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Nov. 10th, 2008 12:36 amMaking a post to procrastinate EVEN FURTHER. Today has been a bit of a wash, as far as biochemistry goes /o\ Well, I guess Tuesday and Wednesday are going to be miserable! Funtimes!
Today, I:
Okay, last minute studying time for my analytical test! Sigh!
Today, I:
- Wrote my first resume since high school! It makes me lol that my only extracurriculars in Dublin were Karate club and Sci Fi Society (read: punching things and playing video games) but I think that's balanced out by my list of honors societies, awards, and 4.0. At least for grad school in chemistry. I hope!
- Watched a documentary for Cinema called Born into Brothels. It won the Academy Award for best doc a few years ago, and is truly stunning! It's about an American photographer who went to live in a red light district in Calcutta, India in order to document the lives of the women there. While she was there, the children got really interested and curious about what her camera was, so she started to show them, and eventually it evolved into a photography workshop where she gave them little cameras and had them take photographs. The documentary introduces us to each of the children in turn, their stories and lives, hopes and dreams. My favorite was little Kochi, about 9 or 10, shy and sensitive and compassionate, yet driven into hard labor every day and destined for prostitution. She broke my heart :( As the story progresses, we see some of the children's photographs, and the woman begins to get their photos out into the world, where they are auctioned off at Sotheby's to raise money for the kids' education, and one of the boys even wins a place at an international photography exhibition in Denmark. The woman fights very hard to find local schools that will accept the children (in the process, she has to get the kids tested for HIV - one of the most powerful moments is when she says, in relieved happiness, that all the kids are negative) and eventually she gets a number of them on track for a better future. It's a truly inspirational and moving film, and I would encourage anyone to see it! Kochi took this one, which is just stunning:
- Rewatched the Noel and Russell clips from Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2006 and 2007. AHAHA LOVE!!! I still cry with laughter EVERY DAMN TIME even though I can recite every joke with them. It's all in the delivery! Noel: "The pen's gone down the gap!" Russell: "On the choo, there's always the signs saying Mind the Gap, I've always ignored them and now the gap's bit back!" *LOLS*
- Put together a hopeful schedule for next semester. I seriously CAN'T WAIT for it to be here. If I get the classes I want (which I should, as a senior), I'll have class from 10 or 10:30 to noon every day, and then I'll be DONE except for one day when I have three hours of lab in the afternoon. AMAZING!!!!!! It's absolutely perfect, because it gets me off my ass and into school early enough, but it also lets me sleep a bit, AND I have plenty of time for my job and lab work. \o/ The courses themselves are pretty awesome too! Physics 2 (meh), History of Africa East and South (with a professor I LOVE), and Biomedical Ethics (which sounds fascinating!). Whee!
- Avoided biochemistry like the plague /o\ I got the easiest of five questions done, but all of the rest are borderline murderous, and all multipart. UGH :(
Okay, last minute studying time for my analytical test! Sigh!
