I too have a tournament this weekend in Stanford, I think/hope we will do well. We got third at the last tournament and beat some schools that are way bigger than us (we were expected to get 9th).
In shades [my acapella group] I got the solo for the song fireflies by owl city. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psuRGfAaju4. its catchy and overplayed but i like it.
The bike has made life so much easier. Back and forth walks that used to take 30 minutes now take 4.
One of my friends at school broke his sunglasses and then gave them to me and then another friend fixed them later. Weird story but basically i have a sweeeet pair of blueblockers, which are these sunglasses which take out all of the blue and turn the entire field of vision into sepia. For some reason i really like to play frisbee in them. Everyone looks super weird and it helps me focus on the game.
I have been watching alot of the winter olympics recently and its awesome. Personally the olympics are my favorite sporting events to watch. While I may prefer the summer games because everyone gets so into it, the winter olympic events can be pretty interesting as well.
USA!
-markham
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Sorry for Lack of Posting Lately
So Trouble In Vegas... was a bust. We went 3-1 for the tournament (loss to illinois, but beat oregon state who beat illinois) but the tournament ended up being cancelled on saturday morning which was super lame. We found a small park and did some random scrimmages against other teams (lewis and clark and some people) - but nothing super serious. The strip wasn't as fun either - because they didn't organize a party, but oh well. Decent time overall, but for vegas/13 hour drive (26 total) it needed to be better.
Got in a little trouble recently because I slept walked into a girls room and she woke up to me eating pretzels at her desk - crazy, I know. I've sleptwalked two or three times in the last year, but really none the year before last. It's pretty infrequent but really lame. Anyhow she freaked out to wake up and find some random guy in her room (in a towel no less) and then I guess I just left and went back to sleep in nikki gurley's room. The girl told her RA what happened and then they were in freak out mode, but aparently i had some sleepwalking conversations of complete nonsense with nikki (ex. nikki asked me where I had been, and I told her "the second floor bathroom", then she asked why because she lives on the 3rd floor and I never go to the second floor bathroom, and I replied "because it's the normal one." and when they realized I was sleepwalking everything was ok. Anyhow, it was really weird/irritating.
Anyhow I'm in a creative writing class taught by a woman named Bonnie Nadzam - who is brilliant and a great teacher. She is a grad student of TC Boyle if any of y'all read his stuff, which is also good. I'm really liking the class, and I have to write 15 pages for tomorrow (trying to get us to write without thinking too much), so this is all for now.
Also, I applied to be a NUTC counselor - which, if i get, would be incredible.
Thanks for reading, more updates after this weekend (im headed to Albuquerque, NM for a tourney.)
Got in a little trouble recently because I slept walked into a girls room and she woke up to me eating pretzels at her desk - crazy, I know. I've sleptwalked two or three times in the last year, but really none the year before last. It's pretty infrequent but really lame. Anyhow she freaked out to wake up and find some random guy in her room (in a towel no less) and then I guess I just left and went back to sleep in nikki gurley's room. The girl told her RA what happened and then they were in freak out mode, but aparently i had some sleepwalking conversations of complete nonsense with nikki (ex. nikki asked me where I had been, and I told her "the second floor bathroom", then she asked why because she lives on the 3rd floor and I never go to the second floor bathroom, and I replied "because it's the normal one." and when they realized I was sleepwalking everything was ok. Anyhow, it was really weird/irritating.
Anyhow I'm in a creative writing class taught by a woman named Bonnie Nadzam - who is brilliant and a great teacher. She is a grad student of TC Boyle if any of y'all read his stuff, which is also good. I'm really liking the class, and I have to write 15 pages for tomorrow (trying to get us to write without thinking too much), so this is all for now.
Also, I applied to be a NUTC counselor - which, if i get, would be incredible.
Thanks for reading, more updates after this weekend (im headed to Albuquerque, NM for a tourney.)
Stories of late
Speaking of bikes, I had to rescue mine a few weeks ago because I'd lost my keys (naturally). It was actually really fun because I went to get the receipt from the store from which I bought the bike, and then I set to work trying to steal my own bike. It was amazing that no one asked me any questions when I marched into the bike room of my old building with a three foot pair of bolt cutters. I left 25min later with a bike, a broken kryptonite lock, and a really satisfied look on my face, and still I got no questions, not even a second glance...
