i am on facebook.

posted by Bryan Lee   [10:15 PM]

sssiiiggghhhhh. For the past minute or so, I put myself in Bryan's place and decided that if I weren't on facebook for all of college it made no sense for me to get on it now. (Which is why Mónica is on facebook! Everyone friend her!)

Non-facebookers, you untainted ones,

here's what you've missed out on:


Susan Lee
April 28 at 6:46pm

hello hello!

While talking to Adam Giang on facebook - yeah, they have chats. weird huh? - I realized that most if not all of us are graduating from college soon if we haven't done so already. I think that calls for some round-robin updates about new addresses/email addresses/ general steps in life. Anyone engaged? Anyone moving to a different country? Let us know... I hope to hear much from this thread!

Let me start. I'll be sticking around Boston for at least the next three years, going to Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary full time, working with InterVarsity - a campus Christian group - part time, and fbook chatting the rest of the time. My long term goal is to go to Palestine and establish a primary/secondary school, which I hope many of you will visit! I'll have a new mailing address soon in Cambridge, which I'll update you with when I figure it out. Over the summer, I'll be in Korea. I will be perenially reachable at susansueah [at] gmail [dot] com .

Missing you all so much.
Susan


Matt Schmitz
April 28 at 6:59pm

Hi!

I think Susan's idea is a really good one. As an ex-evangelical (last year I joined the Catholic Church) I can attest that Gordon-Conwell is very well regarded.

My plans are still not completely firm, but it looks like I too will be hanging around my school. This June I will probably start working as a research analyst for the Witherspoon Insitute, a (need I say?) conservative think tank in Princeton. I will probably be working there for the next two years, after which most of the young staff goes on to seek advanced degrees or into journalism at places like First Things and the Weekly Standard. I will also remain involved in some campus activities. So one foot in reality and one--still--on campus.


Alex Yablon
April 29 at 1:56am

I have some vague ideas as to what I'm doing next year. I'm staying in Chicago. I'm going to start a band and try to write short stories and think about what to do in five years. After that, maybe grad school in history, or urban planning, or sociology or something like that. But I don't have much in the way of gainful employment.


Kelsey Innis
April 29 at 7:56am

representing the ungodly side of tasp, as usual--though not so ungodly anymore, as i'm no longer living in sin or studying sexology. i actually have another year and a half of school left thanks to my 5 major changes. i sort of feel like a baby freshman right now--i just got out of a 3 year relationship and i know absolutely no one in my new major (computer science), so i'm living alone for the first time and trying to survive intro classes. no major life changes to report here, though i keep busy; i'm learning to play the carillon and i go see friends bands and generally try to live up to the austin slacker aesthetic.

tara's not on facebook, but i see her on the regular so i guess i'll give the tara e b update. she graduated in december with all kinds of high muckety muck honors & is getting lots of awards for her thesis. she's been working at the women's shelter & doing rape counseling, and she'll be entering grad school for social work in august. last night i saw her new gorgeous tattoos, and she lives in this cute apartment right on the lake.

i took alex's profile picture!


Aimee Clark
April 29 at 12:34pm

Hi everyone!

I never thought I'd hear from you again! I can relate to the bjillion career/goal changes... I'm moving to Brooklyn, NY where I'll be teaching middle school biology and getting a masters in teaching, though what on earth I'll do with this masters after my two year teaching commitment is over is yet to be determined. All that is clear is that for the meanwhile I will be teaching little shitlits and learning to be a disciplinarian. Recent developments have involved craigslisting a "radical feminist apartment", where a "liberal, but not wingnut," housemate is wanted.
I'm pretty sure I'm not getting married, but I am pregnant!!


Just joking,
Good to hear from you all, and needless to say if you are ever passing through New York you have a place to stay. <3, style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Adam Giang
April 29 at 1:51pm

Hey guys,
right now I'm just finishing up my engineering degree. I'm a bit of a homebody so I think I'll be either in the western mass or Boston area, I'm still kind of up in the air. I don't have a job lined up yet, so I'll probably be getting my butt pinched as a waiter this summer. Also, I might be going on a road trip to California with some of my buddies after graduation. It's still in the planning stages now, but perhaps I could meet up with some of you! I'll keep you guys posted.

Also, I'm pregnant


Jared Fryer
April 29 at 11:14pm

Hello!

It is splendid to hear about everyone's lives after so long! (I haven't checked the blog in a while - is it still alive?)
I will finish my history major at the end of next fall and then it's time to leave the massive shithole that is Los Angeles. First stop is London where I can stay with family and earn pounds. Then when I have some money I will go to Berlin because I want to get involved in the art scene there - specifically film, because I love Germany, German, and the Germans, and because I'm afraid of real life.

Oh and if any of you are going to be in California between now and Dececember, tell me.


Olga Kamensky
May 4 at 1:40am

Hi guys!

I'll be in New York starting in early July, working as a paralegal in a firm near the South Street Seaport, doing other things of varying legality, and trying to decide what to do next. I guess law school is the default option that I'm hoping to get excited about, and then there are some less realistic but potentially cooler ones like becoming a psychotherapist (which nothing in my undergraduate education has prepared me for) or opening a ridiculously trendy mochi cafe somewhere downtown. I'm really looking forward to taking a break from school and proving to myself that I can survive, relatively independently, in the real world. In keeping with those aspirations at independence (but independently motivated), I'm no longer engaged. Aside from the paralegal stuff I also hope to keep writing and translating, which I've gotten more into in the course of the past year.

