Currently listening to: “High” by James Blunt

Currently reading: The last few pages of The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I’m about to start reading Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper (whom I just love. Such an intelligent man. Can anyone please help me meet him in person somehow?? =] Joke…)

Currently thinking about: My future and what might lie ahead for me education-wise. I’m also worrying about O. Chem (but what else is new, right?).

So we’ve been back in school for almost a month now. Things are picking up. There is more work and studying to be done. I’ve been thinking about my future a lot this past weekend. What my approaching years here at OU will offer me, what my new classes will teach me, what new experiences I will have. Do you ever have those moments when you just think and think about what’s next to come? Well I’ve been having those moments….a LOT. So here are some updates.

After much deliberation, I’ve decided to drop my History minor. I know you might be thinking “Gosh, this girl is talking like she’s just broken up with a boyfriend or something on that level”. Well, yes I am. My education is an aspect of my life to which I will actually let myself get 100% emotionally attached. So when I talk about O. Chem in terms where others might think I’m talking about a boyfriend or some bigger issue, it’s only because I see anything that has to do with my academics as just that: a very big part of my life where I can’t help but get intensely emotional. It’s only because I care so deeply. So my letting go of my History minor (I don’t think I will have the extra time…)  is quite hard. But I know I’m making the right decision and will still study History on my own and keep a look out for the World War II class that I know OU offers. I still love History and that will never change. No ifs, ands, or buts.

Now speaking of minors…I’d like to talk about my major. While I was thinking about my minor (…or should I say ex-minor?…*sad face*), I also took some time to think about my Microbiology major. I have not even had the slightest inkling about changing my major. Being a Microbio major has turned into a concrete characterstic of myself. And to know this is so provides me with a very contented feeling, knowing that this major of mine will not be changed easily. It’s a sense of stability, I suppose. Or you could say it’s the idea of permanence (an idea that I seriously have almost no faith in…but this case with my major is an exception) that makes me love the major I have chosen. I think mostly it’s the sense of purpose, the goal of achieving a degree in Microbiology that invigorates me. Deep, huh? It certainly is deep to me. I am so excited to start my studies in Microbiology and have obsessively looked over the classes I will take on the OU Microbiology website. I’ve decided to concentrate in Medical Microbiology since it seems the most interesting….have I mentioned I’m super excited? Because I am.

And O. Chem….you know I can’t write a blog and not mention O. Chem, right? I have my first exam this Friday for O. Chem II. Am I ready? Definitely not. I feel the content is a lot more challenging than O. Chem I. I plan on spending a BUNCH of time with O. chem and studying hardcore over the next few days. Hopefully everything will work out well. Wish me luck. Write more later.

BOOMER SOONER!

P.S. I just wanted to share with everyone a favorite quote of mine.

“You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.” – Ethel Barrymore