well, i have arrived back in virginia. yesterday was one of the most torturous days i have experienced in recent memory. courtney and i decided to go to a party dan berisford was having. i drank like i had a tolerance, and got extremely sick. that’s right – i survived 22 years without getting sick [...]
mit is paying for me to fly up ($500 – that won’t cover everything, but will go a long way). so, i will be flying up on thursday evening. by that time, senior design and my english paper will both be done, though of course there are other things on the list that have been [...]
oh my god, i don’t know what to do! i just came back from stanford all gung-ho to go there; i loved it. it was so beautiful, and i met some really nice people, and california was great. clearly it’s an awesome aerospace school also. i talked with some professors and they seemed nice; like [...]
song of the day: theme from the piano this piece is so incredibly beautiful; i love it. if you want to find more songs from the soundtrack, michael nyman composed most of them, so search under his name and piano. we’re sightreading in orchestra tonight – the mask of zorro, and harry potter. it should [...]
i was just reflecting on the fact that if i finish this year without an ulcer it will be a miracle when i received an e-mail from lucas fortier (via mass list) detailing his reasons for choosing mit . . . enjoyable visit in early march, good financial package, great reputation. while it is nice [...]
well, i’m up to the b’s, and so far i have decided that i must visit austria and bulgaria. andorra has been knocked off the list. i figure i will have a little over a month ( not counting a month or so in ireland) and so i would like to see two countries, spending [...]
i had an orchestra concert last night. we played troika, polovtsian dances, and tchaikovsky’s 5th symphony. it went really well. i abosolutely love that music, particarly tchaik’s 5th. my parents came up for it (the only orch. concert they’ve ever come to). all went well. i only made one error that i really noticed, in [...]
