Life's A Happy Song

After a 7 hour day of calculus, I'm feeling pretty loopy.

Enjoy!

Rapid Decompression

I felt this Against Me! song was fitting. Especially with the whole "how much is too much" line. I finally got to that point this week. As is evident from my posts on here talking about how much I am hating life and how I don't think I'll survive. After much soul-seeking, talking to my family, friends, other people that have been in my position, people in other labs, people with similar goals, I finally came to a decision. I want to be a Doctor. I don't want to be a researcher. Research is something extra, which is fun and which pays the bills right now. However, I don't need to be there 30+ hours a week. What finally gave me the epiphany that I don't need to be there as much as I have been there was after spring break.

 Finally, this week I got to the point where I just had to walk into my PI's office, tell him the situation, and finally tell my mentor I couldn't keep up the pace. I don't care that I get paid. You can't put a price tag on time. Having the time AND ENERGY to take care of your studies and yourself is priceless. Needless to say, this week I only have to go in for my meeting and to take some samples. I could not be happier!

Good Morning

This was on my desk this morning in Calculus. Not a bad way to start a Thursday. :)

Time to Regroup

Time to regroup.

I can do this.

I love this song

Spring Break

It's spring break! Yay! What that really means is that I get a break from classes but have to spend that break in the lab. Fortunately tomorrow I get to go home to California and I am beyond excited. This term has been hard. Every term is "hard," but this takes the cake. 16 units of math and science, 2 lab courses and in the lab about 30 hours. Honestly, I don't even know if I will survive this term.

I finally presented my research a week ago. I never thought I would be presenting my research, but I did...and I did really, really well.

It took 4 days, during which this is how I felt.

The final product.