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| It's spring break, which means I will be spending most of my time getting drunk with my fellow frat brothers and watching wet t-shirt contests on a beach in Mexico. At night, I'm going to hook up with a skank. During the day, I will ride around, drunk, on a scooter. I will leave with an inappropriate tattoo and chlamydia.
NOT (a la Borat).
I'm actually a dorky, gay grad student, and my dorky, gay boyfriend is visiting me in Minnesota, a state with only one or two wet t-shirt contests a year, tops. In fact, spring break is more or less irrelevant to me because I'm only taking one class and everything else that I am responsible for is purely self-motivated, so instead of contentment, spring break is only evoking within my head a dull, relentless voice: "GO TO LAB. OH, AND PUBLISH SOMETHING. BITCH."
It is lovely to have Dan in town, of course. Less lovely is the fact that he is recovering from the flu, though thankfully he appears to be nearly over it. The weather is actually unseasonably warm--but not quite Mexican--which is in stark contrast to last March and its many blizzards. We have relatively few plans. I think I'll take him to the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts and out to some parks to enjoy the weather. High of 55 today! (I have low standards).
P.S. I think I need to change the name of this blog. "pep3g" is something I made up in, like, 6th grade, perhaps in reference to our family dog, Pepper, the number of kids in my family, and the first initial of my last name. I honestly have no recollection of crafting the inelegant moniker, though, so that's just a guess.
P.P.S. I'm very happy to see that I actually attracted a few ancient xanga friends back to this thing. Hi, Laura and Leslie!
P.P.P.S. Who uses Xanga anymore? 12 year-olds?
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| Writing this blog used to be a lot of fun, and I'm glad I rediscovered it. I blocked public access to the blog 2 and a half years ago and hardly gave it a second thought, claiming--rightly so--that life was too busy as I was getting ready for grad school.
It's remarkable how much we can forget if we don't write it down or record it in some way, and re-opening this blog on a whim might help solve that issue as I become Alzheimer-y (i.e. 24). It's also remarkable how raunchy and inappropriate I was in some of my older posts and how I revealed somewhat private things online that I wouldn't imagine unveiling now.
I wonder why I'm doing this online and not in a private journal. Am I such a narcissist that I think other people will actually be interested in what I report? [...] Probably.
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| Yeah...this xanga thing is getting a bit pointless. Now that grad school applications loom, prepare for official retirement. | | |
| --Skoo--
And so the saga of my ever-changing class schedule continues. I think I finally have it nailed down. Seriously. Finally.
After a semi-nervous breakdown this afternoon thinking about the sheer amount of work I have to put in outside of actual class work (Thesis, Pride, GRE prep, and applying to grad school), I decided to drop a really cool class simply because it had a shit ton of reading and writing and was only 100-level. Luckilly it's offered every semester so I don't have to return the books. Here's the schedule, for your viewing pleasure:
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10:00AM |
Program. in C |
Plant Bio. |
Program. in C |
Plant Bio. |
Program. in C |
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10:30AM |
Program. in C |
Plant Bio. |
Program. in C |
Plant Bio. |
Program. in C |
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11:00AM |
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Plant Bio. |
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Plant Bio. |
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11:30AM |
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Africa |
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Africa |
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12:00PM |
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Africa |
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Africa |
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12:30PM |
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Africa |
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Africa |
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1:00PM |
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1:30PM |
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2:00PM |
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2:30PM |
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Community Ecology |
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Community Ecology |
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3:00PM |
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Community Ecology |
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Community Ecology |
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3:30PM |
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Community Ecology |
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Community Ecology |
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4:00PM |
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4:30PM |
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5:00PM |
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Intro. to GIS |
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5:30PM |
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Intro. to GIS |
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6:00PM |
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Intro. to GIS |
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6:30PM |
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Intro. to GIS |
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7:00PM |
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Intro. to GIS |
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I'll be in the lab MWF after programming, but everything else is up there. It doesn't look so bad now, but I have a feeling this semester is still going to be crazy.
My grad school aspirations have changed, too, but I think they are going to stay precisely where they are from now on. I'm only applying to Ph.D. programs in evolutionary biology or evolutionary ecology. Next step: personal statements for each school! | | |
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