| My last day of freedom |
[Sep. 1st, 2008|08:14 pm] |
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Tomorrow starts my first day as a Doctoral student, and even though I'm excited about it, I'm also nervous (I really want to do well...and there is so much that I have to do). I'll no longer just be a student, I'm also teaching (so crazy). And after my classes end, that's when the real work begins and I start working on a 4-5 year long thesis project.
It's strange to think that grad school will last so long, most people in Bio at NYU finish in 6 years. 6 years!! Omg, Justin and I may have a kid in that time (of course near the end of that time).
I wish I wasn't so nervous about starting. I'm one of the few new students without a masters, so I worry about how I'll stack up with them. I'm going to be a TA for two lab sections of Intro Bio for majors and I don't want to look like an idiot. I'm nervous about starting lab rotations because I didn't work at all this summer in a lab, so I'm kinda rusty. Also, it just takes me a while to feel comfortable in any sort of job setting, and in the amount of time our rotations are for by the time I feel competent I'll be done in that lab.
I hope I feel more comfortable after I see how things actually work.
I miss Michigan. My family just got a kitty. I already missed my family enough, but now I want to visit even more; I LOVE kitties! When I was little all I wanted was a cat, and I asked my parents for one for every birthday and Christmas, I can't believe there is actually a cat living in that house (my mom use to say they're just big rodents). I'm looking forward to Christmas...I can't wait to see my family and eat good food. I have a running list of all the stuff I want to eat over Christmas Break.
Justin and I went to the Met to see this special exhibit about Superheroes and how they’ve influenced fashion. It was really cool; they had many movie costumes including: Batman costume from Dark Knight, both Spiderman costumes from Spiderman 3, the Iron Man costume (that was really sweet), Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman costume, and others. And then there were a bunch of high-fashion runway clothes. Now most people when they visit NYC and go to the Met, spend the entire day there…but a cool thing about living in NYC is that we can just go to this world-class museum and just see the one small area that we want to because we can always come back. An unfortunate thing about living in NYC is actually living in the city. There is construction going on right around the block so I’m woken up early every morning by that. I was walking with Justin to the subway one day and there was a rat right in front of us on the sidewalk, I squealed. There is this awful pothole in right in front of our apartment (worse than any I’ve ever seen in MI) and when cars hit it, it usually makes a loud noise that sets off nearby car alarms. There is no front yard to act as a buffer between our room and the street and before now I never realized how loud garbage trucks are. And then there are the crazies. I’ve already written about the dude pounding on our window (he’s still the worst) but after that we’ve had so dude peering in our window, a schizophrenic woman being choked by an invisible person in front of our apartment, and some drunk guy singing loudly at 4 am and peeing on the tree just outside our window.
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| Changed my name back |
[Jul. 11th, 2008|05:00 pm] |
Just letting everyone know that I changed my name from Bate-Mahalak back to Bate.
Bate-Mahalak just simply didn't feel like my name. Everything from signing it, introductions, and receiving mail with the new name felt off, felt wrong. It ended up making me unhappy.
In addition, because my name included Mahalak people would just lump me up as Mrs. Mahalak or Mrs. Justin Mahalak which made me feel like I was unimportant and defined by him. You may think that's just ridiculous stuff that feminists say, but it's truly how I felt.
Once Justin and I talked about it and decided that the best thing to do would be to go back to being just Ashley Bate, I felt so much better. Even though I was still Bate-Mahalak on paper, because I no longer had to try and think of myself by that name I felt such relief.
So yesterday I changed my name back with Social Security and today I changed it back with Chase. The only thing that's kinda a problem is my Michigan Driver's License, which I won't be able to change until Christmas time. But I think maybe I'll get a New York ID card that way I have a form picture ID with the correct name (that's not my student ID) other than my passport. |
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| Books! |
[Jul. 11th, 2008|10:48 am] |
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So not much has been going on while living here in NYC. Justin and I don't have much money, so we've mostly been hanging around the apartment and reading.
