kighva

finally a week off from school!!

After much delay and complication

yikes, 4 exams and a med school interview in 4 days. here comes a bad week.

back after 3 years

back to the north in 2 weeks.

i thought this account expired!!

i just found out two of the courses i had wanted to take over the summer (physics of vision and hearing and radiobiology) arent being offered, which kind of screws me over a bit. I want to get into grad school after this coming year and the more high level courses i have would really help with that, although the vision and hearing course is...
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FINALLY thesis is fucking DONE!!!. neurons are awesome and look amazing under 400x mag. but im not looking at another all fucking summer. I didnt even count how many pages it was, but roughly 10+ page intro, like 2-3 for methods, maybe 6-8 for results (i hated this part especially) and another 3-4 for discussion and conclusions, then fucking 20 pages, 20, fucking, pages...
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today seems appropriate to mention something i learned a while ago in a 2nd year neuroscience class:

theres this drug called rawolfia, which has interesting effects. when someone takes two large doses, it puts you in a state of suspended animation basically. it slows down your metabolism so much that people would swear that you're dead. this only lasts for about 3 days though, then...
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- marilyn manson tickets tomarrow!!
- i also need to cut up more rat brains for my thesis (god i cant wait until its done)
- having no exams is amazing
- going back home this weekend
- and off to read about brains and nitric oxide