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music: goldfinger - 99 red balloons


so school's finall coming to a close. i have two more easy but time consuming psets to do by friday, and an extra credit 'short biography' to write for my microwave lab. easy work, just shit i should do (don't even really HAVE to do it..). the psets will pretty much be my finals studying for microfab, and the biography is to attempt to gte a b instead of a b-. i guess it's worth it.

other than that, you know how it goes from here on out *shrugs*. big thing on my mind lately has been what to do after next year. i still actually have to find one more course to fill a few credits, but that shouldn't be too hard. i don't even NEED anything so i can actually pass/fail it. funny. i just have to be a full time student to continue to recieve my scholarship from kamehameha (my high school).

so yeah....job hunting. i finally started going through IEEE (instutute of electrical and electronics engineering i think) which is a bit less helpful than i thought it would. points yoiu in the direction to find help, but doesn't directly give a whole lot. they try, though, and the resources they provide will definitely come in handy. it's an interest problem trying to find an entry level job in engineering 'cause if you don't know your shit...you're fucked. and from day one i was always perplexed as to how i'd be using the shit i'm learning. i'm actually quite dissappointed in the lack of 'real world' experience and knowledge columbia forces us to learn. sure, i could probably go and figure it out on my own, but for 40 grand a year, you think they'd prepare us for work, no? seems much more geared towards grad school....oh well. i'll figure something out.

on just hashing it over in my head i've decided i'm at least aiming for california. i need a change of scenery. new york's a lotta fun...but it's no fun without any money and in my field there really isn't a whole lotta interesting work here. if i stay on the east coast i'm gonna end up in some bumblefuck town in the middle of fucki'n nowhere where someone found cheap land to put a big buidling. urban east coast cities don't lend themselves very well to research and development. cali on the other hand jus seems to have more stuff in the cities 'cause they're so spread out (instead of spread UP). not to say i don't enjoy nyc. i love it here. but i think i'm done with it. i came here for an adventure and i got it. and hell, i can always come back when i have some money to actually do all this cool shit i hear about.

'till then, i'll drop a few hundred on a board and surf. i'm looking to go as far south as i can. san diego looks really cool. i'd like to stay out of central LA....outskirts i might be able to handle. my brother's in newport beach, which is actually in orange county. i don't know if i could handle that :) although the surf is supposed to be epic. regardless, i would like to be close to him. if worse comes to worse and i start getting desperate, i'm going to talk to him about using his pad as a base of operations for a bit :) in the end it really is fuckin' hard to job hunt from across the country in cities i haven't spent more than a week in. i'm pretty sure he'd be happy to help me out. when he was in princeton he actually helped my sis out a LOT to get her settled here. she had her shit at his place for quite a while while she and brad searched for an apartment (which turned out GREAT i might add. i went there last weekend, their place is so cute : ).

what a pain in the ass....last time i had to make anything close to this kind of decision was for college....and then i just had to pick a school....now i ahve to worry about money, transportation, moving costs (why do i have so much shit?)....bleah. i'm also gonna be a poor lonely bitch for a while. i was thinkin' about it....i think ultimate can carry me through that at some point : ) ultimate peeps really arer awesome. even in hawaii when it wasn't so big, they were inviting me to parties and shit.....it was really cool. they were all like...ten years older than me and it was kinda weird so i never went to one, but hey, still very cool.

surf, ultimate, beer. i think i can make enough friends throught that, no?



where are you going next year???


rent.