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Country: United States
State: New York
Birthday: 10/1/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: Dunno anymore...
Expertise: Being a nerd.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Medical
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Member Since:
2/5/2003
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| It's been a while. I kinda forgot about this thing until today. Apparently it's been 10 months since I updated. Oops.
Not that my life's been all that exciting lately. Let's see, I'll recap 10 months in one post.
Spring semester of my first year of graduate school came and went. Nothing exciting, nothing new, just a bunch more information that I'll probabaly never use tucked away in some portion of my brain.
Went to Japan after the end of the semester until the end of May. That was 2.5 weeks of fun. By fun, I mean I basically did nothing. Which is what I do at home lately anyways.
After coming back, I went back to Rochester for the summer. It was interesting to see how many people I knew were still there. Worked as an SA again and sucessfully became one of the longest working students for Reslife; thinking back, I've worked for them longer than most of the Area Coordinators and current GHRs have. Haha. Had two internships, which I still don't know what exactly I learned from the experience. Also took a summer course at Columbia online to get one over with and make the fall semester an easy load, and then I retook the MCATs which I did okay on. Nothing horrible, could do better. Applied to Med School, ran Celebrate Diversity again.
Came back to New York, started on my third and final semester as a MPH grad student. So far, pretty easy. 4 classes, one of which is ending in 2 weeks. Once October is over, it'll be even easier. December 21st rolls around, and I'm done. Yes, I'm a semester early, but what else do you expect from me. I also only have class Tuesday through Thursday, now; once that class is over, I'll only have classes two days a week on Tues and Thurs. Yay grad student life.
I should be taking the GMATs sometime in November for applying to MBA programs as a backup plan for med school. I wonder how many of these backup degrees I'll go through before being sucessful in getting in.
I'll be retaking the MCATs sometime next year. Not that I have anything planned after December anyways. Being a student is so weird. I'll probabaly be in the area. Doing what, I have no idea.
The MPH degree now has a board certification exam with it starting 2008, so I'll be taking that next August. For the summer, with any luck, I'll be in Japan the entire time.
Oh, I turned 23. But I turned my request for graduation to my department back in September, so I was the youngest person at 22 years old, that the department has granted graduation upon completion of this semester as far as they could remember. It was interesting to see their eyes do a double take next to the "age" column.
I feel old at 23. Not that I look any older. In fact, I'm still using my photos when I originally applied to medical school two years ago as photos for this year. I had two sets, and I didn't use one, so yay. Boo for still getting asked which high school I go to.
Ah yeah, few days before my birthday, I went back to Rochester for Nychey's farewell party. It was good to see everyone. I went there by train, flew back by plane because I had stuff to do that weekend. Flying back, I took the long way back through Dulles and then back up to JFK, only to avoid LGA because I hate that airport and didn't want to deal with trying to get back home from there in case my father couldn't pick me up. But it hit me when I got off the plane from Rochester at Dulles that I do really miss the people at Rochester, the people who are still there and the people I graduated with. I think I talked with more people for a lot longer during my short stint at Rochester than I have a Columbia this year and a half combined. A little part of me wants to go back.
Ah. Well it's almost 3 am; I'm still an insomniac. I should go to sleep soon. Hah.
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| Slight randomness, as I'm writing this as my brain thinks of things.
Ah... first semester out of three down for the MPH schooling portion of my life. Most likely with pretty good grades, but I haven't checked. I don't care enough to. Haha.
Mother and sister came and went. It was pretty quick. I think I hung out with my sister more without being feeling cramped this time around. It was nice. Went to places and all. Whee.
My own parents agree that my sister now looks older than me. For the
record, I'm 22, she's 13. I've gotten numerous suprised reactions when
I tell them my age. A friend from high school told me that I don't look
like I aged since HS graduation. Apparently I look younger now than my
picture from my Driver's Permit from 5 years ago. I give up.
I've decided that as much as I love the City and the people, I dislike
the increased amounts sketchtastic men. ...I'll leave it at that.
Met with Anna over the break for part of the day. Ended up hanging out and walking around midtown Manhattan. It was nice to talk to someone that didn't have some weird facination with my age, as well as having to be polite because I don't really know them. That's pretty much what I get at school these days. Sometimes I wish I was back at Rochester just so that there's someone around me that I can at least lower my guard down.
