I'm back!
You know, I thought I would just stop blogging after I got back from Europe because I mean, hell, I'm not in France anymore, what could I possibly have to write about that would be as cool as any of the stuff I did over there? As it turns out, one year later (can you believe that?) I actually do a lot of pretty cool stuff and I still have a lot to say.
I should also mention that my brother's fabulously funny blog has inspired me to start posting again (insert plug for brother's blog here ). He's a nutcase, but as long as I have to log into this ol' blog account to comment on his posts, I might as well babble a little in here too.
So where do I start? A lot has happened since I last posted in February. I came home, got my wisdom teeth yanked out of my face (I only had two! I'm evolved!), went back to school for a 10 week long party, then came home for the summer, where I still am today. This summer has been a big nothing. My grandma died the day I moved home from school, my uncle had a tumor removed from his brain and was diagnosed with stage four brain cancer, my grandpa died a month ago, and in the past three weeks, my only remaining grandparent, my grandma, has gone into the hospital out to a nursing home back to the hospital out to the nursing home too many times to count. It's enough to lose one of them. Why I have to lose them all in one summer I'll never know.
Well, despite all the grief, I did manage to land an awesome summer job. I worked as a research assistant at the Perinatology Research Branch, NICHD located in Hutzel Women's Hospital in the Detroit Medical Center. I had an amazing, amazing experience. All summer long, I researched the immune responses in placentas and fetal membranes of normal and pathological pregnancies. Pretty dang cool. I liked it so much that I'm now thinking of going to med school and becoming a pathologist. I'm so grateful for this experience. Of course, I ruled med school out my freshman year of college, so I have not taken the 2 semesters of organic chemistry and 2 semesters of physics that most med schools require. I've not even thought about taking the MCAT nor researched any med schools that I might like to attend. This constitutes a bit of a problem, but fear not. I'll most likely take the year after graduation to work (hopefully in the same lab) and take those couple of classes to catch up. I guess my plans of fleeing to Europe after graduation to teach English to the French for a year will have to be put on hold. Maybe a good retirement activity? So that's that. Pretty cool, huh?
Now I'm finishing up my manuscript that I have to write to get credit for this internship (my boss says it's most likely publishable...watch out Nat, I might be a published author before you!) before going back to school next weekend. Classes start the 24th and my 21st birthday just happens to be the 27th. You know what that means! As you can see, there's a lot going on right now. I'll try to update this thing every now and then to keep you posted, oh whoever may be reading this. Take care and a bientot!
Vanessa
I should also mention that my brother's fabulously funny blog has inspired me to start posting again (insert plug for brother's blog here ). He's a nutcase, but as long as I have to log into this ol' blog account to comment on his posts, I might as well babble a little in here too.
So where do I start? A lot has happened since I last posted in February. I came home, got my wisdom teeth yanked out of my face (I only had two! I'm evolved!), went back to school for a 10 week long party, then came home for the summer, where I still am today. This summer has been a big nothing. My grandma died the day I moved home from school, my uncle had a tumor removed from his brain and was diagnosed with stage four brain cancer, my grandpa died a month ago, and in the past three weeks, my only remaining grandparent, my grandma, has gone into the hospital out to a nursing home back to the hospital out to the nursing home too many times to count. It's enough to lose one of them. Why I have to lose them all in one summer I'll never know.
Well, despite all the grief, I did manage to land an awesome summer job. I worked as a research assistant at the Perinatology Research Branch, NICHD located in Hutzel Women's Hospital in the Detroit Medical Center. I had an amazing, amazing experience. All summer long, I researched the immune responses in placentas and fetal membranes of normal and pathological pregnancies. Pretty dang cool. I liked it so much that I'm now thinking of going to med school and becoming a pathologist. I'm so grateful for this experience. Of course, I ruled med school out my freshman year of college, so I have not taken the 2 semesters of organic chemistry and 2 semesters of physics that most med schools require. I've not even thought about taking the MCAT nor researched any med schools that I might like to attend. This constitutes a bit of a problem, but fear not. I'll most likely take the year after graduation to work (hopefully in the same lab) and take those couple of classes to catch up. I guess my plans of fleeing to Europe after graduation to teach English to the French for a year will have to be put on hold. Maybe a good retirement activity? So that's that. Pretty cool, huh?
Now I'm finishing up my manuscript that I have to write to get credit for this internship (my boss says it's most likely publishable...watch out Nat, I might be a published author before you!) before going back to school next weekend. Classes start the 24th and my 21st birthday just happens to be the 27th. You know what that means! As you can see, there's a lot going on right now. I'll try to update this thing every now and then to keep you posted, oh whoever may be reading this. Take care and a bientot!
Vanessa
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