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| End of Term wrap upI really should update more.
Just got my grades for the spring term:
Jihad: From Classical Islam to Bin Laden - B+
The Politics and International Relations of Iran - B
Calculus I - B
Acceptable, nothing that great. Though I guess it could be considered great in light of my past performances.
I'm also slightly amused I did the best in the class I liked the least. I guess my term paper was better than I thought.
Taking Calc II this summer at Harvard Summer School, hopefully this plus Calc I will get me out of 18.01 back at MIT, assuming I can get back in.
Been spending my days since term ended tidying up my room, reading some books on East Asia and watching Monster. BTW, if you like serious anime, you should watch Monster. Some people complain about it being long (74 episodes) but in my personal experience, the people who complain the most about the length are the ones who love shit like Naruto/DBZ/Bleach that's 200+ episodes, so ech.
I should probably go get my stuff from Senior House one of these days, assuming that it's even still there.
I possibly overdrew my bank account by $45 paying for rent+food+summer school tuition.
By possibly, I mean, I technically did, I'm just hoping they won't cash the check before I can get money in to replace it.
Just another fucking disaster in the long list of disasters my life has been these past two years.
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| RealizationsInstead of going to bed, I've spent the night reading people's tumblrs instead of going to sleep and I got to thinking.
I tend to beat myself up over my antisocialness in social situations instead of you know, just being social. It's not very difficult, I had to do it when I worked at OfficeMax and retail customers aren't nearly as enjoyable as the people I'm usually around.
As an attachment to that, I wish I built closer relationships with people I was around at MIT.
I actually want to return to MIT, and it doesn't bother me that I'll probably be finishing 2 years after my incoming class.
I'm at Harvard Extension this term, and one of the classes I'm taking this term is Jihad: From Classical Islam to Bin Laden. I signed up for this class because I thought I wanted to study Middle Eastern politics.
Thanks to this class, I know that this isn't what I want to study at all. I also have a 15-20 page term paper to write (probably on Egyptian Islamic Jihad) and it slightly frightens me. The longest paper I've written was 10 pages for 24.01 back at MIT. That said, if I'm serious about this political scientist thing (which I am) I need to get used to writing long papers.
The other two classes I'm taking this term, (Politics and International Relations of Iran and Calculus I) are excellent.
Also, holy shit, I'm passing a college calc class. I'm not fucking retarded.
I have noticed that i have all these insights and revelations in the dead of the night. When I wake up in the morning, it's pretty much right back to the same old bullshit. Probably the reason that I prefer the night time to the day.
Did I mention I'm thinking about becoming a Buddhist?
But what I really should become right now is asleep.
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| 0-3-1Waitlisted by Columbia.
Maybe I should just go back to MIT, even though I'd certainly perform better at a liberal arts school.
Leaving Cambridge though. :-/
Guess I gotta try and get up off this waitlist.
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| 20 yearsI turned 20 today.
20 years.
20 goddamn years.
And I haven't done shit during said years.
I'm pretty much in the same place I was when I graduated high school to years ago.
Such a fuck up.
Sigh.
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