http://www.onedayu.com/
It's nice that the opportunity to learn from some of the best professors in the world has been extended to a wider scope of people. If people are willing to pay Php 10,000 to see the Vienna Boys Choir or some other cultural show, they should see this!
Sunday, September 28
September 26: today was so good!
1. I was elected Chair of the Admissions Committee for the ISC! I didn't have to run to get into the International Student Council, just sign up, but I had to run for a position. There were three other candidates for Chair, but the group elected me and the head of the ISC (who facilitated the election) told me after that he was secretly rooting for me :) Haha kilig!
2. Today is Filipino day or something! I met a girl in the ISC who lived in Manila for 7 years and went to ISM. We talked about Greenbelt and common friends -- she knows Ethan Belmonte how random lol. It was so random but it felt so good! Most of the other Filipinos I've met here are Fil-Ams and don't really know the culture or local schools or malls. This girl actually knew what Assumption was when I told her. It felt nice :) That got me into a whole patriotic trend and I started showing Kristen (my roommate) pictures of tarsiers, the banaue rice terraces, chocolate hills, boracay sand sculptures, butandings (whale sharks) and other stuff like that. I even taught her some Tagalog words. It was so funny. Again, random but super feel-good. Haha :P
3. I got e-mail from Nicolle! Nic, Miggy, France and I started a new tradition. We plan to keep in touch by e-mailing each other full-scale kwentos. As in the complete low-down. So we don't go crazy and always have something to write about, we've each been assigned one weekend per month during which we must write. So Miggy's the first/second, Fran's got the first/second, I've got the third and Nic's got the fourth weekend of every month. Of course we're not limited to that, but it's the bare minimum. It's so Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants! Haha should be fun :)
More soon :)
2. Today is Filipino day or something! I met a girl in the ISC who lived in Manila for 7 years and went to ISM. We talked about Greenbelt and common friends -- she knows Ethan Belmonte how random lol. It was so random but it felt so good! Most of the other Filipinos I've met here are Fil-Ams and don't really know the culture or local schools or malls. This girl actually knew what Assumption was when I told her. It felt nice :) That got me into a whole patriotic trend and I started showing Kristen (my roommate) pictures of tarsiers, the banaue rice terraces, chocolate hills, boracay sand sculptures, butandings (whale sharks) and other stuff like that. I even taught her some Tagalog words. It was so funny. Again, random but super feel-good. Haha :P
3. I got e-mail from Nicolle! Nic, Miggy, France and I started a new tradition. We plan to keep in touch by e-mailing each other full-scale kwentos. As in the complete low-down. So we don't go crazy and always have something to write about, we've each been assigned one weekend per month during which we must write. So Miggy's the first/second, Fran's got the first/second, I've got the third and Nic's got the fourth weekend of every month. Of course we're not limited to that, but it's the bare minimum. It's so Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants! Haha should be fun :)
More soon :)
The Ivy Council
is the Student Consortium of the Ivy League.
... I WANT IN!
I was just checking out their website, and they have all these amazinggg programs that I just want to be a part of.
... I WANT IN!
I was just checking out their website, and they have all these amazinggg programs that I just want to be a part of.
"The great aim and end of all learning," proclaimed Benjamin Franklin, is to foster an " inclination, joined with an ability , to serve mankind, one's country, friends, and family" – namely, the common good.
Ivy CORPS (Community Outreach & Public Service) is an Ivy Council enterprise devoted to realizing
The Ivy Leadership Summit (ILS) is an annual two-day conference hosted by the Ivy Council to bring together students from the eight Ivy League universities along with leaders from the business, government, academic, and humanitarian sectors. The Ivy Leadership Summit was originally created to promote the exchange of ideas between students of the Ivy League and today’s leaders on subjects of public policy such as globalization, health care, and ethics. The first Summit was held at Yale University in 2000 on the topic of “Integrity and Ethics.” 80 participants were selected from a pool of applicants throughout the Ivy League. The main activities of the conference were keynote speakers, panels, and roundtable discussions. Since then, the Ivy Council has held six conferences each focusing on a differing policy topic. Past speakers have included Steve Forbes, Chairman and CEO of Forbes magazine; Nasreen Berwari, Iraqi Minister of Municipalities and General Works; Jeffrey Sachs, special adviser to the UN’s Millennium Development; Theodore Roosevelt IV, Managing Director at Lehman Brothers and prominent environmentalist; and Dov Zakheim, US Undersecretary of Defense.
