It begins anew

And so it begins, another term. I'm exhausted already because Sunday was 20 hours long. I got off work at 7 sunday morning and crashed until about 930. Mindy and I went to church which was good. After church we wen to my parents house for easter dinner. My mom forgot to turn on the oven, so mindy and I crashed for 2 hours until the ham was done. Afterwards we stayed up chatting and joking around until nearly 10, by which time I had joined the ranks of the living dead. Monday morning came at 8 and I pryed my eyes open. All day long throughout class I felt like I was pretty much still asleep. It always takes a while to recover from working at the Lab.
well it's time for Calc II. YAY!
-g

Dead week

So, it's dead week now, and my professors are vying to see who can give the most work. I have a calc quiz on friday and a midterm in the same class the following monday, which strikes me as a little assinine. Oh well. i got back my midterm yesterday and i did much better than i had previously thought. The afternoon of the exam I went home and crashed. In my sleep I kept differnentiating the problems and seeing where I went wrong. I 'll write morelater, but right now i have to get my math done before 12.

Pre-med syndrome

Well, I am a thoroughbred pre-med. Since this is only the second entry in my blog, I'll give a little context for my ramblings. I enrolled at Universtity of Oregon in 1999 as a French major. Fall of 2001 saw me declaring a double major in history. I decided to double since I had a passion for both subjects. In December 2001 I left on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints. For two years i served in the Canada Montreal Mission. While on a mission, I decided taht medicine was the carreer path I chose. After lots of meditation and rumination, I decided that I wanted to spend the rest of my professional life helping others. So, upon my return to UO in dec 2003, I finished my double major. In summer 2004, I started my pre-med classes. This brings me to my current situation.
I am in my third term of pre-med classes. I am in gen chem, cel bio I, calc I, chem lab. Currently i am a slave to my GPA.
before my mission, i didn't work very hard at school, consequently i now have to get very high grades to drag my overall GPA into a more competitive level. I'm tired of the competition already. I"m not aware of any great internecine rivalry among my fellow pre-meds, save only my own obsessive drive to get A's. I really don't like sweating every single missed point. It really detracts from my ability to learn the material for its own intrinisc merit.

Episode 1

So, I am working tonight and I'm not so very stoked about working all night long. As the night inches onward, time slows down proportionally. By 5 am, time has nearly fully stopped. Then, as morning canvas begins, time slowly returns to its breakneck pace. At 7 I go home to sleep.