Revival

currently listening to: "Revival" by the Allman Brothers Band

just started my application for graduate school at the University of Texas - Austin. and it's looking very much like I will be applying for the dual master degree, a Masters in Public Affairs and a Masters in Engineering. it will take a very long / short two years, and I am resigning myself more and more to the laurels of higher education. at least I will get dual masters' degrees?

this weekend I was at an all-paid Transportation Seminar near home at Santa Clara. there, I got to mingle / network / whatever you want to call it with transportation and planning bigwigs. I had as a mentor the veep of an esteemed engineering firm. I was like...please tell me how to get your job. it was great because I got to mingle with other civil engineering students from across the state of California (not to mention swag), but I got to experience firsthand the intense subject of bidding

Election Day came and went...the 44th president of the United States will be Barack Obama! the people have spoken! I am BEYOND thrilled that he emerged victorious against his Republican opponent. I remember hearing his modest conference announcing his intent to run and just feeling very inspired. I had confidence in him since his first day, even as he trailed other Democratic candidates until he finally won. I thought it was also fairly amusing, considering the buildup and anticipation of this event, how relatively ho-hum the ending was, a landslide. I was in class the entire election night, following only with my cell phone! definitely after the results were finalised, my friend and I went to the communications school on campus, which was a media nuthouse. later, my classmates and I went on an election bar night, tearing up downtown Los Angeles with drinks for democracy and America and justice and such. God Bless America!!