http://www.education.com/reference/article/avoiding-sophomore-slump/

Am I making a huge mistake...?

http://isaacblog.wordpress.com/tag/internships/

good times...good times... i miss those simple summer days...

Counting Down the Days...(cont'd)

12/1 - Swim for a Cure Relays, Swim meets vs.Arcadia & Cabrini

12/2-4 - Lisa Visiting!

12/3 - Tim Be Told Concert!; Dan and Preston Visiting!

12/9 - Last day of classes for fall 2010 semester!

12/12 - Finals begins

12/?? - Done w. finals!

12/17 - Examination period ends; Winter break officially begins!

1 swim meet, 1 concert, 9 more days of classes, and 4 finals....

Dang, I wish my laptop/earphones could blast this music louder....

Currently Listening To:

- Just the Way You Are, Bruno Mars cover by Ahmir

- Love the Way You Lie/Not Afraid Mashup, Jason Chen

- My Time with You, David Choi and Kina Grannis

- Rocketeer, Far East Movement

- Analyze, Tim Be Told

Oh, and shout-out promo: TIM BE TOLD (acoustic performance) @ BRYN MAWR COLLEGE, TGH 7:30PM!

(^that combined with finals coming up and swim practices and a meet is going to drive me crazy this coming week....)

"Agents of Secret Stuff"

Hahaha, I love when (Asian) artists collaborate.

Real Men

Real Men: This is your opportunity to celebrate the men who are making the world a better place by doing amazing things for women. They are the politicians, activists, campaigners and advocates who selflessly devote themselves to women’s causes. Some are internationally famous and others are less well known, but all are passionate about tackling injustice, fighting prejudice and creating fairer societies with equal opportunities for all. Here are just a few examples of the real men that SheSuccess admires.

Countdown to Thanksgiving Break

**Disclaimer: Does not include classes, would make this list too long and depressing.**

Saturday

[X] Swim Meet vs. Dickinson and Juniata

[X] ASA Culture Show (And got to meet Clara C!)

Sunday

- Dan, Happy Four-months to you too!

Monday

[X] Chem Exam

[_] Afternoon Swim Practice

[_] Chinese HW

[_] Physics Problem Set

[_] Chem Pre-lab

[_] ASA Board Meeting

Tuesday

[_] Morning Drylands Practice

[_] Chinese Quiz

[_] Meet w. Major Advisor

[_] Afternoon Swim Practice

[_] Chinese HW

[_] Pack

Wednesday

[_] Morning Swim Practice

- Head back to NYC for Thanksgiving Break!

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Currently sipping hot tea from my hug mug...all set for tonight! =)

And Listening To:

- Jesus Lover of my Soul, Hillsong United

- Second Chance, Hillsong United

Can't wait to go home for the holidays...

For my Winter Break Plans:
- nyc for the holidays
- holiday shopping in nyc
- fancy food courts

thank you nycgo.com =)

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. (1 Cor 13:1-3)

Was reflecting on the importance of correct theology - how it's important because it affects the way one's thinks, which in turn reflects the way one acts. And wondered about the significance of correct theology when it came to "Gospel issues" (theology central to the Gospel) versus "family issues" (controversy surrounding less pertinent issues of theology, which should not divide the family of Christ). This led me to thinking about how useful correct theology was if it did not lead to action though. That's when the 1 Corinthians 13 passage about love popped up into my head. Even if I can say I know theology, what use is that if it does not result in actions befitting of amazing Grace I know of? I'd just become a pharisee. Just a reminder for me to shape up. I also read something Paul wrote the other night. It went along the lines of how it would be better for him to go and be with God right then, but it was for the good of those around him that he didn't leave. Made me wonder how often we consider the purpose of our lives to be to benefit those around us. (And how often I rather just concentrate on my own stuff and be my introverted self. -sigh-)

Sorry if this blog post was unorganized or whatnot, it was just thoughts I wanted to get down after a long day and before running off to family group.

"Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart." - C.S Lewis

What do you do when it feels like you're constantly reaching out to a friend but the friend doesn't care enough about the friendship to reciprocate?

Considering the previous post I just made, I think I know the answer to this. Following through with that conviction is the hard part.

