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( My responses. )

Unable to see meteor shower. :(

Pulling an all nighter despite not having much reason to do so. Kind of miss doing math homework while listening to rock music. Doing stat homework while listening to rock music just isn't the same.

I feel like I'm an idiot and a failure because I'm immature and melodramatic. Seriously, getting A-/B+ on assignments should not make me so fucking sulky. Stupid GPA. It'll haunt me until I finish grad school. I fear this neurosis will only worsen as the date of my major's application nears. Figures I chose one of the most competitive majors in my school. :\

Enough whining here is something interesting and exciting:

Optogenetics: Algae and Light Help Injured Mice Walk Again

asdjsakdjksla this is why I love science

So I've got a lot of potential shit flying around. I'm having a hard time keeping track of everything so my desk is littered with sticky notes and paper.

In short:

( For your sanity because I lost mine. )

Guys, I want to study abroad SO BAD. I'm going to an information session on international volunteering. Need to schedule appointments with advisers (Honors, Bio, Nursing). Not only to see if I'd qualify for credit doing the volunteer program but to see if I'm on the right academic track. I want to go to Eastern Europe and Thailand.

Adsdjakldsja still haven't turned in my volunteer application to UW Medical. D: I need to get on that shit.

Tomorrow: club meetings and possibly dinner with clustermates. Will need to look over lab procedures and get lots of homework done cos Wednesday and Thursday are always my busy days.

Also: thinking about joining the Army ROTC for scholarships. I'm desperate. ;_; Plus the whole four years of service sounds really exciting. They would probably pay for my grad school so it'd be a win-win.

I need to wake up at 6 AM or earlier tomorrow to get dressed and hit the gym. So terribly out of shape. I need to be able to run 1.5 miles under 13 minutes by the end of this quarter so that I don't feel like a total loser when I join ROTC next quarter. Also lots of push-ups and running up the stairs. Good thing I've been walking up to the stairs to my dorm (which is 11 flights btw).

Ugh, it's already 2 am what. Need to go to bed.

I was a zombie yesterday. People kept commenting on how tired I looked and asked me if I was all right. Nodded off in classes multiple times. Had a lab that day too so I ended up not getting to my dorm until 7 PM.

By that time I had a lot of homework to do so I figured I'd use a little boost to keep up focused long enough to finish it. So I grabbed an energy drink.

...stayed up until 2 AM. Slept for three hours. Today I'm far more awake than I was yesterday despite the lack of sleep. I ended up grabbing another energy drink in case I ended up crashing during class. I'm almost done with my lab and all I need to do is complete a survey and study for a quiz.

It's amazing how much more focused I was today. I don't want to become one of those students addicted to energy drinks but holy crap. I'm actually alert. Even when I have 7-8 hours of sleep, I still feel tired. I used to do 4-5 consistently in high school without relying on E drinks but I didn't have nearly as much to do.

At least tomorrow won't be quite as hectic. Hopefully I'll be able to go to bed early and sleep long enough for my body to recover on Saturday.

With only three hours of sleep (possibly less because I had a lot of trouble falling asleep and staying that way) and school/projects/clubs/training from 8:30 AM -7:30 PM I'm pretty much dead.

Tomorrow it's three classes, lab, and work. Last week I thought that was an awful schedule but it's comparatively light to today's schedule.

Yet I had so much fun today. My class lectures were either easy or absolutely engaging. Clubs were great and I enjoyed brainstorming with other people. Dinner with clustermates was nice. The food safety training was BLAH although the funky techno in the background made me lol.

Midterms coming up adajskdlsajskla need to study

Ugh I wish I could function without sleep. So much to do~

So taking 19 credits (about 5 classes), working part-time, and being a member of three clubs has taken up a considerable amount of time. My first few weeks of college included attending a symphony concert, wandering around art galleries, exploring both campus and Seattle, learning to have a love-hate relationship with coffee, meeting people, trying out new activities, reuniting with some old friends, and going to lectures of varying sizes (range: 35-700+ students). I'm still working on scheduling time wisely -- never been good with that.

Things have been exciting, exhausting, and thoroughly enjoyable. Some people think I'm crazy, but as friends will attest, I already was. :P

I still try to watch FMA and keep up with the manga but I'm afraid other fandom-related activities have been put to a halt. I'm sorry if I haven't replied to many of your entries. Hopefully once I get into the groove I'll be able to hang around LJ more. :)

Now off to dinner!

I've been a college student for three days and I happen to lose my student ID card. The thing you need to access your dorm, eat, or do anything around campus. The office doesn't open until Monday.

Argh. Why does this always happen to me? I'm such an idiot.

Moved in. A big pain in the ass when you're from out of state and need to buy things you've forgotten in an unfamiliar city.

At the same time strangely rewarding. Ended up with a very decent dorm room. Met some of my fellow roommates and found everyone to be extremely nice. Am still somewhat terrified of the actual classes. Hopefully will wander around campus tomorrow and familiarize self with buildings and all that jazz.

Ended up on the phone with my parents at least three times today. >.<

~excited

Also, classic:

I have a friend who listens to Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. She was never an Obama fan but has lately been sending me things about the Obama administration (such as pointing out "Obama put in John Holdren as a science adviser, the guy who wanted to sterilize women due to overpopulation concerns"). She's a rather conservative person and while I never mind that, I feel uncomfortable with her trying to share politics with me. It's the same discomfort I have when watching clips of Fox News. Whenever I hear a claim, I have to research it and try to form an opinion of my own. She does the same thing. I just don't agree with her sources. Don't get me wrong, we can share civil debates on politics. I just don't feel like putting up with the crap that she brings up because I already hear it on television and stumble across it online. I have yet to believe that Fox News has any real shred of credibility.

