Reflections of 2011

Well, I'm about to wave good-bye to 2011 and let me tell you what, I'd rather say "good riddance" than "good bye"! This has been a year of up's and down's and I'm ready to see it go! I'm sure a lot of you would agree with me on this as well <3.

I already summarized the year in my previous blog, but I'll go ahead and elaborate on the high's and low's and the continuing journey I see myself on in 2012!

Education!


I graduate this year!!! As long as I can pass my final class: Nucleic Acid Analysis (NAA) . . . this class will be the bane of my existence in the next 4 months. I'm going to have to come up with some major time management skills considering I will be working 40 hours a week, traveling to multiple graduate school interviews and trying to finish last semester's experiments as well as this semesters work (the two senior capstone courses run  into each other, so any unfinished work from last term rolls over into this one). I'm trying not to think about NAA at the moment though, haha, it's a pretty depressing thought!

On a brighter note I've already landed 2/6 interviews for graduate school! I will be traveling o NYC in January and February to interview at 2 AMAZING schools for their Ph.D. programs! If all goes well I may be NYC bound this August <3.

Boys


Ugh. This year has been an awful one for relationships! I basically went through a 1 years long break up. Finally it came to a definitive end in September of this year. This has been one of the hardest things I've faced this year. While I "thought" I was over him pretty early on, the flirtatious advances of a rebound helped with that, but with that distraction gone soon after, I fell back into old feelings and emotions and was miserable again. While I've finally made peace with the fact that we would have never worked out and that what we had will never be possible again with him, I'm still lonely. When I'm alone (which is a lot these days considering I work nights and my waking hours are when the normal world is sleeping), I can't help but dwell on the past. I miss the friendship the most, having that one person who knows you so personally that you can tell them anything or call them at anytime. I'm on my own now. I really have to revamp my social life, turn my days and nights back around (gonna suck with work), and get back out there and become social again. It's just easier said than done. But here's to hoping the New Year will bring many more opportunities to be social and find myself again!

Conclusion!


So overall my professional life is soaring forward into the new year and my social life is trying to take off . . . here's to a new year and new opportunities! My wish is for an open mind and an open heart to take in all this new year has to offer. Hopefully lots of Love, Success, and Financial Stability <3. Bring it, 2012!!!

I'm Back!

I can't believe I started this back in February and have abandoned it since =(. I had big plans to blog about my internship at Cold Spring Harbor and about my Super-Senior year at Florida Tech. Guess I blew-it with that plan. I am a procrastinator after all so I suppose it isn't surprising. Well a lot has happened since February . . . ready for the speed-of-light version? OK!

• Interned at one of the top research institutes in the USA
• Presented my research at a national conference.
• Visited UW-Madison, all expenses paid!
• Applied to graduate school (Ph.D. programs in Pathology)
• Broke up with my boyfriend of 3.25 years (yeah,  that sucked!)
• Got over ex BF (work in progress, but I'm pretty much 99% there!)
• Got an amazing job . . . well the paychecks are amazing . . . the work is pretty awful!
• Found out through Facebook that my dad eloped.
• Bent the rim on my car by hitting a curb (keep the "women-can't-drive" jokes to yourself, haha)
• Conquered 3 Disney parks in 1 day.
• Saw the 4th of July Fireworks in NYC.
• Started training for a 5k and got half where there before life got in the way.
• I have since started training again!

I'm sure more has happened this year but that is just what has stood out the most! I guess I should re-name this blog "Finding myself" or "Recreating myself" since that seems to be the idea right now. But I'll leave it the way it is since I am still a scientist in training . . .at least I will be if I graduate and get an acceptance letter!

Until next time I post (Hopefully not another 10 months from now!!!)

-BEE