When an subject is controversial, one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the predjudices, the idiosyncracies of the speaker.

- Virginia Woolf

Friday, May 13, 2005

Dateline 5/13

This is it, the semester is over! It really flew by. The last week has been insane, with either work or exams every day and of course packing to leave, which I am doing in about 12 hours by the way. A lot of things are currently going on right now, here are a few of them:
As for my writing class, I get an email the other day saying something to the effect that I wrote the best paper in the class and the Prof. wanted to use it as a sample next year. Then I look at the course grade, and I got a B+, despite acing the final paper and the oral project. What kind of BS is that...I politely requested that the Prof. explain this via email, to be continued...
As for my Engineering classes, so far they seem to be going pretty well. The Biomechanics exam that I took today was surprisingly easy and short, not that it means that I did wonderful on it. I really crammed for the control systems final and did pretty well on it, getting a B in the class, which is pretty good considering I failed the second midterm. As for Thermodynamics, I did lousy on the final, but I think I did ok in the overall class. We will see later how the grading goes for that and my lab sections.
As for my employment status, this area is starting to become strange. I got an email from the career office that I was matched up for a position at Phillips medical systems in Andover. The problem is that they told me this yesterday and I am moving out tomorrow. While no real decisions seem to have been made yet, If they choose to interview or hire me, this will put me in a very awkward position. I am not sure that I will want to make a 6 hr. drive to an interview next week, but we will have to see. In addition, I confirmed that I would work at Camp Anne this year as of last week. Apparently, I can choose when I will show up, but the then strongly recommended June 7th. I told them that I would get back to them on that... It turns out that my best friend from high school and his girlfriend are also planning to go up there and work this year, so that should make it even more fun.
The major thing that I need to worry about in the next two weeks is filling out my medical school application. MCAT scores don't come out until the first week of June but the application takes a ridiculous amount of time(the instruction booklet is 120 pages), and it is live as of last week, so I am going to fill it out now before I have to work at some summer job. I also need to decide what schools to apply to and look up the requirements.
So that brings me to moving, which I will be doing tomorrow as soon as my father gets into town. My stuff is mostly all packed up; all I need to do is clean things up and pack up my computer. Oddly enough, the professor I work for in the lab has decided to pay me a visit before 9am tomorrow morning (on her way to a mental health run), so I will be getting an early start. After that, I will do a load of laundry, clean the apt, and pack up my stuff to wait for my father. When he gets here, we will get the Uhaul truck and load it. I hope that this will go smoothly (probably not) and we will then drive back to Rochester NY, hopefully not taking too long. I am not generally to happy about staying at my parents' house, but it will certainly be a nice change of pace for the next few days. Anyway, I need to go to bed.

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