Last grad school visit, last damn grad school visit, huh!

Having never been to St. Louis before, it was really neat, if nothing else, to see this really cool city!

• St. Louis has a really nice public transportation system - and Wash U students get a free Metro pass if you go and pick one up.  It makes for very easy access to the airport, downtown, and ( Read more... )

Emory University ...

So I have to say - I wasn't expecting to be very impressed.  I'm sure I've mentioned the fact that Emory was definitely not on the top of my list.  In fact, it was pretty much at the bottom of the list.  Now I'm just kind of confused ;-)

• The visiting speaker that the students invited in to the GMB seminar on Thursday was ( Read more... )

Again, same deal as UC ... just different place, different impressions!

• Chapel Hill seems ... quaint.  Even Oxford kinda seems like a larger campus town.  However, I haven't really gotten a chance to see the larger picture, what with only being here for a bit - so I don't think I have the whole feel for the place.
• There seems to be an awesome amount ( Read more... )

I need to write down thoughts on my visit to UC before I forget all about it, so I figure this is a good of venue as any ... though as a result, you probably don't want to read through all of it ... thus the LJ cut ...

The "weekend" began on Saturday morning, when four of us that were staying in the hotel were met by our graduate student guide for ( Read more... )

So biochem lab got out a bit early today, which was a relief, because it was such a pointless waste of time. It was something that I'd been doing for a good part of the summer - running SDS-PAGE gels, so I feel I've pretty much mastered the technique. However, for most everyone else, it was a very new thing, and therefore, everything took * ( Read more... )

I love nature lovers releasing animals into the wild
-Grant
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1704461

I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian ( Read more... )

Is the dress code for today. For the female portion of this family anywho. We're going to go visit UCSD today, and I figured I might as well look halfway decent (read:skirt, jewelry, makeup, the works). :-)

Had a bit of a bad dream last night/this morning. I blame reading grizzant's livejournal yesterday. Grant and I were hanging out in San Diego ( Read more... )

When you're a wee bit tipsy. Bad time ... flying ( Read more... )

My sci-fi Friday. *gleeee ( Read more... )