footstep

I pushed my MCAT day back to Sept 11th. It is the absolute last day to sit for the MCAT this year. Procrastination at its finest. Hopefully if I get a good enough score no one on the adcom will notice :/

I am still getting no results with my research, so I have to keep going until something works. I don't really mind the negative data, but my advisor and I agree that it would suck to defend a thesis where you just get up and say "We had this hypothesis and it was wrong. No idea why. *shrug*" Next we're giving the rats amphetamines.

However I will be getting my name on a published paper soon! There's even a slim chance it might be in a super prestigious journal (NEURON oohlala). Nah, probably not. But still! I'm an author.

If I don't get into med school, plan B is now pharmacy school, or get a phd. Or maybe plan A is pharmacy school, plan B is med school, plan C is phd. F if I know. WHATEVER SCHOOL WILL TAKE ME, THAT IS THE ONE I SHALL GO TO NEXT YEAR.

My advisor ran off to Elk Point or somewhere today so I've been all by myself in a dark room (it's dark for the rats) allllll day. I'm going batty here. It's like sensory deprivation torture in here. I'm also writing my presentation on brain-derived neurotrophic factor and neuropathic pain, which is just as boring as it sounds.

Today I filled up 3 trash bags with clothes and purses to give to the Civ (it's like Goodwill). The bar across my closet was starting to bend in the middle and pull away from the wall, no lie, so I figured I'd better eighty-six some clothing.

My thesis proposal AND progress report are due in...13 days and I'm freaking out. Also, I gave a little wave to one of the professors I'm going to ask to be on my graduate committee and he looked at me like he didn't recognize me. *headdesk*

And I've just discovered that cold reuben sandwiches are AMAZING. Which I think House said once, so I should have known. Was there a new ep of House tonight? *goes to check the dvr*



I want these toms. They are like ninja boots.

We have that Campus Alert thing that got started after the Virginia Tech shootings, where they call you and send you emails if anything happens on campus. Well, last night someone got assaulted by family housing, which is scary of course, but I got 4 phone calls about it between 3 and 5 am. All with identical voicemails. People, unless there's a zombie apocalypse, I don't really need to know about it until morning.