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Weekly Wrap-up #11 (powered by foursquare, long days, and wanderlust)

I recently decided to hop on the Foursquare bandwagon and start using the application. I still don’t fully “get” it but I think I’m getting the hang of using it. As far as I can tell, you “check in” to places on the application (so, you need a GPS-enabled (smart?)phone) to gain points. If you’ve checked into one place the most out of anyone on Foursquare, you become the mayor. And… well, that’s pretty much the extent of my understanding about Foursquare. I’ll see if my knowledge of all Foursquare has to offer increases the more I use it.

It’s been a pretty long week. I would add the adjective “stressful” in that sentence but I’ve pretty much established that stressed is my perpetual state of being. That and the fact that I’m sure in comparison to weeks coming up in the semester, it wasn’t really all that stressful. Long it was, though; I’ve been spending nearly the entirety of my days either in class, at work, or at my internship. There’s definitely the need to finesse my time management skills this semester what with everything I have going on. Luckily, it’s the weekend now, so I have some time to kick back, relax, and prepare for the upcoming week.

I’ve also got the itch to travel again. I was looking up cheap flights over winter break to cities such as Istanbul, Athens, and Peru. I’m not sure if there’s even a realistic chance of me going anywhere over winter break, but… I miss traveling. Travel bug, I has it.

HerCampus AU

Just a short but sweet entry to promote HerCampusAU, the American University branch of the online magazine HerCampus. The magazine launched today, and I must say the site is looking awesome! (If you go check out the site, you can also check out the article I wrote where I interviewed one of my favorite professors. Since I’m part of the HerCampusAU team, there’ll be more articles to come!)

To keep up with all HerCampusAU news, follow the Twitter account or like the Facebook page.

中秋节快乐!

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone! Enjoy a moon cake and light a lantern to celebrate this wonderful day :D

This is one of my favorite Chinese holidays because I have some fantastic childhood memories associated with this festival. I remember standing on the back porch (back when my family lived in Delaware) and my mom would light candle-lit lanterns. My brother and I got to snap brand-new glow sticks and wave them around in the air as we ran around the porch. Then, once we were exhausted from running around waving our lit glow sticks, we would go inside the house and eat moon cakes. My mom and brother would eat normal moon cakes, but my mom would always get me the kind without egg yolk because I dislike plain egg yolks. Those were happy, happy days. :)