Archive for June, 2007

China and Thailand

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

I'm going to China and Thailand from June 26 to July 12th. Not that I haven't posted much recently, but I hope after I come back I can post some of my travel blog entries and start blogging before work starts at Google on July 16th.

History Grad

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

I was honored by being chosen to be the undergraduate speaker for the history graduation ceremony for Stanford's Graduation activities on June 17, 2007. Here's the text of my speech, for posterity:Thank you.For the past four years, when many of my peers asked what I majored in and I ...

Psych!

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

So with a few weeks between being done and graduation, I signed up for a bunch of psych studies. I think I took around 25 or so in 2 weeks. Appointments ranged from 30 minutes to 3 hours. And in the end, I made a couple hundred ...

Road Biking!

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

So I made the jump and bought a road bike.The Off Ramp was having a close-out on their 2006 Giant bikes, so I ended up getting an OCR-3 for only $1199.99 (MSRP: 1850). While not a top of the line bike or a well-known road bike brand like Specialized ...

Drum Major Instinct

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

I'm not a religious person. Never have, never will be. For the past three years, I've worked at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, an institute as old as I am (22) which began when Coretta Scott King asked Clayborne Carson, the director of the ...

Too many movies

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

So with all of my free time, I've been catching up on movies. Here's what I watched:Pirates 3 - Not very good, especially compared to the first and second. It was way too long and predictable. The fight scenes on the ships were pretty awesome, however.Shrek 3 ...