Dear Reader,
It has been several months since my last post and there
is good reason for this. The last two months have been a bit chaotic, but not
without a certain amount of revelations, realizations and enjoyment. To keep
this short and sweet as I really do not have time for this tonight or really
any other night for the next month or so, I will be compiling a list of
exciting, difficult, stressful, incredible, life-changing and defining moments.
Most likely I will elaborate on certain items more than others and hopefully
have time later to write in detail about certain events, but for now, this will
suffice:
1. BioPhysical Society Meeting in SF with Professor
T.(Green Leader) and the gang. “Meet between the ferns!”
2. Getting accepted to three wonderful universities.
3. Getting rejected by two incredible universities.
4. TAing for the second time
5. “Hanging out” (?) with a guy, getting to know him and
then mutually deciding not to continue. “The pursuit is off. The game is…not
afoot.” Only the awkward remains…something to work on
6. Reliving certain anniversaries that bring sadness
7. Continuing to love this whole carpooling thing…we have
the best conversations
8. Visiting two great universities…
9. Turning 23
10. Making the decision…what a night of misery
11. The morning after…still sick to my stomach
12. That moment when you tell your research advisor you’re
staying and he’s speechless (good speechless of course)
13. The wonderful feeling of telling everyone you’re
staying
14. The panic that comes to get you soon after
15. Being paralyzed because “I’m not cut out for this. It’s
not a question of if, but when I’ll fail”
16. Coming out of the funk
17. Writing a paper that will be published
18. Learning how to live at peace with people (especially
when you aren’t too happy with them)
19. Getting another carpool buddy – the anxiety and the
relief when you find out that you can handle spending time alone together and
it’s not too awkward
20. Talking to prospective students
21. Eternal grading – O that smell of carbon copies!
22. Good books
23. and bad books
24. Dancing with joy
25. Choreographing with sister
26. Anticipating dancing at Disneyland
27. Realizing I can do this grad school thing
28. Playing 2048 LHC – the science version
29. Basically quitting two of my jobs – yay for only five
jobs!
30. Visiting
Clorox today with PI and wonderful grad student.
This is by no means an exhaustive list of what I’ve been doing, but it’s a start.
This is by no means an exhaustive list of what I’ve been doing, but it’s a start.
