An update at the prompting of Michael (About my start in college)
alright you guys, its been fifteen weeks since I updated? That is a long time.

I don't remember how much of this you guys all know...
I'm in Electrical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. I'm kicking ass. I was one of the top five students in my physics class of 250, I got a perfect score on my second chemistry test, Im at the top of my calculus discussion section and my biology professor loves me.

Those are my four classes: Bio, Chem, Physics and Calc.
And I go to the gym a few times a week which was an interesting discovery.

Getting all gross and sweaty in public and not caring how terrible you look with your face turning beet red and your hair plastered to your neck even though all the other girls don't even sweat off their make-up... thats freedom, baby. haha

Finals are coming up so I'm spending pretty much all of my time studying. I'm really excited to start learning C/C ++ but I probably won't be able to get around to that until summer term. I might pick up a minor in Chemistry or double major in EE / Chem-E... but thus far that looks like a really ridiculously ambitious goal if I plan to do well in my classes.

Eventually I get to build robots... !!!!!! Which is another reason I need to start learning programming languages. I'll end up having to take scheme, which I've heard mixed reviews on... but at least I'll have done some practical programming before then (as that is what I've decided I'll devote my summer to.)

I have never, in the history of my life, been a bigger nerd than I am now.
In case any of you were wondering.
I don't go to parties. I don't drink. I don't date. I work! And I get really nerdily excited about all the science I'm learning... because holyfuckingshit I'm actually understanding all this crap that before just intimidated me!

I'm going to be a programming chemist robot building research tastic mad scientist. Mwhahahahahahahahaha... (Sci-fi = motivational.)

The other day, I was talking too loud at a coffee shop while taking a break from my chemistry homework, and a girl sitting next to me interrupted my conversation to ask me what she seemed to think was an overly blunt question, which she thought would amuse her company. She said, "Quick, tell me what the top three most important things in the world are!"

And I rattled off, right away: "Space Travel. Education. Solving world hunger."

haha. At any given moment, I might have three different ones. But education and Space travel are consistent. Scientific progress, sexy!

Then i asked her what the three most important things were. she said "... All mine are selfish... Family, Life, and Love..."

It was cute. Becuase then I gave her my "everyone is selfish" speech about how to maximize your productivity, you have to admit that you LIKE what you are doing, and if you like what you are doing, it is selfish. PS theres nothing wrong with selfishness, in fact its totally noble. haha.

But yeah... I expected her to have like... more specific answers to her own question. Hippie! You know how me and hippies don't get along...

I've noticed that in some part, my artistic side really helps me out in science. I've also noticed that the most rewarding thing ever is when the disciplines cross over; I understand chemistry better as a result of physics, physics better as a result of calculus and vice versa. Specializing will be interesting, right now I am just accumulating the "backbone" knowledge.

Which is funny because I've been studying the "backbone" of organic life for the past three days. Carbon. that shit is sooooooooo interesting! haha.


I gotta get back to homework. I love this lifestyle, but I won't lie: I am really looking forward to xmas break (where I can study at my leisure, and I can go back to reading non-assigned material that will give me more conceptual padding for the things I'll be learning in the future that are sure to rock me sideways and upside down)

I am going to Israel at the end of christmas break for 2 weeks...
oh yeah, and the guy that dumped me over the summer because he didn't think I would "succeed" in engineering...

wrote me a love-letter on tuesday.
Cute, huh? Thinks he can just "undoubt" me??? haha.

Oh, and if I have one regret from this semester:
I wish I hadn't gotten myself addicted to coffee.


How the fuck are all of you??!!!