Whoo life!
Soooo I will be finished my degree in 13 days. WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
In 13 days, I will have these letters behind my name: BScH. (Honors major in Nutrition and Nutraceuticals). And WOW I am so not ready or fit for the real working world, ahahaha. As of yesterday, I applied for more school :)
This is the ideal plan:
Dr. Meckling has already introduced me to to a project on the synergistic effects of omega-3 FAs (aka fish oil!) and vitamin D (aka the sunshine vitamin) on mammary gland development and breast cancer risk. It'll be in a rodent model, which is very similar, if not the same, as what my current research project is. I am trained on a lot of what I'll need to do - and yet I have to convince Dr. Ma to take me on as well, because Meckling can only cover half of my funding as a thesis masters student. I am hoping and praying hard that he's impressed by my work on my current research project. But it's so hard to tell with him, and he intimidates me hardcore. But at the same time, he's pushing me to try and do my best, even if it's out of fear!
(Side note to those of you who are booing me for using animals: yes, I will be killing animals. No, I will not enjoy it. Should this project happen, I promise to say a prayer and a thank you to every life that I take. No, I can't do this in vitro, in dishes, on cells. Studying cancer can not happen in vitro, because we need to assess what happens in a living biological system. Yes this sucks. But so does breast cancer, which has taken thousands of human lives, and affected most all of us in some way - myself included.)
So ideally, I will be in Guelph for another two years.
BOO to being in Guelph. BOO to 2 more years in a distance relationship. YAY to a loving boyfriend who wants me to succeed and won't let me say no if the offer to do masters is there. YAY to a boyfriend who will tolerate me being MIA for another 2 years. YAY for an amazing grandmother who I will live with for these 2 years.
NEXT STEP! I go to Humber College (in North-east Toronto) to get a post-grad diploma in Clinical Research. This is a one year program that will give me hands-on work with developing, writing, implementing clinical trials, and it's a co-op program with a 4-month full-time placement. Ideally, I'd like to do this after masters, because I feel like I'd want to dive right into working after doing a co-op. Or, I'll be offered something, and I wouldn't want to turn something down due to going back to school.
AFTER THAT? I don't freaking know. If I like masters, PhD is definitely a possibility. Also, BScH + MSc + PhD + CRA (clinical research associate) = running my own trials! and big money? Who knows. But work would be sweet. Also, in terms of years, Masters (2y), CRA (1y), PhD (4y) would take me to 7 more years of school, making me a whopping 29 before I'm finished schooling. By that time I want to be married (!) and being in school + wedding doesn't sound overly appealing, to be honest.
That being said, there is only SO much planning that I can do. Things will happen, while other things won't. Really, it's down to me working hard and making opportunities available, and taking good opportunities as they approach.
But back to the beginning: I'm DONE my undergrad in about 2 weeks. Terrifyingly AWESOME.
On to another topic: I dyed and cut my hair this week. WOW. Mistake? Still deciding. The colour was supposed to be an auburn/brown-red. It's a mahogany? And because my hair at the hair line grows in super fine and blonde, it kinda looks orangey-red. (UGH). The rest of the colour is okay... Erin loves it, because it's like Jean Grey's, but I'm still not so sure. Then, I went to get it cut today, and I got the most timid, scared, non-confident 50-something woman cutting my hair. I was there for an hour. And she cut so slowly that my hair started drying and flipping out at the bottom. This led her to go and get another stylist to help because she couldn't layer my hair. SHE. COULDN'T. LAYER. HAIR. And I even brought in a picture of the 'do I wanted... I didn't get it. I settled for some side bangs, because I partially didn't know if she could manage the cut I wanted, and partially because I just wanted her to stop cutting my hair. I'm okay with the cut over all, but I'm gonna get another one in a month or two, haha. It was a painful experience.
Another completely different topic! I have recently discovered the music of James Morrison, and I can't stop listening to it. And Basia Bulat. LOVE LOVE LOVE. (Each LOVE is a link. The first 2 are JM, the 3rd is BB. BB is sooo hard to find good quality on youtube :( )
And my last and final note: It's election season. There are 3 million students in Canada. WE NEED TO VOTE G-DAMN!!! Expect much FB spamming about voting. At least Guelph cares! (amazing mob video on voting :) )
PEACE Y'ALL.
