went to the underground to buy dinner. grace and i ate dinner in her room while tania went back to the room with pablo to do whatever. by the way pablo is gay and has an irritating voice. tania was looking after him because he was “depressed”. for further clarification, i have nothing against homosexuals. i am just saying i dislike pablo because all he does is come to our room and complain he is hungry and demands to be fed like a homeless dog. he complains that a 3.95 sandwich is too expensive. um hello, get with reality pablo. on campus dining is expensive, now deal with it.

after dinner, grace and i convinced ashley to go to dave and andy’s today since the weather so nice. it was super warm. so we go to the bus stop, and to our luck, a bus pulled up that instant! what kind of luck is that in pittsburgh? usually we have to wait at least 10 minutes before a bus arrives. the only bad thing about today was that i almost died choking on my ice cream cone! craziness. have no worries, i am a strong person. haha. i really thought i was going to die in dave and andy’s. grace and ashley were like, “are you ok?” while i was coughing and dying. hehe. anyway, we caught a bus back home quickly. it was amazing. we rarely have that good luck with buses in pittsburgh. i did some more micro hw today. i think i want to meet with my professor tomorrow and ask him some questions. or maybe i’ll just meet marco the ta. he explains things so well.

oh yeah, i finally watched, “office space” yesterday. it was quite funny and entertaining. i also ordered the nine inch nails dvd and double cd. i can’t wait until it comes. i <3 trent! good night!

this just in. i hate cmu.

Ahh, so we meet again. Jeff here, posting in Terry’s absence. I’m sure she’ll be back soon enough. I too had a hellacious time sleeping last night. I racked up a total of 2.5 hours of sleep. At a point I was thinking of knocking on someone’s door and ask them to punch me in the face so maybe I could pass out or something. However, I didn’t even have the energy to open my front door. Just enough to lay there, but too much to fall asleep. It’s what I think what the coming of death must be like. There’s nothing you can do except lie there, waiting for the sweet release. Anyway, spring break starts after class. [deleted by editor.] Well, that is all for now. I’ll leave you with a quote.

“Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell.”
Aldous Huxley

hello. i shipped my computer home for a cheap $48 via ups ground. what a rip-off. today has been pretty crappy. maybe because i woke up with a huge headache. oh well. last night was really fun. i’m glad i went to the crush party. 2 more days before i go home. laters!

i had a bad day. i don’t feel like complaining about it on my site. i’m sick. last night i went to bed at 12:30 am, and slept until 11 am and i’m still tired. i just want to go home. 5 more days before i’m back in new york! :/