June and July 2009, part 1

Ok, we've got some catching up to do. = )
In a sentence, the last couple months have been life changing and bittersweet.
We've been dealing with with tragic loss of three separate students at Caltech who committed suicide over the last couple months, one of whom was a resident in the dorm for which we are the resident associates. It say it has been hard on us and for the campus in general would be an understatement. That said, there is a ton of support being offered for us and rest of the Caltech community right now and that has been very helpful- just this afternoon we were talking Maxwell for a walk on campus and we noticed that they were having drop in conseling at the campus coffee shop. I feel like, for the most part people are communicating particularily well right now, taking time to discuss these events / work through them, and that is great. For Drew and I personally these events have really pushed us to reexamine our priorities and remember whats really important in life. I'm not exactly sure what the end result of this will all be, but as we process are a realizing that the little things that used to matter so much to us, and stress us out, just don't seem as important anymore. Having a clean house, being a couple minutes late, being "right", and having the approval of others just doesn't matter. Simply put- People matter. More on that latter.