Adventures of a snarky nerdy feminist geek bookworm 20-something. Yeah, it's a niche. Deal with it.

"Add it to the life list"

April 26th, 2010

Whenever my good friend Adelaide and I were feeling particularly distressed about how we'd ever manage to get through MIT and make it into the real world and if we even really wanted to make it into the real world, we'd add a few entries to a list entitled "Laura and Adelaide's Ridiculously Improbable List of Future Plans Read More...

Did you know you’re almost famous?

April 3rd, 2010

I got a phone call from my ex-boyfriend today. We're still close friends years after the fact, and talk often, so this wasn't out of the ordinary. But part of the reason he called was to ask Ex: "By the way, did you know that you're in the 2008 Edition of Newsweek's college edition?" Me: "Ha, you saw that, huh?" [In a past life, I was a student blogger for the MIT Admissions website Read More...

Growing nostalgia

August 10th, 2009

My sister called her roommate today. My sister is 4 years younger than me, which means for the past 4 years we've balanced each other out. I left high school as she entered it, we mirrored each other through sophomore, junior, and senior year, and then graduated at the same time from different levels of education Read More...

Welcome to Klassytown

August 2nd, 2009

Yesterday I was lifeguarding in the toddler section of the waterpark when a woman approached me about the children's slides which empty nearby. Woman: Excuse me, but is someone responsible for spacing people out on those slides over there? Me: Well yes, someone is supposed to make sure no one crashes into anyone else Read More...

A day, or 2.5 hours, at the waterpark

July 30th, 2009

I once looked over a bunch of the jobs and activities I've been involved in (EMT, lifeguarding, computing help desk) and decided that I must really enjoy sitting around waiting for bad things to happen. I have spent a considerable amount of time doing just that. After my senior year of high school, I got a job at the local waterpark as a lifeguard Read More...

First post, for the 8th time

July 21st, 2009

I think I might hate myself right now, because there is possibly nothing I find more annoying than that stupid "first post" trend. But I couldn't quite resist it this time. See, this isn't really my first blog post, and this certainly isn't my first blog. I've been blogging since way before it was cool Read More...