{"id":1223,"date":"2004-12-18T03:01:44","date_gmt":"2004-12-18T11:01:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

DONE. I am done. With my first semester of the masters program. One year ago, I wouldn\\’t think I would be here. I wouldn\\’t have thought that I would have made friends with the people I have.
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But in sum, this semester I:<\/p>\n

  • went to more bars than I can count on my two hands<\/li>\n

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  • but I never took a sip<\/li>\n

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  • am still a non-drinker<\/li>\n

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  • yet I have dealed with too many whyaren\\’tyoudrinking questions<\/li>\n

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  • went to more parties than I ever did in undergrad<\/li>\n

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  • used Verizon for the first time and never worried about my minutes<\/li>\n

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  • because EVERYONE uses it and there\\’s unlimited mobile to mobile<\/li>\n

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  • took the bus every day, something I had sworn against doing in Berkeley…<\/li>\n

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  • went to free food events every week, developed a nose for free food, and shamelessness when walking into anything even though I know I don\\’t belong<\/li>\n

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  • developed some anti-undergrad feeling<\/li>\n

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  • AM one of the youngest in my program!<\/li>\n

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  • became good friends with one CHRIS and dropped the other one<\/li>\n

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  • I still know too many Chrises<\/li>\n

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  • lost my id once<\/li>\n

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  • experienced my first snowfall<\/li>\n

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  • saw Jimmy Eat World for the second time!<\/li>\n

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  • and Taking Back Sunday!<\/li>\n

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  • all while I had a 100 degree fever!<\/li>\n

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  • got a locker which I just used to stash all my food supplies<\/li>\n

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  • ate too much pizza – free, of course<\/li>\n

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  • experienced a chocolate fountain<\/li>\n

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  • talked too much, gossiped too much, smiled too much, laughed too much<\/li>\n

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  • learned how to pack my first snowball<\/li>\n

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  • attended a Kerry rally and actually voted for the first time in a presidential election<\/li>\n

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  • flew to San Diego for Thanksgiving<\/li>\n

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  • started to dislike flying<\/li>\n

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  • had 10+ hour meetings for group homeworks<\/li>\n

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  • started to use the word awesome<\/i><\/li>\n

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  • maxed out my AIM buddy list every week<\/li>\n

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  • become very pro-Apple<\/li>\n

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  • lived in a world where (almost) everyone had a Mac and learned to look down on PC users<\/li>\n

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  • got along with people 4 years older than me!<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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