It\’s just a feeling of attachment to what is good and great now. I wasn\’t ever that bitter being rejected by SIMS (UC Berkeley\’s School of Information Management Systems located in South Hall), but I started regretting not delaying grad school for a year. Just a desire to make the pressent last a little longer that made me call ATA and ask to delay my flight for a few days.

After they slapped me a possible $120 fee, reality hit me hard in the face. I already received the new masters student orientation and it looks like I\’ll be meeting a lot of people (reminder to self: don\’t be shy!) Pittsburgh will be good. It\’s not like I am arriving there without knowing anybody. I already know Marina. And I have been in touch with Belinda, a girl from my aunt\’s fellowship. Furthermore, three professors from Berkeley are transporting themselves there. Three students including me are going to be in the masters program. Not to mention, I already know a current PHD student and an incoming PHD student there. So why the nostalgia? Lafayette, my hometown, will always be the same – I will always see my parents, my sister. But Berkeley will change. It\’s a fluid town, where I spent the last 4 years trying to never regret missing an opportunity.

Ok for some: opportunities may mean meeting random phone guy in front of Fat Slice at 12 am, having a guy hit on me during my RCC office hours and inviting him to my party out of guilt, meeting all these BOYZ that I first met online, being suckered to walk to the Campanlie at 3 am, back-talking to a guy who followed my roommate home and scared her witless…

BTW, guarantee is misspelled at my friend\’s site (another Chris) freestuffcrazy.com. He wants you to click on his ads. The site reminds me of a cheaper version of my cousin\’s site dealuniversity.com