7 down, 3 to go

Today marks the end of the seventh week of school!
This morning, I decided to go for a run around The Dish. The Dish is a big biological preserve owned by Stanford. It also overlooks the whole campus, which makes it a really pretty place to run. I found it a few weeks ago, but I'd already been running for a long time so I didn't want to run anymore at that point. But today I went out with the express purpose of running around The Dish.

Ughhhh.

So I got to the preserve and decided to go right because left looked like it had a really big hill. Omg. Huge mistake. I realize that I said this place overlooks the whole campus, indicating that there is some increase in elevation. But the path I chose basically went up for 3 winding, long, gradual, never-ending miles, and REALLY FAST DOWNHILL for like, half a mile. Needless to say, I was doing that thing where I was running so slow I was basically walking, and so I walked/ran most of the uphill. There was this guy in a purple shirt in front of me and I tried to run when he ran and walk when he walked. The downhill was awesome because I ran really fast and the momentum carried me all the way home, basically. But it was almost an hour of running/walking and I started getting REALLY bored and frustrated that I couldn't run the whole way.

Also, I am totally maxed out on my current running playlist. I need new music. Anna suggests listening to Radiolab. I am willing to give this a try.

In class today, we were supposed to bring in transcripts of interviews that we conducted for our final project, along with rubrics for grading these assignments. I have never made a rubric before and had no idea what I was doing with this one. I was pretty sure it was a total wash. But my TA put it up for workshopping and the professor really liked it. It's nice to know that maybe I'm not doing as terribly as I think I'm doing.

WAIT. Also also, yesterday I went to the open house at the design school. It was AMAZING. I was totally blown away by the creativity and excitement and innovation going on there. I'm definitely taking a class there in the spring, and I'm going to try really hard to take one this winter. Right now I'm working with five different schedules that involve some combination of education, environment, business, and design school classes. I am optimistic that these classes will be much better than the ones I'm taking now. Expect more entries about this when I need help deciding what to take...