by Brian Crawford | Oct 30, 2004 | school
went to a law/business/medical school Halloween party at the Armory last night – it was pretty fun. See if you can find me in this picture: on another note, I had another MRI this morning. Once again they rolled my body into a big metal cylinder and subjected me...
by Brian Crawford | Sep 16, 2004 | food, school
since returning to school I’ve been pretty low on cash. How low? well – the other day I didn’t have any money for lunch – but there was some free food left out on a table in the IMBA office area from a career information session that took place...
by Brian Crawford | Jun 10, 2004 | school
well our first Chinese class is completed – though it has only been a month, 7 hours of Chinese a day means that we wrote our midterm approximately 15 days ago and our final yesterday. It is pretty amazing how quickly the time has flown by. Already we know how...
by Brian Crawford | May 15, 2004 | school, travel
my first week of Chinese language lessons is over – and it is amazing how much we have learned after only 5 days of classes. Mind you, these were 5 full days of intense Chinese lessons starting at 9:00 AM and ending at 4:30 PM or so each day (and this does not...
by Brian Crawford | Feb 6, 2004 | school
it is interesting to see Chinese characters now that I have been studying them for a while. A lot of Chinese art has characters painted upon it – to actually know what something means when I see it is a lot of fun. for example, today Yvonne found a small candle...
by Brian Crawford | Jan 2, 2004 | school
I always thought that writing Chinese characters was going to be the part about Chinese that I disliked. There are tons of different characters and none of them seem to make any sense at first blush! But after practicing them for a little while, I find that I really...
