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Obama is coming to speak on my campus tomorrow!!!
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I'm happy because it's one of the very few afternoons I have (mostly) free, so I can actually go! Yay! Campus is going to be CRAZY tomorrow; I bet it will be really cool though. OBAMA YAY!!! :D
I'm just sitting and staring at this entry. What else do I have to say? Oh yeah! Today was the first day of classes! It went quite well. My first class was Language of Cinema - I think it's going to be a lot of fun, as well as a breeze. The professor is a young, cute, film-geeky enthusiastic guy who gushed EFFUSIVELY about The Wire, which we will be spending our last week of class on. I adore him already omg. :D Then I had analytical chemistry, which was dry but could be interesting.
And THEN I had Advanced Biochemistry lab! To my joy, it's located in our new multimillion dollar life sciences building, which is so so awesome and snazzy and COOL, so I get a break from the dreary yellow chemistry labs. Also, it will make what will no doubt be a VERY HARD lab more bearable. Especially as sometimes we will likely be in there for 6 or 7 hours. Oy. Anyway, Prof Mehl (who is a complex guy - very sweet and friendly when he wants to be, but can flare up without warning, very sarcastic and likes to tease, and also expects a LOT and thus inspires a scary reputation) started the lab by asking us to get into three equal sized lab groups. There was a lot of hemming and hawing because the way we were sitting meant one person had to move, but nobody wanted to. Finally Shigeki did, and then Mehl told us that he already had groups, he just wanted to see what we'd do. *FACEPALM* Oh, MEHL. I laughed. I'm already more fond than scared, though I could eat those words very. soon.
Then he gave us three hand outs, and everyone kind of sat quietly, waiting for him to start talking. Then he looks up from his paper, like he just remembered we were there, and says, "Oh, I'd suggest you get started." !!!! Ahahaha, oh DEAR. Then followed some flailing (on my part) but a member of my group is very familiar with the methods of biochemistry and was able to guide us through it. Mehl finally sat us down for a brief lecture about the aims of our labwork. Basically it's one project through the whole semester, and it seems really really cool. We're synthesizing proteins with unnatural amino acids in them, in specific combinations that no one has done before! :O Basically he's using us to do his research, haha. But it seems really cool and hopefully I won't *actually* die from the stress.
I'm giving Mehl his own tag because I can already tell this class is going to be an epic, epic thing. Much like orgo was my sophomore year, for any of you who remember that. I think I have dozens of entries chronicling my flail in that class, hee.
I'm still terrified of my independent project. I'M NOT SMART/CREATIVE ENOUGH OH GOD.
OBAMA!!!!!!!
:D :D
I'm happy because it's one of the very few afternoons I have (mostly) free, so I can actually go! Yay! Campus is going to be CRAZY tomorrow; I bet it will be really cool though. OBAMA YAY!!! :D
I'm just sitting and staring at this entry. What else do I have to say? Oh yeah! Today was the first day of classes! It went quite well. My first class was Language of Cinema - I think it's going to be a lot of fun, as well as a breeze. The professor is a young, cute, film-geeky enthusiastic guy who gushed EFFUSIVELY about The Wire, which we will be spending our last week of class on. I adore him already omg. :D Then I had analytical chemistry, which was dry but could be interesting.
And THEN I had Advanced Biochemistry lab! To my joy, it's located in our new multimillion dollar life sciences building, which is so so awesome and snazzy and COOL, so I get a break from the dreary yellow chemistry labs. Also, it will make what will no doubt be a VERY HARD lab more bearable. Especially as sometimes we will likely be in there for 6 or 7 hours. Oy. Anyway, Prof Mehl (who is a complex guy - very sweet and friendly when he wants to be, but can flare up without warning, very sarcastic and likes to tease, and also expects a LOT and thus inspires a scary reputation) started the lab by asking us to get into three equal sized lab groups. There was a lot of hemming and hawing because the way we were sitting meant one person had to move, but nobody wanted to. Finally Shigeki did, and then Mehl told us that he already had groups, he just wanted to see what we'd do. *FACEPALM* Oh, MEHL. I laughed. I'm already more fond than scared, though I could eat those words very. soon.
Then he gave us three hand outs, and everyone kind of sat quietly, waiting for him to start talking. Then he looks up from his paper, like he just remembered we were there, and says, "Oh, I'd suggest you get started." !!!! Ahahaha, oh DEAR. Then followed some flailing (on my part) but a member of my group is very familiar with the methods of biochemistry and was able to guide us through it. Mehl finally sat us down for a brief lecture about the aims of our labwork. Basically it's one project through the whole semester, and it seems really really cool. We're synthesizing proteins with unnatural amino acids in them, in specific combinations that no one has done before! :O Basically he's using us to do his research, haha. But it seems really cool and hopefully I won't *actually* die from the stress.
I'm giving Mehl his own tag because I can already tell this class is going to be an epic, epic thing. Much like orgo was my sophomore year, for any of you who remember that. I think I have dozens of entries chronicling my flail in that class, hee.
I'm still terrified of my independent project. I'M NOT SMART/CREATIVE ENOUGH OH GOD.
OBAMA!!!!!!!
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I never thought I'd be so ENAMORED of a presidential candidate! *marvels*
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OBAMA. You must TELL US ALL ABOUT IT.
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OBAMAAAAA. See next entry! :D
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I'm still terrified of my independent project. I'M NOT SMART/CREATIVE ENOUGH OH GOD.
Can I be terrified with you? I have to do an honor's project or I don't get to graduate with an honor's degree and I'm SCAIRT.
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Do you mind if i ask if your husband supports McCain? My roommate and I were talking about how if someone's political beliefs were that different from ours, it would really deeply color our perception of them. I feel kind of bad about it but it's true. I guess I'm just curious about how that works? I hope this isn't nosy!
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\o/
As for the political stuff--nah, not to nosy! For me, anyway. He doesn't like either candidate, and plans on voting for Ron Paul, which drives me crazy, because I just spent last semester learning about how in our two party system, a vote for a third party candidate is some parts throwing away your vote, and other parts enabling the greater of the two evils (in your opinion) win.
So, the LAST bit, the voting for neither thing, that bugs me hugely, because it'll be a close election, and I frankly don't know how I feel about an intelligent person choosing to do that when it matters so much. As for what he believes in--he's definitely more conservative-minded, and our discussions are very interesting, because he always talks about it with intelligent discourse in mind, and jokes about the crazy conservatives with their blind bias at work. He's more Libertarian than anything else, but the places he's not Libertarian and Republican, he's Constitutionalist. So, yeah, complicated.
Here I am, stereotypical Democrat, on top of it all. Our political conversations are never boring, that's for sure! Luckily we don't argue. We discuss, in the literal sense of the term :)
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Glad to hear that your first day of classes went well. And I know that you're going to rock the shit out of your independent project. Why? Because you're Anne. I've faith in you. *Gang sign*
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