So far I've read Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Dracula by Bram Stoker, and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
I absolutely loved Invisible Man. I, in general, am a huge fan of African-American Literature. I loved the course I took in African-American Lit at EMU and a proved to be a great thing to have taken for reading this book. It's so cool to read a passage and be able to relate that to a significant figure or other piece of literature. I love that I got very into the book emotionally, for example the section on the Battle Royal got me so angry.
Dracula was pretty good. It was really just a story and I didn't find much to think about with it (except for a some of the the thinking about women in the book), it was just pleasant reading.
Now I don't have the same feeling most people do about Slaughterhouse-Five. Justin had me read it because he loved it. For the most part I felt like I was missing some sort of information that would make the book all come together. There were a few things I liked about it; for example, the idea of the Children's Crusade. Justin says he liked the general feeling he had while reading the book, but for the most part, I just felt like i was missing something and couldn't make connections (and I don't know if they're even there to make, I think that might be part of it).
My friend Court who worked in Dr. Winning's lab with me got me a gift card to Barnes and Noble as a wedding present. I was so fortunate the day I went to Barnes and Noble. I really only buy the classics, and they were having a buy 2 get 1 free sale. I was able to purchase Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo with money to spare; so I also threw in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I love buying books.
I decided to start with Anna Karenina and I'm still working my way through John Milton's Paradise Lost.
I've also been reviewing biology and biochemistry. I'm trying to refresh on this stuff so I don't have to relearn it while I'm also expected to teach it. |
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| Update |
[Jun. 19th, 2008|09:20 pm] |
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So Justin and I have been married for almost two weeks now (it'll be two weeks tomorrow). The wedding was great, we had so much fun. My calves actually hurt for two or three days after the wedding from so much dancing.
We've been living in Manhattan for not quite a week and a half. Our second day there we actually ran into Ashleigh Shultz on the street, one of the largest cities in the world, who would have thought!
Our second night here we had a homeless man knocking on our window at 4 a.m. making zombie noises that were every now and then going out in the street yelling "Mother Fucker" and "Whoo Hoo!". We had to call the NYPD, fortunately, they arrived promptly.
Our apartment isn't finished being put together yet, but soon, I'll post pictures after it's complete.
I also cut off most of my hair a couple days after the wedding and donated it to Locks of Love. Gotta say, short hair is the way to go, I love it.
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| Apartment |
[May. 20th, 2008|10:21 pm] |
Justin and I found and signed a lease on an apartment in NYC. We looked at a number of places and feel like we got a really good deal. It's a studio with a sleep loft, nice hardwood floors, and an exposed brick wall. However, the best part about it is the location. We're in the East Village on E 5th and 2nd which is just off St. Mark's Place and no more than a 10 min walk to NYU.
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Justin and his dad are driving out to NY tomorrow to move most of our stuff before Justin had to pay another months worth of rent on the place he has been staying at this year.
We like the place. It's a studio and kinda small, but we've seen smaller and shittier places for near the same amount of money. Oh New York City, you're so freaking expensive. |
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| Graduation |
[May. 3rd, 2008|10:42 am] |
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So I'm done at EMU.
I finished off my last semester with a 4.0 which is cool. I expected it to be that way because I was mostly taking gen eds like speech and computers. I also wrote my thesis this semester, a time consuming process, but not as difficult as I had expected. I'm proud of it, and my faculty adviser seems proud of it too, and he feels like the project is too far from publication, so hopefully in the next year or two I'll be co-author of the paper.
The graduation ceremony was better than I expected. It was a bit too early though, and I almost fell asleep during the speaker. My parents, who expressed little interest in seeing me walk, ended up being very happy that I did; probably because they saw me in my decorated gown and my face was on the big screen for quite awhile.
