Yar. These are weird days.

I don't wanna graduate, but I don't not wanna graduate.

New York City is freakin' amazing. I LOVED it. Course, I was living a fantasy life there since we had no obligations and we were staying for free, but damn. I need to live there for a while ( Read more... )

I am so very much extremely ready to get me the heck away from here for a wee bit. Yahoo! NYC, here comes naive, ranch girl Maria!

I hope all y'all who are traveling this week have safe passage.

Love.

In my biochem class today, we had one of the pre-eminent biochemistry experts as a guest, interacting with us as we worked through some material related to his research on iron-sequestering mechanisms of bacteria. This dude's a big deal. Old white guy from Harvard Medical School, over 600 publications, etc, etc, etc. I mean, not exactly famous in ( Read more... )

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Or: I had a wonderful, awful Monday. I have been distinctly unable to complete anything in relation to my thesis (senior exercise) for at least a week or two (or more). Partly thanks to other legitimate things getting in the way (such as my other four classes), and partly thanks to illegitimate things getting in the way (such as photo albums on ( Read more... )

Well, I'll be! Turns out Miguel's godmother owns a sweet apartment in Greenwich Village and, as she doesn't live there and is currently in Honduras, we suddenly (yesterday) realized that we can go to New York for spring break for $240 round-trip per person and stay for free. Holy macaroni! How freakin' excited am I??? I've never really been to the ( Read more... )

So, in my Scripps 44-level Spanish class today, we had a discussion about racism, particularly inequalities in education, and affirmative action. There are (ahem) a few individuals in that class with whom I very much disagree on these topics. But damn. It's hard enough to form coherent sentences in English regarding something about which I have ( Read more... )

Your Candy Heart Says "Hug Me"
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When I received an email today from Andy and Brian about their visit to Claremont this weekend and their gig on Friday night, I felt so, so happy to be included in the list of 20-ish friends at the 5Cs they sent it to.