war -- and things.
Lately all of my hard decisions have been making themselves. Since the MIT class I wanted to take doesn't count as a regional studies, I'm going to scrap that and take another one about US military capabilities or maybe the causes/prevention of warfare. n__n
My first MIT class! I'm excited for next semester ♥ The professors are both really well-known academics, too... I hope I get in.
And, I was finally able to squeeze in another non-school book.
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult was pretty good. The synopsis really piqued my interest, and the plot was really compelling. It's about a girl who was genetically designed to be a donor match for her older sister, who was diagnosed with some sort of leukemia as a child. At birth, her umbilical cord stem cells are used for her sister, and then she donates lymphocytes/bone marrow, and as a teenager, she is asked to donate a kidney. She hires a lawyer for medical emancipation from her parents... and it's about that court process, and the dynamics of a family under duress, and that sort of thing. Apparently they're making a movie about it!
The characters were interesting and very real, but sometimes the writing was a turn off. I've read fanfics that have more literary merit, I think... XD;; Still, it was a nice leisure read, and if any of Picoult's other books have similarly interesting synopses, I wouldn't be averse to checking them out.
My first MIT class! I'm excited for next semester ♥ The professors are both really well-known academics, too... I hope I get in.
And, I was finally able to squeeze in another non-school book.
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult was pretty good. The synopsis really piqued my interest, and the plot was really compelling. It's about a girl who was genetically designed to be a donor match for her older sister, who was diagnosed with some sort of leukemia as a child. At birth, her umbilical cord stem cells are used for her sister, and then she donates lymphocytes/bone marrow, and as a teenager, she is asked to donate a kidney. She hires a lawyer for medical emancipation from her parents... and it's about that court process, and the dynamics of a family under duress, and that sort of thing. Apparently they're making a movie about it!
The characters were interesting and very real, but sometimes the writing was a turn off. I've read fanfics that have more literary merit, I think... XD;; Still, it was a nice leisure read, and if any of Picoult's other books have similarly interesting synopses, I wouldn't be averse to checking them out.