3 Idiots is a Fantastic Movie

That anyone who is ever going to go to college should totally watch. Like, damn. I really like it when Hindi movies impress me. Cause they do get kinda formulaic after awhile. But I still really like them, like alot =D Anywho, it was this really great movie about these three bros and they're at this engineering school and it's super hard and just watch it ok!! Sooooo good. It got me thinking about the whole college and what-am-I-going-to-do-for-the-rest-of-my-life-thing. I knoooooow I've blogged about this before and given it a million thoughts, but it's inevitable.
That movie made me understand why I can't decide on a career. (without exaggeration) I'm really torn between "doing what I love" and (basically) "getting a degree for a career that I'm pretty cool with that pays well so I can take care of everyone". And by take care of everyone....I mean like giving back. I wanna buy my mom one of those blue toothpaste colored cars or a Thunderbird and I want to buy my dad a house in Colorado and take him on trips to mountains and stuff and make sure that my parents don't have to work anymore then they have to and that my brother is taken care of and can have his own place someday and that I'll always be able to help my friends and that I can do cool things like build a hospital in Sierra Leone. Honestly thats what will make me happy. So do I reach this happiness (which inevitably involves lots of money) by doing something that I love or by toleration or something like along those lines?? Despite all these running thoughts I still have this unwavering faith that God will throw me into whatever life I'm meant to have; the places I should go and the career I should do and the people I am supposed to be with. I just really wish he would let me in on the plan sometimes though.


Even if I go with the first option, I WILL feel selfish. Because then I'm just out for myself right? And I can't help but want to make the people I love. Like, at our class reunion, I wanna be SOMETHING. I don't want to "settle" with my life. I mean, ok I was on our local tv station for this event I helped out with where I got interviewed, and my grandparents were really proud. Like, super proud. And that was just me being on TV talking to a police chief! I dunno man. Am I thinkin too much?

If I go with option two, I know I'll find happiness eventually. But when is eventually? I don't want that kind of ambition to digest my soul. I wish I wanted to be a doctor. I really do, but I don't. And I wish I wanted to be an engineer or some crazy entrepreneur, but I don't. I know I could be a brilliant advertiser. And that isn't me just making that up; I know I'd be good at that and I would make a lot of money and be successful. But if I was an advertising executive I would hate myself. I can't stand anything business related, I just couldn't devote my life to that. This is all rather complicated. I'm sorry if you've read this far; I really don't wanna sound like that dude in Notes from Underground. I'm just tryin to figure this out.

Things I Could Have Done With My Evening...

So tonight I finished most of my homework before 9pm in order to watch 3 Idiots. I couldn't figure out how to get it to work, so instead of being productive, I stayed online for three hours reading FMLS and surfing youtube and doing absolutely positively nothing. So here is a list of things I could have done but didn't think of or chose not to do.

1) Sleep. That would've been nice.
2) Actually read the book for AP Lit homework. Also would have come in handy in the future.
3) Watched a movie that I've been wanting to watch for awhile. Sorry, Lagaan.
4) Updated my zune. Which I waited until now to do. 12% done at 11:30pm. wooooooo
5) Wrote this blog earlier!
6) Watched ALL of Outsourced.
7) Tried harder to study physics.
8) Applied for scholarships!
9) Started reviewing for bio olympiad. Sorry, bio.
10) Attempted to start Nanowrimo, which I actually have an idea for now.
11) BEEN PRODUCTIVE IN ANY POSSIBLE WAY!!!
12) Refrained from eating that bowl of ramen for dinner. Sorry, stomach.
13) Figured out where all my pictures from my computer went.
14) Researched for spring break location.
15) Taken my dog for a walk.
16) Do some of Arabic Unit 6, which I have neglected for about a week now. Sorry, weekend.
17) Figured out how to make sock puppets.
18) Learn enough Hindi so I could've watched 3 Idiots without subtitiles. Totally could've done that.
19) Cleaned my room!
20) File all of my college info.
21) GONE TO BED AND ACTUALLY GOTTEN A DECENT AMOUNT OF REST!!!!!
22) Not waited until now to discover that OMGOSH BUG AND LILLY GOT TOGETHER ON CROSSING JORDAN BUT THEN BUG WAS SUSPECTED FOR TERRORISM AND TORTURED AND WAS NEVER THE SAME AGAIN!!!!!???? eff you writers.
23) DONE ANYTHING PRODUCTIVE.

this list makes me mad at myself. that was such a pomhead thing to do. efffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ok I'm going to bed

I'm supposed to be doing something else...

...right now. But! I would rather do this for now than Arabic. Which is aight. I'm definitely not dual enrolling next semester. The whole go to school all day than go to class 4 hours later thing isn't all that awesome. But waking up late is soooooooooo nice....like...even if I go to sleep at 11 I'm STILL getting 8 hours of sleep! Arabic is cool even though no one in the class knows whats going on. In retrospect I probably should've taken an advanced Spanish class (so I could recover my Spanish skills! which are suffering) or microbio. I miss bio. Isn't that sick?




Homecoming is in two weeks. And I NEEEEED to stop being a control freak about certain things. Such as group size, for example. I like to "plan" these kind of things and thought my friends and I could go to homecoming with a group of 20 or under. That was silly of me. People are too nice and want other people to feel included. I have half a mind to just go with a few other people. But..but...but... eh I guess the matter will figure itself out

Uhh lets see what do I wanna talk about. Oh, eff physics. No, mostly eff uncertainty and it's horrible annoying tendency to make this lab 2 days late, make me receive 50% on it, then have no clue how to fix it. Damn you uncertainty. No one needs you anyway.