I haven't felt like I'm finished with this place, the concept of being done here hadn't set in until yesterday. I was at The Corner Brewery with most of the biology faculty for a farewell party. At the end of the time there I was talking with the biology honors adviser. I've known him since my freshman year, he suggested me to Dr. Winning for research, I took his very difficult Microbiology class, and he wrote me letters of recommendation for graduate schools. It wasn't until we had to leave that he gave me a hug and told me that he's proud of me and I'll do great at NYU and I better keep in contact that I realized I won't be seeing him again for quite some time. I've seen him and my two faculty sponsors year round since my freshman year, and I won't see them, it made me quite sad. Fortunately, Dr. Winning wants to do another get together, a smaller scale with our close-knit gang as opposed to this department wide thing, so that's nice.
In other news...
Justin and I had our wedding shower, it was very nice. We have all our people hired for the wedding and now it's mostly just details that we need to take care of like picking the menu, picking songs for the DJ to play, and purchasing a cake topper.
Our invitations are printed up and will be sent out very shortly!
I'm also flying out to New York on Friday to go apartment hunting with Justin, so we'll know where be living shortly (we're hoping to live in Greenwich Village because it's the coolest area of NY and within walking distance of NYU).
Also, I'm thinking of cutting off all may hair after the wedding. Something like this:
What do you think? |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 10th, 2008|08:49 pm] |
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I graduate at the end of the month, something like 16 days left. It's insane to think I'm leaving, I feel like I've been here forever, but I'm ready to move on. Really the same sort of feeling as leaving high school, except strangely I'm not as nervous. I feel like I should be more nervous because I'll be leaving the state and going to a completely different environment (my grad school decision has been made, it's NYU!).
I get married in less than 2 months...I wish it was less. I hate this whole long distance thing.
I need to finish my thesis and I have a lit project/presentation I need to do on Monday
Blah, I'm ready to just be done. |
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| sorry I've neglected you livejournal |
[Feb. 19th, 2008|07:32 pm] |
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So life has been pretty crazy lately. Every week I fly to NY on Thursday and then back to Michigan on Sun, this has been a continuous cycle. I'm flying out again on Thurs, but fortunately I'll be there for 10 days. I used to think it would be fun to have a job that required traveling a lot, not so much anymore, I'm not really a fan of the jet set life.
Well now you may be wondering: why have you been in NY so often Ashley? I have been interviewing at graduate schools.
I interviewed (and was accepted) at Albert Einstein College of Medicine part of Yeshiva University (it's a Jewish private school). However, this program is not ideal because it's in the Bronx and the degree is in biomedical sciences, and I'm more of a basic science person. Also, the faculty turn-over is high (like in most med programs) and I that's a bad thing because if the lab instructor moves I mostly likely would be unable to follow (and that could put a few extra years on my project).
Next was Columbia University. I was shocked that I actually got an interview. That school spent so much money on us that weekend in food and booze, it was crazy. I don't think I got in there, though. I haven't heard back from them, and although I can't be sure for at least a few more days, I think I would have heard by now.
Last weekend was NYU and CUNY
NYU was absolutely fabulous! I enjoyed all the people I interviewed with, and I apparently asked some pretty good questions that made me look good. It's so much easier to talk to people when you're truly interested in their work, it makes paying attention and asking questions a whole lot easier. NYU took us to dinner, and it was the first time I had raw sushi. I liked the tuna with cucumber and sauce one. It was very strange...the texture. I wish they would make the size smaller, I never put that much food in my mouth in the first place and then it's something new that I don't know if I'll like. I'll admit, I did have to discretely spit a few of the things out into my napkin.
CUNY was more of a recruitment than an interview. They were very nice people, but I hope that's not the program I have to attend.
Rutgers contacted me but hopefully I'll hear something soon about acceptance to NYU or Columbia so I don't have to fly again and interview.
But my 10 days in NY is for break, yay!!! Justin unfortunately has school during my break and I need to work on my thesis, but we'll still have a good time. We're making a point to go to the Museum of Natural History...and I'd really like to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
And Ashleigh! We should hang out!!!!
Wedding planning has not been going so well. I'm almost never here, and when I am I have stuff to do for school, so that makes life harder. Hopefully stuff starts to pick up. My mom and sister are going to just start picking out samples and let me choose between them and Justin's mom is being awesome and helping with calling places and taking care of cake stuff.
