Bringing Myself Up To Date

• I am 22 years old
• I am currently living in Portland, OR
• This summer, I will be in New Orleans, LA; Portland, OR; Los Angeles, CA; Las Vegas, NV; Albuquerque, NM; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Austin, TX
• This fall I am going to the University of Texas at Austin to do graduate work in transportation engineering
• I received a fellowship to do this work
• My weekday consists of me waking up at 5 AM, working 7 AM - 3:30 PM, going to the gym, coming back home, sleeping at 9 PM
• I am in a dodgeball league
• Because of all the bus time, I average 2 - 4 books a week. My last five books have been: Monte Cristo, The Black Book, Remember Me?, The Poisonwood Bible, and this western book whose title I have misplaced (it must not have been very good)
• I have a summer job
  

The Count of Monte Cristo

For the past several days, I have been reading The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas. Today I finished the story, all 1500 pages of it. It is a story about a man named Edmond Dantes, and the consequences that ensue after he is arrested and falsely imprisoned for treason on the eve of his wedding. Dantes becomes a man of vengeance, swearing ruin on those that have caused him to lose his happiness and those he consider dear.

The book asks one main question, who can deliver justice?


WHAT IS BETTER, LES MISERABLES OR MONTE CRISTO???

Welcome To Graduation

I took my final undergraduate exam last Wednesday. I did not attend commencement on Friday. on Sunday I packed up my bags and left Los Angeles for good?

Keep Austin Weird, Civil Disobedience, and Other Updates In My Life

This fall, I will be attending the University of Texas at Austin on a fellowship to study transportation engineering. The fellowship will cover my (out of state) tuition. I will also receive a stipend to be a research assistant. I made this decision last Monday.

I am still in somewhat of a shock at this turn of events. I certainly was not expecting to get a fellowship. Quite honestly, I saw myself staying at USC, living in downtown LA, spending the next year and a half studying for a master's in environmental quality management (they make good pay). But when I got the email telling me about the fellowship, I knew that I could not pass on such an opportunity. It is quite satisfying to know that I will no longer depend on my parents for money or financial assistance. And this way I will be able to live in a completely new city, which apparently is THE city for young, single professionals

Also, last week I went to Hawaii with other civil engineering students for a CE conference. My technical paper placed second. I got to paddle a canoe, which was pretty fun.

Street Lights

remaining things for the semester:

spring break, Los Angeles / perhaps somewhere else: March 16 - 20
civil engineering regional competition, Hawaii: April 1 - 4
graduate

I am not planning to attend commencement

I got into the University of Tennessee

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