Recently, one of my friends told me how she would miss Berkeley a lot when she graduates this May. In response, I said that I was ready to get out of this town, this campus, this world of people. But as I was walking through the main street in Berkeley, I heard one of the bums (didn\\’t seem homeless though) cry, \\”That ladies and gentlemen is not Bank of America. That is Bank of Daddy.\\” As several other people passed, he repeated again loudly, \\”That is Bank of Daddy!!!\\”<\/p>\n
Little things like that. How often will I get to hear such cries of protest in Pittsburgh, a city of cold gray weather.<\/p>\n
On Monday, I was talking to the graduate student I research with about how I was wary about the cold weather I would face next year. That there would be…SNOW! The other students in the room were commenting, Only in California, do you go to the snow. The snow does not go to you.<\/i> Jason the graduate student is well-travelled, to note. He then asked me, \\”What\\’s the farthest north you have ever lived?\\”<\/p>\n
Very naively, I said, \\”Hercules.\\”<\/p>\n
\\”Where\\’s that?\\”<\/p>\n
\\”It\\’s up north…12 miles,\\” I responded.<\/p>\n
He laughed. Snow snow snow!!!<\/p>\n
Also, because I am one of those indifferent students, I am reluctant to respond to this survey<\/a> about the decision to move the drop deadline to the 3rd week of classes instead of the 8th week. It\\’s not going to affect me, so why do I care? Maybe for the future students? All I know is that I dropped my stat class and I sort of regret it, because it\\’s one of the prereqs for the CMU program (I dropped it because I didn\\’t think they would accept me). But I digress, I don\\’t care about the drop deadline ultimately!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently, one of my friends told me how she would miss Berkeley a lot when she graduates this May. In response, I said that I was ready to get out of this town, this campus, this world of people. But … Continue reading