Major Matters!

My mother wants me to change majors so I can graduate faster.  I immediately dismissed this, but upon further reflection, I’m not so sure.

November Update

It’s been a minute since I’ve updated.  We’re well into fall term, almost at Thanksgiving Break (which I get a week!)

Chinese is going FAR better than expected (<brag>I got a perfect score on the last test!</brag>)

Jazz History, Intro to Landforms, and Critical Thinking are going as expected.

However, there’s a problem in my fifth class.

My UrLai

hanksmeditations.wordpress.com is probably written by a female somewhere between 66-100 years old. The writing style is personal and upset most of the time.

WTF?!

Updates

There will be more updates coming shortly.  Topics of posts:

• Reflections on my first term at GSU
• Why I’m filing transfer apps
• I WILL FINISH the 228 POSTS.  I PROMISE.

Past Summers

I have my first test in my US History class tomorrow, so today I decided to go the library after watching the final day of coverage of the USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships (also, shoutout to the runner from MIT who was in the Women’s Steeplechase final.  GO TECH!).

As usual, I go to the 2nd floor of the library and sit in the skybridge, mainly because I like looking out at Downtown Atlanta on my small breaks from studying.

While on one of these breaks, I started thinking about what I was doing in previous summers at about the same time.

Retro Post: Written 1/2008: Superman Returns

Let’s analyze this movie bit by bit. Warning: Spoilers abound.

Though in my opinion, if you haven’t seen it, you should just read this, as whatever shit I write will be much better than that fucking movie.

This pictures makes me so happy.

Uninsurable

As of right now, I’m paying $270 a month for medical insurance through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.

Now, I don’t actually live in Massachusetts anymore, and I can get medical insurance that is roughly the same for about a third of the price.

This weekend I set out to do that.

Drunken ramblings: Uncle Tom

Sometimes I feel like a race traitor.  Well, to be precise, sometimes I wonder if i’m a race traitor.

Who Do You Think You Are?

There has been a rash of UK shows ported to American television recently.  Some notable examples I can think of off the top of my head are The Office and American Idol (adapted from Pop Idol).

The latest in these series of ports is a show called Who Do You Think You Are?, which takes a notable person, and devotes an entire episode to their genealogy.  It’s the latest in a series of genealogy shows that do just this, though most of these shows have been restricted to PBS. (Random fact: Eva Longoria and YoYo Ma share a common ancestor within the last 250 years, courtesy of Faces of America hosted by Skip Gates, who also hosted African American Lives 1-2, a show in the same vein as the aforementioned).*

I’ve been keeping up with WDYTYA? and it’s causing me to think about how much I know, or rather, how little I know, about my father’s family.