Well, it's almost the end of my second year of university. I have 2 of 3 final examinations behind me and I have done well this semester. I'm packing my room into boxes and am readying to ship them back home (home-home, not Montreal-home). I have a lot of stuff. Lots of books, plenty of warm clothes, and lots of memories.

I have been homesick for the past month and a half. I will probably change my opinion once I've lived at home again for 2 months, but right now, I can't wait to be back in Maryland.

This summer I am going to work full time once I find a summer job. I'm thinking about applying to Homestead Gardens again. I also have lots of thinking to do about my future, but then again, doesn't every young person?

Well, this past weeked was action packed for me:

I went to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to see the permanent collection with a group of students from a McGill club. We had a great time and it was a wonderful activity for a grey/rainy Saturday. Following the museum visit, we went to Bombay Palace for Indian buffet and it was delicious.

In the evening on Saturday I went to see my friend Myrrhine perform in the a cappella group Effusion. They are a fabulous group of singers. Apparently the group recently placed in an international competition and will be representing the Northeast corridor at a competition at the Lincoln Center in NYC later this month! I hope that they do well.

Sunday was my roommate Laura's 20th birthday and a bunch of us went out to a lovely dinner with her. She discovered a chic French restaurant on St Denis and we went there for a happy birthday evening. The restaurant is called L'Express and has scrumptious food and an extensive wine list. The French waiters are adorable as well. I ate une petite salade verte, ravioli au saumon et asperges, et tarte au chocolat. I almost died and went to heaven.

This the last week of lectures for me. I'm staying on top of everything and am preparing for exam time. I am very proud of my marks on the three midterms in neuroscience, especially since they are solely multiple choice exams. This week I shall also receive my mark on the history essay that I wrote. For those of you who are curious about the topic, my title was "Alchemical Contributions to Early Modern Science During the Scientific Revolution." The course is HIST319 The Scientific Revolution and my professor, an elderly British gentleman, was very lenient about what the students chose as topics.

Hope all is well.

This blog is to update all of you whom I cannot be close to, but would like to keep updated on my life.

I have now completed my transfer application process to three schools closer to home. I have just heard today from Towson that I have been waitlisted. I am rather happy that they did not outright reject me, but, truthfully, I don't have much interest in attending that school anyway. It's a good one and has community health, but I think that it is just too close to home for my taste.

I am hoping to be accepted to a summer internship at Rutgers University. It is affiliated with their medical school and it is a research internship in the field of neuroscience. I would get a stipend, and I think that I'd still try to find a part-time job so I could earn extra money on the side. If this falls through, and it may, I will either try to find another internship in Washington DC or Maryland, or work full time (preferably in a place that is medically/scientifically oriented).

I am still trying to figure out what to major in, but I must take things one step at a time. I suppose I should wait to hear from Rutgers and Dickinson before I overburden myself. I am interested in neuroscience, public health, history of medicine, philosophy, and lots of other things as well. I'm sure that my interests will take me someplace interesting in life.

Last night I went to a second speech by Brian Alters, one of the experts who participated in the trial on intelligent design in Pennsylvania. He is a professor both here at McGill and at Harvard and is extremely knowledgeable on the subject of teaching science and evolution. I try to attend speeches often since there are so many cutting edge topics being discussed on campus, and most of them are open to the public.

I have gotten into sketching, but more so writing poetry, of late. I find it liberating and exciting. Maybe someday a book of my poems will be published. I hope that these things will help me keep my imagination and creativity intact as I believe it's sad (but true) that many adults lose/lack these things.

That is all for now. I hope everyone is well.