every time....
so i feel l need to make amends with my poor little journal that is so neglected these days. I just don't have the same motivation (or audience) that used to push me to make posts, but these days since things seem to change with such small increments, its hard to make posts that feel worthwhile on a regular basis, and before I know it, 3 months have gone by. but I guess I'll do my best.
Thanksgiving is almost here and I'm sitting in Minnesota again since we have a week break from school at the U of I so Mike and I decided to drive up to see friends and family before I fly home to Utah on Tuesday. I'll be in Logan for a few days, which will be great since I haven't been home since January, but then its right back here again on Friday. There are some things on my to do list this week since that's the whole reason I'm doing all this traveling:
-finally replace my drivers license that got stolen way back in August in Melbourne. I've been carrying around my passport as ID this whole time because of it!
-gather up things from Mike's house and home to take back to the apartment. Things I have been painfully living without, like a rice cooker and my peacoat.
-try and figure out what we are doing for xmas since Dad is in China so the rest of the family is all anxious that no one is making decisions, yet not doing anything about it themselves. :P
-sort out travel plans for new years since we have awesome plans to get together for a Massey Reunion in the Bay Area, yay!
All the while of course, there is the endless looming of school. Graduate school is so different from undergrad because, yeah, you have classes with assignments and tests, but there is NEVER any true downtime since you're always supposed to be progressing in your research in some way although there are very few hard deadlines to motivate that progress. I'm super excited at the prospect of making the indian snack food (since thats what my research revolves around: developing a tasty high soy protein snack for vegetarians in India) but with independent research, its inherently fuzzy and open ended so i have to keep asking myself "what now?" hopefully I can get some stuff made within a month or so to see what I'm dealing with here, but we'll see since class work might interfere pretty significantly as the semester wraps up.
In other news, I went through the whole ordeal of interviewing with Diageo, Frito Lay, and Kraft about summer internships, got great offers from all of them, and proceeded to turn them all down.
I know. wtf.
But after some serious soul searching, I realized that there is essentially no reason for me to turn away from the standing offer I have with General Mills since I've been with them for 2 great summers and I know they have a lot to offer. And yes, I kind of know what they're about already, but honestly, why not foster the relationship I've developed with them already and go hunting blindly for something else, having no idea if it will be better? I also love the idea of being in Minneapolis again this summer and seeing my friends from Summer 2006. I just hope I don't regret it later. But in short, I'll be working with Betty Crocker, the Green Giant and the Pillsbury Doughboy again.
I guess that's whats on my mind at the moment. It feels kinda nice to dump it all out and pretend someone reads it. I should really do this more often..... :)
Thanksgiving is almost here and I'm sitting in Minnesota again since we have a week break from school at the U of I so Mike and I decided to drive up to see friends and family before I fly home to Utah on Tuesday. I'll be in Logan for a few days, which will be great since I haven't been home since January, but then its right back here again on Friday. There are some things on my to do list this week since that's the whole reason I'm doing all this traveling:
-finally replace my drivers license that got stolen way back in August in Melbourne. I've been carrying around my passport as ID this whole time because of it!
-gather up things from Mike's house and home to take back to the apartment. Things I have been painfully living without, like a rice cooker and my peacoat.
-try and figure out what we are doing for xmas since Dad is in China so the rest of the family is all anxious that no one is making decisions, yet not doing anything about it themselves. :P
-sort out travel plans for new years since we have awesome plans to get together for a Massey Reunion in the Bay Area, yay!
All the while of course, there is the endless looming of school. Graduate school is so different from undergrad because, yeah, you have classes with assignments and tests, but there is NEVER any true downtime since you're always supposed to be progressing in your research in some way although there are very few hard deadlines to motivate that progress. I'm super excited at the prospect of making the indian snack food (since thats what my research revolves around: developing a tasty high soy protein snack for vegetarians in India) but with independent research, its inherently fuzzy and open ended so i have to keep asking myself "what now?" hopefully I can get some stuff made within a month or so to see what I'm dealing with here, but we'll see since class work might interfere pretty significantly as the semester wraps up.
In other news, I went through the whole ordeal of interviewing with Diageo, Frito Lay, and Kraft about summer internships, got great offers from all of them, and proceeded to turn them all down.
I know. wtf.
But after some serious soul searching, I realized that there is essentially no reason for me to turn away from the standing offer I have with General Mills since I've been with them for 2 great summers and I know they have a lot to offer. And yes, I kind of know what they're about already, but honestly, why not foster the relationship I've developed with them already and go hunting blindly for something else, having no idea if it will be better? I also love the idea of being in Minneapolis again this summer and seeing my friends from Summer 2006. I just hope I don't regret it later. But in short, I'll be working with Betty Crocker, the Green Giant and the Pillsbury Doughboy again.
I guess that's whats on my mind at the moment. It feels kinda nice to dump it all out and pretend someone reads it. I should really do this more often..... :)