The other day it hit me just how right chemistry is for me. I went to my first orchestra rehearsal and was potentially seated last in the first violin section. After feeling a little sorry for myself about how bad I was at the violin (I mean really I was struggling to keep up with the sightreading <--and that just doesn't happen to me), I realized that it was really a blessing in disguise. I couldn't have done music in college some things just aren't for everyone. I do love chemistry and sometimes I forget that. Chemistry works and it makes sense. It follows through and helps you understand why things work the way they do. At the same time it also amazes you, it makes you think when something doesn't go as planned, and it pushes you to be better. When I am cramming to finish a homework set due Friday morning or trying to figure out my nmr, it is easy to take for granted all the things that help me get through the day. But being able to help someone with there chem 468 homework when you've never even taken the class before, is priceless. I shouldn't forget the feeling I get when I walk of lab knowing that my reaction worked! I guess when you get excited about an article like this: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ar800150g, it kind of makes you a dork, but who wouldn't get excited about new research on laser induced photothermal nanoparticle cancer therapy? This semester I am going to try to get into a research group with a professor on campus so I am pretty excited about that, but I still am working in the Inorganic Stockroom, which is the greatest job ever.
So here's some stats for the new year:
13.5 credits (<-- lowest number of hours I've ever had)
461 Physical Chemistry
464/465 Physical Chemistry Lab
391 Advanced Chemical Writing
333 Living Prophets with Lloyd K. Newell!!
321 University Orchestra
115 Beginning Organ
111 Beginning Basketball
20 hour work week
$1.00 pay raise
11 AM - the time of my first class MWF!!!! (first time to ever happen in college. I have always had 8AM classes M-F.)
1/12/10 first date of the year to see STOMP
3: 3 score of my first intramural soccer game (S Club 7 vs. H1N1)
9-15-29 Combo for my gym locker so I can go work out more often instead of running in the cold.
1 Nephi 4:1 My scripture for the new year. The second Yes! matters the most!
A lot = the number of my New Years Goals.
April 21 Last day of finals!
The first day of class in PChem, my teacher asked, "Is anyone in here wearing a diamond?"
(silence) Looking around the room at the 5 of us girls in the class, "No?!"
What can he expect? We're chemistry majors. and proud of it!
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