Saturday, September 8, 2007

Half over already?

I wanted to use a different font today, just for the heck of it.

My Saturday was not used as well as it could have been used. I did all of my pre-lab stuff for Methods on Tuesday and my equilibrium chemistry assignment for A-Chem, as well as a security post on my Genetics discussion for this week--and that was it.

Keep in mind, I'm the person who has 6 exams/quizzes plus a paper due in the next two weeks. And this is what I have done. Ouchy.

So the stress factors are really high. Tomorrow is going to be lots of studying, mainly for A-Chem, P-Chem, and Genetics. However, I definitely need to get started on my history paper due next week, so what I'll probably do is build myself an outline so that I don't have to attempt suicide this weekend (which I'll probably end up doing anyways).

So as of right now, I have 95 out of 770 points done in A-Chem. That sounds kind of nice, as that's well over 10% of the work done. After the fun fun quiz, my numbers should be looking much better, with at least 135.

But then at the end of this week in genetics, I'll have 180 points out of 700. That sounds so much nicer than 95 out of 770.

I never wrote about Friday, I just realized. So I went to work for two hours, more or less. Nothing too dramatic happened, though I did have my "I really want to pull out my hair" moments.

Then I went to the history seminar on writing essays, and it helped me SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much with this paper I'm doing for Early Medieval. I was really worried for a while about it, but after that session, I feel so much better about the book's direction, as well as where my essay is going to go. Then I had P-Chem, which was beyond non-exciting, but oh well. It's one of my easier classes for sure, and I can definitely use some easy classes.

Ultimately, I had hospital work, which involved three very exciting developments. #1: I had a woman go into labor on me. #2: I learned how to take vitals, in case the nurses are ever overwhelmed and need me to do it. #3: I got my grade on my Spanish oral. 97%. WHAT????????

I have no idea how I got such a good grade. She probably put it in the gradebook backwards. It was so terrible, there's no way I could have gotten a 97%. I'm not compaining if it's what I got.

So we have some positives in life right now, and even though I could have done better in biochemistry for sure, I hope that things continue to go well for me, and these two weeks are really going to be the early litmus test by which I am going to have to judge my possibilities for doing well.

I'm starting to realize that I'm going to have no way of deciding what I really want to do. I know I want to get a Ph.D. in a cellular biological science, but I want to do more than that. My options right now are to get an MA in Bioethics and/or History, a BA in Spanish and/or French, and to go into a persistent vegetative state in my utter indecision.

I mean, I LOVE Biology, I LOVE Bioethics, I LOVE History, I LOVE Languages. How do you pick just one thing out of four things that you absolutely love?

One thing I'm thinking about doing is talking to my Civil War Professor from last semester about maybe taking Historiography (the intro grad school course) in the fall. I'm going to be done with my philosophy degree for sure next semester, but I'm not going to graduate, because I have to finish my biology, chemistry, and history BA's.

By the way, I found out that the history deparment is offering Renaissance Europe next semester. Incredibly exciting stuff, no doubt. This lends me towards changing my schedule to my two language classes, biochem II, philosophy thesis, philosophy logic class, and this history. That would be 20 hours, and I should probably take two sciences, so next spring looks to be a 23 hour semester at the least. If my logic class is offered in the winter (it was last year), I might take it then, and make my actual spring drop to 20 hours.

TOO MANY OPTIONS!!!!

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