Made it. Count it.

I got bored last night and this is what came of it.

This week was unbelievably and superfluously laborious for it being the fourth week of school. I had a test in MCB, labs in both my science classes, really confusing online homework... the list just goes on. I think I met up with friends to study or do homework at night 5 outta the 7 days. Lame. Anywho, that's all done with now. The weekend's here and that's all that matters- I made it! I think I'm gonna take it easy tonight and saturday- let myself unwind from the stressful week and just coast. There's a lot more weekends and plenty of time to be a college student, in the most debaucherous and stereotypical ways that is.

Tonight I think I'm going over to my friend's apartment to have a nice "home"-cooked dinner. That'll be fun if it goes down. Other than that, I'm just gonna bum around :)

O and I did pretty well on my test, if you must know- no thanks to my TA. That's right, my TA for MCB cannot explain his way outta a paper bag. (If you ever read this Quin, I'm sorry, but...yeah.) Actually come to think of it, most of my TAs are none too helpful. Good intentions, bad pedagogy.

Mkay, vent over.

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

Amino Acids

So I am (trying) to study for this crazy hard test in MCB. It sucks b/c all the stuff we were given in lecture is all basically review (proteins, dna, pH, etc), yet the test and hw questions are very abstract and take a lot of "application" and "sythesis" of knowledge- ughm. Anywho, so now I've decided to stay in tonite to at least put a small dent in the material. However, I get easily distracted and end up on the computer, for example...blogging. I decided to take a break for a bit, but I'm not gonna let myself fully shut down. Right now, I'm trying to learn the amino acids, so I'll compromise between work and play by reviewing all 20 amino acids (by memory) in this post! Here it goes:

HYDROPHOBIC: Leucine, Isoleucine, Methionine, Proline, Valine, Alanine, and Glycine; HYDROPHILIC: Glutamine, Cysteine, Asparagine, Threonine, and Serine; ACIDIC: Aspartate and Glutamate; BASIC: Histidine, Argniine, and Lysine; AROMATIC: Phenylalanine, Tyrosine, and Tryptophan.

Woot. That wasn't so bad. However, we need to also know each amino acid's 3-letter abbr, 1-letter abbr, and overall structure. This would explain the picture. It's kinda fun drawing all the compounds- there is some sort of aesthetic and geometric beauty when laying all the intricacies out, but it's still a b*tch trying to memorize them...

Tyrosine, an Aromatic. Tyr. Y.

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

Scientifique

Funny Pants Party- the most fun one can have with one's pants on!

I told you I would try and keep updated.

Anywho, so this week has been fine so far. I'm really starting to get down and do some actual homework, a majority of which is for MCB and CHEM...and their respective labs. I just had my MCB lab yesterday- first of all it was four hours long, and this particular lab was a complete clusterfark. Even our TA was cognizant of the fact that both she and the class were totally bombing and butchering the info at hand (genetic regulation and the lac operon, intruiging I'm sure). Whatever, it's not like this course is too important... it's just a requirement for my major is all ha. Yea, so that went down, and now I have my CHEM lab tomorrow- no biggie, just check in, so that's kinda nice.

Too much online homework, plus I really don't trust technology. It feels like the computer is learning new stuff and getting smarter without me when I turn it off at night... yea I stole that joke from somewhere, don't know where tho...

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

Proud Mary Keep on...

Well hullo again. It's been a smidge since last time, but I'm trying to be good about keeping this thing updated- aiming for at least thrice a month. Anywho, yea, things have been going well. School's...well, school. Classes are starting to get down to business ("raw and dirty" as my chem proffessor would say tehe). It's only been two weeks, so there's a lot more to come...darn.

It's no surprise, but I have been enjoying the weekends here much, much more than the actual week. Also, I think I'm enjoying the weekends much more than I did as a freshman- probably because I actually have things to do. It's nice not having to be conscious of "looking" for friends and wondering what you're gonna be doing at night. This year it's more about establishing those solid friends, and taking it from there, apartment parties and all ha. Case in point, the pic above is from labor day weekend, spent with some very cool people.

So just a recap of the last two weeks: classes- three day weekend/ four day celebracion- classes- celebracion- funny pants party-

Within that recap was a lot of Jimmy John's...a lot.

(Rolling)

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

Sophomore

Wisconsin- one of the las hurrahs for this summer :)

Ello- so here I am back in chambana. Summer was fun, but I sense it being one of the last summers which I'll remember later on as being grouped in my 'young and fun' days. sigh. Anywho, so I'm just starting to get back in the swing of things- must start focusing...thinking...being an adult. It's overwhelming for sure, but I believe in providence unfinished. If you don't get that last figure of speech, it's because it's new and I'm starting it. You are welcome to use it; Avant garde of me I know ha.

Until again...

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

Chicago

Last Sunday my pal Lisa and I decided to meet up in Chicago for the day, so right after church I hopped on the train to the city. I forgot how relaxing and fun the train is. O and also another friend of mine, Emily, was also on the train by coincidence, so that was another plus.

Anywho, Chicago was pretty cool- no real plans, just a lot of walking in the hot summer sun. Hit the predictable attractions- Millenium Park and whatnot, and shopped a smidge on State St. Next time, we'll have a better plan and hit up some more interesting spots.

Moving on to today- hung out with Lauren D. We ran some errands, then got some people together for a kithcen sink at Colonial- noice.

As always, work is lame, although I'm done in one week, which is just lovely. I'm looking forward to actually trying to get some trips together (Wisconsin and whatnot). Hopefully that will all work out.

It's almost over kids- get your tans on while it lasts.

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams

Let Them Eat...

Cake. So yea, a couple of days ago, we decided to bake, something which I haven't done in quite some time. Back in the day, it seemed liked we would bake cake and other treats just about everytime we met up- yea we were tre chic ha. Anywho, instead of the usual yellow cake and choco frosting, we went with a something different this time. Twas vanilla cake with butterceam frosting and a layer of strawberry jam- the recipe was on the side o the box, however our cake didna come out quite as perfect as the picture on said box.

I'm guessing that any remnant of my coolness just went out the window with this last post...all about cake... meh.

-Peace and Pleasant Dreams