Drama on the first week (only in this post and not IRL)
First week of the second term done! Whoo. This means that I've had my last official first days as a college student. There are a couple of things I am apprehensive about in the coming 4 months, though.
Thesis. Thesis thesis thesis. And interview transcriptions, oh my.
My philo 104 prof, Dr. Rosario, who's famous for not giving people anything higher than a C. Or a C+. Maybe a B. Man.
My GPA/QPI. (I'm beginning to sound like that annoying old great-aunt who won't let up on the degrading moral standard of today's youth. I mean, we get it, stop talking about that already. But I won't. As long as that QPI isn't resolving itself, it's an issue, I'm aware, I won't let up on it. [I wish I wasn't this pathetic, sometimes.])
Med school applications. I've decided to apply to just three, for now. UP-PGH, UST, UERM. I know UP-PGH is looking for someone male, someone who got their BS degree from a UP campus, is on the top percentile for the NMAT and is graduating with a latin honor -- and I'm not a single one of these things, ha! -- but I suck at letting my odds stop me from trying. Right.
And oh! Load Revision! Nasty. I spent probably six hours total on that thing, Tuesdays and Wednesdays last week. I had three free units I needed to do something with, and since I keep on trying to break into the GPA requirement for this award thinger, I figured, why not, let's take something you're pretty at ease with, and just work and hope that you get that all-powerful A, and sign up for a lit class. So, Lit 126.1, Western Lit II, literature from Neoclassicism to the Post-modern Era. That decision made sense before the first meeting. When I come to class, my teacher tells us we're covering something like 11 novels plus plus poetry and essays, and I suck at taking the odds but man I cannot finish and study 11 novels on top of everything else I have to be reading this term. I mean, I got Dr. Rosana for Theo 151. And her readings. I'm not deluding myself into thinking Lit 126.1 will be the easiest A I'd ever get.
So I chicken out and load rev. First and last time I'll do that in Ateneo, I think. I know I hate chickening out but. I replaced it with Ch 151! :)
Which is a course in biochemistry. I know. Why take out a reading course because you think you won't get high in it and sign up for a biochem class instead. The people I was stuck with in line (a cute Development Studies major signing up for a minor in Development Management and a Management Engineering major signing up for a couple of lit credits to fix her pre-law [I know! ME! And law school! Awesome girl.] told me that biochem didn't sound that easy either, and I was like, well, they hold biochem classes in Schmitt Hall. I like Schmitt. Clearly I am making the smart decision.
Kidding, of course. I took it because it's one of the pre-med subjects I had to take anyway (I was planning to leave it off until the summer right, after the entire grades thing, or just sitting in, but anyway, it didn't work out that way) and I figured that if I'm going through all these difficulties for a subject, I might as well do it for something which will help me in the future. And I've always liked macromolecules. And carbon. Carbon's just so...loyal, like an old scar, I think I'll enjoy a lot of it this term.
Yes. So biochem it is.
In other news, I am now wheezing with my little hypersensitive bronchi and my asthma is making eyes at me again. So I shall rest now and end this. Yay.
Thesis. Thesis thesis thesis. And interview transcriptions, oh my.
My philo 104 prof, Dr. Rosario, who's famous for not giving people anything higher than a C. Or a C+. Maybe a B. Man.
My GPA/QPI. (I'm beginning to sound like that annoying old great-aunt who won't let up on the degrading moral standard of today's youth. I mean, we get it, stop talking about that already. But I won't. As long as that QPI isn't resolving itself, it's an issue, I'm aware, I won't let up on it. [I wish I wasn't this pathetic, sometimes.])
Med school applications. I've decided to apply to just three, for now. UP-PGH, UST, UERM. I know UP-PGH is looking for someone male, someone who got their BS degree from a UP campus, is on the top percentile for the NMAT and is graduating with a latin honor -- and I'm not a single one of these things, ha! -- but I suck at letting my odds stop me from trying. Right.
And oh! Load Revision! Nasty. I spent probably six hours total on that thing, Tuesdays and Wednesdays last week. I had three free units I needed to do something with, and since I keep on trying to break into the GPA requirement for this award thinger, I figured, why not, let's take something you're pretty at ease with, and just work and hope that you get that all-powerful A, and sign up for a lit class. So, Lit 126.1, Western Lit II, literature from Neoclassicism to the Post-modern Era. That decision made sense before the first meeting. When I come to class, my teacher tells us we're covering something like 11 novels plus plus poetry and essays, and I suck at taking the odds but man I cannot finish and study 11 novels on top of everything else I have to be reading this term. I mean, I got Dr. Rosana for Theo 151. And her readings. I'm not deluding myself into thinking Lit 126.1 will be the easiest A I'd ever get.
So I chicken out and load rev. First and last time I'll do that in Ateneo, I think. I know I hate chickening out but. I replaced it with Ch 151! :)
Which is a course in biochemistry. I know. Why take out a reading course because you think you won't get high in it and sign up for a biochem class instead. The people I was stuck with in line (a cute Development Studies major signing up for a minor in Development Management and a Management Engineering major signing up for a couple of lit credits to fix her pre-law [I know! ME! And law school! Awesome girl.] told me that biochem didn't sound that easy either, and I was like, well, they hold biochem classes in Schmitt Hall. I like Schmitt. Clearly I am making the smart decision.
Kidding, of course. I took it because it's one of the pre-med subjects I had to take anyway (I was planning to leave it off until the summer right, after the entire grades thing, or just sitting in, but anyway, it didn't work out that way) and I figured that if I'm going through all these difficulties for a subject, I might as well do it for something which will help me in the future. And I've always liked macromolecules. And carbon. Carbon's just so...loyal, like an old scar, I think I'll enjoy a lot of it this term.
Yes. So biochem it is.
In other news, I am now wheezing with my little hypersensitive bronchi and my asthma is making eyes at me again. So I shall rest now and end this. Yay.