Joe is my dad's boss who graciously finagled a job opening for me last summer so I could get in on the action happening at Avionics Instruments in Avenel, NJ. Besides letting me come in after cross country practice and laughing when I fell alseep at the keyboard, Joe always personally delivered my paychecks to me.
"Dr. Lu! Here you go."
So for the first time in my life, I filed for my federal income tax return. Here's an idea. Instead of paying the money to my account, Timothy Geithner, you can just send me a pair of Men's Nike Air Max 90 in Obsidian/White (size 10.5):
I figure it'd be easier to count one pair of shoes than to calculate my total return.
One last thing:
I hate to beat a dead horse, but just one more word on the college snafu. I'm hella grateful for where I'm going next year. It doesn't matter that I was worse than Shaquille O'Neal on the foul line with my college decisions because I'm just happy I have somewhere to go. I don't even know the person who wrote that post on March 27th. I'm just keeping it up because I love Pinky and the Brain. But there ain't no silver lining to this, because this is the dream, baby.
I guess I owe my older brother for putting things into perspective for me. I think the last three sentences of this are really important for anyone to realize so just thought I'd share this with you all:
hey john,
i heard about duke, and i'm really sorry that it didn't work out for early. but i also got deferred from stanford and i took the wrong approach: by not caring. on the positive side, congratulations on UIUC! (illinois urbana champaign) that's one of the country's top engineering schools. (see for specialties: http://polycentric.csupomo
i wish i went to engineering school, because it really allows you to do anything after graduation. urbana champaign is tied with CalTech (almost impossible to get into) and tops in environmental engineering, which is seriously the new wave. i'm in business school, and everything is "going green" especially with people realizing that we need to get off of oil dependence. let me know what you're thinking since i went through the process myself, and looking back, it is really an important decision to make. its really important to be excited and motivated for college, since working hard in college is important. i lost sight of this, and i didn't do as well in college as i could have.
your bro,
Kevin
Made me feel a whole lot better about where I'm going. I love my brother...and that's the first time I've ever said that out loud.
