Senior Beach Camping

Last night we had a senior beach camping event at San Clemente. We spent most of the day just hanging out at the beach (I am a little sunburned now), and the evening relaxing around a fire at the campsite. It was an awesome way to celebrate completion of our classes and a beautiful location!

Course Requirements

It is basically official, all of my degree requirements have been met! In a week I'll be graduating from undergrad!

Undergraduate Education: Finished

I just submitted my last paper! I am officially finished with all the work for my undergraduate education! Wow!

Tokyo Police Club

Last night Carling and I went to a Tokyo Police Club concert at the BellyUp Tavern in Solana Beach. The venue was really awesome and seemed like a great place to hang out. There was a lot of seating all around the edge of the stage, and an open space out front.

Carling and I sat off to the left of the stage, where we had a pretty good view of the band and both of the openers. Behind us, the wall was covered in weird concert posters, most of which appeared to be signed:

and over the bar hung a giant shark with glowing red eyes!

During the opening bands, Carling and I had a couple drinks from the bar (the show was 21+). She convinced me to have a not so terrible beer (but it wasn't great either):

Tokyo Police club was amazing live! They have so much energy and the crowd loved them, which made it a really awesome show! For the first encore song, the lead singer (David Monks) came out on stage all by himself, told the crowd to quiet down, and sang a whole song without the mic and without plugging in his guitar.  It was beyond impressive that he was able to get the crowd to cooperate for long enough to complete it. It was a very beautiful and moving piece to hear him play.

The drive to Solana Beach was pretty long, but it was definitely worth it to hear them play in such a great venue. I would love to go back to it someday, though I'm not sure when I'll be back in the area.

UW Welcoming Gift

Yesterday, Jeff and the Interactive Data Lab sent me a welcoming gift to their group!

I can't wait to take a look through both of these and start to learn a lot more about the visualization field! From the looks of it, the UW was the perfect choice for me.

Last Day of Mudd Classes

Today was my last day of Mudd classes! My Thursday class was cancelled and I don't have any classes on Friday, which means I'm practically finished. And when I say practically finished, I mean that all I have to do is:

1. Finish my Scripps class on Monday and Wednesday of next week
2. Finish making the books for my Typography class
3. Listen to the last colloquium talk
4. Completely edit my 100 page final clinic report
5. Prepare and practice my clinic presentation
6. Give my clinic presentation (3 times)
7. Write a final literature paper
8. Write a short paper for my Frontend Development class

So, basically I'm not quite thinking about what it means to be at the end of the year. But I'm in the final chapter now.

Happy Easter!

Easter is always a fun time for packages :) Check out what the bunny sent me this year!