| Well, I laid in bed yesterday from 10:30pm to 5:30pm. Talk about insomnia. I wasn't anxious about school, but there were definitely a lot of things on my mind. Got 2 hours of sleep before I walked into the hardest final of my life. It was so much harder than I thought! I shouldn't have been shopping online the night before....sigh. oh well, that's over with.
So in the afternoon, Zimbardo brought in the much anticipated Professor Edie Eger, a Holocaust survivor and currently a clinical psychologist at UCSD (sexologist, as informed by JY). I was definitely moved to tears by her story and there was hardly a dry eye in the room (aside from Alvin haha). she is such an vibrant, lively little old lady! She talked about bigotry and overcoming hatred with love, and kept referring back to Christian values (naming them as such), even though she is a Jewish woman. I cannot imagine surviving Auschwitz and being who she is now. She is truly a resilient woman, a beacon of hope, a beautiful inspiration. I could get used to be being inspired once a week by famous people. I guess I could just watch a TEDTalk a day...
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I went and bought Melatonin tonight as a sleep remedy. Let's see if it works.
3 more days...
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| the family i live with turned on the heater to a comfortable 72 degrees. it's like a freaking sauna in here, i'm wearing shorts and a tank top in the middle of november.
entering finals week. i'm starting it off by going to bed at 10:15pm. 
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| Someone said to me the other day, "you don't seem like a Republican at all. I wouldn't have guessed. You're definitely not as rigid as some of the other Republicans I know."
What does that even mean?
Then she went on to say, "It seems like to me you like to have a good time. You seem to like to get drunk a lot."
Which is very strange b/c I have gotten drunk (on accident) maybe 3 times this quarter, and definitely only drunk once in front of her.
What a terrible impression. Is this what people think of me? A lax Republican who likes to get drunk? Sigh. The bad in me always seem to tarnish and taint the good in me.
On an entirely separate note, I'm thinking of becoming a bartender on the side. I need a night job that pays well. But paying for bartending school is going to put a dent in my already drained bank account.
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| One of the benefits of being at Stanford...I saw Prof. Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Prize winner and founder of Grameen Bank, speak yesterday. What an inspirational man; I was amazed at his humility, his intellect, his passion. He was this cute little old man from Bangladesh, but he has made a world of difference in fighting poverty at a very basic level.
He encouraged us young people to begin thinking of social businesses that are self-sustaining, models that we can use anywhere in the world. The whole idea behind Grameen is incredible, you wouldn't think it could work with all the selfish people in the world, but somehow it does.
He ended his lecture by telling us never to stop imagining a better world. I'm trying...
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| health rapidly fading...
soooo unmotivated to study for finals. i have a voucher from American Airlines that I need to use up. Where shall I go?
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