Saturday, January 22, 2011

Semester Off to a Good Start.

I am horrifyingly aware that I am taking the MCAT in 7 months. . . . Eek!

This semester is off to a good start. Haven't had any tests yet but I have 2 this week, so I have been studying a lot today, and there will be more studying tomorrow.

I was offered an amazing  research role yesterday. One of my friends suggested that I do this. Anyway, each student involved in the research will get their own virus (I GET MY OWN VIRUS!!) and we do experiments on said virus using expensive equipment at our school as well as million dollar equipment at the med school *that we are not allowed to touch, seeing as how we are measly PRE-med students and all*. At the end of the semester we will write a paper and our professor will publish our work as a single-author work, as well as compile all of our work and try to get it published in a major publication, with our names on it.  I am SO excited!

So this semester I am taking Organic Chem 2 with lab, Immunology, cell biology with lab, and calculus. So far I am hanging in there but I am pretty sure as we get into this semester this is going to get hard. In immuno we have a test every other week. Getting pretty stressed about this class - it is pretty tough. It is offered to both grad students and undergrads but it seems like the majority of the students in the class are grad students and it is being taught at their level. I definitely feel like I have catching up to do.