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Cassaka

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About Me

I'm your normal girl, just like everyone else. Or at least that is what I have always thought. But I'm realizing more and more that my self-perception of normality is a result of selection bias. I feel like I'm normal because I end up becoming friends with other eccentric people. I mean, you can't really be attempting a PhD and be a "normal" person. But I am becoming ok with that. It is ok that I get giddy over game theory. It is ok that I am excited about coming up with a cool research question. Heck, it's ok that I think research questions are cool! The only question is can I retain enough of the rest of me throughout this life changing, and people changing, experience that my person is still able to relate to, empathize with, and be a part of the world, instead of simply observing and analyzing it. I suppose we shall see ...
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I'd like to meet:

Cool people. I can deal with not so cool people too I guess. Just don't be overly annoying if you're not cool. I suppose if you are cool, you will inherently NOT be annoying by definition. So there we are then.

My Blog

Seriously???

Ok, just need to vent. My mom called and completely ruined my day. How can someone I love so much just completely destroy a perfectly fine day? Moreover, how do I make it so that she doesn't have that...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:40:00 GMT

Seriously???

Ok, just need to vent. My mom called and completely ruined my day. How can someone I love so much just completely destroy a perfectly fine day? Moreover, how do I make it so that she doesn't have that...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:38:00 GMT

Oh gosh!

Ok, just need to vent. My mom called and completely ruined my day. How can someone I love so much just completely destroy a perfectly fine day? Moreover, how do I make it so that she doesn't have t...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:31:00 GMT

Oh gosh!

Ok, just need to vent. My mom called and completely ruined my day. How can someone I love so much just completely destroy a perfectly fine day? Moreover, how do I make it so that she doesn't have t...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:31:00 GMT

Sometimes you get what you need

I find it amazing how sometimes, when you a bit down, or scared, or lonely, or just generally in bad way you start thinking about people in your life that you need right then.  Suddenly, voila!&n...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:09:00 GMT

Texas v. Michigan

So I just got to Michigan from Texas.  I really liked UT and could totally see myself both in the city of Austin and as a part of that department.  But I'm somewhat concerned because one of ...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 08:20:00 GMT

Going bananas

Yeah, so I am completely losing it. I have been out of my room 6 times in the last 4 days: took/picked up Dave to/from the airport, took Andrew to get his car, went to church, went to classes yesterd...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:15:00 GMT

Making up for lost time

Ok, so yesterday at meeting, my lil, the girl who introduced me to MySpace, the girl who is a MySpace fanatic, tells me that she deleted her MySpace account! I don't know what to do. I'm awash in a ...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:51:00 GMT

The future is upon us ...

Well, seeing as today was the beginning of the winter of my discontent I thought I ought to share a few of the thoughts running around my skull. Today President Bush was sworn into a second term of...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:39:00 GMT

Cassie's gonna be employed!

Yeah, so again with the über-stokedness. I was offered a job for after I graduate that's mine if I want it to be a finance intern with Pulte Homes! Yay! I won't have to default on my school loans f...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Jan 2005 22:30:00 GMT