I feel like I’m always doing work right up until class starts and I feel like a terrible student for it, especially so early in the school year! I think it’s because the assignments for the majority of my classes can never really be “finished”–the assignments for my digital design class at UPenn are all about the process, so I’m constantly thinking about it, always trying to either complete an idea or come up with a new one, and for my two senior seminars (for my double major), well, I won’t be done with that until I turn in my senior thesis at the end of the semester! I’ve also been spending a ton of time on Her Campus; I’m going to have to be better about delegating responsibilities, especially as the year progresses and my work increases. Unfortunately, I haven’t had very much time to be creative on my own (photoshoots and blogging). But I have been feeling motivated academically. It feels like I’m always working and I kind of like it, but it doesn’t feel like I’m getting enough done, which I guess goes back to the never-being-finished thing.
// I’ve completed all my work on time, thus far. Sometimes it feels like I won’t make it, but I always do!
// Remember my t-shirt story from last week? I finally tracked down the blog post the dude wrote about my tee!
// I’m trying to get rid of extra bowls we have in the apartment, and since my friend Stephanie just moved into her own apartment, I let her take her pick. Because we have one class together, I planned to bring the bowls to class and hand them off to her. But before class, I went to a coffee shop (carrying the bowls) to do some work. At the coffee shop, one of the professors in the computer science department showed up and I felt super awkward because I didn’t know whether I should approach him or ignore him because I didn’t know whether he knew me or not. I’ve never taken one of his classes, but he was at my computer science senior seminar to talk about his research. Anyways, I kept my calm, but when I was about to leave the coffee shop, I noticed that he had gotten up too, and it looked like he was about to leave, but I didn’t want to leave at the same time as him but I also needed to leave to get to class. So I bolted out of the coffee shop. And left the bag of bowls behind, which I didn’t realise until I got to class. So I quickly called Stephanie as she hadn’t gotten to class yet and told her the whole story and that I needed her to get the bowls from the coffee shop on her way to class. Which she did. Problem solved. But then Stephanie left class early because there was something she needed to do and then she forgot the bowls. So I ended up taking the bag of bowls back to my apartment. (Update: I brought the bowls to the next class and now the bowls are safely at Stephanie’s apartment.) I thought this whole experience was pretty funny. So suspicious. It’s like the bowls were drugs or something.
// After all my hard work and my team’s hard work, Her Campus officially relaunched at Bryn Mawr College! My team and I hosted a launch party and it was a success! At the beginning of the party, we gave a quick introduction about Her Campus, thanked everyone for coming to celebrate with us, and then we played Clueless on VHS (a 25¢ copy I bought at a thrift store three years ago) and everyone watched the movie and socialised. There were a bunch of snacks from Trader Joe’s as well. At the end of the movie, we raffled off a huge prize, and that was the end of the night! I took a fancy little flatlay and posted it to Her Campus Bryn Mawr’s Instagram, and it got regrammed by the Her Campus Shop!
// I’m thankful for my senior thesis advisors, Jane and JD. They’re both super supportive and their personalities are chill. When it comes to academics, especially computer science, I have a lot of insecurities about my ability, so I really really really appreciate my advisors. I don’t feel inferior and I feel comfortable asking questions. I feel comfortable telling them about what I feel good about and what I feel unsure about, and I don’t feel like I need to fake it and pretend to know more than I do and hopefully figure it out later.
// I don’t care about Instagram stats anymore because they’re all-around bad LOL. I feel kinda free??
// Sunday was a good day. Spent the morning with Georgina and Victoria at Philly Magic Gardens (my second visit!) (more photos on my Instagram tonight). Spent the afternoon attending a tutorial at UPenn, which made me feel productive. Spent the evening with Kat at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to see the Fireflies art installation by Cai Guo-Qiang. Ran into Reina who was volunteering there. We’re planning to catch up over dinner this week!
How was your week?