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K@'s Freshman (and now Sophomore year) Logs
January-March 2003,
- Quarter Two,
 and April 2003-June 2003, Summer 2003, September 2003-Present
and Quarters Three, Three and a Half, and Four  

Disclaimer. This compilation was created for the enjoyment of the hamsters and the cyberKoalas. Human visitors are welcomed but not expected. Hence, streams of consciousness style writing may be present while executive summaries may not be.
March 2003 - Present
I've found that not having to code by hand so much makes updating much easier. Thus, I have moved to Xanga. I have intentionally not linked there. However, I will bring some entries back to this site, which I have done for February.


March 3, 2003

Cookies, Woodchucks, Losing my mind during Econ midterm and Masochism?


February 26 - March 2, 2003

Midterm Stress, Laundry Lessons, Grapefruit, Two Screw Your Roommate Dances... (I hearby hold the record in Faisan for attending the most number of Screw Your Sib/Roommate Dances (SYS 1, SYR, 3)


February 27-28, 2003

Bell Labs, Baby Duck, Katie Koestner & Date Rape


February 25, 2003
Finished reading On The Social Contract, Attended Talk on Economic Policy Restructuring in Urban China
February 24, 2003
Stressing over various parts of school work, but being utterly amazed by Stanford all the same
February 22, 2003
Reflections on Parents' Weekend, Midterms, and Considering SEA (Stanford Economic Association)
February 8, 2003
Dumpling Day, Traffic Survey, St. Olaf's Choir, and.... Stern's Screw Your Roommate, aka SYR dance. Very nice. Thank you to Elusive5Point0 for the invitation, and to his roommate, Ken, for asking. Definitely something one would not expect after a CS lecture.


February 7, 2003
Stanford WuShu! What a fantastic performance! I gave up watching a gymnastics match between some Olympic level UCLA and Stanford gymnasts to see this event. It included performances by groups from around the bay area. Very cool stuff! It must be seen... words cannot describe it. But seeing must only be a small shadow dimension of what it is like to be able to do that!
January 7-9, 2003
First week of classes and all that craziness - no time!


September-December 2002
- Quarter One

December 12, 2002
Literally running all over campus and then some...


December 11, 2002
      College life has been deemed CRAZY! The past 3 weeks have been dominated by constant, every waking moment, studying for math 51 final - which was Monday night. Therefore, there has been no updating of this site. This site will now be an end quarter project. One thing HAS been uploaded - the prequel to it all - how K@ decided to go on the Stanford Adventures. Ici


November 8, 2002
Juggling: Down with Gravity, Down with Jason Garfield


November 1-5, 2002
The onset of anti-socialness, Faculty Night, and FAISAN winning the Campus-wide Tug of War!


October 23, 2002
Getting lost... AGAIN!


October 20, 2002
Math midterm grade craziness and parties... A cross section of a pre-math-midterm weekend... ah, the good old days.... :-)


October 14-19 2002
Ehud Barak, former Israeli Prime Minister... FBI Director Robert Mueller... Chief Justices William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O'Conner... Math Midterm... Swing Dancing...


October 2002

Miscellaneous - Dorm Food and Classes - Lunch with Economics Professor Clerici-Arias
Love and Alienation talk by visiting Brown University Bernard Reginster


October 12, 2002
Quiz Bowl at UC Berkeley and the mad rush the morning of... and the absolutely draining adventure that followed..


October 10, 2002
The origin of the name "K@"...


September 29, 2002
Bhagavad Gita Performance - off-campusness


Sept 28, 2002
- San Francisco, Caffeine, and Mahjong
It was crazy. There was a scavenger hunt. People were assigned groups to go scavenging with. Activities included standing in a pyramid on top of Lombard, the most crooked road, buying an RA something cheap in ChinaTown, buying something from Big Al's in Castro District, spelling "Cal Sucks" in front of the Blue and Gold Fleet, and eating an Earthquake from Ghiradelli Square. They also included kissing a cable car driver and nudity in a glass elevator.


Circa Sept 26, 2002

Ooh... and I discovered the libraries at Stanford. There are shelves upon shelves of books... SO with great perseverance, I hunted down many classics.... More

Sept 22-23, 2002

Random tidbits - like Sappho's poetry - only, less well written More

Sept 19-20, 2002

Moving in has been an overwhelming experience. Today, Saturday morning, has been the first day that I've actually had SOME free time to myself (and am thus writing this email) because I am skipping the language placement test. :-) (no, it's not "ditching" - it's for placement purposes and I am not taking a foreign language formally this year - but the Hillel at Stanford will be offering... More


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