Update

Sorry I haven't uploaded this blog for a while. To be honest, I've been so busy with school, I totally forgot about it. My roommate and I keep saying, "I knew grad school's going to be hard. But I didn't expect to be THIS hard!" It's not that materials are too difficult to understand (for now)because some of the stuff we're learning are review for me (thanks, UCSD). It's the workload that gets us (and will possibly kill us). We have total of 27 exams (lecture+lab) this quarter. I just finished the first one this morning... so 26 more to go! On top of that, there are homeworks, case studies/research and paper.

My typical day goes like this:
wake up ~9:30
email/fb/study/hw
lunch 1-2
class 2-6
dinner 6-7
study 7-10
workout 10-11
study 11-2
sleep ~2

On Wednesday, I have 4 hrs of lab in the morning (9-1pm)


(this is my schedule for September. Red is exam, black is HW/case study, and green is etc)

Because of my hectic schedule, I haven't really had much time to explore the city. However, my classmates and I always find ways to get away from the campus/dorm on weekends... (Seriously, I've never enjoyed weekends as much as I do here)


(ICOlympics. It's like one of the major events of the school. 1st, 2nd and 3rd years compete with each other in some legit and some stupid games. I participated in hoola hoop contest and lost... haha)


(Chinatown, which is one train stop away from ICO. Chicagoans call boba "tapioca freeze". It's kinda weird.)

I visited Onnuri Church last Sunday because they have a downtown chapter. However, the service was in Korean and everyone seemed to be international students. I'm good with Korean but I don't know many Korean "christian vocabs". I'm going back this weekend for 2nd service (which is at 5pm :( ) because the head pastor will speak. Plus, 2nd service has older crowd compared to 1st service (undergrad students). We'll see how it goes...