class, sleep, mcat, presentation, chivalry
Today was a decent day.. except I feel like I wasted so much time. Last night, I spent lots of time trying to understand this paper for class because we had a quiz on it. This morning, I get the quiz, which consisted of two yes/no questions: "Did the article talk about psychiatric disorders?" and "Did the article talk about immunology?" Both of which were mentioned in the abstract... so I could have just read the abstract and still been able to answer the questions. sigh. I wouldn't mind so much except I feel like I can't afford to spend so much time on school work this week.
Oh and I had to take a nap after class because I pretty much pulled an all-nighter.. not on purpose... just.. couldn't get to sleep b/c of one reason or another. The nap REALLY helped though. I was very much out of it by the time my head hit the pillow.. and when I got up, aside from initial grogginess, I was a lot more awake.
And of course, I use all the rest of my free time working on the presentation tonight (we all have to do a presentation on our rotations). In a way, I don't regret it, because it went decently well.. but it probably could have went ok if I had used some of that time for studying. Eh I'm not really complaining.. I guess I'm just getting more and more worried every second I'm not studying.
Anyway, MCAT stresses aside, the presentation wasn't too bad. The profs seemed amused by my presentation.. they even joked about sticking the leftover pizza into liquid nitrogen. I guess any talk involving liquid nitrogen is bound to stir up some interesting conversation. One of the profs started talking about how he knew this guy who used to stick a whole rat into liquid nitrogen... I'll leave the rest of that convo to your imagination ;)
One of the guys in our class (when I say class, I mean first year grad students.. there ARE only 10 of us) did something that I consider rare in today's society. When we were all leaving, he asked all the women where they were headed so that he could make sure we didn't have to walk out to our cars by ourselves.
First of all, this is something I haven't encountered since my early days in TC.. we always made sure no one (guys and girls both) walked home alone.. it was just something we all did. I had rather gotten used to it actually, and always thought it was a TC tradition.. but the newer officers didn't seem to have that concept. I tried doing that a few times, making sure no one walked alone, but encountered resistance.. (some would either insist on walking alone, or other people would say, 'it's not a big deal' or something) so I stopped. That could be part of the reason I slowly transitioned out of TC. Secondly, this is a rural place...! Not a big city. Which makes it even more rare because, come on, who would bother worrying about that here? He even waited until I got into my car before he left. Then again, he says he's from the city, so I guess that makes sense. Just thought it was cool and wanted to share.
Oh and no, he has no romantic interests in any of the ladies in our group -- he has an imaginary gf (haha well we all have this running joke that he made up his gf because no one has ever met her yet.. except for Megan, who says she has seen her, but we still like to pretend that's not good enough :p). Which is precisely why it's rare, actually. It's not rare for guys to exhibit chivalry when they think it'll help them get the girl.. it IS rare for guys to exhibit it as a general rule. You can generally tell when someone is doing something to impress you, or when they're doing something just because.
Oh and I had to take a nap after class because I pretty much pulled an all-nighter.. not on purpose... just.. couldn't get to sleep b/c of one reason or another. The nap REALLY helped though. I was very much out of it by the time my head hit the pillow.. and when I got up, aside from initial grogginess, I was a lot more awake.
And of course, I use all the rest of my free time working on the presentation tonight (we all have to do a presentation on our rotations). In a way, I don't regret it, because it went decently well.. but it probably could have went ok if I had used some of that time for studying. Eh I'm not really complaining.. I guess I'm just getting more and more worried every second I'm not studying.
Anyway, MCAT stresses aside, the presentation wasn't too bad. The profs seemed amused by my presentation.. they even joked about sticking the leftover pizza into liquid nitrogen. I guess any talk involving liquid nitrogen is bound to stir up some interesting conversation. One of the profs started talking about how he knew this guy who used to stick a whole rat into liquid nitrogen... I'll leave the rest of that convo to your imagination ;)
One of the guys in our class (when I say class, I mean first year grad students.. there ARE only 10 of us) did something that I consider rare in today's society. When we were all leaving, he asked all the women where they were headed so that he could make sure we didn't have to walk out to our cars by ourselves.
First of all, this is something I haven't encountered since my early days in TC.. we always made sure no one (guys and girls both) walked home alone.. it was just something we all did. I had rather gotten used to it actually, and always thought it was a TC tradition.. but the newer officers didn't seem to have that concept. I tried doing that a few times, making sure no one walked alone, but encountered resistance.. (some would either insist on walking alone, or other people would say, 'it's not a big deal' or something) so I stopped. That could be part of the reason I slowly transitioned out of TC. Secondly, this is a rural place...! Not a big city. Which makes it even more rare because, come on, who would bother worrying about that here? He even waited until I got into my car before he left. Then again, he says he's from the city, so I guess that makes sense. Just thought it was cool and wanted to share.
Oh and no, he has no romantic interests in any of the ladies in our group -- he has an imaginary gf (haha well we all have this running joke that he made up his gf because no one has ever met her yet.. except for Megan, who says she has seen her, but we still like to pretend that's not good enough :p). Which is precisely why it's rare, actually. It's not rare for guys to exhibit chivalry when they think it'll help them get the girl.. it IS rare for guys to exhibit it as a general rule. You can generally tell when someone is doing something to impress you, or when they're doing something just because.