Well I think I've postponed studying for my African American Literature class long enough. I love the course and the readings, but I really don't want to study. |
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| New Year |
[Jan. 3rd, 2008|12:10 pm] |
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I guess the best way to start off the new year is to receive a call from Columbia University where you're invited to a weekend in New York for an interview (all expenses paid). Well, fortunately, that's what happened to me yesterday. I was shopping with Justing at TJ Maxx, he wanted a button up shirt, and they called me (I had tears in my eyes).
Lately I've been having so much trouble with applying to a few of the schools, and have really been feeling down about my applications. This whole application process has really caused me to feel very inadequate. Getting a call back is great, because it's a school that I actually want to go to, and maybe I don't have to feel so insecure.
Well, this past year had some high highs (getting engaged, moving out of my parents house for good, last fall semester at EMU) and some really low lows. I'm really looking forward to this next year, I graduate in a few months and get married soon after that. Also, this year will cause a lot of things to fall into place it's annoying to not know where I'll be and not be able to thing of where I'll live and what I'll be doing. It'll be great to actually be able to plan for the future, but can't do that until Justin and I hear about graduate school stuff. |
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| Thank you professor!!! |
[Dec. 16th, 2007|10:49 pm] |
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I've been working all day on a lab report for my biochemistry class. It's worth 100 points and other than our 50 pt presentation everything else has been worth 5 points. As a result, this one report could completely destroy my grade.
I was really thinking I was going to have to pull an all-nigher. However, thanks to the snow, it's not due until Tues at 11 am (instead of tomorrow at 1 pm). Yay! Now I can work on this is a more relaxed manner, no more freaking out. |
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| It's like a pet rock, but it poops and you need to feed it ... |
[Dec. 12th, 2007|10:40 pm] |
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...Kari's pet hedgehog, Pablo. A hedgehog is probably the worst pet you could ever have.
So my applications to Columbia and NYU are all turned in. It feels good that I don't have to worry about getting them done, but I also feel nervous because it's out of my hands. If they think I'm promising I'll get called to interview in Feb. I won't know anything about acceptance until March. I have a few more apps, but they aren't due until Jan and Feb, and I don't care about them as much as these two.
I'm done with Human Physiology, one of the worst classes I've ever taken. But I ended up with an A so I don't have to take tomorrow's final, yay!
Jesse is out of rehab. He stayed for the detox process and some time after that. He really didn't feel like he fit in, it was almost entirely sickly homosexual men with AIDs, and everyone was very huggy (esp. his group leader). So he's at home, but on a short leash. He apologized to his old boss and explained the situation. He' working with him again fixing up lower income housing and he's been doing some community service stuff like passing out food at a soup kitchen. His paychecks go straight to my dad, so he doesn't spend all his money like he had been and also because Jesse near the end was ignoring all of his bills. He doesn't have a car, so my mom is driving him to and from work. Jesse is dating a girl. He met her before he went into rehab, I think she helped him see he was pretty messed up, and was part of his reason for entering rehab. She seems nice, it speaks pretty highly that my mom likes her. |
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[Dec. 1st, 2007|12:19 am] |
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It's December, I can't believe it.
AHHHHH my application to Columbia is due in 8 days!
I should go to bed, I need to be at Presidential Scholarship Competition at 8 a.m. But I'm making some progress on my Statement of Purpose. |
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| Jesse |
[Nov. 28th, 2007|07:15 pm] |
My brother checked into rehab today.
He brought out on Thurs the week before Thanksgiving that he needed help and wanted to go to rehab. The rehab center set up his evaluation for Tues (5 days later, Seriously!) Anyway he left Monday night and didn't come home, never when to his meeting. He didn't come home until Thanksgiving. It was very stressful because he would previously leave for days, and although we assumed he was doing some drugs (we all knew he smoked pot and drank), we never expected that what he was doing was as bad as what it actually was. Ignorance is Bliss. So when he was missing for all those days, it was really scary.
I'm really glad he's finally getting help.
