2 weeks left!

Theres only 2 weeks left! These last couple of weeks been relaxing, challenging, and very thoughtful. Sungod was pretty good, but nowhere close to T.I second year. I didn't even drink this year surprisngly, everything was just pretty chill in general I guess. I also just had my research internship presentation last week. I felt like I OWNEDDD IT!!! I spent the three day weekend on it making it and I knew what I was talking about the whole time and wasn't even nervous in front of the class. Haven't really felt like that ever. People said I talked superfast but it was sort of difficult to have to mention all the crap i had to talk about..meiofauna biodiversity, pcr, dna extraction, sequencing, results, conclusions in freakin 15 minutes. ehh..it was all good, it was a overall a very good experience.

My P.I for my lab really really helped me analyze my results and he taught me a lot of things. He still probably thinks I'm an idiot but whatever haha. I think in the end, he knew I tried hard, and I just gotta thank him and Karen for teaching me a LOT of stuff this whole year. (hopes they'll still write me recommendation letters in October haha) I also had a good lunch with my BOSS from Bioservices couple of weeks ago. I actually GOT TO KNOW my boss a lot more! He's a reverend at a church and he's getting his masters in theological studies. All I can say is, he could be a strict boss, but he's probably one of the coolest bosses one could ever ask for. He definitely taught me some advice about life in general, etc. He say I might get something *special* for being one of the best employees the last two years (we'll see hahahaha). Man, I hope I will have an awesome boss when I find a new job after college...sighhhh

Just now, I also had a good talk with my rooommate AGAIN who I am definitely going to miss after college. Probably one of the chillest, coolest, funniest guy to live with these last two years. We were just talking about acquaintances and people after the collegelife, THE REAL WORLD, and things about encountering and dealing with superficial/FAKE people UAHHH. He says you gotta be fake to fake people, and use "politics" on them ahahhah. I have a feeling that having coworkers as friends sure aint gonna be the same as regular friends..

Anyways, I am not gonna forget this FOR SURE. FATASS Caterpillar in the room is what I called it haha. MUST see before and aftermath of the caterpillar on the youtube site, basically all the green blood splatted on the blinds and my desk LOL. FUN TIMES hahaha.


These last weeks had just been so crazy. My netbook broke down so I had to dissect it and install these parts that I got from SWEDEN. YES, SWEDEN. ASUS doesnt sell parts cause they wanna rip you off by sending it in, so I had to buy a fan from europe, where the shipping cost three times than the actual fan!!!! But now the laptop is all good, but still a slow piece of crap.
Wes's comp broke down too, it just randomly shuts off, and he had a shitload of viruses.. but we managed to freakin fix that shit too, so that was pretty awesome.


Last week, I also used some of my work money and got a new ipod touch. I spent some good hours jailbreaking it. It was very exciting and now I can get paid apps for free!!! (so illegal, I am chinese though, what are ya gonna do, we're known for pirating) haha. Planning to jailbreak and edit my sisters and wesley, that should be fun.




For memories...

now...back to thinking what I wanna do in life. for the next year...If I wanna do grad school....i am 85-90% interested in going to ALASKA!!! YES. ALASKA. with an M.S in Environmental Science.


http://www.alaskapacific.edu/academics/Departments/EnvironmentalScience/GraduateProgram/Pages/Default.aspx

BUT...I have my doubts...I still don't feel like I am smart enough to go. I am gonna try my hardest studying GRE's this summer, no more of that halfass shit I did back in high school with the SATS. Luck doesn't come twice.

Grad School

AHHHH...finding a job is: hard/frustrating/stressful/pissing me off/making me worried.
Makes me more and more wanting to go to grad school. I would have a good chance of getting into one in Oregon, Nebraska, Hawai'i
Am I capable? http://www.bren.ucsb.edu/academics/mesm.html
What is gonna happen?
I shall see.
Need recommendation letters tommorrow, hope professors don't think I'm weird.
Must get one from work too.
Damn, things are gonna be different.

What are you going to do with your major? (Environmental Biology)

Just about everyone I know has asked me this question over the last four years. I think I finally have a solid answer. After going to a networking event with Mowang for environmental careers with professionals in San Diego and interviewing with over 10 professionals from different companies, I think I finally know what I want to do (about freaking time). Recently, I've been somewhat regretting about being an environmental major and should have just been a full biology major student since half of the classes I took were all biology related. But after attending this event, I felt much better about sticking to what I want to do.

Goals: (if possible)
-work with an environmental consulting firm like EDAW (www.edaw.com) and be an outdoor field biologist, either working with air quality control, water quality control, or wildlife biologist. Basically working outside, assessing and gathering data to see if things such as the air quality is suitable for a populace or if they comply to environmental laws such as CEQA (environmental impact reports).

