I want to apologize for not updating the entire summer. There are no excuses for my laziness however there is much to tell about my future endeavors. With the economy as it is today, it is difficult to find jobs. As the saying goes, "Those who are beggars cannot be choosers," I myself am trying to apply for jobs that I've never dreamed of doing. (Just kidding, I'm still as picky as ever ^0^) I managed to find 2 job openings on my school campus: Administrative Assistant and a Guinea Pig at one of the research labs which I applied for respectively. Now you guys are probably wondering what does an assistant have to do with my major or A GUINEA PIG!?!?! ARE YOU CRAZY?

1. I'll be serving as an assistant to the OIT (Organization of Information & Technology) which consists of NACS (The computer support team at UCI), EEE (The people in charge of the program and site that maintains all the scheduling) and errr...yeah o___o more people. The requirements for the job were simple. All I had to know were word, excel and PowerPoint. A few extras they would ave love for me to have were HTML, some PHP, CSS, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator..and others which I have little experience in. Still, I have an advantage. There is only one opening for this job and they emailed me yesterday to complete a survey so they would have an idea of my personality. All and all, PLEASE LET ME GET THIS JOB!!!!

2. The pay is $200 after 6 weeks. Which makes it to 33 dollars a week. This doesn't seem much, but any extra cash is welcome! I need to buy clothes T.T Also the study is to find how different simulators to the brain affects right arm movement. The goal of this study is to find an aid to stroke patients who have lost mobility in their arms. I don't mind taking pills that stimulates my brain. Who knows, maybe it'll help me do better in school yeah!?!?!?!

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So my friend Jessica and I have been working on art projects together since we first met in Valdez in the summer before freshman year in high school began. We started off small with a 3D model of a plant cell and coloring the diagrams in a poster in 9th grade bio and moved on to a full on operating website for our school based company. My favorite project was when we made props for a class play in English. The balcony with the green vines was so realistic, as was the fireplace and piano =D

If it's one thing I learned with collaborating with so many people in college was that I worked with her the best. She understands design much better than i do (there are times when I make fun of her website layouts. A banner, Links of the left side, and iframe on the right and a bottom ^0^) However they turned out very well in the end.

Being in two different schools on the opposite ends of California, it's unfortunate that there will be no more class projects for us to work on...or is there?

While I was doing some research for internship opportunities at large companies, I stumbled upon a few competitions, two of which stood out to me. The first which I'm most excited about is the Disney Imagination competition. The premise of this contest is storyline. Every attraction, restaurant, theme park revolves around a story and the contestants are given an opportunity to create a story of their own that will attract Disney guests. Too bad I ave to wait until I'm a junior. Another competition is the Adobe Design contest. Contrary to its name, the contest isn't purely artistic. There are also categories for those people who made web applications for the sole purpose of furthering artistic advancements. One guy made an app that compared two books in chronological time. what happens in one book at 12:00pm will be compared to another book at the same of different time. Note that the books to be compared should be like that of William Shakespeare's sonnet 18 and 130. The interface is beautiful.

I am not at liberty to speak any plans for any of these projects. best to just keep them secret until entry day ^^

Honestly, this has been my favorite summer of all. I got to do so many things that I wasn't able to do summers before this. I don't think I'll go back to school with any regrets, except maybe I should have been practicing programming more -___________-

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