The list of past Summits is below according to year, topic, and school:
2008 - "Leadership: Theory, Practice and Action" at the University of Pennsylvania
2007 - “The Future of Energy: Analyzing the Problem and Debating Solutions” at Columbia University
2006 - “Free Trade, Free Press, Free Society: Leadership in the Age of Globalization” at Columbia University
2005 - “Health, Economy, and the International Community” at Princeton University
2004 - “Responsibilities in a Globalized World” at Columbia University
2003 - “American Ethics in Science & Medicine, Politics & Law, Media, and Business” at the University of Pennsylvania
2001 - “Sharing the Torch: Leadership in the New Millennium” at Harvard University
2000 - “Integrity and Ethics” at Yale University
Welcome to the land where tv shows need not be torrented and good concerts are abundant!
On November 1, both the Viva La Vida and Rock Band Live concerts will be in Philly. Coldplay, or Plain White T's, Dashboard Confession and Panic! At The Disco? HMM. The Coldplay tickets go for 100-250 dollars, and the Rock Band Live tickets are 30-40 dollars so I think Kristen and I might watch that! Unless Ray (our wonderful, magnificent and oh-so-generous RA) gets us Coldplay tickets :> which is crazy when you think about it, but he'd do it.
Ray: Coldplay's coming.
Us: Yeah? Wow! When? How much are tickets?
Ray: November 1st, and around a hundred dollars. I still don't know who I'm going to take.
Us: -batting eyelashes- How about us? (we were only joking of course)
Ray: -shrugs- I might get five and just give them to whoever in our hall wants to go.
!!
He's rich. He's only a college senior and he's founded 3 companies and is a part of 4 start-ups. That's why he's always making us libre. Haha GO RAY!
Ray: Coldplay's coming.
Us: Yeah? Wow! When? How much are tickets?
Ray: November 1st, and around a hundred dollars. I still don't know who I'm going to take.
Us: -batting eyelashes- How about us? (we were only joking of course)
Ray: -shrugs- I might get five and just give them to whoever in our hall wants to go.
!!
He's rich. He's only a college senior and he's founded 3 companies and is a part of 4 start-ups. That's why he's always making us libre. Haha GO RAY!
Thursday, September 11
First week of school!
I've no time to describe just how wonderful everything's been. This is ironic because I'm averaging 2-3 classes a day and have a lot of free time; all at once it's not because there's so much more to do and feel and search for than there is/was/is(?) back home. Anyway, I shall make this short and sweet! :)
1. Stability. I was a bit lost (both geographically and mentally) for the first few days, but now I'm settling into the routine of school and I like it.
2. Stimulation (ergo joy!). There's just so much! Of what? Of everything! It's mind-blowing. Research and career opportunities, professors/Nobel prize-winners with time to spare for lowly undergraduates, clubs to join (performing arts, business, community service, greek life, you name it!), intellectual discussions, beautiful and interesting historical things (Pennsylvania is the Independence State, after all).
3. Intellectual discussions. These deserve a section of their own. I'm so happy that they happen everywhere, all the time, without being "try-hard" or arrogant or anything. It just comes naturally here! On the way to the gym, in between classes, going home from a party -- all the time! It's also amusing how sometimes, the topics themselves don't seem very intelligent/relevant, but the fact that the conversation happens is intellectual still. Like this funny story: one night, on our way home (slightly drunk) from a party, everyone just started speaking in foreign languages. As in, laughing, shouting, stumbling across the street and fooling around in French, Spanish, Armenian, Italian -- whatever someone in the group knew, it was being spoken! :)) I threw in some Tagalog too but it sounded so...kanto. Haha! Another time, this random kid sat down at our table (this was around 2 am at Allegro's pizza place) and he started talking politics. Eric (my hallmate), who was absolutely plastered, was literally screaming arguments with the guy. It was so funny! Even in weird moments like that, I feel like I'm gaining so much from being in this environment.
