I am sitting on the floor on a zebra striped pillow typing on my laptop that is on top of an empty Sony VAIO box from my sister's laptop. My old graphing calculator is resting on my right on a white box, and it makes me think of high school.

My sophomore year of high school I did not have a proper calculator. I used a tiny (handsized) pink calculator that had come with some bubble gum I got while Trick or Treating some years back. How ridiculous to reach Geometry and not have a good calculator, and I was teased by my teacher but it was a class of two, so it didn't matter much. The other boy in my class often showed up to school in a Spanish wrestling mask, so I really didn't have anything on him.

I upgraded to a bit more stylish gray calculator that had more functions, but I eventually got my TI-85 over the Christmas break of my Junior year while I was in Algebra II. I really did put it down to the last minute. I barely knew what I was doing.

Since I got a 500+ on my SAT & I took four years of math in high school, I got to avoid math in college. Almost every single Emerson College kid I know has avoided math -- way to go! So we end up stupid with no future of doing well on the GRE -- at least, I wouldn't have done well. Although, I just don't do well on tests.

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The one thing that I regret is not keeping up with Japanese while in college. I studied for four years and now five years have passed since I've studied it. I hear it everday (while I'm here in TX) between my grandmother and mom, but it's not the same as speaking it myself. It's true that I pick up words and I still remember how to write hiragana and can recognize most katakana and even a bit of kanji, but it's all fading and fast.

It's the one thing I didn't want to lose.