Feeling better
My body is rejecting the reality that my brain is better. Other than having a runny nose life is pretty good. I'm still failing QM but aparently the TA says that is not such a big deal. I have a tutor session with him tomorrow morning. I am starting to feel a little bit better about myself and the tough path that I have chosen. I really appreciate the support I have gotten from my family and friends on this issue because this move and change has been really hard on me. I felt better today because the quiz we got was all about molecular orbitals, pi bonds, etc. We haven't gone over any of this (in fact we really don't go over anything on the quizes so it's not so much learning as cramming your brain as full as it can be) and it is also not in the book. So overall it's not really fair to those other people who haven't had chemistry but I remembered a lot of it so I felt pretty good about that. We only have one more day of the annoying ethics training which is from 4-6:30pm (about the time I want to go home), very boring and for goodness sakes it is Friday of a national holiday! I started in my rotation lab with Jack Griffith today and it was just reading papers but everyone in the lab seems nice. I'm kind of excited to work with him because he is a bit of a celebrity in the electron microscopy field. If you have a textbook with electron micrographs or look at covers of major scientific magazines there is a good chance they are his work. Nobody here seems to know him though and he doesn't have any other graduate students, just post-docs. He seems like quite a character so I'm sure I will have a lot to report on him.
I'm excited that this weekend I get to go up to VA and go to the beach and such with Drew and his family. They are very nice but they make me nervous because I just want them to think well of me. And after the last time I got together with Drew and his best friend decided to drunk dial Mr. Romes and make me talk to him..... Yeah that pretty much says it all.
So anyway I need to go pack and read 80 pages for class tomorrow (yeah that's for one class and I usually have at least half that amount every other day). Oh and I guess I should get some rest because we had to bump class up to 8am tomorrow morning so the professor could leave for vacation. That will be an adventure.
I'm excited that this weekend I get to go up to VA and go to the beach and such with Drew and his family. They are very nice but they make me nervous because I just want them to think well of me. And after the last time I got together with Drew and his best friend decided to drunk dial Mr. Romes and make me talk to him..... Yeah that pretty much says it all.
So anyway I need to go pack and read 80 pages for class tomorrow (yeah that's for one class and I usually have at least half that amount every other day). Oh and I guess I should get some rest because we had to bump class up to 8am tomorrow morning so the professor could leave for vacation. That will be an adventure.