Today was perhaps the worst day of the semester. To start off, I had a midterm yesterday (thats right, Sunday), a midterm tomorrow, and a midterm on Thursday. So already, my week is hell. With that already killing my chances of happiness, SAFC decided to ram it up our asses, and denied us our funding for RoKS. It was funny. The other day I was in Mary Schlarb's office, the ISSO, when I ran into a really nice guy. I was there to get a letter signed by Mary proving why RoKS should be attended by more than 4 people, when we started talking. He was an alum from six years ago back visiting while on campus. He was very dismayed when i told him about the hoops SAFC made us jump through, the same hoops he jumped through 10 years ago as a student. He was sad, saying that the other schools he visited as a recruiter, the other Ivy's, Stanford, MIT, treated their student's with so much more respect. We both quoted Cornell, "the big red tape", laughing, both trying to hide our serious frustrations. As it turns out, Clive from google was right, SAFC fucked us, for a technicality we had already documented, but had signed by the wrong person.

So I was bummed about that, wondering what would happen for all our newbies. But I wasn’t that upset. I was on my way to the lab, a place where I usually have a great time. When I get to the lab, everything was fine, working on some DNA synthesis, when my PI, my Professor, tells me he wants to talk to me. He brings me into his office, where he proceeds to rip me a new one. The worst part was that it was completely unexpected. I thought I had been doing a great job, and still think I am, but he was upset, and I had to deal with it.

My only hope is for tomorrow's Inductions session, which is going to be great, the AIESEC party on Thursday, and finally, a much needed break this weekend.

I thought I had everything under control, then people around me had to fuck it all up.

I don't want to sound like a whiney bitch. For the most part, things at Cornell are really great. AIESEC is running as it never has before. The month of October should be one to remember. We have so many things happening across campus, for students, professors, and professionals. RoKS is right around the corner, Jen is coming up for Salaam, we're putting on a workshop for Engineers going abroad, on top of a secondary recruitment for December graduates. I can't even keep it straight in my head. The people I have on my team are performing at a level so far above and beyond what I expected, I've lost them someplace in the clouds. We're running on all cylinders, always looking for new opportunities.


Now that i've written all that, my day isn't so bad anymore. Now I just have to learn some physics before my test tomorrow.

Love

luke