Warning: Imported from old college This post was moved from an older website hosted on a college server. These have been unedited and contain many mistakes. But, whatever.
This post gives a look into my finals week (procrastination or not).
For all the students who are reading this post and should be working on finals, this poster is for you. Courtesy of Despair Inc., I did not know that you could also get these in large glossy format on the wall! Wow, this would definitely keep me motivated. Yesterday, I was about to sink into a romantic procrastination. I made a copy of the top 100 Law Schools in America, the US News and World Report guide, and then looked up where CMC graduates went to law school. It is weird, for many of the schools, we have at least one student from CMC in each one of the top ten. At Harvard Law School, we actually have four CMC graduates. I just hope that my LSAT score and my GPA (the only two things that admissions officers look at) will stand the test of time before I apply to law school. My romantic procrastination caused by the impending feeling of the future opening its gaping maw to eat me, just like the Sarlacc pit in Return of the Jedi, occurred because of the 3-3 Law program. I learned about it earlier on this week, and am still interested in spending three years here at CMC and then three years atColumbia Law. If I got in, I would be the happiest person on the face of this planet. The problem is, in the past five years, we have only had one student get in. According to Toby at the Rose Institute (hearsay, of course), the person who was chosen for the program worked as a puppeteer at Six Flags during the weekends, thus fitting the Columbia Law unique imagery. Well, I just hope that I can score high enough to have them not consider my non-uniqueness and just let me in. Anyway, that is far into the future, and once again, I am procrastinating. The second highlight in my procrastination was reading a great article written by a Chinese mother who had a daughter who scored both a perfect score on the ACT and a perfect score on the SAT. Peculiarly, when I was reading this article, it made me think about what it means to be a human being. This woman is not the type of woman that would push her child to extremes, but would ask something more of her, out of sake of improvement. I just hope that when I have children, I could be as great of a parent. The next crazy thing I found out is that we work on a LINUX/Apache server and that means that we can type into our browsers the name of something, e.g. mail, and get the CMC web-email page to pop up. You can also type dos, the browser will automatically search the network and then find the page. Others: Ascmc, students, library, etc. It’s cool an easy. The last highlight in my procrastination was an overall feeling of wanting to succeed at CMC (meaning I was looking at the awards). I discovered what it takes to be Phi Beta Kappa on campus. 11.5 or above Junior year, or 10.5 and above senior year. Pretty much for all PBKs, it is above an 11.4 GPA and you will be accepted in. I am amazed by those with 12.0ss in Economics and also amazed by those with 11.5s and above. You are all my heroes. Then I went down that road of positive reinforcement (can you hear the bell <ding>?) and learned about the requirements for Cum Laude, Summa, and Magna. I hope that I will be able to get at least Cum Laude. The problem was within my romantic procrastination; I mired myself in the successes of these events and was lost in my dreams. I now refer back to the previous motivation. It feels great to love the future, but I have to ground myself back into getting to the future. Therefore, here is the schedule of this week’s events: 5/09/04 to 5/11/04- Study! STUDY! STUDY! Other websites during my romantic procrastination: The END of the World (You’ve seen, I must link it.) LAST To all: Good luck on your finals, or whatever contrived hardship you have subjected yourself to. Good luck to all the politicos! Best of luck to those who are helping in swinging states like CO, AK, OR, KS to a more democratic world. I am excited to be working on a campaign this summer, taking some community college courses, going to China, and possibly getting more workplace experience. I am very excited for all those students that are attending law schools next year, good luck to them as well and I hope to achieve your accomplishments by my CMC tenure’s end. I end with my Civ quote, because it is not located on the web for some odd reason and is a pinnacle to a CMC education: “Not the truth in whose possession some human being is or thinks he is, but the honest trouble he has taken to get behind the truth is what constitutes the worth of a human being. Don’t know if I can update this site over the summer, but may you forever seek. Good luck to all.
5/12/04- 9 AM- Civ Final
11 AM- 6:30 PM: Study Chinese
10-12 PM: Prof. Yao Office Hours
7 PM-9 PM: Chinese Final
9 PM- Political Philosophy Cram
10 PM- Go to Bed!
5/13/04- 7 AM- Wake up and review Political Philosophy
9 AM- Political Philosophy Final
11 AM- Meet w/ Dean Sun about 3-3 Columbia Program; Talk about Academic Advising and about other parts of life.
12 PM: Lunch; Begin packing all belongings; Do whatever I want.
5/14/04- 8 AM- Whenever; Pack all things up for storage and pack for flight
5/15/04- 9 AM be @ Ontario. UA Flight 1440, 11:45 AM Takeoff. Confirmation LW9RP2.
No website updates because I am too tired and need to study.
Flat earth society
This is just more weird flat earthness.
George W. Bush and John F. Kerry are related.
What does this tell you? 1) Old white guys just seem to all come from the very same bunch. 2) Helps the thesis that Bush’s blood is so diluted that he could not turn out like Kerry. I hope that in the future, we will have many different cultures and peoples represented at the highest levels of government office.
Christiana Dominguez (ex-Rose student manager, current Hastings Law school student, met her at the Indian food appreciation night hosted by Florence, Associate Director of the Rose, and Christina Williams, ex- Kosmont Manager at the Rose institute.)
Robert Tagorda- Truman Scholarship winner, Kennedy School of Government, CMC alum
The Chinaman and Chink page (I’ve been meaning to link this, because people should just read it. It’s good writing, at the least.)
If God held in his closed right hand all truth and in his left hand only the ever live drive for truth, albeit with the addition that I should always and evermore err, and he said to me: Choose! I should humbly grab his left hand, saying: Father give! Pure truth is after all for you alone!” -Gotthold Efraim Lessing (translated by Walter Kaufmann)
