Happy new year! I had a
n amazing winter break back home in New York City. I always think about how a 6 week break is a very long time to be away from school, but whenever the time comes around, I always find myself remembering why. It was great seeing my folks and spending time with my siblings. I worked at a restaurant downtown since the internship I was hoping to work for fell through. It was okay, since I made some money to bring back to school.
I have now been back at school for 3 weeks. I’m excited to be back on campus and see all of my friends who were studying abroad last term. My classes are going well too; I’m currently enrolled in Plant Life, Biomedical Ethics, and the first course of the introductory Chemistry sequence, Chemistry 115: Structure & Reactivity. Plant Life is probably my favorite, just because that is what I plan to do my senior experience project on. After that is the ethics course. It’s pretty darn cool to have the kinds of discussions we do in a classroom with each other and the professor. Sometimes the professor just lets the students do the talking! Chemistry is definitely my least favorite course. I don’t have a strong chemistry background from high-school or anything so this course really is what has been taking up most of my time.
I have been discussing my plans to stay on campus for the summer and begin conducting my senior research project for biology with one of the professors in the biology department; her specialty happens to be plants. It’s so cool that they even allow us to do so, let alone work on stuff pertaining to our major!
Her name is Alyssa Hakes, and she has been sending me articles for background research on my project. It’s been super helpful. Even though I won’t be back home in New York City until after fall term my senior year, I’m very excited to actually start working on the project. I plan to design a website that is informative on whether or not your plant is dying, what it’s reproductive strategies are, and how it uses senescence to sustain itself.
I think that this term will be a good one, even with the million pounds of snow that keen falling from the sky every day! I will check back in within in a few weeks!