008.

I'm going to be a teacher! I got accepted in to the Secondary Education program! I have a meeting on the 1st to learn all about what I need to do now. I'm still waiting on hearing back for the Noyce Scholarship, Noyce Summer Internship, as well as the LAS 100 internship. I'll keep you (and ultimately my future self) posted about this.

Spring break is here. It was gorgeous yesterday, about 67 degrees. It was gorgeous all week as a matter of fact. I wake up this morning and there's snow everywhere! And it's been consistently snowing all day. It's supposed to rain tomorrow, and hopefully get warmer by Monday. Dan and I decided to go to Chicago instead of traveling out far. We're going to see Policeman's Log at Gorilla Tango Theatre in Chicago, and then Tuesday we're going to the Shedd Aquarium. I'm excited :)

Otherwise not much else is new. I have two midterms when I come back from break, so I'll be studying like mad when I get back. I'm just going to enjoy break, get my laundry done, and not do anything stressful until I need to drive back to school.

Happy Spring Break everyone!

007.

Happy Pi Day! One of the few mathematical days that I can enjoy. I think I'm going to go and find out the birthday's of some important mathematicians and start to celebrate those too. I want to go get some pie and celebrate, but honestly I don't feel like buying a whole pie and just having it sit around my fridge for the week, tempting me to eat it. I would go and just buy a slice, but the only place I know that had decent pie was Za's, and they stopped carrying apple pie. Sad day that was.

So, I'm in IB 101 - Biological Sciences right now, and we've just started doing protein synthesis and stuff like that. So I brought up Folding@home on the Moodle forum and my professor was really excited! Folding@home is a distributed computing project that simulates protein folding in order to study mutations and the like. My boyfriend has been doing this for about a decade now, and I decided to start recently too. It's like donating your computer's processing power while you're not using it in order to research proteins. And there's competitions you can do with other people who fold, it's pretty geeky. I love it. You can find out more about the science behind it here. Dan's really excited that I started :)

I've decided that since it's warm out I'm going to start running around my apartment in the mornings. I really want to get that Nike sensor thing, especially since I now own a pair of shoes that are compatible with it. But, as things always end up, I'm probably going to stop about a week into it and buying the sensor would have been a waste of money.

Easter's coming up! Which means I'm going to be going home for a week, go to school for 4 days, and then go back home. I know U of I is secular, but it would be way easier to plan spring break to be during the holidays. Other colleges do it :( I don't really feel like going to class on Good Friday, not that it's a holiday but I like any excuse to not go to my MATH 403 - Euclidean Geometry class.

006.

Not much has been happening since my last post. I find out if I get into the Secondary Education program early next week. I haven't heard anything back from Noyce or the LAS 100 internship for next spring.

Fall 2010 schedules we posted last week, and if I get into the program next semester doesn't look too pretty. My education classes are only offered at one time since it's specific to what subject, and I have to take an 8am and a 3pm, so my classes are all over the place. I was trying to avoid taking classes later in the day on Friday so that I can travel easier, but no luck. I'm taking MATH 406 (History of Calculus) and it ends at 3pm on Fridays, so that sucks.

If I don't get into my education program I'm most likely transferring schools. I've looked at NIU, EIU, SIU, WIU and Illinois State because they're cheaper and I'll have a high chance of getting in. I haven't looked at many other schools because I don't want to stress myself out over nothing. I'll deal with it if I have to, I just wanted to make sure it would be possible to transfer for next fall semester.

My roommate issue hasn't really gotten resolved. She just plain doesn't talk to me, and she owes me about $83, soon to be $100 when I get the AT&T bill. I need that money, I plan to use it for a spring break trip.

Speaking of spring break, Dan and I are trying to plan a trip somewhere. We're not entirely sure where yet, but we're thinking or North Carolina or South Dakota. More news on that once we start finalizing plans.

Pi Day is Sunday! Yay!

005.

Welcome to the inability for me to commit to anything.

So, lots of things have been happening since I last updated. Most importantly, my boyfriend and I are back together and I'm overall much happier. I got the ring that I mentioned in the post before this, and we had ladies' night at Olive Garden, it was definitely something we all needed.

School is going well, I got an A on my biology exam today, and I got my grade back from my statistics exam from last week and I got a 66/60, which I'll just take as getting an A and those extra points will help me when I mess up later because I forgot how to take an integral (yes, math major). I did well on my chemistry exam too, which is exciting. I know this is just first rounds of midterms and everything is predictably going to get worse, but I'm ready for it. Bring it, especially you geometry. That is definitely my hardest class this semester, if not to date.

I've been having roommate issues to say the least. Story in a nutshell: I told my roommate that she cannot smoke pot in the apartment, she took it as a personal attack and has taken to locking herself in her room and only coming out for food or using the bathroom, which I'm okay with if she wants to sit in a 10x10 box all day. The problem I have with this is that she is no longer talking to me, and if she is it is via text message (so mature, right?) and it consists of an average of 0.5 swear words per sentence. And she hasn't paid me her share of utilities, which she claims she doesn't owe because my boyfriend was staying and that he should pay for it instead. And she paid rent late last month, so a $25 late fee is looming over my account which remains unpaid. She also said she paid rent for the rest of the semester, which she hasn't, so if she thinks she did then we're in for some big trouble when April rolls around.

I'm applying for an internship for next fall semester, and I'm super excited. It's for a TA position in LAS 101, so I'll be showing freshman around campus. Lovely, and I get paid $500 for about 3hr/wk for 15 weeks. Sweet deal, I think. I don't know when I'll find out about the position, but I'm also awaiting reply on the following:

* Secondary Education Admission

* Noyce Scholar Admission and or Interview

* Noyce Summer Internship

This is a lot to look forward to, on top of my job at Kumon Learning Center and school. 2010 is looking to be a good year so far!