I find myself missing world of warcraft a little bit right now. It was a horrendous timesink, but it was a lot of fun to spend time with your friends, explore a beautiful magical world, and become more powerful. Luckily the only friends I have who still play are all in the raiding game, in which I have zero interest.
I find I am still pretty busy after dropping quantum mechanics, so it’s not as if I am slacking off or anything. I’m taking the GRE tommorrow. For graduate schools, I plan to apply to Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Illinois, Princeton, Georgia Tech, and perhaps UTA, Rice, or Wisconsin. Basically, a lot of ‘em. I have no idea where I’ll end up, but I figure I’ll go on a few visits and see what looks appealing.
I keep going back on forth on my abstract algebra class. I find it very interesting at times, but it’s a lot of work. I think if it wasn’t so early (boooo 8 :30 class) I wouldn’t have a problem, although that’s getting better since I work every day. Work is interesting. I didn’t really like it my first few days, but I’m starting to like it now and hopefully by the time I’ve been there for a month I’ll be really into it.
Today I gave a presentation on the research I did this summer. Eveyone in the room said i was very ‘enthusiastic’ which makes sense because I probably was. I had a great summer. By all accounts, it was completely wonderful. Every now and then I find myself thinking about it, and I really miss it. I had an absolutely amazing time, met some fun people, and formed memories that I will probably always have with me. It kind of hurts a little to know that it’s over and that I can’t go back there, but it’s heartening at the same time to know that right now I am probably forming similar memories.
I used to always try to look forward to potentially happy days in the future., because I was unhappy with where I was in life. Now, I frequently think back on great days that I’ve had in the recent past. There are some days when I’m able to just sit and be happy with where I am without thinking back to the past or anticipating the future. Those are good days indeed.