Do you guys know the Piano Guys? Their music is so breathtakingly beautiful. I'm currently listening to their cello cover of One Republic's "Secrets". I wish I can play the cello too, or any kind of instrument as artful as they can. And listening to "Secrets" again, I just now realize what a moving song it is. Goodness I don't even have the words to articulate the emotions.



But do take a listen for yourself!! Check out the Piano Guys and Alex Boye's rendition of Coldplay's "Paradise":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?src_vid=CxRMFwPpkBE&annotation_id=annotation_228366&feature=iv&v=Cgovv8jWETM

So I'm currently studying for Friday's chemistry midterm, and I came across a section in the text that totally blew my mind... the selective precipitation of ions in its real world applications? GOOOODNESSSSSS CHEMISTRY IS SO BEAUTIFUL. And after reading that, I went onto the next section... and it was just as mind blowing as was the previous section. It was an optional reading, but I could not help myself.

In biology, I learned that the human genome only incorporated about 2% of our DNA. AND THAT ABOUT 80% OF OUR CELLS ARE PROKARYOTIC.
CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?

The feeling of excitation by knowledge is the best feeling ever....

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To the blog and to school.

I hope everyone's 2012 so far has been wonderful. I usually do new year's resolutions, but I feel differently about them this year because I think that if I truly want to self-improve, I can do it on any day.

Today was day one of the winter quarter. I was assigned homework on the last day of break, and I got even more homework today. It took me from 3-9PM to finish these "light" assignments. The Mansueto... ugh... welcome back to UChicago, I suppose? I don't think I am use to the work yet. The stress and the work seems unfamiliar to me, but maybe that is because I feel reluctant to re-familiarize with it.

But that's enough about that. I've been feeling pretty artsy recently--thinking and thinking up ideas for future pieces. It makes me really happy when I see the images in my head, and it makes me really want to put them on canvas, on paper right there and then. But I don't really have the medium and extra hours to do that. My residence hall is holding a residence-hall-wide arts event in February, and the hosts are asking for art submissions. I plan to submit something big, so hopefully that will go through.

I was talking to a friend the other day, and I was really excited about an idea I proposed: Someday, I would make 3D art comprised of many pieces that can be taken away by the audience. At the withdrawal of every piece, the artwork would be photographed--and its new structures would be new art in themselves. Isn't that cool? Because after all, doesn't everyone just want to feel like a part of something? So you can technically walk into a museum, and become the artist of the artwork just by taking away a piece, and then also essentially be the co-creator of the next structure.

Then he told me that they already had something like that at the Art Institute--a candy exhibit I believe?

Boo.

It has been a year since I last posted... how eye-opening it is to see how I've matured.

I was going to delete every single post on this blog, being unable to care less about what happened before. But I stopped in the middle of my deleting because those moments nonetheless shaped me. As I revisited my older posts, I saw the naivete which I then thought I no longer possessed. But there it was, in every post, full of it. Consider it a lesson learn, maybe, but those moments did not break me -- they made me.

I was so sad, so hopeless. I see now, and I wish I could have seen before, that things could have been much worst.