Interview #3
So this past Thursday I headed to Boston yet again with Dave for a Northeastern University interview for Friday. Northeastern I knew nothing about and the way they did the whole interview process was much nicer and barely much of a pressuring interview at all. They treated us to a hotel room (---> sexy time) and food and yea it was just really nice. Instead of a long day getting grilled by like every faculty member under the sun...they just presented their research and allowed us to just talk with them and it was very open-ended. There was also a tour of everything (the campus is beautiful and all modern and full of cool things) and it was all and all a very nice process. It had the good chill vibe of Stony Brook (which Tufts lacked) but with more my type of people (which Stony Brook failed in) and an awesome campus/location (which both SB and Tufts lacked). There is a strong neuropharmacology program there and I really feel like I could work with a lot of them...and apparently their pharmacology program is the #1 funded out of all private schools. One of the faculty members even walked me back to the hotel and gave me a bit of a tour around Boston! The whole thing just made me realize what I really should care about in a school and Northeastern delivered. Hell, as AMAZING as Tufts is supposed to be...they didn't treat me to anything = bad news. I need that personalization. Dave and I stayed in the hotel Friday night (courtesy of Northeastern again, :-D) and just relaxed and ate a cute Chinese dinner. Dave's been a good sport about randomly walking around Boston and even got me this awesome Claddagh ring which is all sexy and wow I love him.
Saturday we left for Rhode Island which was long overdue for him. We visited some of his friends in Coventry and did other mall things and it was cute. Dave's still owed a LOT of money from Kenny though and seeing him was kinda weird because half of me wanted to like really get it in his head that he was causing Dave a world of Hell. But Kenny seemed to be dealing with a lot of chaos so I gave him a break and I think Dave just wanted happiness. Hopefully in due time he'll get the money (definitely at least something by April or so). We stayed Saturday night at his grandparents house in Bristol...which was nice although his grandma seemed pretty sick and actually had to go to the hospital early Sunday. I sort of got a little annoying from the surplus of driving but whatever...I'm just glad my car is still alive. It swerves a lot though, which is not that fun for long drives...or at all.
School's been lax. In my level of caring: Med Chem > Bioinformatics II > Protein Folding. Me and Lauren pass the time doing crossword puzzles in Protein Folding and it's been our secret for staying alive during the class. I think next week is gonna suck from all these tests coming up...so I may have to actually pretend to care soon. Bioinformatics isn't that horrible, but god at 8 AM I'm just in this state of supreme rage from getting like 4 hours of sleep and having to walk far distances in the bitter cold. I did meet with Blanca and I'm gonna work for her again (for credit since she lacks a lot of funds). I honestly don't NEED the money so I won't demand it and from seeing all the other school's faculty sad from lack of funds...I have a certain amount of compassion. I mainly just wanna get back into the lab groove so it's not all weird once I do it again for grad school. Still not sure what's going on for my psych thesis...and yea that kinda has to happen since I'm graduating in May. Whoa!
So, in VERY recent news...Northeastern WANTS ME!!!!!!!! I was like shocked when I found out. I mean I felt everything went well, but I definitely didn't think I'd find out so quickly. I'm ecstatic beyond comprehension, but I'm just not sure what to do with other schools. Like Cornell-Weill wants me in early March for an interview, but for some reason Northeastern wants to know my decision by end of February. I feel that is a little insane and just a trick to try and get me before other schools get a chance. But I'm sure I can work my magic and give Cornell a chance before making my decision. Columbia I ruled out altogether awhile ago...while I'm not sure what to make of Boston University or Albert Einstein. I frankly would still like to hear from them but I just find it bizarre that I really haven't heard anything from Einstein considering Lauren went there like 2 weeks ago for her whole interview thing. I was at least told BU was lazy this year so I wasn't expecting anything until later on.
So yea EXCITING yay happy days.
Saturday we left for Rhode Island which was long overdue for him. We visited some of his friends in Coventry and did other mall things and it was cute. Dave's still owed a LOT of money from Kenny though and seeing him was kinda weird because half of me wanted to like really get it in his head that he was causing Dave a world of Hell. But Kenny seemed to be dealing with a lot of chaos so I gave him a break and I think Dave just wanted happiness. Hopefully in due time he'll get the money (definitely at least something by April or so). We stayed Saturday night at his grandparents house in Bristol...which was nice although his grandma seemed pretty sick and actually had to go to the hospital early Sunday. I sort of got a little annoying from the surplus of driving but whatever...I'm just glad my car is still alive. It swerves a lot though, which is not that fun for long drives...or at all.
School's been lax. In my level of caring: Med Chem > Bioinformatics II > Protein Folding. Me and Lauren pass the time doing crossword puzzles in Protein Folding and it's been our secret for staying alive during the class. I think next week is gonna suck from all these tests coming up...so I may have to actually pretend to care soon. Bioinformatics isn't that horrible, but god at 8 AM I'm just in this state of supreme rage from getting like 4 hours of sleep and having to walk far distances in the bitter cold. I did meet with Blanca and I'm gonna work for her again (for credit since she lacks a lot of funds). I honestly don't NEED the money so I won't demand it and from seeing all the other school's faculty sad from lack of funds...I have a certain amount of compassion. I mainly just wanna get back into the lab groove so it's not all weird once I do it again for grad school. Still not sure what's going on for my psych thesis...and yea that kinda has to happen since I'm graduating in May. Whoa!
So, in VERY recent news...Northeastern WANTS ME!!!!!!!! I was like shocked when I found out. I mean I felt everything went well, but I definitely didn't think I'd find out so quickly. I'm ecstatic beyond comprehension, but I'm just not sure what to do with other schools. Like Cornell-Weill wants me in early March for an interview, but for some reason Northeastern wants to know my decision by end of February. I feel that is a little insane and just a trick to try and get me before other schools get a chance. But I'm sure I can work my magic and give Cornell a chance before making my decision. Columbia I ruled out altogether awhile ago...while I'm not sure what to make of Boston University or Albert Einstein. I frankly would still like to hear from them but I just find it bizarre that I really haven't heard anything from Einstein considering Lauren went there like 2 weeks ago for her whole interview thing. I was at least told BU was lazy this year so I wasn't expecting anything until later on.
So yea EXCITING yay happy days.