Woah, junior year, when did that happen? Whatever, it looks like it will be infinitely better than last year. I really like all my classes. I got all excited when I looked over the syllabus for biochem, I'm already learning tons in Islam (mostly because I knew next to nothing about it before), and even my seminar class sounds like it'll be cool ( Read more... )

My life is so boring. I sit at work all day and look at a cell on a tv screen. Hurray. By the way, the death toll is up to a nice 88 for the summer. I do have lots of hippocampal cells to play with this week however, so that's cool because all of my DRGs were contaminated. I really think the DRGs hate me. I use perfect sterile technique yet somehow ( Read more... )

Is it wrong that I feel so clever when I intentionally wear my My Chemical Romance "Black Parade" t-shirt to work on dissecting days?

Thought I'd waste time at work by saying hi. I'm pretty sure work is making me lose my mind. I always think I see something moving out of the corner of my eye and sometimes when I'm dissecting, I think I hear one of the dead rats squeaking at me from beyond the grave. I just really don't know what it is that I do for 8 hours every day. I don't even ( Read more... )

Yeah, so life's pretty good. Got to go home and see some good friends this weekend. New roommate is moving in tomorrow. Should be fun. I'm pretty much bored with work already. Mondays (although nauseating) are at least stimulating, Tuesdays are fun for the short time it takes to transfect the cells but then the rest of Tuesday, Wednesday, and ( Read more... )

I am now a woman to be feared by small rodents everywhere. Today at work I did my first independent dissection which started with me snatching 10 newborn rat pups from their mother and snipping their heads off with scissors. Ah, the not so glamorous part of science.... I'm a little more than disturbed right now as images of (warning: graphic gore ( Read more... )

I am alive (barely) but I made it through my hellish sophomore year and I could not be more relieved. I am finished with organic chemistry and more importantly physics for ever and ever. I get to start my lab job full time on Monday where I am the official rat killer/general lab bitch. I moved into my summer apartment this morning which I am super ( Read more... )

THE STUPID RAT WASN'T EVEN STUPID PREGNANT!! I was supposed to learn how to dissect dorsal root ganglion (DRG) cells from a fetal rat today which I was really really excited about but then I get an e-mail from Mike saying, "yeah, the rat we signed up for apparently wasn't even pregnant." What the hell rat-knocker-uppers?!?! If you're going to ( Read more... )

So I was watching the last Wild regular season hockey game and at the end they randomly chose seats and gave away all their jerseys. They're kind of interviewing some players and just scanning over the team and the people that are getting the jerseys and they show Marion Gaborik signing his jersey for Mr. Russ Welch, the gym/health teacher. How ( Read more... )

So, as you may or may not know, I went home to California with my roommate, Christina, who lives about 30 miles south of San Francisco.
List of stuff we did/saw:
-Pier 39, ate at an adorable cafe with an amazing view of the bay including the golden gate bridge, sea lion, and Alcatraz.
-Shopping at the 3 floor Forever 21 in Union Square
-Rode the BART ( ( Read more... )