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.