Daydreams and Wishes

I'm working on a grad program application, and, as always, I'm having a bit of a hard time writing my personal statement. I find it much easier to write essays about other things than myself--you write about the research you did, quote things from the text, &c. As such, I'm going to borrow something from a helpful "Tips on writing a personal statement" article/page I'm reading. So, dear flist, if you were to make a list of five of my most prominent traits, what would they be?


In other news, my local library posted a part-time assistant position last week. I got a call from the director this afternoon and I have an interview on Thursday! Huzzah! \o/

And my mom and I went to see The Water Horse last night. Much love. And I've finally seen David Morrisey in something where I didn't end up disliking his character! (Granted, I've only seen him in 'Blackpool' and 'Our Mutual Friend,' but still.)

I'm off to refill my tea cup and get back to writing this essay . . .

~Michelle

I just came back from my last LSM (Lutheran Student Movement) meeting--I've not been going for long, just since last spring, but still . . .

I'll be graduating in less than two weeks. In a little over two weeks, I'll be in London. Where did this year go?

I'm going to finish watching last week's CSI . . . and then I think I'll work on my Hogwarts scarf for awhile (my goal is to finish it for the release of Book 7, but I don't know if I'm actually going to make it or not).

~Michelle

(Also, if anyone else would like to fill out the fandom meme I posted, please do!)

Hmm . . . not much happened on Monday or Tuesday except we had a surprise party for Chris' 20th birthday on Monday (and he didn't have a clue!) Erin, Dana, and I decorated while Vicky kept Chris in his room. A bunch of us got together and we had pizza and tons of cookies/brownies--we were so full, we didn't even eat the birthday cake! 'Twas much fun, especially since Chris was genuinely surprised . . .

( something to think about . . . )

O.Chem lab was brutal today--we had to identify an unknown organic compound using the spiffy expensive equipment (IR and NMR machines, for any other science majors out there). We were all randomly assigned an unknown, but of course, I had to get the hardest one (and I'm pretty much incompetent in chem lab . . .). Thankfully, Dr. Henry helped me through the entire identification process . . .

OOH! I've made more icons! And I definitely think I'm getting a paid account now, as I've saved sooo many nifty PotO (ALW's musical and movie) icons from the community I'm in, phantom_icons . . . and I want to make a mood set (hehe) . . .

( PotO, Josh, and random icons )

~Lily/Michelle

US History was pretty good today for three reasons: 1) Class started 15 minutes later at 8:30, 2) We had a speaker that talked about a book he's writing about the historical significance of the boxing matches between Max Schmeling and Joe Louis, 3) We got out 20 minutes early at 9:30 (usually the class is from 8:15-9:50, so we had about half-an-hour less of class!)
And now for some ponderings, blatantly ripped off from Shakespeare ;) . . .

To upgrade, or not to upgrade: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to purchase
And so play with mood sets and use more icons,
Or to be satisfied with a free acount
And therefore save my money?

To those with paid accounts: should I upgrade? (oh, and I'll email you those pictures for the colourbar, Dawn--I was just trying to find another one) and now back to my O. Chem. lab reports . . .

~Mythy/Lily/Michelle

oh, and A&E's Pride & Prejudice is officially my new favourite mini-series now . . . *deep sigh*

Urg . . . I’m studying for finals right now—Susquehanna decided to have a very odd last week of school: today was normal, but tomorrow (our last day of classes) is on a Friday schedule . . . Wednesday is our “Reading Day” and finals are on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Monday—yes, you did read that correctly. I have my Cell & Organsimal Bio. final at 8AM on Thurs. morning, Thought and Civilisation on Friday afternoon, General Chem. at 8AM on Sat. morning (what is it with my science finals both being at 8AM?) and my Spanish last test (not a final exam) at 11:30 on Sat.. . . then I get to go home on Sunday—yay!

‘Tis going to be quite odd going home though, since SU has become my second home—I’m REALLY going to miss my SU friends, but ‘twill be great to hang out with my friends from WHS (and my family) again—I guess ‘tis a bittersweet kind of thing . . . . speaking of which, I saw this nifty thing on one of my friends’ profiles that describes coming home quite well (I think, at least): http://www.geocities.com/glengaryfan/index.htm

Sometime tonight or tomorrow I have to type up a post about Spring Weekend, which was this past Sat. and Sun. (as in yesterday and the day before yesterday), but now I must return to the wonderful world of Cell Structure . . . . . I’m a bio. major, but I don’t much like the course as it’s all about cells and cell functions and such (like photosynthesis, respiration, and the like)---I don’t know . . . I guess you could say I’m more interested in the ecological aspect of the field—I want to go into zoology or marine biology . . . ok, back to studying . . . :\

and now to leave you with a quote (like Allegra has been doing
"I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful
~Natalie Portman (I don't remember where I found that, but isn't it great

[do you guys like the new smaller font, or should I keep it the same size as I've been using? I wrote this in Word today because my computer's still being slightly evil, and 'tis a bit smaller than if I write it in here--Strike that (reverse it? hahahaha) I just realised that the font got smaller when I posted the entry--it became teensy, so I had to change it to my normal font size . . . and enough rambling for now . . . hehe . . .]



[10 points to whomever found my film reference ;)]