Observation

Today I scheduled for fall classes. I did not schedule Biochem, in hopes that I did decent on this first midterm. As I prepared my schedule for fall I also updated my schedule for the rest of college. I marked all the classes that are only offered certain quarters so I make sure I take them at the right time. I also began checking my math to make sure I'll have enough classes for my major level classes and for my minor. In addition I still need to check General Education Classes (GEC's) to figure out how to get them all (many unfortunate things come with that). I rearranged things and it doesn't look entirely frightening. SO that's good. I'm throwing in quite a few evolution of genetics and stuff like that. Mark said it's really boring, but who knows... maybe I"ll like it.

The sad thing that happened when I was scheduling was that I could pick out more Psychology classes that I wanted to take than Biology. I enjoy my Psychology classes entirely, and always struggle in my sciences. Actually, that's a lie. I did AWESOME in bio, and actually liked it. The problem is that when biology gets hard, it turns more into chemistry. BUT, I haven't really taken my Mol Gen classes or anything yet. I decided to take the easier Microbiology. Why? Because the easier one is just 1 class, not 2. And the lab is an hour shorter. I also found out that OSU has an intro to physiology class, but I can't use it towards my major. BUT, I wanted to take physiology to help me be better prepared for Grad school, so it's a plus! Now I don't have to take 2 hard classes to get there! I'm somewhat excited that eventually I can take a Ethics or Philosopy class to also prepare for grad school, and hopefully it can fit into a needed GEC (I don't want to have to take a different one just to make it a GEC, but I will if needed). So things are looking a little bit brighter. I just thought it was weird that I'm more excited about my minor than I am about my major. The good news: What I want to do combines my favorite parts about my major with my minor. The bad news: I need to get a degree to move on to grad school to do what I want to do!!!

I can't believe week 5 of the quarter is already here! After this, only 5 more left! And 2 of my 5 classes are done on Tuesday of week 10. CRAZY!! I'm anxiously awaiting the return of my history and biochem midterms from last week. This week: History quiz, Psych quiz/part of midterm, and Ochem lab midterm. The last one is my concern. Ochem lab midterms are hard. So much info! But I'm sure I can do decent. I haven't been doing as well on labs this quarter, but I just need to get it done!

I can't wait for next week and the following, a little less stressful. Maybe I can meet Kate for lunch one of those weeks. Well... time to study! (most of you who read this aren't in college anymore... aren't you glad?)

Picture shortage

Recently I realized that I don't take very many pictures. This slightly disappoints me because I will have less to remember my college years in the future. When I do have pictures, I'm generally not in them because I'm the photographer. Thinking about it more, I decided this might be a good thing, because when I'm having fun I'm enjoying my time and not even thinking about pictures! I guess I just want to enjoy my time and not be behind the camera during that time. That being said, here's a picture of Dave and I from last weekend at Buca de Bepo. Leah's party was fun! It's nice having all my friends together in one place. Also I have a picture of Andrew at Art Sparks from Spring break.


And now I'm going home for Easter. It won't be exactly was I had originally hoped (the whole family). But I'll enjoy getting away from Columbus for the weekend and getting to spend some time with my parents!

Week number 2

So my second week of classes is now over. What do I think? I think my capability of learning has improved tremendously over the past 3 years. Sure it's probably that I'm finally on medication for ADD so the fact that I'm paying better attention in class correlates to my improved recall of information. My psychology quiz this week went very well. I wasn't sure exactly about a few of them, but I remembered what he said in class, and I even remembered what I read in the books!! I now know that when things are put into the format of pictures and stories I can remember them better. That's easy for psych and history. And, well... memorization is what it is. Multiple choice is also a WONDERFUL thing. When you know the answer and it's actually on the page it's really helpful. Yeah sometimes there's a second best answer, but it's better than just not being able to remember the word when you know what page it was on or something like that. I feel pretty good about my 3 quizzes from this week. I just wish the quizzes in Biochem were worth a greater amount of our grade.

Wednesday was my most successful day of the week. I was back from class by 11:00, and then met Kate at work for lunch. It was really nice chatting with her and just getting to hang out. We had a great lunch. I'm also happy to know how close her new library is to where I live this year. It was really easy!
After lunch I came back and called a genetics counselor that I had the phone number for. I asked her some questions and found out some more information about the profession. She went to OSU as an undergrad, and gave me a suggestion for where she worked. It might prepare me for the field, but it would not be an easy volunteer job. She worked for a sexual assalt network hotline and was also an advocate. As an advocate she would meet people in the hospital and sit and talk to them as they waited to be seen by a doctor. I can't imagine how difficult it would be to be in that situation. She said that crisis intervention places are a good place to work. So it was good to talk to her. She's involved now more with cancer research. Other main areas she said were prenatal and pediatric. Those are the two I'm most interested in, so I e-mailed another genetics counselor who works at OSU in the prenatal area last night. Hopefully I can work something out with her about shadowing or something of that nature.
Then Wednesday night I got together with Leah to study biochem. I felt that it was more successful than studying on my own, although no one really knows what needs to be done in that class. Jeremy met us later. We studied for about4 hours, and I spent another hour memorizing for a quiz in that class the next morning. YUCK. At least I realized that studying was better than watching TV. I missed LOST for the week... but it's more important that I do well.
This weekend should be fun. Leah's 21st birthday is tomorrow and a few of her friends (which are most of mine too) are going to dinner tonight. I'm excited. I love getting together with friends. It made me feel good to be invited too. I like becoming better friends with people.
Oh! Good news for Dave, he got the internship with AEP (I think that's the name). I was so happy for him to have found that out yesterday. I'm glad he has a job he'll like for the summer. I'm starting to look now, I just hope I haven't lost all my opportunities!
The only other thing to post is that I'm excited for Easter next weekend, it will be nice to see the family! I just will have troubles studying a little. But I'll try to get ahead during the week (if teachers actually post stuff online more than 12 hours before class!!!).