Already Procrastinating

It's three days into the semester, and I already am procrastinating. This is not a good sign for the next sixteen weeks. I should be reading my Civil War stuff, since I have like 50 pages to read for Tuesday, or I should be reading the next chapter in ecology, or something for Egyptian History, or doing my Organic Chemistry homework, or any multitude of things.

Basically, all I have accomplished this week is all of the reading for metabolism in Cell Biology and the first three chapters of my ecology reading. I have to read the first five by the end of next week, and then we don't do much, except Chapter 6, until the third week in February or something like that.

I am obviously wasting my time until my next class at 1:40, which is cell bio. I absolutely hate the room we're in, and wish that he would try to get another.

Apparently, there are over 500 biology majors at this school, out of like 8000 people. That's frankly an astonishing percent.

Anyways. Reading other people's blogs, I keep wondering what many of them are doing. A lot of people, frankly, need to get jobs or take more classes, because they have too much time to worry about whether other people like them, or are accepting of whatever they are doing, and so on. Having 28 credit hours, this is basically my only forum for complaint, and throughout this semester, it will predominantly be about school.

Unfortunately, this semester will be one in which it will be incredibly difficult to skip classes, except for Physics. That one, I will probably skip several times. Oddly, the material is not that different from the last physics class that I took, except that they integrate some calculus into the material. Not that bad, really, considering that I have managed to survive both Calculus I and II so far.

I keep wondering how the next year or so will turn out. I still have not registered for the MCAT exam, because I don't really know that I want to go into medical school. I've been thinking about doing the Peace Corps for a year, going to graduate school to get some research in something like Astrobiology (which is utterly fascinating. I would be looking at what life on Mars is like [there is life on Mars, we've managed to kill it several times] that is not salt-water based. (Just in case you did not know, cells on earth are vastly dependent on salt-water environments for survival, but these environments are very limited.) Life on Mars is vased on some other material (I don't remember off the top of my head), and one of the NASA probes attempted to collect some of it, and inadvertently killed it, because it put the cell in a salt-water environment.

Utterly fascinating. Unfortuantely, we only have a few places in the solar system which could support life, namely, Earth, Mars, Europa (one of Saturn's moons), and the Asteroids. I think some kind of expedition to one of the larger asteroids that would collect soil samples and look for possible clues to the nature of life would be a worthwhile expedition.

So, back to my original thinking. I keep wanting to finish my African cross stitch. I am working on outlining everything right now, and am noting a lot of mistakes. Perhaps this weekend, I will have the opportunity to do something about it.

As for now, I probably should get to my Civil War reading/Chemistry homework.