winter break

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ahh back to school already. so sorry that i haven't written to update all of you. as you can tell...i had other things on my mind. vacation!!!!

highlights from vacation:
-got home and went to a frank's engagement party and hunny's housewarming/cathy's bday party. twas nice to see everyone rite when i got home. some people i need to hang out with more often. sorry cathy and aymerik! we tried to make it back in town for racelettes but there was just too much snow!
-had a wonderful xmas with my family. thanks ryan for the powerpoint remote! nerd as i am, i loved it!
-had an even more wonderful anniversary with hunny in tahoe. hunny made me this AWESOME scrapbook. it was soooo cute! all the pictures and things he put in it had a story behind it. i could tell it took him so much time and care to make. even all the ticket stubs in it (from all the movies we've gone to) had little borders put around them! i will cherish this forever and ever and ever and ever....
-saw the whole fam ( aunts, uncles, cousins and all!) for dimsum. it's been a long while since we have done that. i hope we can do it again the next time i go home. :)
-hung out with mom, dad and jon a whole lot. they helped me find some good power suits. dad likes to dress up his shun dut lieu. i miss talking with my mom so much. but i got to show her some new places to eat. yum! santa ramen!
-visited companies for my school's west coast trip. (IBM Extreme Blue, IBM Life Sciences, Chiron, Genentech, KcKesson) the person that spoke to us from Genentech was so kool that he even said whenever I was in town, for me to go have lunch with him so he could follow how my career was going. however as a result of speaking with him, i'm now considering getting a masters also in biomedical engineering while i'm here. i think i'm gonna try for VC first, and if i don't get it, go for the masters. because if i can get it without the masters, then i'd rather save on the tuition. another option is to just do the masters part time on the CMU west coast campus.
-had dinner with warren, jimmy and diana at Fringale where i had an EXCELLENT dinner of salmon and king mushrooms. mmmmmmm... it was so nice to do our yearly get together around xmas time. it's amazing how far we have all come. jimmy is traveling around the world for his job, diana is a big patent lawyer, warren is doing well at cisco and engaged to be married this summer!
-karin and steve got engaged! or well they got engaged before this week but announces it on saturday. congrats!!! i think it's so kool that they were best friends since they were 12 and now they are getting married.
-back to school and things are getting hectic already. i'm headed off tomorrow morn at 7:30 for a VC conference in Utah. all the top schools converge in Utah at UPES for this conference. i get to go boarding there too! yay! will be back on sunday.


other ramblings...
so many people are getting engaged and married. yet i feel like my mind is just not there yet since i am still in school and have so much more to accomplish. also...what if i decide to do an additional masters? but shouldn't i be thinking about marriage and things? when will my personal life be a priority and school and work second? what happens when i have a family? will i be able to change? sigh...many things on my mind lately. churning and churning. need to make sense of it all. feels like my life can turn any which way rite about now. especially when it comes to internships...i'm getting nervous about being able to secure a VC internship.

it was so nice to have a vacation...i think i felt so burned out after the first semester. so many people asked how i liked school. and i do have to say i love it. but also the work load can be a real downer. now i feel recharged. ready for what's to come. i'm going to run for president of the VC club. and i'm also going to set up a series of VC visits in the area. wish me luck!