At this point, I'm not sure what I can trust from the media anymore. My friend has the inclination to believe in one side of the media. I feel like everything has been sensationalized, politicized, and oversimplified. Debate is dealt with by pundits screaming at each other. Complex issues are reduced into little sound bytes. This "news" has become insidious and I sure as hell don't want to feel like it's also invading my friendship as well.

People keep assuming I'm going to end up as a doctor. This normally does not bother me except my relatives are all excited about it and doing things like giving me money and buying expensive presents and hosting a going away party. I've explained my plan to become a Physician Assistant but it's dismissed by a "oh, she'll totally change in her mind in college and be a real doctor".

...I dunno, it's just super awkward.

~*

College stuff:

- Gen chem and o-chem in one year. Yay!

- Despite having 5s on AP English Lit/Lang tests, the school still wants me to take a freaking composition class. Not cool.

- Trying to figure out if it's better for me to graduate in three years or four years and how the hell is this honors college system suppose to work for my major ORZ

- Reading Atlas Shrugged in order to write an essay for scholarship. Ugh, it's due in three weeks and I'm on page 27. D:

Starting off university late sounds like a terrific idea -- four months of vacation! -- but then you realize everyone who starts in August is leaving now and then it becomes less cool. :\

Listening to Demetri Martin's If I program made me happy to know there was someone else out there who did stupid, unproductive crap (such as learning to write with left hand or making up codes with algorithms or learning German by reading German subs for anime) in order to feel accomplished. The fact that he also tried to better himself by doing things one might consider self-improving tasks on a day-to-day basis made me laugh because I used to make up charts for that shit too.

Lately it's been work work work yet time passes quickly. I'm grateful for my job, for loving parents, and good friends. Still stressed out about money because of the amount of loans needed to be taken out for college. I managed to receive a decent number of scholarships yet there's never enough. *sigh* Means submitting more applications and hoping more aid comes through.

Sometimes I wish I had accepted my in-state school. The amount of aid they were providing, plus much lower tuition, meant a lot less stress over money. But at the same time, I feel like I really needed to get out of Alaska. I've been here almost all of my life. Hopefully, UW will provide a good change.

Working at a clinic helped gain a perspective on health care that many people, including some talking heads, really don't have. At the same time I'm frustrated by the fact that my mom's simple visit to the ER became complicated with the fact that the hospital people put her in as "uninsured" when she had insurance. So I had to deal with ridiculous bills, call up people to make sure our insurance covered it, and then find out today that a separate bill is charging us with a late payment fee because we hadn't paid for it. The reason we hadn't paid for it was because the lady on the phone told us to wait until a new bill arrived that had calculated our insurance into the charge.

Wtf.

Seriously, I know billing can be a bitch to do for patients but putting in the paperwork that they're insured isn't hard.

When people complain that "Obamacare" will tie us up into bureaucratic bullshit, I'd just like to say THAT WE ALREADY ARE.

*headdesk*

Sometimes I feel horribly deficient as an Asian. I was raised by Korean parents, but came over to America when I was really little. So I'm fluent in English but my Korean sucks. I attended Korean school for a little bit but my parents had to work so I ended up dropping out. As a result I forgot whatever skills I learned and am now illiterate.

:\

This is all rather embarrassing and as such I try to avoid conversations in Korean that aren't with my parents. It gets more awkward when people expect you to be good at Korean for one reason or another.

...it doesn't help that my little cousins are way better at Korean (speaking/reading/writing) than I ever was. Naturally they've been schooled but still! Ugh, fail.

/rant

A lot of things have happened in the past few months, so in summary:

- Got a new job
- Got a new laptop
- Got registered for classes
- Graduated from school

( Med School, PA, ANP )

Since it seemed like me and only a few other people hadn't watched Star Trek yet it seemed perfect to go today to watch it. I'm really glad I watched it in theaters because it's the sort of movie that's best watched there.

Only watched a few episodes of Star Trek when I was little so watching this movie was almost like watching an original movie. I enjoyed it a lot. It's encouraging me to pick up the series. :)

I decided after a year and half of wearing glasses to return to contacts. Now I keep pushing up my invisible frames.

Feeling good today. Managed to land a job after the Week of Despair. Somehow things managed to work out.

I've submitted by now about ten different job applications. I've only heard from four and had an interview with two. By now I'm just exhausted. Didn't get any sleep last night and while I did fine in the group interview, I realized that I'm probably not going to get the job because I won't be able to train for six months. :\

What pisses me off though is when an employee provides you a job application and doesn't tell you the positions are full until you've submitted the application. What the hell guys. Not cool. ETA: It's even better when they don't bother calling you at all. You have to call them to hear that they're not hiring. Why give me the application in the first place?

Right now I just want work. I don't care what it is. I just want to be employed.

Oh and to make things even more complicated, at the end of June I have to go down to Seattle for college orientation. My parents insisted on coming and of course I get stuck with doing all the actual planning. Oh, and I have entrance exams during that two-day period too. Fun. /bitching

On top of buying a great pair of jeans and some cute clothes, I came home to find a letter from my university saying I'm the recipient of a $10,000 scholarship!

:DDDDDD

Today is a good day.