And I don't mean that in a derisive or patronizing way at all. People are so funny.
Exhibit A: During my first semester of college, I asked a girl in my honors English class to go to a play with me. A date, in theory. She said yes, but asked me if she could bring her roommate. In my mind I said, "Absolutely not." But in my mouth I said, "Sure, that's cool." The play was really good (it was Steel Magnolias), but the whole experience was a little bit awkward because I ended up sitting next to the girl's roommate (who, incidentally, is a very neat person as well) instead of next to the girl herself. So that was my inaugural foray into the world of college dating. Awesome.
Fast forward to today. One of my housemates spent the last week at the Oklahoma Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program (OSLEP). The girl I asked out was also there. When my housemate came back today he said, "Oh yeah, [this girl] wanted me to tell you that she's really sorry about freshman year, because she didn't know if it was a date or not, and she's felt bad about it ever since."
... I thought I was the only person in the world who felt really guilty about completely inconsequential things like that. But apparently not! So that made me laugh a lot.
Exhibit A: During my first semester of college, I asked a girl in my honors English class to go to a play with me. A date, in theory. She said yes, but asked me if she could bring her roommate. In my mind I said, "Absolutely not." But in my mouth I said, "Sure, that's cool." The play was really good (it was Steel Magnolias), but the whole experience was a little bit awkward because I ended up sitting next to the girl's roommate (who, incidentally, is a very neat person as well) instead of next to the girl herself. So that was my inaugural foray into the world of college dating. Awesome.
Fast forward to today. One of my housemates spent the last week at the Oklahoma Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program (OSLEP). The girl I asked out was also there. When my housemate came back today he said, "Oh yeah, [this girl] wanted me to tell you that she's really sorry about freshman year, because she didn't know if it was a date or not, and she's felt bad about it ever since."
... I thought I was the only person in the world who felt really guilty about completely inconsequential things like that. But apparently not! So that made me laugh a lot.
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I'm going to be at the University of Lisbon in the neuroscience department. Pretty schweet if you ask me... now i just have to find some power adapters and work on my portuguese.
I can't even imagine how you are feeling right now. They'll come, don't worry. If not you could always sell a kidney and buy a ticket to Portugal and hang with me for the summer. I guess you could do that anyway grad school or not.
What are you going to do with Physics? I'm all into dropping things off of towers and watching them fall, but there's only so much entertainment you can get in that. ;)
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