This is a really, really strange Friday night..ah! I've been out every single weekend night since school started (I mean, there have only been 4, haha) but tonight I'm just feeling tired since I've been sick on and off for the past 2 weeks. eh..I've just been fighting to stay awake this whole day and sitting here in my room is just so comforting. I do know that a lot of people are out in Philly at First Fridays where all the art galleries are free but really sitting is great. mmhm.

I really wished that I had taken pictures of this last week. We got a huge snow shower Tuesday night which led to my first real snowball/snow fight of my life (i.e. my friends climbed on me and shoved me into the snow) and first real making of snow angels! The campus was covered in inches of snow and it was beautiful. I don't know how many of you have visited Swat but the Science Center has amazing windows from floor to ceiling, and sitting in there watching the snow shower made it all that much more beautiful. :)

I've been spending so much time in the Science Center this semester because I have three classes there, and I'm just generally a big fan of large spaces and natural light. I find it to be the perfect place to study..it's pretty funny how everyone has their own little study niches. McCabe was the big thing last year and apparently my whole clan has migrated to Cornell (the Sci Library) this semester. (Apparently the carpet is more comfortable in Cornell than in McCabe...who knew?) I guess you'll just have to come to Swat and try for yourself...

Anyway, one more quick thing. My classes have been amazing this semester...every single one of them. In one of my classes (Practical Wisdom), I've been getting to know Aristotle very very well. I can't say that I really understand him because reading Aristotle is almost like reading something in another language. I know that it will probably have more meaning for me later but for now they're just words that I’m trying really hard to understand. Although there was one passage that asked what the proper function of man is, and that really resonated with me for some reason. I started wondering about what the proper function of other things are, what  our function is...since so many people in the world always try to figure out the "meaning" of life, i.e. the purpose of their lives. I guess one more really cool thing about this class is that it goes on late into the night, as late as 1 am. I've always dreamt about coming to Swarthmore and having discussions about life, philosophy, etc until the wee hours of the morning and I guess this is hardcore hours of discussions once a week. It's twice the amount of time of a regular class and I'm usually fighting to stay awake but it is so rewarding and I can't go to sleep afterwards because I'm thinking about things that we talked about earlier in class. Last thing, if you try to ask me what exactly practical wisdom is, I can't really tell you. haha...that sounds strange but my professor has never been able to give us an exact definition either so ...if I figure out exactly what it is, I'll tell you. but chances are, I won't.

I'm now going to jazz it up in my room with some reading and a friend..until next time :)