snow

I understand the sentimental value of a white christmas. It's christmas. It's supposed to be snowy and shit. Whatever. But not only did this blizzard fuck that up by coming a day late, it also manages to drop more of this shit than I can remember, completely fucking everything up for probably the rest of the week.

I used to think snow was awesome. It's like white shit coming out of the sky and it isn't rain! Like Narnia type shit. At Duke, when it snowed, some people were freaking out since they had never seen snow before. They, like I, were ignorant. As I've gotten older, and more experienced with this shit, I've come to realize that snow is just rain(which I also dislike except on rare occasions when its warm and kind of feels like a shower) minus all the benefits. It's colder. It eventually gets just as wet. And it doesn't just go away like rain after a day. It stick's around, being completely useless. Sure it's pretty but eventually, when people walk all over it, salt gets mixed in, and it starts to melt, it looks like shit. And you have to shovel it which is absolutely terrible.

Worst of all, I'm trapped in my house. It is probably suicidal for me to even consider going anywhere further than the end of my street, and definitely not worth it. This leaves me at home, bored out of my fucking mind, with nothing to do. I have to do shit like say "hi." on everyone's facebook and watch movies like Dear John to entertain myself. Yea. I'm really enjoying my break!

christmas

So it's Christmas.

Just another day really, except everything but H-mart was closed. So my parents and I went to H-mart. I had never been there before. It is like super korean. Choco-pies and shit everywhere. Saw Susie when I first got there which was nice, but she was leaving. So I end up just walking around with people trying to sell me shit. Then Jae jumps on my back and I'm like woah wtf. It's funny how the first time I see Jae since I got back to EB is in a Korean supermarket in Edison. We catch up a little. This guy like tries to hook Jae up with a job. It's 100 dollars a day apparently. Then he find outs Jae is in college for pharm and he's like "dude go to college and get a real job and shit. you dont want to work here". Apparently his sister is a pharmacist and she makes mad "guap". Then Jae has to leave. My parents bought a shitton of korean shit. Then my mom like karaokes for a free bag of rice, which was ... entertaining?

Spent the rest of the day bored. Watched Blood Diamond and Gangs of New York. I enjoyed both of them. Leonardo DiCaprio is like the fucking shit basically. Now I'm just chilling. Got to level 25 in tetris! Yea. In case you didn't get it from my first post, I'm bored.

So yea, Merry Christmas everyone. Hope yours was slightly more eventful than mine.

pieequals

I just read through the original pieequals. It was quite nostalgic. It really made me realize the value of a blog. Reading my own writing was quite enjoyable. scary drives, on the matter of prom, the crash (!), yearbooks, the redo. I remembered writing everyone of those. The few comments that I got on my posts were also quite fun to read through. Amalan and his comparison to the wall-"Its like stretching out a rubber band, only to release the tension on it, and relax until it shrinks to normal size again. However, this time it's gonna take more work to strech it out." I had no clue what he was talking about.

It makes sense that my posts coincided with some of the most important times of my senior year. That series of volleyball rants really makes me realize how much I miss it. I also blogged a bit about science bowl and frisbee. Those were basically the three things I enjoyed the most of high school. The rest was dedicated to random rants about physics or stat or whatever. I really had a lot of fun writing them. Towards the end, I could tell I was running out of things to blog about. I guess life just really wasn't that exciting after graduation. Now that I think about it. All I really did that summer was play basketball during the day and watch a movie with friends at night. Kind of like what we do during breaks now. I guess I need school to create the stress necessary to blog. During the carefree and aimless months of summer, there just isn't enough shit to talk about. I don't really know how serious pieequals 2 is gonna be. I don't really care. I guess if I have stuff to say I'll blog, if not, then, oh well. We'll see how it turns out. I don't think I'm gonna do song of the every couple of days though. It really wasn't that popular.

duke is hard

I don't know how it is anywhere else, but at Duke, you feel like you're part of something awesome. Everyone there is something. Out of the people I usually hang out with, there's a super fencer, super soccer player, super lacrosse player, math national champ, and a super well rounded badass who looks like a terrorist. Future NBA stars like Kyrie Irving and Kyle Singler are just chilling everywhere. Even a pro Starcraft player is here apparently. It almost makes me feel inadequate. At least I have my superior intellect to separate me from them right?

Not so much. I never really had to work in school before. My 4.5ish GPA in high school was achieved with minimal effort. But at Duke, shit is hard. On top of that, everyone else is smart, and you're grade depends on how well you do compared to everyone else. I was definitely not prepared for it. I fell behind in multivariable calculus, then organic chemistry. a couple of weeks later I was behind in engineering and writing too. It got to the point where I couldn't understand what was going on in lecture and I spent all my time catching up.

By the end of the semester, I kind of had things under control. I managed alright during Finals week, but it took multiple red bull fueled all nighters to pull it off. I should be slightly better prepared next semester now that I know how everything works, and I have a slightly easier schedule - French 1, Psych 11, Math 107 and EGR75. Should be ok.

the return

So it looks like pieequals has spawned once more under the same circumstance with which it was originally founded - overwhelming boredom. Facebook tetris has been exhausted as a form of entertainment. I've seen way too many movies in the past month for me to want any more. And even the opportunity to be bored with someone else has been taken from me since it is Christmas and everyone is home. My parents are watching k-dramas in their room, which ultimately leaves me, in my room, alone, bored, with nothing but a computer. Even Amy, the sole human being with which I have had contact today, has gone to sleep. Hence, the return.

Now what to blog about in the new pieequals, pieequals 2.0, pieequals 6.28? A lot has happened since my last post. The big thing, I guess, is my first semester at Duke. So many things can be used to describe it. Fucking awesome would be one of way. It's a completely different life from the 18 years before it. You're free. You can do whatever the fuck you want. Go to class, not go to class, drink, smoke, whatever. It's all up to you. Yup. Fucking awesome.

I guess I'll start this blog off with some posts about Duke then.