WOO!!

Ladies and gentleman, I came out of my meeting with Dr. Neuro successfully! Goal accomplished!! I will begin my research experience in August!!! I'm pretty damn excited. :) He gave me a tour of the facility and explained a great deal of what it is they do. But there is just so much information I'm not sure I can repeat it all here... What I do know is that his clinical discipline involves studying the mechanics of strokes and epilepsy. Ironic - thats was I was interested in.

When I was touring the lab, I watched one of the assistants do an art line on a rat. How fabulous :) Another aspect of their research involved inducing strokes and global ischemia..... I'll learn more in time. This is making me wonder whether or not I should take neuroscience in the fall instead of the spring. *sigh*.. I think the research and the class will be incredibly beneficial to each other. Might be a good idea. I'll look into it.

So the next step with this is that I'm going to be meeting with him again on monday or tuesday so we can come up with a more detailed idea of exactly what i'll be working on. He has several projects going on so its just a matter of figuring out what will be the most appropriate for me. He is also supposed to be emailing me reading material so I can familiarize myself with his work.

Thats all for now!

Job Update

I just got back from a meeting with my old boss at my campus's Learning Center. The whole goal of me going there was to walk out with a job. The plan was to pick up from where my other coworker was leaving off because he got into med school (lucky duck) and they needed someone to fill in for him. Turns out, he is still going to be around for the summer because he needs the money. I don't blame the kid.

Anyways, Im going to start working there in the Fall. This is the IDEAL situation as far as work goes. So, I'll be making $300 each paycheck but hey, all I need is my phone bill and my rent bill. I'm not a big spender. At least not anymore haha...

The way my class schedule looks, I organized it so that I can have my tuesday and thursday mornings free. My hope is to save that time for some research. Dr. Neuro had mentioned that it would be ideal to devote at least 6 hours per week to research. If we start at 8am, then I can do tues, thurs, and fri in the afternoon. It's too premature to talk about that now. I'll have to meet with him first.

So, here is my "final" proposed schedule for the Fall:
Calc I, Organic II, Genetics (+ lab), and microbiology. (I made the move with microbio because I wanted to separate the "math" involved classes.) So for the fall the math will be calc, and some in genetics.

For the Spring:
Anatomy (or developmental bio), Physics II, cell bio (+ lab), and calc II - The math here is the physics and calc.

I'd LOVE to take virology, but I've already satisfied that elective category :( Oh well.

So this is is folks. Now, I have to email my old/new boss the amount of hours I can devote in the fall. Lets say 15. Thats doable.

I'm already thinkin LOR. I can get one from the Bio Department head. I've gotten one before (for another program). If i involve myself in this volunteer tutoring program for bio students, the payback is a REAL NICE LOR. Ive read it. It's damn good.

Things are lookin up!!