Weekly Update or Four Day Weekend!

So I must say that while I planned to have a particularly efficient weekend, I have definitely reached my 3 week burn out period. Good things is I'll be working hard in the next week, which I hope is good since I have an exam soon. So besides my burn-out this weekend, I believe it's time to think about what I did for the week.

Well, I don't think I did much. I did succeed in waking up around 8:00 now. I think that's good for some mysterious reason. Though I must admit that I enjoy not having to rush to class. Though, today in particular was quite a lazy day. I definitely woke up at 10:20 and then proceeded to take two naps while reading my Anthropology book for this week's discussions. Anyway, back to sleep cycle related stuff, I think I'm starting to develop rather normal sleep patterns, which I think is good. Maybe? I don't know. We shall see.

On Thursday, I started volunteering at the hospital again. This quarter I'm working with a neurologist conducting research on neuromuscular disease. Anyway Thursday, I got to the hospital (oh and by the way, much more convenient to volunteer at the main campus than at one of the satellite areas, you don't have to wait for buses) and I found out that the doctor that I was suppose to help had to go to the clinic, so I helped someone else, who was also in neuromuscular research. The first job she had me do was pretty simple. Well... it would have been really easy if I knew how to use correction tape. Yeah... after about half an hour, I figured out how to use correction tape. I feel so proud of myself. The next job the lady had me do was more difficult surprisingly. So clinical trials are reputed to have many protocols and loads of paperwork. It became my responsiblility to make several sets of paperwork for a few of the new test subjects. At first, things were ok, the copy machine worked pretty well, except when I forgot to change the setting once. On my fourth trip to the copier though, I think that I either added too many settings or the copier just got tired of me. It got mad at me and then proceeded to start jamming after every other sheet that it copied. So this nice lady (I don't quite know what position she holds) came out and led me to this other printer that was huge and much more technologically advanced than the one that I was using. However, this printer was just mad at me to begin with and proceeded to print off pink paper that appeared out of nowhere. I definitely checked all three trays and filled them all with white paper, yet for some reason, I still could only manage to get pink paper to come out of the copier. Anyway, point of the story is that I managed to break every single copier in the neurology department. Please don't blame me :( I didn't do it on purpose. Needless to say, after an hour and a half of messing around with the copiers, I decided to call it a day. Well, there's always next week?

Then last night, I went to Lennox Commons with Angela, Brigette and Vanessa. I had to go to Staples so I could buy some ink pens (yay Uni-ball!), however I had to trade that off with going to Bath and Body Works. After those two stores, we decided to go to Target, where we walked around and then ate dinner. I am about 100% sure that I will never eat food prepared by Target again (sorry if I offended any Target food fans, Target employees or Target employers). The girls wanted to go to a nearby shoe store, but luckily for me, it was already closed. Instead we went to World Market, which is this store with a bunch of random merchandise from around the world. I get so tempted to buy this Norweigan water everytime I go. I also spent a few minutes trying to persuade Angela and Brigette to buy a two foot martini glass to put this dying betta fish in. After failing, we all went to Petco, where they had to buy a replacement betta fish. I think I'm going to start raising a seventeen cent fish sometime soon. I also want a fish tank built into my house when I grow up. To top off my visit to Petco, I also saw this awesome fish tank, that I must admit is cooler than the coolest fish bowl I had seen before (Marie's Mac fish tank). The pictures are below. Yes, I did take those pictures with my phone :)

Too bad next week, I'll be studying for my Anthropology exam at this time. That means I'll have to miss House possible. *sad*

Weekly Update or First Week of the Quarter

School has started once again, which requires me to do work that I wouldn't necessarily volunteer to do on my own. Classes-wise, I'm very proud of myself this first week. I actually read all of the chapters that I would cover in class before class! What a miracle. I wonder if this would have helped last quarter, though it doesn't really seem to be helping right now since neither of my professors go by the book. My anthropology teacher did generally follow it, I guess. I think that this quarter should be easier than last quarter? I think it should be easier to find time to study at least. I'm only obligated to go to class four times a week, from about 10 to about 12. So I have all this free time before and after class. To make myself feel better, I thought it would be a good time to brush up on calculus by going to one of my suitemate's 152 class. That should be interesting. Out of the three classes this week, I've already skipped one, whoops. Well, at least I'm not really taking the class. I'll elaborate on the classes that I'm actually taking later on, when I get a better idea of the class.

So on Thursday, I had to go to a couple of meetings. My first meeting was with my academic adviser. So after a quarter, I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to major in. At first, I thought biology and psychology, but then after a few weeks and some looking into what the upper level biology major courses were, I decided to switch from biology to microbiology. During break, though, I decided that I still really wanted to just focus on neuroscience. The problem with that is that OSU doesn't actually offer a neuroscience major, just a minor, which kind of stinks. So now I'm even more confused, because I don't know whether I want to keep both of my majors or switch to a single major and a minor. So much thinking. I thought college was suppose to be learning. So after that meeting, I went to my Chinese orientation meeting. The orientation guy seemed kindo f mean in the beginning but after a while I got use to him. I think that he's too much of a Chinese-style teacher. Guess I'll have to get use to that fast if I want to do well in the class. Good thing is I have lots of people who can potentially help me. Potentially being a super critical word here since well, OSU finds it highly necessary to teacher traditional Chinese first, even at all, and I doubt that many of the mainland Chinese people here know traditional Chinese. Oh well, I guess I can't be surprised by any of this. Also, I got a hair cut on Thursday night, so now I have short hair. I also got bubble tea at Momo's after the haircut. It was really good, but I got the cold tea, which turned out to be a bad idea as the temperature outside was definitely below freezing.

Hm... so on Thursday, I decided to not do homework and look up summer intership stuff. I guess it's a good idea that I did because I totally didn't realize that the application for the SURF program at UT is due on February 2. Whoops. I better hope that my teachers (from high school yikes! not good either) are will to write letters for me in three weeks. It would be quite nice to get a position. Also I got a research position at the hospital! Whoo! Except I don't think that I get to do that much, since it's through the volunteering program with the medical center.

Hopefully this coming week will be more exciting. Volunteering starts, and hopefully I'll get some Chinese homework done.

Weekly Update or First Post of the Year

Eep! It's a new year already and a new quarter :S I can't believe the last three and a half days went by so fast. I feel like I should probably reflect some more, but I don't think so. Apparently, I reflect too slowly.

So tomorrow starts the first day of classes for Winter Quarter. I don't know if I'm ready for this change yet. Hopefully, I can wake up tomorrow since I accidentally left my alarm clock at home. I just realized that I forgot to bring it as I was unpacking my clothes, so my cell phone better be able to wake me up >:( Now I just have to decide whether I want to go to 152 or 153 calc lectures. I would totally pick neither if my GPA and physics class didn't matter.

So right now, it's pretty boring. I turned down racquetball, maybe that wasn't so smart. I'm also pretty tired right now I don't know why. Maybe it has something to do with OSU. I got tired right when I got to my room. This is probably a good sign though. Anyway, there's not much to say for right now I guess. First day of class (psych and maybe math) tomorrow, and sign ups for volunteering at the hospital. I think I'm going to try to volunteer in the neurology department this time.