this is a little long...
hmm let's see. what has been goin on in the life of me...
well i started rehearsals for Beauty & the Beast with Athens Creative Theatre (ACT) and so far i LOVE it! It's very very professional and unlike anything i've ever done before. Don't get me wrong, CAST was like the best thing that ever happened to me and we did DANG good shows too, but this is definitley more strict and structured and a big step closer to professionalism for me you know? Anyway whatev. I love it. I'm in the dancing ensemble, which is really exciting. It's nice being in a show JUST for my dancing you know (b/c we really don't even sing that much...we just reinforce the rest of the ensemble when they need it). I haven't been on the performance side of dancing in awhile.
classes are going really well. I'm actually feeling really on top of my game and really smart, which is a change from the past year. Organic chemistry DESTROYED my academic confidence. I really felt below average, mediocre at best...i just never felt smart at all. but all the sudden i'm understanding concepts in these really hard classes and i'm explaining them to other people in my classes and im answering questions right in class...it's just really weird. i guess i kinda surprised myself.
i had my first meeting w/ my faculty mentor today who's supposed to advise me in the rest of my time here and also in career choices and grad school options and stuff like that. well, he didn't do SQUAT for me. he just stared at me the whole time!! i had to practically DRAG answers out of him. i was like "i know NOTHING about genetic career fields. what's out there?" and he would just mumble useless information basically saying he didn't really know. plus he was WEIRD!! everyone in genetics is weird.
however, my faith in the faculty here was restored in my genetics lab today. my professor, Dr. Kushner just came up and started asking me about myself and what I want to do w/ my major and all that stuff. So i ended up venting to him and he tells me in like 10 minutes more than the other guy told me in an hour. Then he told me just to email him and we'd get together and talk about stuff. So i'm WAY excited. And i have an appointment w/ the career center too. but then what really warmed my heart, was i heard him talking to another girl in the class (who is married i guess)...b/c i heard him say "yeah it's always gonna be hard when you're married and you have that to deal with" and she was like "yeah..." and he goes "but marriage is all about comprimises. and as long as the comprimises even out over the years then it'll be ok" and he was like "hey if you ever need to talk about this you know where my office is, i'm always there."
i was just like...what an awesome person. anyway, i suddenly enjoy lab. he makes it interesting and fun. and funny. hard to imagine i know. but what we did today was really cool. anyway. that was a really really long entry, and if any of you read all the way through, i applaud you, b/c i'm sure it was kinda boring. hahaha.
but i love you all and miss you SO much.
well i started rehearsals for Beauty & the Beast with Athens Creative Theatre (ACT) and so far i LOVE it! It's very very professional and unlike anything i've ever done before. Don't get me wrong, CAST was like the best thing that ever happened to me and we did DANG good shows too, but this is definitley more strict and structured and a big step closer to professionalism for me you know? Anyway whatev. I love it. I'm in the dancing ensemble, which is really exciting. It's nice being in a show JUST for my dancing you know (b/c we really don't even sing that much...we just reinforce the rest of the ensemble when they need it). I haven't been on the performance side of dancing in awhile.
classes are going really well. I'm actually feeling really on top of my game and really smart, which is a change from the past year. Organic chemistry DESTROYED my academic confidence. I really felt below average, mediocre at best...i just never felt smart at all. but all the sudden i'm understanding concepts in these really hard classes and i'm explaining them to other people in my classes and im answering questions right in class...it's just really weird. i guess i kinda surprised myself.
i had my first meeting w/ my faculty mentor today who's supposed to advise me in the rest of my time here and also in career choices and grad school options and stuff like that. well, he didn't do SQUAT for me. he just stared at me the whole time!! i had to practically DRAG answers out of him. i was like "i know NOTHING about genetic career fields. what's out there?" and he would just mumble useless information basically saying he didn't really know. plus he was WEIRD!! everyone in genetics is weird.
however, my faith in the faculty here was restored in my genetics lab today. my professor, Dr. Kushner just came up and started asking me about myself and what I want to do w/ my major and all that stuff. So i ended up venting to him and he tells me in like 10 minutes more than the other guy told me in an hour. Then he told me just to email him and we'd get together and talk about stuff. So i'm WAY excited. And i have an appointment w/ the career center too. but then what really warmed my heart, was i heard him talking to another girl in the class (who is married i guess)...b/c i heard him say "yeah it's always gonna be hard when you're married and you have that to deal with" and she was like "yeah..." and he goes "but marriage is all about comprimises. and as long as the comprimises even out over the years then it'll be ok" and he was like "hey if you ever need to talk about this you know where my office is, i'm always there."
i was just like...what an awesome person. anyway, i suddenly enjoy lab. he makes it interesting and fun. and funny. hard to imagine i know. but what we did today was really cool. anyway. that was a really really long entry, and if any of you read all the way through, i applaud you, b/c i'm sure it was kinda boring. hahaha.
but i love you all and miss you SO much.