Anyone have a vacation day to spare?
I'm kinda tired.
Carleton's trimester system doesn't provide for a whole lot of rest time after winter break. From the beginning of January to the middle of March, you are consumed by winter term coursework. Then you get less than two weeks to recharge for spring term. Unfortunately, if you're normal and want to actually go somewhere during spring break, you don't recharge. You have fun. Like I did with my roommates at Disney World. (Well, for the most part.)
I am currently immersed in spring term. I'm taking Organic Chemistry II (with lab), Educational Psychology (with 1st grade classroom observations), and Intro to Statistics (perhaps the easiest class I've taken here). I have homework every day but I'm managing. Aunt Lynn came to visit Carleton last week-- that was interesting. She definitely isn't effusive when she approves of something. I think she liked the campus, though. Probably. Maybe.
At the beginning of July, after taking final exams and packing up all my crap, I will go home to CT for a day. I will then fly to Cincinnati, OH for a biomedical research internship. I'm going to be working in a lab funded by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, performing research with mouse stem cells to investigate islet cell development. It should prove to be very interesting, and of course the goal of the research is personally relevant to my family and I. Getting the opportunity to help Type I diabetics is inspiring.
I'll be in Cincinnati for approximately ten weeks. And what do you suppose I'll do once the summer is over? Go back to Carleton? Well, no. Carleton is passe. Denmark is much more interesting, don't you think? I'm thinking that it is.
So yes, I'm going to Denmark. For a semester-length program, mostly taking medical classes. Also an art history class and perhaps a Danish language class. I will be conveniently close to Scotland and hope to see Joe at least twice a month while I'm there. I also intend to stay with him during my two week mid-term break. It should be good for our relationship, which, by the way, has been doing very well lately. (Our three year anniversary is coming up this Thursday. Time is insane.)
I return to the U.S. a few days before Christmas, then back to Carleton for Winter Term 2007 at the beginning of January. And the cycle will repeat itself.
So, anyone have a spare vacation day to donate to a 20-year-old (eek, I'm old now) in need?
Carleton's trimester system doesn't provide for a whole lot of rest time after winter break. From the beginning of January to the middle of March, you are consumed by winter term coursework. Then you get less than two weeks to recharge for spring term. Unfortunately, if you're normal and want to actually go somewhere during spring break, you don't recharge. You have fun. Like I did with my roommates at Disney World. (Well, for the most part.)
I am currently immersed in spring term. I'm taking Organic Chemistry II (with lab), Educational Psychology (with 1st grade classroom observations), and Intro to Statistics (perhaps the easiest class I've taken here). I have homework every day but I'm managing. Aunt Lynn came to visit Carleton last week-- that was interesting. She definitely isn't effusive when she approves of something. I think she liked the campus, though. Probably. Maybe.
At the beginning of July, after taking final exams and packing up all my crap, I will go home to CT for a day. I will then fly to Cincinnati, OH for a biomedical research internship. I'm going to be working in a lab funded by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, performing research with mouse stem cells to investigate islet cell development. It should prove to be very interesting, and of course the goal of the research is personally relevant to my family and I. Getting the opportunity to help Type I diabetics is inspiring.
I'll be in Cincinnati for approximately ten weeks. And what do you suppose I'll do once the summer is over? Go back to Carleton? Well, no. Carleton is passe. Denmark is much more interesting, don't you think? I'm thinking that it is.
So yes, I'm going to Denmark. For a semester-length program, mostly taking medical classes. Also an art history class and perhaps a Danish language class. I will be conveniently close to Scotland and hope to see Joe at least twice a month while I'm there. I also intend to stay with him during my two week mid-term break. It should be good for our relationship, which, by the way, has been doing very well lately. (Our three year anniversary is coming up this Thursday. Time is insane.)
I return to the U.S. a few days before Christmas, then back to Carleton for Winter Term 2007 at the beginning of January. And the cycle will repeat itself.
So, anyone have a spare vacation day to donate to a 20-year-old (eek, I'm old now) in need?