Eden of studying

With Boards looming every so largely in the near future, I find myself studying a lot more than....well....ever. The thing I realized recently is, studying is really really lonely. Even if you study in a group, everyone's concentrating on their own task of stuffing knowledge into one's brain, and it's truly a solo task. The whole experience, if done in excess, is really depressing! I think that's why I always try to study in a place with lots of people...if I studied in my room by myself all the time, I would've spiraled to a deep dark place, long long ago. The key is to find a place where a fair number of people gather, but is not too loud...just enough noise to blend into the background and tune out.

My go-to study spots have been Kayaks, Borders, and Barnes & Noble....but today, I found the ultimate study spot. It's pretty freaken phenomenal, if I do say so myself.....

PLAZA FRONTENAC

All four of these pictures were taken from my seat...I didn't even have to get up from my chair!


Please note the marble table and the comfy leather couchettes, the nicely laid out study spread and the shopping bag in the seat across from me. =)

Plenty of natural light...literally right above where I was sitting...

and so many pretty stores around me to keep me excited. It's like a study hall with built in study breaks!!! This was to my right....

and this was the view to my left. How could a girl be lonely when surrounded by such goodness???!! It's really pretty impossible. And as if this wasn't fabulous enough, there was a guy playing the piano for a couple of hours too! (I'm thinking this was a Sunday special) Perfect study spot WITH live music...can't beat that.

I don't know if I did a smart or stupid thing, letting everyone know about my new study spot...but this girl is totally ready to go back and study (and shop) tomorrow!!! hehe

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I'll be in DC from Tuesday to Thursday for a conference.
Spring break in less than a month! Puerto Vallarta baby!

villa photo shoot

The EyeWire (our school's newsletter) is running a story about our "Eye Live and Learn" community here on campus at the villa. We had a photoshoot totally ANTM style yesterday....here's the catch, in 20F degree weather w/ wind!! I would just like to give grades to everyone on their ANTM smyes-ness and wind usage.



The boys don't count cuz they have no hair. Caryn (magenta), very smartly avoided the wind by having her hair in a ponytail. I fail for having bangs flying every which way...totally look like I have a small animal sitting on top of my head. Dinita (white scarf) tried avoid the wind by pinning hair up, but alas...sorry girl...that's what you get for having such full awesome hair. The winners are down to Natalie (blue) and Sarah (pink). Natalie has flat gorgeous hair, but she didn't take full advantage of the wind like Sarah, whose billowing hair is perfectly framing her face.

How was my picture analysis? Would Tyra and Miss J be proud? hahhah There are more awesome pictures taken during this photoshoot, so make sure to check out the next issue of EyeWire to check them out! =P

On another note: today was the first day I'm trying my "eating breakfast at breakfast-time" regimen, and I have to say, it's pretty nasty. I just don't like eating ANYTHING so early in the morning. =( Hopefully it'll start to get better because I don't really like starting my day gagging food down my throat.

studying and working out

That's pretty much all I've been doing these days so I'll just update really quickly on these two things.

KMK is really daunting as one book, so I split it up! It's all rebound and in a slightly more manageable size. For those back home, KMK is my review course notes for my first part of Boards...which is coming up ridiculously soon. March 16 and 17th. EEK!!

Every time I think of boards, I get a headache so I'm going to stop writing about it.

I started working out a few weeks ago....3 weeks to be exact. And I'm doing it in style. LOL I got a personal trainer who whoops my butt and doesn't take any of my complaints. Everyone please meet Andy. (I'll probably complain about him often) He's the one given the responsibility of keeping Hanna in shape...hahha..poor guy. I've pretty much just come to the conclusion that the money you pay for a trainer is partly the exercise, but it's mostly the psychological affect of having someone push you and holding you accountable. I'm happy to pay since I have zero self discipline and hate working out...and working hard. hahahha...it's the price I pay for my faults.

That being said, I had a workout with him today and was told I now have to start eating breakfast. BREAKFAST in the MORNING! That's so awful....I can't imagine putting food in my mouth unless I've been awake for at LEAST 2 hours. I'm just not hungry in the morning. =( So on the way home today, I stopped by the grocery store and got some yogurt...we'll see how this goes. Ewwww!

Oh and I gave up TV for Lent. It's going well! Much much better than I thought. =P I just know I'm going to have a lot of catching up to do after Easter.