Tuesday, March 14, 2006
i've been trying to put this incident out of my mind for a week now but still:
i got my evaluations for a presentation about my research a week ago; most of them weregood and the professor in charge of it liked the presentation. However for 3 of the evaluations these were the comments:
"it is obvious that his first language is not english"
"i admire his courage in giving a presentation in his non-native tongue"
condescending rat eating pre-med motherfuckers.
The prof didn't have any problems with my accent, or lack thereof. So did my ex roommate in the audience. The professors at the schools i interviewed at didn't make any mention of my accent. so why the fuck are these motherfuckers thinking? Because I have a chink face and I deliberately make it a point not to sound american (which i think its an ugly accent to put on in the first place) equals lack of ability of to speak american (yes its american, you muthafuckers, its not english to start with)?
i know who those pricks are. and i'm fucking, fucking glad i'm not taking any classes with them anymore.
conservative assholes.
i got my evaluations for a presentation about my research a week ago; most of them weregood and the professor in charge of it liked the presentation. However for 3 of the evaluations these were the comments:
"it is obvious that his first language is not english"
"i admire his courage in giving a presentation in his non-native tongue"
condescending rat eating pre-med motherfuckers.
The prof didn't have any problems with my accent, or lack thereof. So did my ex roommate in the audience. The professors at the schools i interviewed at didn't make any mention of my accent. so why the fuck are these motherfuckers thinking? Because I have a chink face and I deliberately make it a point not to sound american (which i think its an ugly accent to put on in the first place) equals lack of ability of to speak american (yes its american, you muthafuckers, its not english to start with)?
i know who those pricks are. and i'm fucking, fucking glad i'm not taking any classes with them anymore.
conservative assholes.
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
i believe now would be one of the high points of my time in madison.
its feels really good to know that at least some of the experiments i ran helped the lab get an NIH grant; it would be awful for me to graduate with seeing the lab shut down because of the lack of funding, and even more so when it has taught me so much and i have given so little.
my supervisor's paper finally got published by a high impact journal and my name would be in it because i chipped in with some apparently important figures and experiments - his baby for the past two years is finally going to be born; it really is exciting because the data really flies against what the whole field is thinking and the grant application got rejected last year because some people were skeptical of the results. hopefully this will pave the way for my other boss's and my data to be published- very hopefully after i graduate.
and i am seriously embarassed by advances of cold spring right now. they've been woo-ing me and sending me gifts after they offered me admissions and now jim watson the really dua kee person has just sent me an autographed book. and i've been delaying sending in the acceptance forms not because i was playing hard to get but because i've been up my neck in work and graduate school interviews. i'm just still an undergraduate now and it feels kinda weird to be showered with that much attention. so i think i better wake up my idea and send in the acceptance tomorrow. it really is too much..
but anyway, its back to studying. i got three midterms tomorrow.
(edit: and chelsea lost. that makes it complete. haha. ok shit back to mugging)
its feels really good to know that at least some of the experiments i ran helped the lab get an NIH grant; it would be awful for me to graduate with seeing the lab shut down because of the lack of funding, and even more so when it has taught me so much and i have given so little.
my supervisor's paper finally got published by a high impact journal and my name would be in it because i chipped in with some apparently important figures and experiments - his baby for the past two years is finally going to be born; it really is exciting because the data really flies against what the whole field is thinking and the grant application got rejected last year because some people were skeptical of the results. hopefully this will pave the way for my other boss's and my data to be published- very hopefully after i graduate.
and i am seriously embarassed by advances of cold spring right now. they've been woo-ing me and sending me gifts after they offered me admissions and now jim watson the really dua kee person has just sent me an autographed book. and i've been delaying sending in the acceptance forms not because i was playing hard to get but because i've been up my neck in work and graduate school interviews. i'm just still an undergraduate now and it feels kinda weird to be showered with that much attention. so i think i better wake up my idea and send in the acceptance tomorrow. it really is too much..
but anyway, its back to studying. i got three midterms tomorrow.
(edit: and chelsea lost. that makes it complete. haha. ok shit back to mugging)
Saturday, March 04, 2006
when a debate becomes
stretched;
and all sides lose all sight
of the map;
it becomes a sustained theme and variations
ad infinitum;
vulgarity becomes all in the end.
stretched;
and all sides lose all sight
of the map;
it becomes a sustained theme and variations
ad infinitum;
vulgarity becomes all in the end.
Friday, March 03, 2006
it was after the free (and steady bom pi pi ) juilliard concert that the three of us decided to join the rest of the Rockefeller prospectives at the salsa place. i thought it was going to be a concert but when the rest of the club started dancing, i decided to get a glass of champagne and observe the dance floor.
and when it soon emerged that both of us belonged to the rare group of people who couldnt move to even a very loud and obvious rhythm, and we were both tired and needed to catch a flight out tomorrow, we decided to leg it out to the upper east side from where we were, which was somewhere in greenwich village or something.
we got down to the subway and initially wanted to take the subway to 66th and Lincoln and cut through Central Park at 11 pm at night but then, the lady at the station interjected (Brooklyn Accent included)
"don't be crazy, i've lived here for 35 years and I still don't dare to go into central park at night."
and she accompanied us to the right station and showed us the way back. and i still don't know her name, just that she lived in new york all her life lived every where except staten island, worked for a charity for 37 years, been to amsterdam and paris and loved it.
whoever she is, i think i can't thank her well enough.
and i think i'm sold on new york city.
i can't see myself at rockefeller smack in the middle of manhatten even though its a seriously great place to do science in, but i guess being in cold spring with its equally great program and its proximity (but not that close to) the big city has its advantages.
so come 2007 its new york here i come then.
and when it soon emerged that both of us belonged to the rare group of people who couldnt move to even a very loud and obvious rhythm, and we were both tired and needed to catch a flight out tomorrow, we decided to leg it out to the upper east side from where we were, which was somewhere in greenwich village or something.
we got down to the subway and initially wanted to take the subway to 66th and Lincoln and cut through Central Park at 11 pm at night but then, the lady at the station interjected (Brooklyn Accent included)
"don't be crazy, i've lived here for 35 years and I still don't dare to go into central park at night."
and she accompanied us to the right station and showed us the way back. and i still don't know her name, just that she lived in new york all her life lived every where except staten island, worked for a charity for 37 years, been to amsterdam and paris and loved it.
whoever she is, i think i can't thank her well enough.
and i think i'm sold on new york city.
i can't see myself at rockefeller smack in the middle of manhatten even though its a seriously great place to do science in, but i guess being in cold spring with its equally great program and its proximity (but not that close to) the big city has its advantages.
so come 2007 its new york here i come then.