Hopefully his action will set in motion change in the other members of my family who need to get some help. |
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| Thanksgiving |
[Nov. 27th, 2007|01:16 am] |
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I wish I could say I had a great Thanksgiving. However, I can't. It was actually really bad.
When do you know that your spirit is crushed? I think I'm pretty close.
I don't want to talk about it, it just makes me more depressed. |
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| New York went well |
[Nov. 14th, 2007|08:53 am] |
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| | my room | ] |
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| | Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love? | ] |
I flew out to New York on Thursday, and got back Monday.
It was so nice to see Justin. Just over a month and he'll be home for Christmas Break, and I'll get to see him for a month before he goes back - I can't wait.
Because I flew out on Thursday I decided to email faculty at Columbia and NYU to see if I could meet with them on Friday to get a feel for the department. I met with one guy at NYU and 2 women at Columbia. This was probably the best thing I could've done for myself. I really liked both departments and all the faculty I spoke to were really nice. I do however like Columbia more. Both places feel confident that I'll make it to the interview process, so that's good. I would actually be really surprised if I don't get into NYU, the guy I spoke with and I hit it off really well and he just happened to be one of the two people who read the applications and make decisions, he also said that "I'm the kind of student they look for". Even though things went really well at Columbia I can't feel sure about it at all. THEY ONLY TAKE 6 PEOPLE! Ahhh 6, why??? Even though they take more into their Biological Sciences Ph.D program, I really want the Genetics and Development one - so I'm going for it.
So now back in Michigan, so freaking busy. I have to work my butt off before Thanksgiving Break and then do work over Thanksgiving :( and then OMG it's December and time to make sure all my apps are complete, prepare for last exams before finals, and then finals. I'll be so happy when this semester is over.
Next semester I have Speech, Computers, African American Literature, a grad Biochem course on signaling breakdown in human disease, and Cardio Kickboxing (I'm really looking forward to this one). All my classes are on Monday and Wednesday. I think I'm gonna try to substitute teach at AP, and look for a job. |
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| my purse was taken |
[Oct. 28th, 2007|12:08 pm] |
So yesterday I was working the EMU vs. Western game. It was EMU's homecoming, and I was working in the press box for Ambassadors. I put my purse in the coat check room. I had to leave around 6:00 because my roommates and I were throwing a Halloween party that night and I wanted to be able to change into my costume before guests came over. So at 5:15sih Andrea (the event coordinator) asked if I would work at taking peoples name tags and getting peoples coats so the other girl I was working with could eat before I left. I went into the coat room to check my phone for the time and decided to put my phone in my pocket so I could keep looking at the time. The coat room is not closed off by a door, anyone can go in there. When Andrea told me I could leave, I went to get my purse and it was not there. Looked all around the coat room and the rest of the place, could not find it.
On the upside: My phone was in my pocket so I still have it, I had no cash except for some coins in my purse, my car has keyless entry and I locked my car keys and house keys in my car.
I cancelled my LaSalle ATM/Debit card last night after Andrea called and told me that they didn't find my purse after final cleaning, no purchases were made with it.
I cancelled my HigherOne Eagle Card this morning, but that needs to be checked tomorrow to make sure no purchases were made.
What sucks is all I have is 2 dollars and have no access to money at all. My medical insurance card is gone. My driver's liscence is gone. Justin's family got me a compact mirror last year for Christmas that had my name engraved on it, that's gone. And I really liked that purse.
Now the event in the pressbox is for the "big wigs" and money donors. I can't imagine one of them would have taken my purse. So someone may have taken it on accident (but it's blue, I don't think that was a slip up), or a member of catering took it on purpose.
In any case, the situation sucks, but I'm lucky because it could have been a whole lot worse. |
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 26th, 2007|09:25 am] |
I should probably post, because I always wish my friends posted more.
Today I'm showing my cousin Joey around campus. It's kinda weird, because that side of my family doesn't really communicate with each other. I'm happy my aunt Bonnie is coming too, or else we'd probably hardly talk. But I'm gonna show him around, and he's interested in bio, so I set up a time for Dr. Walker to talk with him.
