Wednesday, October 26th 2005, 22:45
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~ahlgren/BG/BG.html
Tuesday, October 18th 2005, 18:45
An e-mail to my parents:
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Dear mom,
I am quite stressed out right now.
Yesterday I practiced driving in my friend's car, and accidentally made slight dent in the other guy's car (my friend's car wasn't scratched). I'll be safe if the other guy simply gets it fixed and I'll pay him back around 100-300$, depending (or nothing; since my friend's car wasn't even scratched, he has no way of proofing that I hit him. It was like 3 miles per hour). So yeah... I think I'll at least take 10-12 hours of driving lessons, from the 6 that I planned to take. That's an extra 400$.
So, after being very shocked and annoyed, I went back home and tried to get work done. So I applied for the TSE (test of spoken English) for my grad school applications, and lo and behold! The closest location I could find was some community college 2.5 hours North of Ann Arbor, Michigan, since I registered too late, or in other words, 11 hours on the Greyhound, test, then 11 hours back. So after churning out 125$ to prove that I could speak English better than some (insert most hated nationality), and 100$ for a 22 hour disgusting Greyhound trip that involves sleeping on a bus, I then learn that my school MAY accept TSE scores for February too. What's more "funny" is that after I register, they tell me that the test can be held anytime between 8am to 11am (I'll know 3 weeks later), and my bus arrives that stupid little town at 9:30am, so I could get there, miss the test, and then go limping back. Yes, I stand to risk 250$ and 36 painful hours. And if the times don't match, then yeah, I'll have to pay 125$ again to some place in January that Greyhound doesn't reach, and THEN figure out how to get there.
And what if after all this bulls***, I don't get into any grad schools, don't find a job, and the Americans tell me to go back to my rice farm in Asia?
My financial loss could be anything from 0$, to 200$, up to 500$. My gradership position pays 1150$ for the whole semester, before taxes and deductions. So much for my life. It sucks.
Yours sincerely,
Kris
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A mid-term worth 40% tomorrow, homeworks due Thurs. and Fri. crazy math Mid-term on Monday, Mid-term on Thursday... WHY?!
Sunday, October 9th 2005, 10:25
Has anyone ever had automatic toilet seat that flushes whenever she feels like it? I run into a bathroom in the engineering library, desperate, and none of those seats are flushed yet. Then I run off to a seat in another bathroom, and that bitch says "time's up" every three minutes regardless of whether I'm done or not, splashing crap all over the place in the process. Whoever designed those things deserve to have tough classes, shitty jobs and bad sex for the rest of their lives.
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I cannot believe this is happening to me again. I came to America to escape my past, to start a new life. But fate repeats itself. And unless I know exactly what my mistake was, I am going to suffer the same fate again and again.