4. Studies. I'm pretty happy with my courses this semester: MATH 104 (Calculus I), ECON 001 (Intro to Microeconomics), PSYC 001 (Intro to Experimental Psychology) and PSCI 150 (International Relations Theory and Practice). My favorites so far are international relations (IR) and Econ because they both have such interesting subject matter! IR is reading-heavy, but it's not a pain because it's enjoyable. Econ rocks because my professor is so cool. She always blasts music before class starts, so as soon as you enter the lecture hall you feel hyped up. She looks around and smiles at us as we enter, and it looks like she's observing/analyzing us in some way that would be creepy except it's not because it's such a professor-ly thing to do haha. Psych is pretty cool, too, but quirkier than any of my other classes. Last Tuesday we watched a video of rat sex... in SLOW MOTION. : Ah, the things we do for observation's sake. Haha and Math... ah, Math. I still enjoy it, and I love my professor because he's like a cute old man teaching a little kid advanced integration. The others might find it slow, but it's just perfect for me, considering how at AC we only reached limits -- the intro to the intro to calculus. It's different here, more difficult. At times I've wondered what I'm doing here because everyone my preparation and knowledge base just seems so much smaller than everyone else's. Maybe it's my capacity/potential to learn, as opposed to what I already know? I don't know. But I really hope I do well here. I'm surely trying. :)
5. Boys. Haha.
What else? Lots, I'm sure. Ask me, I'll make kwento :P
1. Stability. I was a bit lost (both geographically and mentally) for the first few days, but now I'm settling into the routine of school and I like it.
2. Stimulation (ergo joy!). There's just so much! Of what? Of everything! It's mind-blowing. Research and career opportunities, professors/Nobel prize-winners with time to spare for lowly undergraduates, clubs to join (performing arts, business, community service, greek life, you name it!), intellectual discussions, beautiful and interesting historical things (Pennsylvania is the Independence State, after all).
3. Intellectual discussions. These deserve a section of their own. I'm so happy that they happen everywhere, all the time, without being "try-hard" or arrogant or anything. It just comes naturally here! On the way to the gym, in between classes, going home from a party -- all the time! It's also amusing how sometimes, the topics themselves don't seem very intelligent/relevant, but the fact that the conversation happens is intellectual still. Like this funny story: one night, on our way home (slightly drunk) from a party, everyone just started speaking in foreign languages. As in, laughing, shouting, stumbling across the street and fooling around in French, Spanish, Armenian, Italian -- whatever someone in the group knew, it was being spoken! :)) I threw in some Tagalog too but it sounded so...kanto. Haha! Another time, this random kid sat down at our table (this was around 2 am at Allegro's pizza place) and he started talking politics. Eric (my hallmate), who was absolutely plastered, was literally screaming arguments with the guy. It was so funny! Even in weird moments like that, I feel like I'm gaining so much from being in this environment.
4. Studies. I'm pretty happy with my courses this semester: MATH 104 (Calculus I), ECON 001 (Intro to Microeconomics), PSYC 001 (Intro to Experimental Psychology) and PSCI 150 (International Relations Theory and Practice). My favorites so far are international relations (IR) and Econ because they both have such interesting subject matter! IR is reading-heavy, but it's not a pain because it's enjoyable. Econ rocks because my professor is so cool. She always blasts music before class starts, so as soon as you enter the lecture hall you feel hyped up. She looks around and smiles at us as we enter, and it looks like she's observing/analyzing us in some way that would be creepy except it's not because it's such a professor-ly thing to do haha. Psych is pretty cool, too, but quirkier than any of my other classes. Last Tuesday we watched a video of rat sex... in SLOW MOTION. : Ah, the things we do for observation's sake. Haha and Math... ah, Math. I still enjoy it, and I love my professor because he's like a cute old man teaching a little kid advanced integration. The others might find it slow, but it's just perfect for me, considering how at AC we only reached limits -- the intro to the intro to calculus. It's different here, more difficult. At times I've wondered what I'm doing here because everyone my preparation and knowledge base just seems so much smaller than everyone else's. Maybe it's my capacity/potential to learn, as opposed to what I already know? I don't know. But I really hope I do well here. I'm surely trying. :)
5. Boys. Haha.
What else? Lots, I'm sure. Ask me, I'll make kwento :P
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