At last, the end of the semester is quickly approaching. Today is the last day of April, and after 20 days or so, I'll be all done with school work and will be enjoying summer at my house, grilling with my family, sipping beers, and grazing on chewy steaks! But those dreamy days only come after countless hours of hard work. I have a test beginning in 11 days, and paper that's due this week, another huge paper that is due on 17th and so on.

So I decided to step off from playing basketball every night, in order to earn some time to get extra load of work. This seems like a pretty bad idea since I wouldn't be able to play basketball that I love so much, and the lack of exercise means that I'd have to eat less calories everyday in order to say fit without doing any workouts.   But here's the dilemma: I feel like I'm starting to go through the last period of growth spurt, but at the same time, I have finals coming up. I guess finals take over my priority this time, since many of my classes grades depend on what I get on the final. I wish I could ace everything to seek another chance next year.

Here I go. Let's do some work!

Bad news? I didn't get into UVA. After months of waiting, staying nervous and checking the website literally once in every 5 seconds, it turns out that my effort was in vain. But one good thing is that I'm not as shocked as I was when I got a rejection from Cornell for the first time. It doesn't feel as shitty like that time. My chance of getting into Cornell this year as a transfer is slim, in fact so slim that I'm not even looking forward to it. I already assumed that I didn't get in, which means that UVA was the only school that I was actually expecting to get good news from. Well, that's bummer, isn't it?

Thanks to this weird situation, I think I'm going to stay here for another year, wouldn't be able to go to Korea and spend the whole summer in U.S. I'd also have to look for housing here for next academic year and pretty much I have to go through a whole bunch of shit that I really didn't look forward to...

Maybe I lacked preparation this year as well. Maybe my stats weren't good enough, or simply it's not my destiny (If there really is destiny anyways). But at the same time, this painful experience could mean another chance to me, and another opportunity to strengthen myself.

From today, there is only like 3 weeks left before the school is over. It's never late to soak into grief once I take care of these businesses. This is a good alert to tidy up myself and move on to the next level. I need to realize that this is not the end of the world, but maybe another change to take a great leap forward.

Busy bee!

3 exams in 2 days. Lets beat the shit out of each and enjoy the weekend!

Ugh, I have totally forgotten about all this blog stuff recently.

Returning to school after break, my life has been really undisciplined.

I guess there weren't really that much personal time dedicated to me. It's probably because I spend most of my day in College Library, where I study, chill and eat almost everyday. Actually today might be a good time to talk about how the place is. 

So in the beginning of the year, I was trying to find a perfect place to study. First, I tried out Steenbock Memorial library, which is a block across from my dorm. Despite the convenience that was attainable from the close distance, I ditched that option because of the sound of clocks ticking was so vociferous. Every minute, there was huge locking sound that occurred twice for some strange reason which drove me crazy. And the thing is, once you start hearing it just one time, you feel like you can hear it from a thousand miles away. So I moved on to a next option. Ebling library which is close to UW-Hospitals. It's a library that is made for med students, and it was the newest built one in our campus. Because of these attributes, it was the cleanest and the quietest library. However, there was one obstacle to it: Transportation. Biking there was not a problem when the weather was okay. But Madison is notorious for long and snowy weather which makes biking not a viable option. Which means that I have to take a bus every time. However, number 80 operates sort of infrequently after certain time (I guess somewhere around 8'o clock), which makes commuting to library a hard task. So that came off from my list.

The final, and the wisest move was relocating myself to College Library. There were a few merits that accompanied choosing it. First, it was 24 hours open from Sunday to Thursday, which is a huge advantage if I ever tried to pull of an all-nighter, which luckily I didn't. Furthermore, the library is close to Rheta's, the dining hall I used a lot over the winter, and the state street, home of various restaurants with reasonable price and okay taste. That's not the end of it. This library had a cafe and some vending machines that I could use if I needed. But the best thing is that College Library rented out textbooks for 3 hour terms, so I didn't have to carry Campbell Biology which weighs like 5 tons every day! Also, the quiet room was pretty quite (strange, ha?), the seat cozy and the lamp 'moody'. It provided me the perfect place to study year round and was close to different classrooms. Had it not been College Library, I would have been living a wholly different life, which I'm guessing would have been bad.

So, if I transfer to another college after this year, my main task would be finding a place that best resembles College Library. There might not be one, but still, College Library would forever be in my mind, as a part of precious memory that occupies a huge portion of my freshman year.

Last day!

Welp! Spring break is almost over now. At this moment, 2'o clock in the morning, it's Friday. The break ends on sunday, and I head back to madison tomorrow, early in the morning. I should have spent more time doing some work, but lots of time has been spend on doing things that are not really important -- playing games, web surfing without reason and stuff.  But it has been a good time for re-invigoration. After I get back, there's only about a month left before I visit Korea over the summer. My dad told me how one month goes so fast, saying he could hold on his breath for a month. I hope I can dominate all the upcoming exams and go to my home country with joy, pride and confidence!

What do I want to do when I grow up? Ever since I've watched TV show suits, I wanted to be like Harvey Specter. He's a prominent, young partner at a law firm in NYC, who has never lost in a trial. He sort of became my role model, and I'm going to strive as hard as I could to emulate and eventually surpass him.

Today, I hopped around different law firms. Well actually I found number one law firm in Korea (Kim & Chang, LLC) and one in America which I can't remember the name on top of my head. So I went to the website, looked at the profiles of bunch of partners there and there was one common thing I was able to observe. No matter how old they are, where they are from, most of the partners had graduated from whats so called 'good schools.' Like my dad told me a while ago, I guess graduating from a prestigious school is really an important thing. Maybe it functions as a filter that screens certain people. Maybe its an invisible measurement that gauges people's abilities. But regardless of its function, I guess it really means something to them. And at the same time, since it is required to all the high paying positions, it seemed like it was a definite key to the success. So, I hope I get into both schools I've applied to, because it's more likely that it will guarantee my success in the future!

Spring break has been going alright so far!

I went to a huge mall complex where it had a bunch of outlets and some 'real' shops, with a ginormous IKEA and costco right next to the group of buildings. Surprisingly, there weren't that many people around in the mall, probably because UW-Madison's spring break is so late that I was able to enjoy the time when most people have gotten back on track, going to work or school. Also, it was my first time at IKEA which was really interesting. I've gotten some insights about the store in the movie called "500 days of Summer" when they went to the shop and did a short musical in the shop. It was pretty much like that where different parts of a home -- bathroom, bedroom and sorts were displayed in a space with different themes which was really cool and fascinating. I thought to myself 'Oh, I'm definitely coming to this place again to purchase stuff when I get my own apartment in the future!'

Besides that , today, there was the final match of March Madness between Kansas and Kentucky which Kentucky won. To be honest, it was one of the most boring and loose game I've seen because there were not many upsets during the game, only a few 3 pointers (which is a crucial component of upsets) and just overall not really a dynamic team play. But anyways, it reminded me a brutal memory when I put Duke as the winner, and now my bracket is completely obsolete. Whatever. Let's just say I'm going to put Kentucky from now on. Congrats to Kentucky for winning this year's tournament. Shout outs to Alex Davis who only score 2 points but played the full time, with nearly 20 rebounds, about 8 blocks and a few stills!

P.S You didn't know he was a year younger than me with 2.08m height!