-or-

-(more technical) work with an environmental consulting firm that monitors air quality, and other industrial hygienes such as asbestos, etc, from different clients such as U.S army, office buildings etc, while getting training through EPA. (what I really want to do.) I think theres less writing in this one. (seems more fun). I actually applied to a job that had this, they contacted me back, I filled out a long questionairre filled with long essays, but now its been a week, i think I FAIL.

Conclusion
-I just want to find a job I am gonna like, I don't care if I don't make six zeroes, I'll be happy with anything from $40,000-50,000 a year....but even now....THAT might even be asking for too much.

Why I want to work outside?...I think my internship influenced me a lot. freakin relaxing. (where I collected all my little marine animal buddies haha)


I actually had to make a poster for my research project that I have been working on yesterday. My principle instructor needed something to describe what our project is, and why we are doing it, in a quick simple poster display. I had to put some of the coooolest organisms that I've found of course. Sabellid, Amphipod, Neriid, Ophiuriod, Bryozoans, Limpets, Caprellids, Nudibranch!!!!!

Some of the coolest meiofauna I've collected and photographed.
1.Caprellid
2.Mean Cancer (Crab*) haha
3.Flatworm
4.Gastropod
5.Isopod
6.Nudibranch
7.Syllid
8. Amphipod
9. Limpet
10. Pycnogonid
11. Spionid
12. Taniaid

What I might have now, I might not have tommorrow.

So today, April 21st, I decided I would give this blogging thing a try. It feels like Xanga all over again. I think the whole point of making this blog is to be able to look at this maybe a good couple of years from now, and see how much life has changed. I believe after my last quarter here at college, a whole new lifestage is going to be ahead of me. While I am relaxing here in SD on my last quarter, taking only two classes, I feel like I am still stressed about finding a job. Nevertheless, I realize I should just enjoy the freedom and college life while I still can.

These couple of weeks have been very interesting and fun, going kayaking, some parties, and kickbacks.
Two very important things came into my mind this last spring quarter.

Family and Friends.

Family: Returning and living back at home has been on my mind since the beginning of this year now. While I always miss my family and my dog, I am afraid I might easily get annoyed by them once I see them everyday! However, I realized family has still been pretty important to me, as I wouldn't know what would happen if I had lost them. I was actually watching basketball videos since NBA playoffs has been going on. I have recently really liked Dwyane Wade a lot, and I came across this video. The way he related to his sister, really made me think about my relationship to my oldest sister, and of course my middle sister.



His sister is also 5 years older! and always bought him clothes and shoes..
I still wear Jordans shorts my sister bought me back in 8th grade ! (they still fit me surprisingly). I must say without my oldest sister, I really wouldn't have been here today, getting a B.S. in college. She was like my second mom when my parents were always in Hong Kong throughout my childhood. My sister also made me realize what we have today, we might not have tommorrow, anything can happen. She told me recently her close friend's father had just passed away from cancer, and it made her miss my dad a lot. While my dad can be annoying as hell sometimes, I notice I always miss that old man. He can literally be happy just by talking to him for a couple of minutes on the phone. I also can't forget my middle sister helping me fight off black people when I got my ass jumped in a literally all black school near Haight Street in Frisco. While I learned about a lot of my past family drama from my dad and mom's side recently from trips to Hong Kong, I try to put that aside, and realize that no one is perfect, let alone a family. There are always two sides to a story, but ultimately I rather not hear about it, and move on..

I just came back from dinner from COCO'S with my roommate which I am sure I will miss hanging around and just talking and singing to chinese songs with (He's mexican haha). We actually had a very deep conversation. He told me he wouldn't care about anyone, even his family. Of course I had asked why, but he said he just came from a bad family background where no one really cared for each other. While we had many things in common, our family backgrounds seemed like opposites. This again, made me think that family can be so important to some, while not at all to others. It just made me realize how crazy that one's environment can influence someone on such a great level. I guess this means that maybe its also true then, that you can see one's personality by looking at their friends!

FRIENDS

After college, I realize it might be a lil tough to see all my sd friends. Everyone is going their separate ways, and some are already as far as across the globe! I actually had a very very interesting night with them yesterday night on 420. Let's just say life was in slow motion for the first time and I laughed a lot cause of a lil sumtn' sumtn'. haha. My group of small but very close friends from sd and the bay has always been there for me especially these last four tough life changing years! Although my two close friends from the bay (alfy alf and wes) I rarely see except on breaks, I will never forget our inside language LOL (yo the bo, and the 'd!) hahaha.


this blog is a good way to save some good memories I guess...also if I do get pissed in the future at my sisters or anything, I'll look back at this and be like OHHHHH yeah I still love them. HA!