In 13 days, I will have these letters behind my name: BScH. (Honors major in Nutrition and Nutraceuticals). And WOW I am so not ready or fit for the real working world, ahahaha. As of yesterday, I applied for more school :)
This is the ideal plan:
Dr. Meckling has already introduced me to to a project on the synergistic effects of omega-3 FAs (aka fish oil!) and vitamin D (aka the sunshine vitamin) on mammary gland development and breast cancer risk. It'll be in a rodent model, which is very similar, if not the same, as what my current research project is. I am trained on a lot of what I'll need to do - and yet I have to convince Dr. Ma to take me on as well, because Meckling can only cover half of my funding as a thesis masters student. I am hoping and praying hard that he's impressed by my work on my current research project. But it's so hard to tell with him, and he intimidates me hardcore. But at the same time, he's pushing me to try and do my best, even if it's out of fear!
(Side note to those of you who are booing me for using animals: yes, I will be killing animals. No, I will not enjoy it. Should this project happen, I promise to say a prayer and a thank you to every life that I take. No, I can't do this in vitro, in dishes, on cells. Studying cancer can not happen in vitro, because we need to assess what happens in a living biological system. Yes this sucks. But so does breast cancer, which has taken thousands of human lives, and affected most all of us in some way - myself included.)
So ideally, I will be in Guelph for another two years.
BOO to being in Guelph. BOO to 2 more years in a distance relationship. YAY to a loving boyfriend who wants me to succeed and won't let me say no if the offer to do masters is there. YAY to a boyfriend who will tolerate me being MIA for another 2 years. YAY for an amazing grandmother who I will live with for these 2 years.
NEXT STEP! I go to Humber College (in North-east Toronto) to get a post-grad diploma in Clinical Research. This is a one year program that will give me hands-on work with developing, writing, implementing clinical trials, and it's a co-op program with a 4-month full-time placement. Ideally, I'd like to do this after masters, because I feel like I'd want to dive right into working after doing a co-op. Or, I'll be offered something, and I wouldn't want to turn something down due to going back to school.
AFTER THAT? I don't freaking know. If I like masters, PhD is definitely a possibility. Also, BScH + MSc + PhD + CRA (clinical research associate) = running my own trials! and big money? Who knows. But work would be sweet. Also, in terms of years, Masters (2y), CRA (1y), PhD (4y) would take me to 7 more years of school, making me a whopping 29 before I'm finished schooling. By that time I want to be married (!) and being in school + wedding doesn't sound overly appealing, to be honest.
That being said, there is only SO much planning that I can do. Things will happen, while other things won't. Really, it's down to me working hard and making opportunities available, and taking good opportunities as they approach.
But back to the beginning: I'm DONE my undergrad in about 2 weeks. Terrifyingly AWESOME.
On to another topic: I dyed and cut my hair this week. WOW. Mistake? Still deciding. The colour was supposed to be an auburn/brown-red. It's a mahogany? And because my hair at the hair line grows in super fine and blonde, it kinda looks orangey-red. (UGH). The rest of the colour is okay... Erin loves it, because it's like Jean Grey's, but I'm still not so sure. Then, I went to get it cut today, and I got the most timid, scared, non-confident 50-something woman cutting my hair. I was there for an hour. And she cut so slowly that my hair started drying and flipping out at the bottom. This led her to go and get another stylist to help because she couldn't layer my hair. SHE. COULDN'T. LAYER. HAIR. And I even brought in a picture of the 'do I wanted... I didn't get it. I settled for some side bangs, because I partially didn't know if she could manage the cut I wanted, and partially because I just wanted her to stop cutting my hair. I'm okay with the cut over all, but I'm gonna get another one in a month or two, haha. It was a painful experience.
Another completely different topic! I have recently discovered the music of James Morrison, and I can't stop listening to it. And Basia Bulat. LOVE LOVE LOVE. (Each LOVE is a link. The first 2 are JM, the 3rd is BB. BB is sooo hard to find good quality on youtube :( )
And my last and final note: It's election season. There are 3 million students in Canada. WE NEED TO VOTE G-DAMN!!! Expect much FB spamming about voting. At least Guelph cares! (amazing mob video on voting :) )
PEACE Y'ALL.