I'm done!!! I got a 72% on my Paleo final... which is the exact same score I got on my Chem final... Whatev. Its a gorgeous day, I'm spending aaaalll of tonight and tomorrow with Paul ( Read more... )

I've definitely passed Chem. I managed a C on the final, which brought my overall grade to a 72%, before the curve. So even if the curve is crap, I've still passed ( Read more... )

Today is Paul's 22nd birthday... I'm a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad girlfriend because I didn't get him anything yet, I don't have any surprises planned, and I may not even see him at all until his friends get together for dinner in the city. And I'll probably leave directly afterwards ( Read more... )

I'm officially all moved in to my new place. Its lovely being able to walk to campus. The walk itself - not so lovely ( Read more... )

Ugh. I just realized that in a whorl of icky-ness I left my car in a 2hr parking spot yesterday. And today. Which means that I'll probably have a full paycheck's worth of parking violations to pay. I'm too scared to go to my car and see the envelopes stuffed under my windshield wipers ( Read more... )

Its days like these that I hate being an adult. I so rarely get sick. It sucks. I wish I had my mom to call me out of class and bring me tea and do my laundry. But instead I have to e-mail professors, call classmates to get assurances they'll let me copy their notes, do my own laundry, make my own scrambled eggs, take my own temperature (101.7 ( Read more... )

I just saw Madonna and JT's video for "4 Minutes." HOW is it possible that woman is turning 50 this year?

I just want to get a D- in Chemistry.
I don't even care anymore. I just want to get the minimum to still get the credits. I KNOW that if someone looks at my transcript and sees: A, A-, B+, A, A-, A, A, B, A, A, A, B+, A-, A-, A, D-, A-, B+, A, A, A-, B+, A, A, A- ... they'll know that it wasn't ME, it was obviously some extenuating circumstance, i. ( Read more... )

Dear Ariel,
I am so glad that you've accepted our offer to work in my lab at Wesleyan
this summer.  This evening I'll give you a bigger picture of what the work
is all about, but for now I'm rushing to get to my morning commitments.  In
a nutshell, we've been developing a new systematics of bacteria, where we
aim to detect the most closely related ( Read more... )

I got an e-mail this morning from Wesleyan University's 'Hughes Summer Outreach Program ( Read more... )