Weeks 2-4 Recap!

Dang, it's been a while since I last remembered to write in this. About 3 weeks in fact. It's been a pretty busy and exciting 3 weeks, I must say. Here are some highlights:

1. I finished my first crossword in the Daily Bruin! Granted, this took me 4 years to do, but it finally happened. It's been a little mini-goal of mine ever since my first year. Who knows how much paper I've wasted from all those Daily Bruins I got only to do the crossword.. I don't even wanna think about it haha. Some people like the Sudoku as an alternative to the crossword, but to me it's just too easy.. there's no challenge. You can't just stare at the crossword for a long time and eventually figure out the answer like in Sudoku.. either you know it or you don't, and if you don't you have to wait until the next day to try anew. Maybe it's just easier for me cause I'm a South Campus major and I like math, which may also be the reason why it took me 4 years to finish a crossword. Anyways, this crossword came down to a final letter that I didn't know.. the horizontal clue was "to put the kibosh on," and i had n_x for the word. the vertical clue was "with, to Fritz" and I had m_t, and since I don't know any German there was no way I was gonna get the word from that clue. Now, I have a very strict moral code when it comes to doing crosswords - no outside help whatsoever, otherwise it doesn't count. That means no asking other people, no looking up stuff online, etc. I knew that the missing letter had to be a vowel otherwise the words wouldn't make sense, so I had to choose.. take a guess and have a 1 in 5 chance of getting it right, or breaking my moral code in a desperate attempt to finish a crossword before I graduate. Well, I chose the former, and luckily it paid off. Turns out "mit" is the German word for "with". Will I ever do another Daily Bruin crossword now? I'm not sure. This might be a good time to retire from the DB crossword, going out on top. Then again, if I stop doing the crossword, what else am I going to do in class?

2. Ok so I've done more in the past few weeks than finish a crossword, I promise. I also took the CBEST, and I was able to confirm the rumors for myself that the CBEST does not really require any prior studying. I swear this was one of the questions: 5.2 < ? < 5.8
Which answer can go in the "?"
a. 4.9
b. 5.4
c. 5.9
d. 6.2

The writing still took me a while though, because I had to think of who to write my essay on - the one about a friend who has influenced my life/changed my perspective. I ended up choosing my very good friend - Jenn Min - because I believe she has changed my perspective, so it made it easy to write about.

3. I had my Unicamp retreat! I always forget how fun/magical Unicamp retreats are until I experience another one, and this one was no exception. It's so nice to see the whole session come together, and you really do feel closer to everyone afterwards, even if you didn't really talk to them. I really like my session this year :)

Well, those are the big things that have happened in the past few weeks. Some random minor things:
- I played a guy on the racquetball challenge court at the gym and got my butt kicked. the difference in skill level was HUGE! hahaha
- i dropped my Gaming Ming class, so I'm only taking 2 classes now. The class wasn't as cool as I thought it was going to be. And I'm lazy :P
- I really like my Black Hole and Other Cosmic Catastrophies Class. Learning about the universe is fun :)