I decided not to do the Biology/Biochemistry double major for a few reasons.
1) Upon closer inspection, UofM Dearborn's Physical Chemistry course is a sequence course. I need a fundamental of, which is pretty much a survey course. So I don't think the class at UofM D would work.
2) I'm having a hard enough time getting through my classes, doing grad school application stuff, and trying to write my thesis. I'm actually not writing my thesis, it's pathetic - but I have no time to do it!
3) I don't think my thesis will get done this semester, but it needs to be mostly done by Jan, and completely done by March (at the very latest!!!! I'd prefer end of Jan/early Feb). So taking 2 hard chem courses along with the gen eds I need to graduate would make it hard to get the thesis done.
So next semester I'm taking speech, computers, african-american lit, and a graduate class (which I said I wouldn't do again as an undergrad, but I couldn't pass it up).
The grad course is Special Problems in Biochemistry, and it's with a prof that I love. The class is cell signaling breakdown in neurodegenerative disease, depression, aging, obesity, cancer, etc. It'll be using primary lit sources, and I want more practice in reading journal articles before grad school, and has a lot of discussion involved.
My Sailor Moon costume is done except for the wig. We'll see if this stupid thing ends up working out, or else I'll be Sailor Moon with Ashley hair.
Also, I invited I think all of my livejournal friends to the Halloween Party that's being thrown at my house using facebook. Some of you people have yet to reply, it's tomorrow (Sat) from like 7-3. BYOB and costumes are suggested.
I'll be in Allen Park tonight. It's my sister Michelle's 18th birthday today, I don't like that she's so old. I think my family is going to the football game tonight. I know I'd like to, I've yet to see Elissha perform with the colorguard, and it's Allen Park vs. Melivindale! |
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| I should not be posting |
[Sep. 26th, 2007|10:29 pm] |
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Heck, I shouldn't even be sleeping I've got too much stuff to do. Whatever, I need a break from working.
I found out today that two more chem classes (and 1 of them I was already planning on taking) and I will have completed a double major in biology and biochemistry. That's pretty sweet. Unfortunately, one of the course only runs during the fall. So I need to talk to chem to see if I can perhaps do an Independent Study to complete that course, or if I can take it at U of M Dearborn as a guest and have it transfer over (I'll also need to check that with UofM D). Man, I wish I would give myself a break sometimes, but it's just 2 classes; I can't turn it down. So long super easy final semester I was looking forward to.
I started my grad applications for Columbia and NYU. I hate thinking about graduate school, because I feel like I'm a great candidate, but at the same time I feel insufficient. I ran into a past chem prof and she feels confident I'll get into both...I'm not so sure, I really feel Columbia is a long-shot.
I have done no work on my thesis beyond a broad outline of most of it.
I have my first exam of the semester tomorrow, Human Physiology, I should probably take it more seriously than I am. He gave us a 10pt bonus quiz last class period. It was so easy! I'm sure I got at least 9 points, and that gets added to my 100pt exam. Plus, in the essay we have to write, he gives us all the key terms he wants us to use and extra points for a well constructed essay.
I'm worried about the Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology GRE, I take it Oct. 6. I'm mostly worried about the biochemistry portion, I've forgotten a lot of pathways and have always had trouble with kinetics/thermodynamics. I don't have enough time to study for it.
I know it's totally boring that all I post about is school, but whatever, school is what I do. In non school related news, I get to fly out to NY to see Justin for his birthday. This whole seperate states thing is not so much fun...I'm really looking forward to seeing him. I was surveyed today by the Campus Crusade for Christ people. They were really nice. I looked at the survey before they asked me questions, and I told them not to try and convert me after the survey, and they respected that. It's not often that I get to share my spiritual journey, it was nice. I should post about it sometime, because it's interesting, and I really think you need to know about it to really know me. I went to a lecture by a cultural anthropologist today, very interesting, I wish I would have taken more than just the gen ed anthropology class. |
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| Yay! |
[Sep. 19th, 2007|11:15 am] |
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I paid off my wedding dress!!! One more thing I can check off my list. =-) |
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