"I never thought that I could be who I am. I never thought that I could see where I was. I never thought that all this was just wasn't me. I always thought that all this was could never be."
"Pretty the World" by Matt Nathanson
I couldn't come up with a title for this post... so that's a quote from the episode of How I Met Your Mother I'm watching. 10 points to anyone who can name which episode/who said the quote.
I survived my first week of classes, if only just barely. Really, my schedule is not that bad, it just seemed that way last week. And it'll get worse as the semester goes on... My schedule looks like...
Monday & Wednesday - ChE Thermo II ... break ... Transport II ... break ... Transport Phenomena Lab.
Thermo & Transport II are just continuations of last semester, including the same professors. So more of the same.
Transport Lab, on the other hand, is going to be my most time consuming class. It's 5 hours, and it's not like all of the other labs I've taken. Between 6 and 15 page lab write-ups, plus prelabs, plus there aren't any step-by-step instructions on what to do. That is the worst part of it. This has me freaked out the most, but I'll manage. Maybe.
Tuesday & Thursday - Intro. to Human Development and then Recombinant DNA lab
My Intro to Human Development class is going to be the best class ever. I have Dr. Kelly Welch as my professor, who is absolutely hilarious. Teaching is her passion, and it comes through so much every class period. I laughed so hard that I cried today. Just saying.
Recombinant DNA lab is more along the lines of a normal lab. Instructions. I love instructions. Plus playing with actual DNA. The only thing is we're measuring things on the micro- scale. I'm still not the best at using micro-pipettes. I did, however, load a sample into an agarose gel today, and didn't destroy it. Minor miracle.
Especially when I write it out like that, it really doesn't look like much. Just very time consuming. Lab write-ups aren't the quickest things to do. Thermo & Transport homework due at least once or twice a week, and that takes several hours. Through working in there and all of a sudden the weeks are flying by again.
Phew. That was long and drawn-out. Good for my family that I haven't talked to in awhile to know I'm alive.
Speaking of family, my niece, Madison, turned 8 yesterday. Seriously!? Come on now. This was yesterday. (Gage & baby Madi)
Oy. It's pretty ridiculous that that was 8 years ago.
Uh oh, One Tree Hill's on, and it's new. Excuse me while I multi-task... watch and do thermo homework.
Ahem.