On a happier note, I really wanna watch Lagaan (which I have owned for like 2 months and have yet to see) I already know all the songs too! Maybe thats what I should be doing right now haha. I also really wanna watch The Great Mouse Detectives. That was an excellent movie back in the day, still is. Back when mice in cartoon movies could smoke pipes and shoot guns and no one cared.




Life is going good. I'm really really-OHMYGOSHIDIDNTEVENMENTIONFRIDAY!!!!
SO on Friday I'm going to see Jay Sean. I actually won tickets, and I am unbelievably excited. Seriously, I gotta extend my list for the greatest (possible) nights of my life. Right now quite a few of the top spots are from this year =) that's a good sign






As I was saying I'm super excited for Friday. And Saturday. And Sunday. And the whole week after that.

I'm down like the e-co-no-myyyyyyy. hehe :D

The Past Few Days

A review!

Good Things:
The first day of school (and last first day of school I guess...) was a pretty dang good day! I went to school, went to AP Bio for the 2nd year in a row (hehe, no first block) and went to my other 5 very easy classes. I really love waking up late. And I really love how I didn't give myself a horrible schedule. And I love how I hung out until 7 on Tuesday. Just like those sophomore days :D:D Today was a good day too. Finished a college essay (finally) and went to Arabic class. Which was actually kinda stressful today. Apparently I looked like I was about to cry the whole time, but I was just super tired. haha poor teacher thinkin he was making me upset. I guess thats just my default face; when I don't put effort into my expression.

Bad Things:
Actually there really isn't anything bad about this year so far! I don't like how I almost never see Rahul in school. And I don't like how I don't know where most of my friends are in school until certain times of the day. And I don't like how I am a failure of a Student Ambassador because I have yet to find my foreign exchange students (who had to find their own way around the first 2 days...opps) But really thats about it! Just the lil hiccups of life.

I'm still excited about this year <3

What I Should Write for College Essays

Hokay, so I'm hoping my blog will get me in the writing-about-myself-and-how-college-worthy-I-am-mood.
SOOO. What should I write my common app essay about? Here are the options, as I try to think through them.

Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.

Well, I've never climbed a roof if that's what you're lookin for. Can't remember the last time I faced an ethical dilemma...what are my significant experiences?? Do I even have any??? Oh man.

Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.
Immigration? The intense connections yet lack of understanding in our modern world?? Racism?? The importance of spell check at 1:28 am??


Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.
Samuel L. Jackson. He taught me how to be a badassmuthafuka. Essay done.


Describe a character in fiction, a historical figure, or a creative work (as in art, music, science, etc.) that has had an influence on you, and explain that influence.
Whoever invented chocolate milk. Apparently some dude named Daniel Peter in 1875. Yeah, I'd say that's a hell of an influence.


A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.
You mean talk about how awesome I am? Ughh.


Topic of your choice.
Eff that. FINE! I wanna make an essay all about reverse transcriptase and how, like the cool lil virus, I will use my past experiences to infect and enrich my college community! Ohh man I wanna do that. Then I can use biology terms to make myself sound smarter than I actually am. YAY :D

I'm probably not gonna go with that idea, but I'll write a paragraph about it and take two good sentences from it :D

In other news....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWsQQgbKkjc

I love Germans and their fun techno.

This Summer

Now before I start my common app work for the night, I feel like blogging again. And a topic I would like to address is this summer. The weird thing about this summer is "schedules". It's the kinda thing where I'll call up someone and be like "Hey! When do you wanna hang? Free today?" And the conversation goes something like "Oh no I have (work/practice/some other time commitment) does (blank) day work for you?" "Ahh no I have (another commitment) that day. What about...." and so on and so forth. Now we've been workin around schedules all junior year, ya know? This is nothin new. But the reason it SUCKS so much this summer, is that this is how life is gonna be now. It'll be even worse once all my friends and I go to college. And who knows about next summer! Unless everyone I know and love decides not to get a job (extremely unlikely), not take summer classes (even more unlikely, considering the tendencies of alot of people I know), and not leave on family vacations, next summer will be even more difficult to navigate though. Like, frick. I mean we've made the best of it. It has been a good summer, but the reality is last summer was mind blowingly awesome and this one was decent. Ehhhhhhhh I sound like a whiny teenager. I'm lucky to have a summer and time and all that. But I won't get another high school =/

Regardless of all this, today was a decent day. Woke up at 1, bought school stuff, went to work, went over to Rahul's and watched half of Toy Story 3 (:DDDDDDDDDDD)

Dear 11:11 wish that I missed,
Please add 6 more weeks to the summer, that'd be fine.
Amen <3

After Work Ramen

is what I'm eating right now! I hate now being able to eat at work. It's like...being in school, and everyone is allowed to have gum and has packs upon packs of it, but you can't have any. So 6 hours of being around those edible dishes has caused me to create this sauce (which now kinda looks scarey) to put on my ramen. The good thing about living in a half-Italian-American house is that we always have pasta sauce, cheese, and olive oil on hand. I think I used too much olive oil. Ehhhh awkward. But its good!! And the sauce:ramen ratio is off. Yeah this definitely needs...whats it called...the thing you put things through to get all the water out? Sift? But its not a sift. Oh man my mind is gone tonight.

Work was good today, made a new friend whilst working, got some tips, and changed my schedule so I have 2 key days for next week off. I like it when things work out.

So now I'm home, eating ramen, talking to my cousin about her latest boy adventures, and listening to old school Jay Sean (who, btw, looks INSANELY awkward dancing with this chick in the video). I don't mind this chill time very much, but I'm annoyed by the fact that usually I would've been coming home in 5 minutes/and/or stalling for another half hour. Tis a weird thing about this summer. A weird thing indeed....