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Been a while since I've updated... but I've got a lot of good stuff going on, along with some less good stuff.
I have a job interview Friday for a paid summer internship at Endo Pharmaceuticals. It's in Quality Assurance/Analytical, which isn't exactly what I want to do as a career, but it's close enough and it would be insanely wonderful experience. Honestly, I would do it even if it wasn't paid, but having the income from a full-time job for the summer (early May-August) would be a big relief. Downside: it's in Cranbury, NJ, which is over an hours' drive from here (in good traffic). But I can deal with the commute on a temporary basis for the amazing opportunity.
I also have a backup job lined up, which I already have a formal offer on - counselor at a kid's science camp. It would be fun, but it doesn't last as long (June 27-August 19) and doesn't pay as much, and obviously doesn't have as much future-career-relevance as the pharmaceutical company internships. But it'd be fun and easy if the other options don't work out.
I also have pending applications at Merck, DuPont, AstraZeneca and Stroud Water Research... doubt I'll hear much back on those, though, as they're more competitive and more geared towards upperclassmen. It was worth applying, though.
School-wise, things are going.... okay, I guess. I got a decent grade on my second calc test (low B... which for me in this class is good, as much as it pains me to be all excited over getting an 81 on a test). I think I will pass that class, at least, with a grade good enough that I don't have to retake it. Got royally fucked on my last O-chem exam, but so did the rest of the class (class average was 27%... I got a 34.). Thankfully the teacher is cool and there's a curve and he's doing a lot to try to help everyone understand the material. O-chem lab is... well, the actual experiments are fun, but the teacher is a totally wacky mad-scientist-type. The last lab report I turned in was totally half-assed and crappy and it's my own fault... I feel genuinely ashamed that I turned something in that was that level of crappiness. I don't even want to know what grade I got on it. But I'm just going to do my best on the next one and the test and I think I'll get a good grade in the class.
Personal life... going amazingly well, when I have time to talk to people! Romantically speaking... I'll skip the gushing and mushiness and just say that I am really amazingly happy.
I have a job interview Friday for a paid summer internship at Endo Pharmaceuticals. It's in Quality Assurance/Analytical, which isn't exactly what I want to do as a career, but it's close enough and it would be insanely wonderful experience. Honestly, I would do it even if it wasn't paid, but having the income from a full-time job for the summer (early May-August) would be a big relief. Downside: it's in Cranbury, NJ, which is over an hours' drive from here (in good traffic). But I can deal with the commute on a temporary basis for the amazing opportunity.
I also have a backup job lined up, which I already have a formal offer on - counselor at a kid's science camp. It would be fun, but it doesn't last as long (June 27-August 19) and doesn't pay as much, and obviously doesn't have as much future-career-relevance as the pharmaceutical company internships. But it'd be fun and easy if the other options don't work out.
I also have pending applications at Merck, DuPont, AstraZeneca and Stroud Water Research... doubt I'll hear much back on those, though, as they're more competitive and more geared towards upperclassmen. It was worth applying, though.
School-wise, things are going.... okay, I guess. I got a decent grade on my second calc test (low B... which for me in this class is good, as much as it pains me to be all excited over getting an 81 on a test). I think I will pass that class, at least, with a grade good enough that I don't have to retake it. Got royally fucked on my last O-chem exam, but so did the rest of the class (class average was 27%... I got a 34.). Thankfully the teacher is cool and there's a curve and he's doing a lot to try to help everyone understand the material. O-chem lab is... well, the actual experiments are fun, but the teacher is a totally wacky mad-scientist-type. The last lab report I turned in was totally half-assed and crappy and it's my own fault... I feel genuinely ashamed that I turned something in that was that level of crappiness. I don't even want to know what grade I got on it. But I'm just going to do my best on the next one and the test and I think I'll get a good grade in the class.
Personal life... going amazingly well, when I have time to talk to people! Romantically speaking... I'll skip the gushing and mushiness and just say that I am really amazingly happy.