Amy’s Journal

So this is what I do now that finals are over. I sleep. I sleep in the car, I sleep in the movies, I sleep for 12 hours every night (the picture is actually from the ride home from Big Game (Cal vs Stanford), which sadly, we lost. I am the one passed out on my friend’s lap.). I never thought I could sleep this much. I’ve made up all of the sleep that I didn’t get during finals week, and then some. But it feels good, almost as good as it feels to be done with my first quarter at Stanford. Don’t get me wrong, I love school, but the hectic pace of school makes break that much better. I don’t have my grades yet, but I think I did pretty well.

My mom wants me to tell you all about what I do in school…so here it is. I took 4 classes this quarter. They were Art of Living (literature/philosophy), Virtue of Vice and Vice of Virtue: Rhetoric of Criminality, Hindi, and a little computer class that our RCC (resident computer consultant) taught. My favorite books from my lit class were Song of Solomon (I can’t figure out how to underline or italicize) by Toni Morrison, The Gay Science by Nietzsche, and Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard. Hindi is fun but hard, and my rhetoric class was by far the most work-intensive class I have ever taken.

But its all over now and I have three whole weeks to relax, catch up on Grey’s Anatomy (Sigh…McDreamy) and Battlestar Galactica, read some good books that are not required, get caught up in the fashion world, and spend some quality time with my family and my boyfriend, and go to Mexico!! For as long as I can remember we have gone to Mexico for winter break, because my dad is a baby when it comes to the cold and he would drag us all down south the minute it got cold enough to see your breath in the air. I have since realized that I inherited his fear of the cold, so I am looking forward to some sand, sun, and warm water. I hope everyone has a great winter, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, and happy other winter holidays!