Aimee, what part of Brooklyn are you thinking of?


Adrian LeCesne
May 4 at 9:43am

I am going to Cambodia to become a monk in the Xia Loi Pagota.



alright. That's not true. I have another glorious semester here because for whatever reason I thought it would be a good time to take fall of 2006 off and study abroad. Next fall I'll still be in New Haven working at the Anthropology Department (the official name of my position is Running Dog Lackey for Yale Anthro Professors) and will be Tutoring over Skype in the evenings. Grad school seems like a good idea at some point because I take to responsibility like a parrot to gravy... I'll let you work that one out. I'm thinking, at some point down the road UNESCO would be sweet, but I'd like to try making Science and Anthropological Documentaries for a few years just to make sure I'm good an poor before I look for a real job. The summer after next I am working an archaeological dig in Mongolia if I can line up a job in China to fund the airfare and such.
If any of you are abroad this summer, email me. The Whiffs will be blowing through a dozen countries like a drunken mildly homo-erotic storm, and I'd love to catch up with you folks. In the week after commencement we even hit up California, so yeah...



Aimee Clark
May 10 at 2:47pm

Olga,

It seems that I might spend the summer in the East Village. I'm planning on finding a place for longer term when I'm there. Then, ideally somewhere near park slope! Where are you thinking of living?


Tae-Yeoun Keum
May 15 at 12:13am

oh god, this is so late.

i'll be graduating in about a week and the prospect of leaving the college bubble absolutely terrifies me, though all i see in my immediate future are similar bubbles.

i finished my senior essay almost exactly a month ago, and have been doing absolutely nothing since. this pattern of [intense academic experience concentrated into very little time] + [doing nothing] pretty much defines my summer:

as soon as i get my diploma, i will fly out to be at another educational institution, where i will participate in a very short writing program. afterwards, i will do nothing for a few weeks, before i go to yet another educational institution to be a teaching fellow. when that's done, i'll finally get to leave the u.s., so i can go home and do nothing for many, many weeks. in october, i will begin a one-year master's program.

school and nothing and school and nothing and more school for me.

Tae-Yeoun Keum
May 15 at 12:19am

ps: i don't know any of my mailing addresses and i'm not even sure about my email (what to do when my school email expires? apparently gmail is so in right now but i can't get used to it) - but i'd love to have everyone else's! i will send postcards!

until august, my phone number is 203.606.6685.


John Owens-Ream
June 11 at 11:42am

I never check facebook, as this late late message attests:

After spending the last several years working full time on political campaigns across the midwest, and going to school when I had time, I am pretty much no more certain of my future than most of ya'll sound like you are.

I have somewhere between 2 and a gadjillion semesters left depending on when I decide to finish up the degree (Women's Studies / Religious Studies / Political science trip. major) and how many of my majors / minors I'm willing to drop just to get it over with.

I'm temporarily in Omaha but will be moving either back to Chicago or to North Carolina pretty soon, I'll let you know when and which.

For the time being I"m best reached at
402-880-6718
johnowensream [at] gmail [dot] com

If anyone is in the midwest (MATT?) give me a shout and we'll get together. There's actually lots of great places to eat and get coffee in O-town.

Also, I'll be in Austin the 16th-20th of of July!


Eunice Yang
June 11 at 3:36pm

Dear all,

I recently received a degree in biochemical sciences and psychology, and have decided to pursue a combination of both (for better or worse) in neurological medicine. I'll be attending medical school this coming fall at Washington University in St. Louis. Until then, I plan to vegetate at home, help my piano professor with last minute legwork for this piano competition (see http://www.piano-e-competition.com/), and plan exotic vacations that I cannot afford. More realistically speaking, I will be strongly considering any invitations to visit anyone at any place, should they come my way. I will also be working on my subtlety.

My contact information hasn't changed, but I'll let you guys know if it does:
(651) 983-3379
euniceyang84 [at] gmail [dot] com


Tae-Yeoun Keum
June 11 at 6:09pm

oh my goodness, i read my message to all of you and realized that, for all its length, it did not say anything useful. here is all the information new need:

now - end of June = New Haven, CT
end of June - beginning of August = Exeter, NH
beginning of August - end of September = Manila, Philippines (probably but not necessarily the whole two months)

end of September onwards for another school year = Cambridge, UK


Eunice Yang
June 11 at 9:51pm

Tae-Yeoun, is this a subtle invitation?

just kidding, sort of.


Eunice Yang
June 26 at 12:50am

Revision: I'm going to be in Baltimore for the next four to five years. Please let me know if any of you are going to be in town!

Eunice

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [7:44 PM]

Bryan! Get on facebook!
That goes for Brian, too.

Or at least give me your number so I can say goodbye before I get deported.

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [7:37 PM]

so what is this...

who shall stumble across this in some unknown time and find it at least somewhat amusing?

congrats to all you who have graduated and hang in there to those who have yet to graduate.

i'll be in ny next year so let me know if you'll be in that same ridiculously large dump of a city on an island.

oh, and god bless to you all.

posted by Bryan Lee   [5:59 PM]

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