JEALOUS. I want to be a PHD student, because all schools would pay for visit. Up to $650! As a masters student, the school only pays for my hotel stay but not my flight, meals or transportation from the airport (I checked the CMU phd students and they get a limo from the airport!). :(
Most people hate being flyered. I do too, but at the beginning of last semester, I had a thought. How would people react if I actually want to get the flyer? Walking through Sproul Plaza, there are thousands of clubs, protestors, etc. that want to put their grubby papers in your hands. Usually most people just try to avoid the paper or passively accept it. Last semester, I suddenly had an idea and put my hands palms-up walking through the plaza. Nobody put anything in my hands. Today, as a girl gave me some shiny thing for A.C.T.I.O.N. (I can\’t tell you what the acronym means because I never looked), I suddenly had an idea. As a result, I went up to all the people flyering and assertively placed my right hand in front of them. Some of them looked slightly taken back and passively gave me a flyer as if they wanted me to go away (the irony?) As a result of the experiment, I ended up with four A.C.T.I.O.N. flyers, one pamphlet (for some protest probably), two tutoring flyers, some club thing… Two people thanked me for taking a flyer. And as quickly as I gathered all the papers, I dumped them all in the mixed paper recycling (I don\’t dump, I recycle!), not even looking at what the flyers said.
On my way back to the apartment, I ran into a huge group of kids (around 6-7 years old) all led by approximately 7 adults. It was rather cute to see one of the kids pointing at pictures in the hated Sports Illustrated insert from the Daily Cal (most people just grab the newspaper and throw the insert on the ground). Then, I saw a few kids go up to the emergency phone, touching the buttons. Then one assertive kid went up and pressed the BIG RED BUTTON. Immediately the light on top of the emergency phone started flashing. I giggled to myself as one of the teachers admonished the kid and went over to apologize to the UCOP people on the phone. How cute!!!
I am listening to a radio show in Cantonese that interviews William Hung!!
If you go to Japan, please buy me DOMO-KUNS postcards!! kthxbi.