Results from Princeton meet

The results on Utah's swimming page isn't working, hence why poor maddie can't find it. I posted links from the Princeton site, hopefully these will work for ya!
(Helpful tip: When the page loads, and if you're only interested in me, hit control+f on your keyboard, and type in "edge." This works on most pages on the entire internet and is very helpful when doing research. :)

Day one, Friday

Day two, Saturday

Day three, Sunday

And you might notice I didn't swim the 100 free individually on Sunday night. My coach wanted me to do my best on the relay, in attempts to get a NCAA-A cut. We were close. We'll definitely get it at conference.

Stream of consciousness during a physics midterm.

Focus, focus....steady....

Wow, what's that it in my hand? A cool mechanical pencil. Green. Has a good quality eraser. I love erasers. And...huh, the desk seems really blurry with this yellowish paper on it. Why do I feel that this paper is important? Focus...ah! Heh. It's my physics test they wouldn't let me take on Wednesday because the professor felt that it was too early to take it it was originally set for Friday but I told them I was going to Princeton. I told them a week and a half in advance, yet the test wasn't quite proof-read and printed for me to take it on Wednesday. Professor felt like Monday was too late though. So right after a bleary weary fun long swim meet with prelims and finals for three to fourish...or was it five-ish days? After waking up 4 AM on monday morning eastern time, traveling about 7 hours, I had to go straight to the physics building to make up this test. A test? Oh yeah, while my brain was playing around with how frustrating the situation is, I haven't even started the test. And I had to miss all the reviews for the test that are usually very helpful in learning how to actually apply the material we learned. Hmmm.... Oh yes, the test is still sitting in front of me. Hmmm...let's try playing around with this equation here, and see if I come up with a remotely correct-sounding answer. Who throws a wad of gum at a cylinder rotating on the z axis anyway? And we have to assume so many things. Not practical. But makes things simpler, I suppose. A sphere rolling down an incline. Assume it never slides, only rolls. Doesn't make sense. Gravity will cause the sphere to slide a little bit, even if it's the smallest fraction. Wow, my brain does not feel connected to my body. Just jumping all over the place. Ah, there's the proctor. Oh, only six minutes left? And....two of five problems I haven't even started on, let alone looked at? Great. Just great.
C'mon brain!

(grinding gears, stalls)

C'mon!

(engine comes to life for an instant, stalls once more)

NOOOOOOO!
(turns in test, don't even remember much until after waking up from a two-hour nap in the dorms....until now....)


Wow, some days can be a bleary shmeary blur where it passes right by you, yet you remember not much.

Oh, great. Now I just reminded myself of one of my favorite classes I took at the U. A literature class, we read Virginia Woolf's book "To the Lighthouse." It was pretty much all in stream-of-consciousness format. So confusing at first, yet so rewarding at the end. Now I want to go back to majoring in english. I'll minor in math. Think that'd go well? Nah. Me neither. Hm. I do know I want to teach. I also know I'd have fun teaching math, english, and physics. Would it go over strange if I majored in teaching english, and got a master's in math or physics? Yeah, yes it would. Now I'm just babbling at the end of a rather long, disappointing, and endless post. My apologies. I will think up something genius next time! Perhaps a poem?

Hello Princeton!

For those of you who don't know, I'm at a swim meet for the next three days in Princeton. We arrived when it was dark, so I haven't seen much yet. I'm excited to see what the light will bring! :)

Thanksgiving Weekend

Thanksgiving weekend was a wonderful break from school (not really from swimming, because "break" is unheard of in the swimming world). It was wonderful to see Rick, Collette, Oscar, Poppy, Emily, Carvel, Megan, Reed, Will, Sam, Lindsey, Bryan, Micah, Carter! Whew...

However, going back to school has made me realize that it is a torturous holiday: Gives you a tiny taste of freedom for the brain, then makes you plunge right back into a couple more weeks and finals!

I wonder if our little walk on the river the day after Thanksgiving will become a yearly tradition?
I have no idea how Sam could sleep in such a position. But he did.

We went to see the lights that night. 'Twas PACKED! I don't think many of us had fun, but it was worth it for the kids, and to pay a visit to beloved Temple Square.

Notice the hundreds of people on the other side?

I've decided that temples, especially the Salt Lake City temple are very photogenic.

Three

The three lessons I want to learn (and master) from swimming in college are:

1)Learn to do hard things.

2)Learn to have fun doing hard things.

3)Learn to have fun doing hard things, and make it fun for others.

Psychology Paper #3

For our third and final paper in my psychology of adolescence class, we have to pick an interview from NPR's "Radio Diaries." These diaries are simply audio diaries of various teenagers around the country. We pick one of these kids, and analyze them and their interview using everything we've learned in the class. The three stories that interested me most was Josh who lives in New York City, he has Tourette's Syndrome.

Juan also interested me,

but I think I'll do my paper on Ricky. His father is a strict atheist, but now that he's older, he's not so sure about his father's beliefs. His story spiked my interest the most, and I think I have some good ideas already. :)

Now that I look at all the kids who are interviewed, all of their stories are intriguing. I'll have to look at them all when I finally get the time!