Halloween Statistics

When you go to a big school, you see a lot of repeated costumes. I wish I could have rounded up all the Where's Waldos and figured out which was the real one. And what percent of girls were a slutty ______ and out of those, how many were complaining about being cold or wearing heels or something. How many people were blue Avatar people, or Snookis or M&Ms or not dressed up as anything in particular? That would be a fun study to conduct if I was into research.

And I did one good deed and helped a lost girl find the Taco Bell that was right in front of her.

YouTube in Real Life.

Today I went to my first youtube-music/wizard rock concert. It was kind of unreal, seeing these people in 3-D whose lives I follow even though I've never met them. I wish I hadn't forgotten to bring my camera :(

Overall, it was a pretty fun experience, and hopefully I get to do it again, but meet more people next time. I felt guilty driving an hour there when I have so much stuff to do, but I don't want to miss out on things just because I have rowing in the morning. The drive back was not very cool, because first I had to find my way to the correct expressway (well, that was kind of fun. I'm like a guy who doesn't like to stop to ask for directions), and then it started raining really hard, but I did get back just fine.

Remembering to enjoy the simple things.

Today I enjoyed the simple things in life. I walked home toward a pretty sunset, listening to '90s pop music, with a happy spring in my step despite the rest of the day being not-so-great.

A while ago, I read this blog post on 1000 Awesome Things, and I think the 4 steps of learning to drive can be applied to every kind of learning.

1. You don't know what you don't know.
2. You know what you don't know.
3. You know what you know.
4. You don't know what you know.

In many of my engineering classes, I feel like I am at step 1. Especially during a really hard exam (like the one I got back today...uggh) and I don't even know what to write because I just didn't know how much stuff I had to know. It's really frustrating, but I feel like I've finally figured out how to word what I've been feeling so far this year. I am moving up to step 2. Slowly, but surely. It's hard for me to look into the future and see myself being at step 3, because there are just so many things that it feels impossible to ever know everything I am missing, but that's what I'm holding out for.

Yeah, this post was really vague.