TGIF

I cannot believe that a whole week has already gone by since my last post. Its been a pretty crazy week so I'm really pumped for the weekend.

So I came barging into the office on Tuesday with stories from the Body Worlds exhibit. If you ever have the opportunity to go, you definitely should! I wasn't really sure how I would react to seeing real human bodies cut up and on display, but I was too busy taking it all in to even realize how gross it is. Plus I got to hold a real human brain!! I know, I know... Most people I tell are grossed out about that beyond belief, but really, how many opportunities does the average person get to do that?? It was amazing!

I had my first paper due on Wednesday, which was a definite reality check. I've been having a hard time readjusting to having actual schoolwork to do, so hopefully this will kick my overachieving drive into gear. My Sensation & Perception class is pretty intense, so I really need to make sure I really put the extra effort into that class.

I had my first Bio lab ever yesterday, which was quite the experience. I worked with my fellow Ambassador Nicole - and I think every thing that could have possibly gone wrong did. Our solution didn't come out right, and we didn't get the right results even when we used some other group's solution. Not only that, but we were also the last people to leave. By about a forty minutes. Luckily our professor is super patient so he went through everything with us whenever we needed help so that was great. Thats one of the things I love about Suffolk - I've never met a professor that refused or ever hesistated to help a student as much as they possibly could. He was totally our savior yesterday; I swear the professor already knows our names just because we were the group that kept messing up. This should be an interesting semester...

This weekend will be pretty laid back, which is just what I need. I'm going to see 27 Dresses tonight with Becka - a fellow Admissions employee - so I'm pretty excited for that. I love Katherine Heigl, so I'm sure it'll be a good movie. After tonight, though, I guess I'll be buckling down and curling up with my textbooks all weekend.. Pretty awesome!

Back to School...

When you're in high school, and you hear about college students having a whole month off between Fall and Spring semesters, you never really anticipate it flying by as quickly as it does. The beginning of break wasn't as relaxing as I hoped it would be, as I scrambled to do some last minute Christmas shopping and head back to the Hubb to see my family. After the hectic holidays were over, life definitely began to slow down a bit and I caught up on some much-needed sleep.

Now that we're all back at school, and I have to get my butt out of bed by 7:30 everyday, I'm absolutely exhausted. I probably shouldn't complain, because our first day of classes ended up being a snow day, so I got an extra day to sleep 'til noon. School is going pretty well so far, though. My sociology class - Culture Diversity & Human Need - is really interesting already, and I know it'll be one of those classes that really makes you challenge your own ways of thinking. I'm also taking Bio102 and American History as my last two gen. ed. requirements, but they seem really interesting as well. My one and only psych class I'm taking - Sensation & Perception - seems interesting but really really challenging. Neuroscience isn't exactly my forte, but if I can wrap my brain around the biology of it all, I think it'll be a really informative and helpful class.

I'm also pretty pumped for this semester, though, because I may be volunteering at Children's Hospital Boston. Its something I've always wanted to do, and this semester is really the first one that I have enough consecutive hours during the day to do it. I'm currently trying to figure out the little details and get the paperwork squared away so I can start ASAP. I was assigned to work with children in the oncology and hematology department, meaning children who have cancer - which will be tough to see, I'm sure, but I think it'll totally be worth it.

I should probably wrap this up because I'm leaving soon to go check out the Body Worlds exhibit in Framingham. I'll definitely let you know how awesome it is!