And So It Begins.

It's like waking up from a dream that turns out to be real...

Sidenote: I cannot even begin to describe this feeling--words do it no justice. To quote the movie Jerry Maguire, "You complete me."

It's official--today I consumed more coffee than I have in any previous twenty-four hour period. I found myself anxiously fidgeting through my lectures and labs today, absolutely buzzed with no attention span. What was my solution to this problem? Logically (of course) if my attention span was already shot, I may as well stop and get another coffee on the way to my next class. What harm could that do?

I finally get home--secure in the fact that I am away from any coffee establishment. Now I need not worry about my lingering fatigue being taunted by a Tim Hortons or Starbucks. I could do what normal people do when they're tired--go to sleep at a decent hour. But wait...what's this? My roommate is brewing coffee...

French Vanilla Anyone?

Yes please!

Alas, I have succomb to every students addiction. Soon enough we'll be injecting cafienne directly into our blood via an IV drip.

Anyways, all considered--my day went surprisingly well. I kicked off the morning with my anatomy lab. Yes ladies and gentlemen--it is that time of the week where I proceed to become the textbook definition a nerd. Today we finished the appendicular skeleton by studying the forearm and hand. Me, being completely amazed at the human body (and a bit of a goof) went outside the boundaries of todays assignment and proceeded to articulate the bones in such a way that I made a complete human arm. What did I do with it after I finished? I got a scream out of my unexpecting lab partner. As she was reading her textbook and memorizing the landmarks of the bones, I tapped her on the shoulder--with the human skeleton, bony fingers dangling and all. At this point everyone began to laugh as I just sat there and giggled at my silly joke.



After anatomy, I headed off to physiology where in todays lecture we studied the chemistry behind the central and peripheral nervous system. Now normally, I would never find a class as amusing as I found todays lecture (coffee could have played a role in this amusement). Today, our guest speaker had a variety of tricks to help us remember the concepts, including having ten volunteers (and by volunteers, I mean he proceeded to select people whether they liked it or not) to be scotch taped and labelled different parts of a neuron as they ran around embaressed in the demonstration. At one point in the demonstration, to illustrate an electrochemical gradiant, several students (who were labelled as ions) had to push against the professor who was acting as a barrier to the ions. After more than a couple students were all pushing with all their might against the guest speaker, he randomly decided to step aside and let them all fall to the ground. This of course caused everyone to break out into laughter as these horribly embaressed 'volunteers' layed in a pile on the ground. This was the highlight of my physiology class.

After physiology was the class that every week I seem to struggle through--computer science. I'd write something interesting about something that happened only there is nothing that seemingly happens in this class. The only thing I can think of is my friends and I have bets now on how long we can all make it through before we leave. The first person to pack up there stuff and head out the door loses. Today--that was me.

Now here I am--wasting time away on my blog when plenty of unsavory homework awaits. I officially have one week until my first midterm...let the cramming begin.