January 2009
13 posts
Maybe It's a Kaiser Thing.
This is random, but since I was switched over to Kaiser Permanente medical insurance, my best medical care experiences have always been at the hands of the nurse practitioners rather than the doctors themselves. My Kaiser pediatrician was nice and funny, but then again, that summary diagnosis of asthma that one time way back when was most likely incorrect. When it comes to my general care...
Letters to the Editor: The Abortion Choices of... →
In response to this New York Times article.
That I’m plugging these links probably makes it pretty clear: I’m adamantly pro-choice and believe that access to birth control, abortion, etc. should be much easier than it often is.
Lords of Finance →
An Economist book review. For me, a blurb on economic history that I am not too familiar with. Of course, my background in economics in general as well as economic history both need some work.
Seeing a Pattern of Hate in Attacks on Immigrants... →
That this could be happening makes me so angry. Oops at the initial typo.
And I WILL Get into Boalt.
I’ve been having trouble sleeping because I get anxious about a whole slew of things when I try to fall asleep. Seriously, I lay down at around 1:00 AM and can end up tossing and turning until nearly 4:00 AM. Understandably, it’s becoming very rare for me to get out of bed that long before noon unless I need to.
160 diagnostic with the only real weakness being Analytical Reasoning...
We're Worrying About the Future Again. She's so...
prachi: cuz if i cant talk to my professors who else do i figure this out from
me: to discuss stuff and I think they actually know
me: so there's that uncertainty stress diminished
me: (cuz well all of us we can guess
me: but we don't really know)
prachi: yeah and they have the wisdom of experience
prachi: especially with econ grad school/academia which really feels like a secret society
Just Because the Ghosts are Gone...
… Does not make everything peachy. If I want any of them in my life, I still have to work on it. I’m not going to get mopey about this at all, but it’s still true. Who I am now is admittedly very different from who I was then. Who they are now is also - naturally - a fair bit different from who they were then. Not sure why it seems to me like who I am now is a bit far from...
By the Way...
After reading a bit more of last year’s personal statement I found that it might have been a bit better than this year’s. Oops. But then again, I’ve never really been able to accurately assess my own writing.
Oh, Ew.
I’m currently procrastinating on this year’s Luce program application. I just dug out last year’s personal statement, and pretty much all I have to say is “oh, ew.” It’s not very good, suffice to say.
Of course, I will try to be the optimist and hope that me feeling this way means that my writing has undergone drastic improvement in the previous year. I never...
New Year's Resolutions! →
Not an all-encompassing list.
Five Hours to Exorcise my Ghosts.
On the sunny afternoon of Saturday, December 27th I finally met as many of my old high school group as would come out with us after more than a year. We spent almost five hours together talking, with many stilted pauses to the conversation. Many things in my high school life - probably the most tumultuous thing I’ve experienced - have gone this way, with a whimper where I expected a bang. It...