yosemite

The trip was really good. Better than expected. Small and cozy group, we hiked for almost 7 miles. It was beautiful. Didn't sleep much last night though, less than 6 hours, and then a full day of hiking, so pretty tired. The perfect escape from life.

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(By the way, I was in a cabin with Trevor and Yao, and apparently I woke both of them up at 3 am by getting their attention and asking what girlpuffs were. Ermm....)

i'll marry whoever gets me one of these

no joke! well, maybe joke.

ps. I'm 10% (or so) convinced that all my unfortunate luck this year comes from my clock. It is cursed. Clocks are supposed to stay at whatever time you set them at, or--if they're malfunctioning--get slower and slower. My clock does not. Regardless of what time you set it at, it KNOWS the real time and will adjust itself within the day to be either 10 minutes ahead or 10 minutes behind.

I have done many empirical trials with many different hypotheses. My drawmates have helped me too. But it's cursed. It resets itself to exactly 10 minutes behind the real time, regardless of whether I set it on the real time or 5 minutes ahead or 9 minutes ahead. I've tried so many things. How does a clock know what time it is, independent of what I set it at?!?

all nighters, anyone?

It's almost 3 am and the hall shows no signs of sleeping!

Lights are on everywhere. Clare and I are working on our problem sets--Statistics and Statics, respectively, haha. Another guy who doesn't even live in our dorm is on our floor, working on a CS problem set. CS (the person) is next door typing his problem set up. Gary is up working on an EE problem set. Yao has already announced his plan to pull an all-nighter for his problem set. And Vincent and Francis are both still up, presumably working in their dorms on their work!

I don't know how far everyone else is, but I'm nowhere near done with my stuff for tomorrow. Is it just a weird joke that all engineering classes have problem sets due Wednesday?!

I'm tired....sleep!!!!..... :(

ps. Clare, looking over: "You're blogging instead of working??!"

pps. Clare and Trevor and I ate an entire loaf of banana bread today.