I have finally started making moves toward going to medical school, and it is looking like there is quite long road ahead. As of now I'm taking my MCATs in the middle of may, a week or two after my regular exams end. I'm in a Kaplan class with Beth and it's going alright, but there is a hell of a lot of info to cover between now and then. I've been having a lot of fun being in a class with beth again, it's been since highschool. One thing that got much simpler recently is deciding whether i'm going to take a year off before going to med school. I saw an adviser who said my app would be much stronger next year, after I have more clinical xp, so I have to spend the summer working with patients in philly or at vandy in some capacity or another. Hopefully my dad ca help me out with that. So, now I have to figure out what to do in my year off after college. It's scary having to think about the future like this, especially since planning is not my strong suit. I'm leaning towards international volunteering, probably something with a medical theme. A fraternity brother of mine is involved with this amazing program where they go to slums in India, fighting poverty with medicine and education. They rent an ambulance and treat children, handing out meds, giving bandages, vaccinations, etc. They hire a few doctors to oversee the operation and sign off on their diagnoses, and after they leave they pay the docs to come back once a week to check up on the kids. One interesting thing is that what they do for these children would probably be illegal in the US, but out of necessity it's welcomed in India. My only prpblem with what they are doing is that it doesn't at all get to the root of the problem, which is the severe malnourishment in the area.
On a lighter note, I have a frisbee tournament in NC this weekend, and I just collaborated with one of my friends on the team to redesign the upenn jerseys. if I can figure out how to add a picture i'll post it.
There we go. Cool right? the fish is actually part of the upenn crest, and the thing on the shoulder is a bit of graffiti that says "Void" which is our team name. The team is way more fun this year, even if we aren't as good as we used to be. Hopefully this weekend we'll have better weather than two weeks ago (we played in 2 inches of snow, nearly froze to death)
Looking forward to skiing with Sam soon (and possibly jesse colton)
Hope everyone is doing well
Edward
I have finally started making moves toward going to medical school, and it is looking like there is quite long road ahead. As of now I'm taking my MCATs in the middle of may, a week or two after my regular exams end. I'm in a Kaplan class with Beth and it's going alright, but there is a hell of a lot of info to cover between now and then. I've been having a lot of fun being in a class with beth again, it's been since highschool. One thing that got much simpler recently is deciding whether i'm going to take a year off before going to med school. I saw an adviser who said my app would be much stronger next year, after I have more clinical xp, so I have to spend the summer working with patients in philly or at vandy in some capacity or another. Hopefully my dad ca help me out with that. So, now I have to figure out what to do in my year off after college. It's scary having to think about the future like this, especially since planning is not my strong suit. I'm leaning towards international volunteering, probably something with a medical theme. A fraternity brother of mine is involved with this amazing program where they go to slums in India, fighting poverty with medicine and education. They rent an ambulance and treat children, handing out meds, giving bandages, vaccinations, etc. They hire a few doctors to oversee the operation and sign off on their diagnoses, and after they leave they pay the docs to come back once a week to check up on the kids. One interesting thing is that what they do for these children would probably be illegal in the US, but out of necessity it's welcomed in India. My only prpblem with what they are doing is that it doesn't at all get to the root of the problem, which is the severe malnourishment in the area.
On a lighter note, I have a frisbee tournament in NC this weekend, and I just collaborated with one of my friends on the team to redesign the upenn jerseys. if I can figure out how to add a picture i'll post it.
There we go. Cool right? the fish is actually part of the upenn crest, and the thing on the shoulder is a bit of graffiti that says "Void" which is our team name. The team is way more fun this year, even if we aren't as good as we used to be. Hopefully this weekend we'll have better weather than two weeks ago (we played in 2 inches of snow, nearly froze to death)
Looking forward to skiing with Sam soon (and possibly jesse colton)
Hope everyone is doing well
Edward
Monday, February 8, 2010
Insert Interesting Title Here
I bought a road bike last week and it is shipping right now. Hopefully I can bring it home in the summer and use it as my main means of transportation if I get this sweet environmental internship I applied for. I am pretty confident and excited about getting the job (its in green hills).
I really like my drawing class so far. This is one of 18 drawing we had to do for a recent homework assignment. The drawing is a blind contour which means you can't look at your paper but simply follow the lines of the object you are drawing (no shading, coloring, filling in etc...) and they frequently get distorted in scale and image but this one turned out well. The teacher particularly liked this one and showed it to the class.
First frisbee tournament of the semester is this next weekend. I'm pumped.
ps my brother and i both independently decided that sean astin was our individual doppelganger (for a recent facebook look alike thing), except that i was sean astin from the goonies and he was sean astin from rudy. pretty funny. and then my mom made a picture of the astin family members looking like shofners, the one of my dad is kindof a stretch but its a good photo.
I really like my drawing class so far. This is one of 18 drawing we had to do for a recent homework assignment. The drawing is a blind contour which means you can't look at your paper but simply follow the lines of the object you are drawing (no shading, coloring, filling in etc...) and they frequently get distorted in scale and image but this one turned out well. The teacher particularly liked this one and showed it to the class.
First frisbee tournament of the semester is this next weekend. I'm pumped.
ps my brother and i both independently decided that sean astin was our individual doppelganger (for a recent facebook look alike thing), except that i was sean astin from the goonies and he was sean astin from rudy. pretty funny. and then my mom made a picture of the astin family members looking like shofners, the one of my dad is kindof a stretch but its a good photo.
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