Anyone have any ideas about what I should do with my life? In this last week I have met with the pre-health advisor and my sociology advisor, and both were equally unhelpful. In fact, they raised more questions than they really answered. And I just feel like I'm quickly running out of time. It's amazing to me that I'm already 20 years old (almost ( Read more... )

Hooray for things working out! I had a lovely meeting this morning with the volunteer director at the hospital to discuss conducting research there, and she was super helpful. She's going to give me a list of people to interview/survey (depending on which approach I decide to take...should probably figure that out soon) and even give me a ( Read more... )

All week I've been planning on donated blood today. Every year the week of the Maryland football game we hold a blood drive and Maryland holds a blood drive, and the school that gives the most blood wins. (Plus if you donate you get a t-shirt that says "Give Blood, Beat Maryland.") But the only time I really had a chunk of time available to give ( Read more... )

This weekend went quite differently than expected. It's fall break, so all of my apartment mates went home (well, Sagari went to NYC since Oman would be a silly place to go for a weekend) and I was alone in the apartment. But it wasn't going to be a big deal, because I was planning on working all weekend at the nursing home. I had gotten an email ( Read more... )

Since the beginning of the semester, I've been listening through all the songs on my ipod alphabetically, from 'Sponsible (as apostrophes come before "A") to Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. And today I am done. Craziness. I don't know how to listen to my music now. Alphabetically by song title was a good system, as it both shuffled them and insured that I ( Read more... )

Sigh. I have been trapped in my parking spot by a stupid motorcycle. This is no good at all. I'm going to have to knock this silly motorcycle over, which would probably be no good. Oh, crisis ( Read more... )

I've decided that I'm not really motivated by the idea of success, but rather by the fear of failure. I study for tests, because I can't stand the idea of getting the test paper back with a really awful grade on the top. I think I'd rather be more concerned with my successes. That way, for the times I do screw up, I can look back at when things ( Read more... )

I have a slight problem. I was informed today by my father that I was not allowed to bring the car back to school, because its transmission no longer works. So I told him I'd have to quit my job then, as I need the car to get to the nursing home. And he said, "Yeah, I guess you will ( Read more... )

Today's been a good day. I'm getting rather used to puttering around and doing nothing. Today, though, I've been doing nothing since 8:30 this morning. Not the time I would've chosen to wake up, but it worked out. I drove my mom to Bible study in Williamsburg, then went to Starbucks, had a caramel apple cider and read this Robert Heinlein book ( Read more... )

Today I bought an ipod. It's probably the most I've ever splurged on anything in my life. (I like the word "splurge," even though it does seem to have a dirty ring to it.) I'm quite excited by my new purchase, and I now feel like one of the cool kids. The only problem is my computer crashed down about a month or so, and I lost all of my music. So ( Read more... )