022

Just when I thought I was getting a handle on things this semester, I realize I something really important slip by.

I was planning on applying to the 2-year Bioethics Fellowship with NIH, which would have been an absolutely fantastic opportunity. I even went as far as to ask Dr. Latham for a recommendation last term, almost 2 months before the application was due. So I had plenty of time to work on it. But somehow, in the middle of holidays, the start of the new year, shopping for classes in the new semester, and other things, I let it slip by. Today, I finally realized it, and when I looked up the due date again, I realized, with incredible disappointment, that the deadline had already passed: January 15th. That's more than half a month ago!!

This is beyond procrastination.

I don't think this has happened to me before, especially given how interested I was and how much I was looking forward to applying.

You can imagine my disappointment. With myself, with the situation. Either way, at this point, there's no chance of asking for an extension or trying to apply late, given the amount of time that's passed.

This episode means that
1) I will be extremely invested in making sure something similar doesn't happen again
2) I will be very motivated to apply to other opportunities I'm very interested in

017

SNOW! Again?


Connecticut seems to be getting more than its fair share of snow storms this winter. Or is this pretty much consistent with averages?


Bedtime last night at 1am -- could have done better but it was hard to sleep with the groaning and clanking of buses as they passed underneath my window. Resolved for some yoga and pilates in the evening to help with sleeping better.


Also, I resolve to take more pictures this semester. Of Yale, friends, get-togethers, and things that happen.

016

In and ready for bed by 12:30 tonight! Well played, Amy, well played. Right on target!


Edit: actually, ended up being more like 2:00am. Yikes.

014

I'm planning on testing out a new schedule next week. Our brains are habitual creatures -- structure is good for it, like a scaffold.

Time -- so important. (Maybe that's why I study time perception?) I want to have enough time to do all my work, have a kick-a** senior project, to get a job that I'd be really excited to work on, and hang out with friends, work on a writing project, and have a fun-filled semester to boot. WHEW!

...it does sound kind of impossible doesn't it?

012

At the end of each week, I'll going to analyze how I'm doing at meeting each of my goals.

So how am I doing so far?

010

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Schedule set!

After deliberating forever (deleting it from my schedule, adding it, deleting it, and then finally adding it again), I finally decided to drop Modern Unconscious. Lecture was okay, the studies were interesting, but I don't know if I really want to take it and be there in the classroom. Frankly, the course felt like it took forever. As a student of time perception, I knew what that meant.

It's good to feel like after 7 semesters at Yale, I finally can make good choices for classes, based on what I want to do, not what I think I should or ought to do.

So here it is:
CGSC 472 Directed Research Cognitive Science
CGSC 491 Senior Colloquium and Project
CHNS 225 The Dream of the Red Chamber
CPSC 112 Introduction to Programming
MGT 562 Behavioral Perspectives on Management

Excited!

Day 008

It's amazing to think about it, but it's my final semester at college. When I was a freshman more than three years ago, who thought that this day would actually come?

Even if we are stubborn, time will always drag us forward.

The facts:

Start: Jan 10 - Spring classes begin
End: May 23 - Commencement

Total number of days = 134 days