And here’s why:

Graduation Photo Album

I can’t wait until May when I get to do it again!

About a week ago I really needed to get out of the apartment and experience a bit of culture. Don’t get me wrong, the student life and the area around USC is great and all ahem ahem but sometimes I just need to switch gears and refresh my mind.

I have been wanting to go to a Japanese of Chinese garden in LA for a while, but it seems that everytime I think about it it’s the wrong season or too late in the day, so I looked up the culture section of the LA Times online and took a quick look at the “cultural” reviews they had up. The result was actually a suprisingly satisfying road trip down the annals of Los Angeles automotive history at the Peterson Automotive Museum.

Click on the picture below to go to the photo album.

Me and the Car of the Year 2005, 2006 and 2007. It has no steering wheel or pedals, yet can still be driven - yes sir, I think I’ll take the James Bond meets Crenshaw Blvd edition.

I have to post this picture here because this car is just so stylish. If I could have my pick, I might pick this one.

The way the museum details the interesting rise of the car culture in Los Angeles combined with the wide assortment of beautiful and strange cars makes this museum a must see for me and anyone I’m showing around Los Angeles. Try to catch it while they still have the lowrider exhibition up!

This year marks my last semester at the University of Southern California. I did four years of undergrad here in Computer Science and I’m about to wrap up a MS in CS in May. I could say a lot about these 5 years, but right now I just want to revel in the fact after 4 years of football championship games, I finally got to go to one!

It’s been bittersweet more than a few times. The Rosebowl is played in Pasadena which is less than a 30 minute drive from me, but the ticket prices usually put it out of my range - especially since I never won the student ticket lottery. And then there was the one year I was in Beijing and I had to watch it super time delayed at a random bar.

This year however, my girlfriend’s friend’s friend worked for the Rosebowl and had two extra tickets to give away… to US! It was awesome to finally get to see our championship game in person and even better that we stomped Illinois into the ground (I’m from Indiana originally).

The only part I felt bad about was the lonely, older Illini couple sitting directly behind us in a sea of red in the USC student section… see if you can spot them in the album by clicking through the picture below.

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