Random Reflections on Faith and Love

The Bible doesn't praise people who 'played it safe' but people who lived by faith. (Paraphrased from Francis Chan, from his second to last sermon at Cornerstone Simi Valley Church)

"Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years." (James 5:17, emphasis added)

Why do you pray for nothing to happen to you? Don't you know it's through those up's and down's of life that God sculpts you into the person you're meant to be? (Paraphrased from Pastor Joe's sermon last week at GCC Mainline)

There is no such thing as "conditional love." Biblically, the definition of love denotes that love is unconditional. So what are the implications of that when God commands us, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' " (Matt. 22:37-39) and "As I have loved you, so you must love one another." (John 13:34)?

Currently Listening To:

- Remain, Starfield

- A Mighty Fortress, Christy Nockels

Counting Down the Days...

11/20 - ASA Culture Show; Dan Visiting

11/24 - Thanksgiving Break begins (after classes)

12/2-4 - Lisa Visiting

12/3 - Tim Be Told Concert; Dan (and Preston?) Visiting

12/9 - Last day of classes for fall 2010 semester

12/12 - Finals begins

12/?? - Done w. finals

12/17 - Examination period ends; Winter break officially begins

Tim Be Told @ BMC 12/3!

Contract's still in negotiation's but hopefully everything will be set for Dec 3rd....

Love Language: Jubilee Project Short Film & Fundraiser

The Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.

--Reinhold Niebuhr

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Thank You for showing me that Your works are amazing. It's not by my strength, but by Your sovereign Will or irresistible Grace . To You be all the glory, honor, and praise, forevermore.

I must admit that this past week was a bit depressing. As work and studying continued to pile on I felt like I was losing contact with friends. But I thank God for friends who make an effort to keep up with me despite my busy schedule =)

Omgosh, why is this weekend so awesome?! (Probably because this week was so terrible with all the work, exams, and workouts....) No swim practice tomorrow and no chem OWL's due sunday. I finally get to sleep in tomorrow. Going to treasure it, because once I wake up I should probably catch up on work I should've done a while ago and get started on the coming week's work. Can't wait until Thanksgiving break...T-13 days of class....

Not sure I agree with it all but gotta love that New Yorker pride! xD

50 Reasons to Be Pretty Damn Euphoric You Live in New York City

Talked to a "senior" tonight about accelerated graduation. She's graduating this year, but her class came in three years ago. Now I'm looking over my credits to see how feasible it is for me if I were to graduate early. I think if I wanted to graduate a semester early that's no problem. If I wanted to do a year early then I would have to take summer classes or overload some semesters.

Point of this post? High school AP credit mattered. If I did better on a test or two I'd have more credits right now. I blame the vacation to Hawaii the week before AP exams haha.

Should've been sleeping by now...need to wake up at 7am for drylands. But spent this time pre-registering for classes for next semester instead. Decided not to be so crazy next semester and repeat my MWF 9am-6:30pm schedule again. So I moved my chemistry and physics labs to TTh. Hope this will make me more productive and not just more lazy.

"What we call 'being in love' is a glorious state, and, in several ways, good for us. It helps to make us generous and courageous, it opens our eyes not only to the beauty of the beloved but to all beauty, and it subordinates (especially at first) our merely animal sexuality; in that sense, love is the great conqueror of lust. No one in his senses would deny that being in love is far better than either common sensuality or cold self-centeredness. But, as I said before, 'the most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of our own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs'. Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go. And in fact, whatever people say, the state called 'being in love' usually does not last. If the old fairy-tale ending 'They lived happily ever after' is taken to mean 'They felt for the next fifty years exactly as they felt the day before they were married', then it says what probably never was nor ever would be true, and would be highly undesirable if it were. Who could bear to live in that excitement for even five years? What would become of your work, your appetite, your sleep, your friendships? But, of course, ceasing to be 'in love' need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense-- love as distinct from 'being in love'-- is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when you do not like yourself. They can retain this love even when each would easily, if they allowed themselves, be 'in love' with someone else. 'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it."

- C.S. Lewis

I don't know whether to be more outraged or more upset...

Church Attack Seen as Strike at Iraq’s Core
"BAGHDAD — Blood still smeared the walls of Our Lady of Salvation Church on Monday. Scraps of flesh remained between the pews. It was the worst massacre of Iraqi Christians since the war began here in 2003. "