Thursday, December 16, 2010

Well... Life's not fair

How is it fair that the girl the goes to bed at 10 (ok, 10:30) almost every night and gets about 8 hours of sleep every night ends up sick while the girl that stays up burning the candle at both ends (as Gramps would say) doesn't?

You remember what your parents used to tell you when you complained that something wasn't fair: Well... life's just not fair; get used to it.

Here I am, 23 years old, and I still complain about how unfair the world is. And the truth is, I'm going to keep complaining about it, probably forever. All I can tell you is: Well... life should be fair; get used to it.

On a somewhat related but mostly not side note: how is it possible that I will be graduating with my degree, in chemistry, in less than a year, and I still don't know which one is the anode and which one is the cathode?

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

End of Semester

No more waking up at 6 am on Tuesdays (unless someone else decides to ruin for everyone and schedule group meeting at 7 again)
No more sitting in the same classroom for 4 hours straight (due to the small number of small classrooms in the Chemistry building)
No more no-class-tuesday or no-class-thursday (boo)
No more chemistry lecture (that's right, I'm done with lecture for my undergraduate career)
No more chemistry tests
No more Bio-chemistry (also boo)
No more registering for classes
No more problem sets

Mostly good, some sad.
It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that I've almost learned everything that they think I need to know to qualify for a bachelor's degree in chemistry. I still feel like I know so little. There's so much more!!
The world is fascinating, and I'm so glad that I've been able to study it in a way that interests me, but also makes sense (kinda... well some of the time).