what can i say? i've always had the tendency to move faster in life and leave many things behind along the way. recently, i've been lurking--old friends from the philippines, friends that could've been better friends here. the more i see what's transpired over the last few years or even months, the more i want to get away. maybe i have too many ( Read more... )

a few weeks ago i was talking to andrew on the phone. that's what exes who are still friends  do. we chat online frequently and every once in a while we talk on the phone.

i finally asked him something i've been meaning to get his opinion of. see, brian and i spend a lot of time together. we study together, we eat together, we chillax after school/ ( Read more... )

i'm taking a minicourse typicaly offered to biomedical science students. it's called "the energy problem: obesity, starvation and diabetes." i'm in it because a) it addresses diabetes, which is a disease relevant to my family [my mom has it] and b) because the topic of metabolism is what originally got me interested in doing research.

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i can't even begin to describe how horrible the past few days--nay, weeks!--have been. it culminated in a massive spaz-tastic freak out yesterday morning. i mean sure, i asked for my defense to be on the last day but they just haaad to give me the very last spot, didn't they? that gave me too much time to panic! the upside, though, is that i got to ( Read more... )

so we all turned in our proposals yesterday. naturally, we celebrated by drinking. before noon. then we had lunch with chuck sherr, the oncogene dude. i went home and slept for an hour then attended sherr's seminar. brian and i went to meet up with patrick and emma for sushi then went back to the city to watch watchmen with some of our classmates. ( Read more... )

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welcome to academia. here's how we will know if you're good enough: we'll give you two weeks to come up with a two-year scientific proposal. you will almost die in the process of coming up with a worthy thought experiment. but you will have to live through this so that you may defend it. this will not be pretty. especially since we'll also be ( Read more... )

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i'm down to proposal number 4. finally, i've met my match. this class has successfully and unequivocally broken me. it's gotten bad to the point where i wake up, roll over to my side, and start typing up ideas for my proposal. wow. so you do get to the point where you eat, shit, and sleep thinking about science, or your project in particular.

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