MERRY XMAS TO ALL YALL!!!

and just when you thought it couldn't get any better...it decided to SNOW in houston too! first white christmas in the region since 1989

there was actually about the same amount of snow as it had been in boston the very first time it snowed....not quite as deep as it was the NIGHT of the first snow, but i mean the first snow as in the snow that was falling right before and during my math test that day. needless to say i was staring out the window half the time during that math test. anyways, actually i think there was a more snow than that. there was a good layer of snow on the ground (i'd say 3/4 inch or so), and my brother managed to make a pretty decent-sized snowman bottom. about a foot and a half in diameter. nice. and i took some pretty pictures of a flower in the middle of snow.

found a text message from david on my phone. i'm not completely sure, but i'm pretty sure that jenna told me before that t-mobile charges u ten cents for every text message u receive. oops. oh well, it was a nice message tho. called him back and found that the poor kid was stuck at some chinese family gathering thing. haha oh the agony of those. only benefit is that u get free food out of it if you're not the one hosting it. but anyways, it was nice to catch up with old friends from high school. no one from my school this year has gotten into MIT yet, which doesn't surprise me too much. especially seeing how the ones i thought would have a really good shot all either 1) didn't apply, 2) didn't apply early action, 3) would prefer to go to wash. U (james and ronald, u buttheads =P), or 4) got deferred =(....come on we need more austin ppl, or else phillip and i will be the only ones left next year!!!!

ahh...surprisingly, i find myself missing campus a lot. it's definitely because i miss the people though. academically speaking, i know that i'll be a lot more satisfied with this place when i get past the GIRs. it kinda makes me sad, because i know that i'm gonna really not like 7.013 at all, even tho it's bio...just because it's one of those introductory courses that try to teach u too much stuff in too broad a context at one time. sorry, don't mean to be rude or anything, just expressing my opinion. u don't have to read any further. anyways, i kinda have a problem with learning like that. i'm sure that even i would love physics if we didn't try to barrel our way through everything so quickly. it's like that with all subjects. biology. chemistry. i mean, give me like a SINGLE topic. like immunology. then i'll sit down. even 5.112 was mildly disappointing. i started liking it a lot better when prof. cummins came in though. 1) he was a much better lecturer, 2) his voice didn't bounce annoyingly around in ur head, and 3) i really liked how so much of what he covered centered around molecular orbital theory. i think academically, that was the only thing i found first semester that actually matched what i thought i'd experience at this place. oh, don't get me wrong, though. i guess i have to back down somewhat though. can't have an all-negative post, can we? i actually did learn tons of physics too. not that i will ever use it again, but in the end i have to admit that i'm glad i learned it. even though the problem sets and mastering physics literally brought me to tears sometimes (yea yea ok. those of u think that 8.01 is easy, stop laughing cuz it wasn't easy for me)....i'm still damn glad i learned that damn stuff. cuz it actually forced me to learn it.

but anyways. what was i talking about? oh yea the people at MIT. yea. i miss them. i really do. i still love all the ppl back here in texas like crazy, but i miss college life and people too. IAP will be hella fun. no WORK! it will be kinda like an imitation of martel/rice/m.d.anderson all over again!!! but minus the trampoline and the humidity, and plus the snow.

back in boston on the 3rd...until then....rock on in sugar land, baby!