Senior year sucks because you are reminded regularly that everything around you is temporary. You find yourself in situations out of compulsion - like looking for jobs and doing grad school stuff. Because of the lack of stability it messes with some parts of regular life. It makes it harder for certain things.
But senior year doesn't suck. On the whole it's going great!

“If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where do you expect to find it?”
- Dogen

I'm a Martini (although I never really order or make Martini's). What's your alcoholic personality?

"The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of your present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as you try to grasp it. So why bother with attempting to establish the illusion of solid ground?"
--H.H. Dilgo

In the East a parent will punish a child by threatening to lock him/her out of the home (and thus out of the comfort of the inner circle of the family/group); whereas, in the West a parent will punish a child by threatening to lock him/her inside the home (and thus deprive them of their independence).
Interesting, eh?

"If you want to understand the truth in martial arts, to see any opponent clearly, you must throw away the notion of styles or schools, prejudices, likes and dislikes, and so forth. Then, your mind will cease all conflict and come to rest. In this silence, you will see totally and freshly."
-- Bruce Lee
By the way... this summer I learned that at university Bruce Lee studied philosophy and psychology.... isn't it a coincidence that those are my two majors?!?

"Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time."
--T.S. Elliot

"Every time you measure something you settle on a reduction."
- prof. Costanzo in class

Thought and excessive reflection are seductive because we do not implicate ourselves. We distance ourselves from an authentic and passionate existence. Thinking gets in the way of doing. We should make choices, take risks and accept the responsibility. It doesn't matter what we choose, as long as the choice is freely made and relflects our own passions.

though you hear the buzzing of the bee grow louder
be still.
do not fear a sting you have never felt,
you just might be a flower.

(I don't know who wrote this)

If you claim to know the cause of something, you should be able to reproduce it or prevent it. Try to think of examples for where this is false. Can you? For the sake of argument, planetary motion doesn't count (cuz we know how it works, but it's obvious we can't do much about it).

Why does it take me 5 hours to read 15 pages of philosophy? I'm exaggerating a bit, but the point is: what has happened to my concentration?!!

"Life is not what you deserve, it is what you negotiate." - some wise man

Everyone in my family and everyone belonging to my family's culture has had and still has arranged marriages (although things are starting to change). Therefore, unlike other people in the world, having "game" is not a trait that has been passed down from generation to generation in my culture. No one really practices their "game." Does that make sense? I seriously doubt that "game" is something that the individual develops entirely by him/herself... something completely free from the influence of family and culture/society.

A pretty interesting word association test.

not been a good past few days with the authorities...
went to Franklin St on Halloween as a Japanese swordsman, only to have my foam sword confiscated by the cops!
then last night I got written up at Maxwell for holding alcohol... that's so stupid, I'm 21...
where's the sense in all this?