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My first semester of gradschool is over and I survived! I can't believe this it went by as quickly as it did.

I turned in my stats final and my final paper on Sunday and my final last week. I'm so glad I didn't waste my time finding participants and developing a completely new survey. I was tempted to pay the $40 2month subscription to conduct a longer, more "valid" one, but I didn't want to waste any more money than I had to. I was almost going to get really pissed at myself for half assing that paper as much as I did and coming home early without completely finishing my paper first, but I'm glad I did. Being home recharged me. With my brother's help, I was able to finish my paper with the little strength I had left. Long story short, I got 23/25 points for that paper. Not bad for something that had extremely poor external validity.

After all that hard work, I was able to help some people with their paper and learned how to use SPSS a lot better than I ever knew how as an undergrad. I may be saying this in hindsight, but I actually enjoyed my stats class. It felt similar to the classes I had as an undergrad, but much more work and a lot less organized/structured than I would have wanted. That is very far from the opinions of my cohort apparently. I wonder if our prof will still have a job next year after all the negative feed back from my cohort? D:

As for the other classes, I'm 99.9% positive I have As in 3 of my classes and 99% I have an A in the other. Unless I have a horribly jacked up final, I should be okay and I know I didn't do that bad on that law and ethics class. I had complete points up to the final.

This Christmas/Advent time has been pretty nice. I came home Saturday morning. It's funny cause when I got home, everything just fell back into place as if I never left. People are just alot happier to see me and the house is a lot messier than it was D:

God has been very good to me this year. I realized two of my dreams. One is going to New York and the other is getting into grad school. I also found my apartment just in time for school. Despite my old roommate moving out, I was able to find another roommate before the end of the year. All of this while worrying about finals. Stressful, but worth it in the end. I survived and I am loving it. I got good grades, which I almost didn't think was possible with all the work, but I did it. Before school started, I also went to Disneyland with my family and cousins. I wasn't able to get the 50th anniversary gold Mickey ears, but I did get the Millennium Ears this time :)

Since I got home Saturday, Simbang Gabi started on Sunday and my uncle was the decon serving. He also served last night and did the sermon, which was nice. It's amazing how much people can change when they open up to God. My dad was going over our old video tapes and transferring them to dvd with the present my sibs and I gave them for their anniversary last year. I'm glad it's being put to good use. As of today, I haven't done any Christmas shopping. It's kind of hard when you're pretty much dirt poor and have so many to give. I've narrowed down presents this year, but it seems like kids keep popping out and I can't not give my family nothing. It's also so easy to give my brother presents. I guess it's partly my fault for him being so spoiled. Anyway I think I'm going shopping tomorrow with my cousin. Maybe I'll find something then for the people on my list. I only have 12 this year. *sigh* and I haven't mailed any Christmas cards either *sigh*

In terms of getting into the Christmas spirit, my brother and I decked out our house in Christmas lights and decorated the Christmas tree. Our neighbors are envious :) it's rather pretty with the reindeer, Santa, Christmas lanterns, snowflake lights, garland lights, net lights and mini trees and pretty wreath set up we have no longer taped to our door. My brother and I also did a gingerbread train and are making a graham cracker replica of our house (since we would like to eat the house and dislike ginger bread). Okay well I have to get on with the festivities. My friend called and we're having lunch on Sunday. Haven't spoke to them properly since school started, so it will be nice if things work out.

Here's my brother thinking he's all cool decorating the train.

There's me in all my awesomeness :D

Here's the finished product and a sneak peek of our graham cracker house on the corner (^_^)V

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Christmas season

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