One death and a funeral I couldn't attend this break. To think that the next time I might see certain people from Rochester would either be a funeral or a wedding kind of bothers me.
I wanted to send out holiday cards. But timing was all messed up this year. Add the negative occurance above and there goes all my motivation. Maybe I'll send a couple out mid-January to throw a few people off.
Apparently I have a tendancy to drop off the face of the earth and simply not be found until a few weeks after. Sorry.
I miss several Rochester people.
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| If it is possible, I think I'm becoming more apathetic with time. I've always been more empathic about other people and apathetic when it comes to myself, but it seems that the degree of apathy for myself is only increasing. This entire state reminds me of what usually happens during the summer, when no one is around and I'm basically left to fend for myself, but only a more long term, more severe degree. It didn't happen much at all this past summer, so in a way this entire semester might have been the backlash of that. I'm such a recluse. I usually don't leave my home unless it's class or meeting up with a friend (extremely rare, to be honest), and come straight back home after that. I don't hang out with the kids from school, because they all live around there while I spend an hour just to get there. I haven't attended any of the departmental events either because most occur after my classes, which end around 8:30 pm - by the time the event's over, it would be hell to get back home. It's pretty sad. Honestly, I think I had more of a social life in Rochester than I do back at home. I definately talked more. I could get away some days without speaking a single word at Columbia. Jeez, come to think of it, this sounds depressing, but I don't really feel a thing.
Blah. This sounds like a rant. I don't like to rant.
School is good. Once 5 papers and 3 exams are done, I'm finished with the semester. Mom and sis will be back on the 18th, the day of exam #2. At least, the house would be more lively with that little monster running around. (...which, the little monster is not so little anymore. She's at least my height and looks older than me. I still get asked which High School I attend.)
Apathy galore!
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| Apparently I like to update whenever I come back from Rochester. Haha.
Ah... it's the middle of Unit 1 Exams and Midterms. I took the Medical Terminology exam and was within the top 3 out of about 200 who took it. Yay for actually doing well, first time since High School. Everyone around me studies like no other. Seriously, they study for days on end. I study less than I did in college (and everyone knows that wasn't much at all). After being raped by Rochester, apparently Columbia Grad is a breeze. To be honest, I'm kinda confused by it all. I find exams a whole lot easier than people around me... I don't mean to brag or anything, I really don't understand what's going on.
Mel Weekend in Rochester was fun. But it was.. weird. Drove up from NJ with Jeff on Friday, but when we both got there, it was really disorienting. We didn't really have anywhere to go or to do - while Drew Carey was getting ready, we took a walk around campus out of sheer boredom. I definately felt out of place. I think I've worked too many events.Chu chu came up too, and we stayed in Nora's room. Dan, Nora, one other, and I went to Jay's after Drew Carey was done. It was awesome, just sitting around laughing our asses off until 3 am, just talking about what's happened at college when we were all there. Went to breakfast with them minus the other and adding Mary, Margaret, and Julian. It was entertaining. Came back Saturday night by plane, since I had an exam on Monday. Which, of course, I didn't study for until Sunday night at 10pm and only for about 2 hours. I still think I aced the exam.
I've got a bunch of Midterms coming up, in addition to a class facilitation, so things are going to pick up. But otherwise... I'm so so bored.
Edit Add: I do miss Rochester. :P
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| Went to Rochester and came back. Overall, pretty much surprising most of the underclassmen that I knew. The program went well, Jody once again was pleased, as was Lydia, so I suppose my job is done. Of course, until next year, where they might try and call me back with lodging included this time around. I don't know about that.
Columbia has so far been quite.. boring. Orientation was a complete waste of time, and classes so far hasn't gone beyond the introductory phase. But there is one good thing going there. The faculty that I get to interact with are mostly the main pioneers of Public Health and Molecular Epidemiology, so it's pretty awesome. I suppose I'll have more to say once school really starts.
9/11. I know it sounds like I'm still hanging on to something that has happened so long ago and being rediculously persistant, but it's harder when you're back to where it happened. It didn't feel like this when I was at Rochester. Probably because it's so far away, in a way. But being here, and being bombarded on TV and outside that it's 5 years later, it's mind boggling. To think the last time I was in NY for 9/11 was when it happened is in a way terrifying. All I get right now at Columbia is about the health aspects of the two WTC towers. I guess that's what I get for going into an environmental health field. Ah well..
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