wandering the wide world in search of wonders
(Metro station, Washington DC) Seems like I’m always chasing after missed trains…
In retrospect, it was unrealistic to think that I could do much reading or homework while attending a conference, much less running one, but things turned out fine on Monday despite having to skip lectures to catch up on sleep. I had a great time, even if it was a weekend with an average of four hours sleep a night.
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– February 23, 2009
(Metro station, Washington DC) Making my way to the top just to be on the ground floor…
So I’m off to DC for the weekend to run a conference at George Washington University. The last time I was in DC, I never really got to see the interior of GWU (I saw Gtown, SAIS, and GMU), so this will be a new experience, and I get to see all my friends in DC again too. If only I didn’t have midterms next week and problem sets due on Monday, or I would be able to fully enjoy the conference. Conferences are best enjoyed during the summer… but that’s also when its hardest to take time off work to go.
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– February 19, 2009
(Wangfujing street, Beijing) My job prospects if I mess things up this semester.
This has to be my toughest semester, with many long days in class and late nights reading or finishing problem sets. This isn’t because I’m taking the maximum courseload, like my peers who accelerated their graduation by a year or more, but because I’m taking hard classes. This is what my days are like.
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– February 13, 2009
(Beijing station) The Dandong express gets you halfway there.
It was a time-tested trail: Get to Dandong, join a tour group, and cross the border. Geoffrey had done the same, and before him, different groups of Singapore students at Beida. All I had to do was follow in their footsteps. A Korean friend who studied in Beijing had went up to Dandong but decided to stay on the Chinese side of Mt. Baekdu, peering across the border into the land of the morning calm. That was probably the closest she could get with an ROK passport, at least before the Hyundai Asan tours started.
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– February 7, 2009
