Without a doubt, the past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind experience. There is no real way to summarize the experience (thank you Methods I course). Everyone and thing are so different.
I think that New York is proving one time-old college axiom very true. Here, you can have only 2 out of the following 3 things successfully: sleep, a social life, good grades/research. With late night craziness/fun starting at midnight, I find myself stretching the work hard, play hard mentality to the maximum.
I used to be a pretty calm and withdrawn person, and I'd say that relative to my friends, I'm probably still that way. I am mostly definitely getting a huge thrill out of pushing myself past my normal comfort zone though. Whether it's pushing myself to cram weeks of undergraduate programming classes into my head in a matter of hours or rushing to the Meat Packing district to join my friends for a late night drink, I can say that New York has pushed me to recognize my former limits and accelerate past them. I can only hope that I hang on as long as possible.
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